Privacy

Last updated 26 September 2026

The station runs on a free account: your email address, a six-digit code, no password. Signing in sets one cookie that holds the door open — it identifies your account here and follows you nowhere else. What follows is the whole of what we keep, on your device and on ours.

What stays on your device

Five things, all in your browser’s local storage, none of them sent anywhere except where it says so:

• A session token, so the station knows roughly how long you have listened and whether you have chipped in. It holds a random id and a number of seconds. It does not hold your name, your email or anything about you.
• The ids of songs you have already heard, so a second visit is not the same set.
• Which songs you hearted.
• What you last asked for, so the station can offer to pick it back up.
• Briefly, which panel you were looking at when you went to pay, so coming back does not dump you at the front door.

Clearing your browser’s data for this site erases all five, and nothing of yours survives on our side when you do.

What your account holds

On our side, against your account: your email address, the songs you liked, the stations you saved, your recent listening, and — if you buy downloads — which tracks you own and whether a subscription is running. All of it is there so YOUR page works: your likes play, your library re-downloads, your history helps you find a song again. Members see it laid out on their account page; anyone can write to us and have their record shown, or deleted.

None of it is used for marketing, none of it is sold, and none of it chooses what plays next. Sign out and this browser forgets you; the account waits for your next code.

What we count

Beside your own history, two anonymous numbers against each song: how many people hearted it, and how many heard it. And we study listening itself — which stations play at which hours, how an evening moves from one station to another — because that is how the station learns what to build next. It shapes what we make. It never feeds advertising, and there is none.

What you type, and what you say

When you type how you want to feel, that sentence — and nothing else — is sent to a language model to work out what to play. It is capped at 400 characters and carries no identifier with it.

The microphone is different, and worth knowing. Speech is turned into text by your own browser, using Apple’s or Google’s speech service depending on the browser you use. That audio never reaches us. We receive the words, exactly as if you had typed them. The microphone is released the moment you stop speaking.

If you chip in or buy a shirt

Stripe takes the payment. Card numbers never touch this site and we never see them. Stripe tells us whether the money arrived, and for a shirt it gives us the name, postal address and email you entered so the shirt can be posted to you.

We pass exactly those to Printful, who print and post it and email you when it ships. Nothing else goes to them.

If a payment goes through and the order does not, we keep the payment reference and the reason until it is put right, because otherwise somebody is owed a shirt that nobody knows about.

Who else touches this

Vercel serves the site and keeps ordinary server logs, which include IP addresses, as every web server does. Cloudflare delivers the audio and the films. Upstash stores the counts, Neon stores the accounts, and Resend delivers the sign-in code to your inbox. Stripe and Printful are above. That is the entire list.

What we never do

We do not sell anything about you, we do not run advertising, and we will not email you marketing — the only mail this station sends is the code you asked for. Your listening history is yours to look at, never raw material for ads or recommendations.

Children

This station is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect anything from them.

Asking us

Your account page already shows what we hold. To have the account and everything under it deleted, write to contact@godtone.fm from that email address and it will be done — likes, history, saved stations, the lot. Payment records stay with Stripe as the law requires.

GodTone FM is run by Zero Point Collective LLC, a Texas limited liability company. Terms