Privacy
We don’t collect your data##
Unplayed has no servers and no accounts. The developer never receives your library, your listening habits, your searches, or any personal information about you.
There is no analytics software in the app. There is no crash reporting service. There is no advertising, no tracking, and no data sold to anyone. Nothing about how you use Unplayed is measured or sent to us — there is no server of ours for it to be sent to.
This policy describes the Unplayed app for iOS.
Where your data lives##
Everything you add to Unplayed — releases, artwork, your Library and your Played list — is stored in a database file on your device.
If you have Pro and turn on iCloud sync, that data is also stored in your own iCloud account, in what Apple calls a private CloudKit database. “Private” here is a technical fact rather than a promise: the developer has no credentials, no dashboard, and no interface that could read it. Apple’s platform does not give app developers access to a user’s private database. Your synced library is as reachable to us as your iCloud Photos are.
Delete the app and the local database goes with it. Turn off iCloud sync, or remove the app’s data in your iCloud settings, and the synced copy goes too.
What leaves your device##
Unplayed is not a sealed box. To do its job it talks to other services, directly from your device. We never see those requests — but the services on the other end do.
Music platforms. When you add a release, search for music, or open a release’s details, Unplayed contacts the relevant platform’s public interface: Apple Music, Spotify, TIDAL, Deezer, YouTube Music, Odesli (song.link), and Douban. Those requests carry your IP address along with the search terms or links involved. Each platform handles that under its own privacy policy, not ours.
Cover artwork. Album art is downloaded from the platforms’ image servers. Fetching an image exposes your IP address to that server, the same way loading any image on the web does.
Apple. Three parts of the app go through Apple:
- Apple Music search asks your permission first — that is the system prompt you see the first time you search. It is used only to search the Apple Music catalogue for releases to add. Unplayed does not read your listening history, your playlists, or your music library.
- Purchases are handled entirely by Apple. Apple processes the payment; the developer receives no card number, no billing address, and no name — only an anonymous confirmation that a purchase is valid.
- iCloud sync uses CloudKit, as described above.
Apple’s handling of all three is governed by Apple’s own privacy policy.
Your rights##
Because we hold nothing about you, there is nothing for us to show you, correct, export, or delete. Your data is on your device and in your iCloud account, both under your control.
This holds equally under Hong Kong’s Personal Data (Privacy) Ordinance, the EU and UK GDPR, and the California Consumer Privacy Act. We do not sell or share personal information, because we do not have any. If you believe otherwise, write to us and we will look into it.
Children##
Unplayed is not directed at children, and it does not knowingly collect anything from anyone of any age.
Changes##
If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. There is no separate notification, because we have no way to contact you.
Contact##
Unplayed is made by an individual developer based in Hong Kong SAR.
Questions about this policy: i@heyshigeru.com