My Frequency

01Who we are

The app is published by Adams Vision SRL, str. Lunga 124, 547365 Livezeni, Mures county, Romania, VAT number RO17182365, trade register J2005000171268 (“we”, “us”). We are the data controller for the information described below. Contact: office@adamsvision.ro.

02Information we collect

We do not collect your name, email address, phone number, contacts, photos, precise location or anything recorded with your microphone. The app does not ask for location, microphone, camera or contacts permissions.

03Radio stations and song information

• Streams come directly from the stations. When you play a station, your device connects to that station’s own server (or its streaming provider), which sees your IP address and device type like any website does. Station logos shown on the lock screen, in notifications and on Android Auto are also loaded from the station’s website. The stations are independent of us and have their own privacy policies. The station directory comes from the public radio-browser.info project; only our server contacts it.
• Now playing. The song title comes from the information broadcast in the station’s stream. To show the song’s length, our server searches the Apple iTunes catalogue using only the artist and title.
• Song recognition (“What song is this?”). Our server records about 10 seconds of the radio stream (never your microphone) and sends that audio to a music recognition service (AudD or ACRCloud). Nothing about you is sent.
• Lyrics. Our server looks up lyrics by artist and title in our own lyrics library, at LRCLIB or at Musixmatch. When lyrics come from Musixmatch, the app loads a small Musixmatch counting image required by its licence, so Musixmatch receives your IP address.

04Analytics and advertising measurement

On Android we use Google Analytics for Firebase. It receives the app activity described above together with our random installation ID, and automatically collects information such as an app instance ID, device model, operating system, approximate country and, unless you have turned it off in your phone settings, the Android Advertising ID. On other platforms we may use Google Analytics 4 with a random ID. See Google’s Privacy Policy and how Google uses data from apps that use its services.

When we run advertising campaigns for the app, we may send pseudonymous app events (for example “app opened” or “Premium purchased”) to Meta (Facebook, Instagram) and TikTok to measure how well the ads work. These events carry only a one-way encrypted (hashed) form of the installation ID, never your name, email or IP address. The app does not show ads.

On iPhone the app may ask for permission to track. If you refuse, nothing changes in the app. We do not currently read the iPhone advertising identifier.

You can reset or delete the Android Advertising ID, or limit ad tracking, at any time in your phone settings (Google > Ads, or Privacy > Ads).

05Notifications, payments and Android Auto

• Notifications. We send notifications only if you allow them, and only about stations, shows and app news. If we use a push notification service (WonderPush, which uses Google Firebase Cloud Messaging or Apple Push), it receives a notification token for your device and the installation ID. You can switch notifications off at any time in the app or in your phone settings.
• Payments. Premium in the Android app is sold through Google Play Billing. Google handles the payment under its own terms; we receive only the purchase confirmation and pass Google our random installation ID to connect the purchase to your installation.
• Android Auto and the car. The app notices on your phone when it is connected to a car, so it can start your last station if you turned that option on. Nothing about your car or your trips is sent to us.

06On your device

The app stores on your device the installation ID, your settings (language, country, appearance), your favourites and the last stations you played. Android may include this in your device backup if backup is on. Uninstalling the app or clearing its data removes it from the device.

07Why we process data (legal basis)

• Contract: providing the app, favourites, Premium and the features you use.
• Legitimate interests: keeping the service secure, detecting your country, statistics to improve the app and measuring our own advertising, using pseudonymous data only.
• Consent: notifications and, on iPhone, tracking permission. You can withdraw consent at any time in your phone settings.
• Legal obligation: keeping purchase records as required by tax and accounting law.

08Who receives data

We do not sell or rent your information. It is processed by our hosting provider and shared only with the services named in this policy: Google (Firebase, Analytics, Play), Apple (iTunes Search, App Store), Meta and TikTok (advertising measurement only), WonderPush (if notifications are used), ip-api.com (country detection), AudD or ACRCloud (song recognition), LRCLIB and Musixmatch (lyrics) and the radio stations you choose to play. We may also disclose information when the law requires it.

Some of these providers are located outside the European Economic Area, for example in the United States. Such transfers rely on the safeguards provided by the GDPR, such as the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework or the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses.

09How long we keep it

• Installation ID, favourites, listening history and app activity: while you use the app; data of installations not used for 24 months is deleted.
• Purchase records: for the period required by Romanian accounting law.
• Country detection: the result is kept for 24 hours under a one-way encrypted form of the IP address. Server access logs: a limited time, for security.
• Google Analytics and Firebase data: according to the retention settings of our Google Analytics property (at most 14 months).

10Your rights

Under the GDPR you can ask for access to your data, a copy of it, correction or deletion, restriction of processing, and you can object to processing based on legitimate interests. To exercise these rights, email office@adamsvision.ro and include the ID shown at the bottom of the app’s Settings screen, so we can find your installation. We answer within one month.

You can also complain to the Romanian data protection authority, ANSPDCP (B-dul G-ral. Gheorghe Magheru 28-30, Bucharest, Romania), or to the authority in the country where you live.

11Security

The app talks to our server over encrypted HTTPS connections. Access to the server and the database is limited to authorised staff, and service keys are stored only on the server, never in the app. Some radio stations only broadcast over unencrypted connections; that traffic goes directly between your device and the station.

12Children

My Frequency is a general-audience radio app and is not directed to children under 16. We do not knowingly collect information from children. If you believe a child has given us information, contact us and we will delete it.

13Changes and languages

We may update this policy when the app changes. The new version will be published on this page with a new effective date, and important changes will also be announced in the app. This policy is available in several languages; if a translation differs from the English text, the English text prevails.