Favorites and recents
The stations you favorite, and the stations you tuned to with the time you last played each one. They are kept in a database inside the app and are never sent anywhere.
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Privacy policy · Android · iOS
EgyGrooves privacy
EgyGrooves has no account, no ads and no analytics. Your favorites and settings stay on your device. To play the radio, the app connects to each station's own servers, which see your IP address, as any website does.
What is kept on your device
Station list and logos
A copy of the station list, so the app opens even when you are offline, and station logos cached by the app.
Settings
Your theme choice. The app language is set in your phone's own settings, not stored by EgyGrooves.
What goes over the network
The station list
The app downloads the list of stations (names, genres, countries, logo and stream addresses) from our database, hosted on Supabase. It only reads. It sends nothing about you, and there is no ID or account. Supabase sees your IP address, as any website does.
Radio streams
When you play a station, the app connects straight to that broadcaster's server. These are third parties, not run by us. They see your IP address and which stream you are playing, and they have their own privacy policies. Some stations broadcast over plain http, so that stream is not encrypted.
Station logos
Logos are loaded from the addresses in the station list, which point to the stations' own sites or image hosts. Those hosts see your IP address too.
On your device only
Playback controls
The station, its logo and the song title (when the stream sends one) show in the notification and on the lock screen, and headset buttons control playback. Song titles arrive with the stream itself and are not saved.
Cars
Android Auto shows your favorites, recent stations and all stations on the car's screen, through your phone's connection to the car.
Widgets
The home screen widget shows your last played station and your first favorites. It reads them from the app's own storage on your device.
Sharing and feedback
Sharing a station
Share hands your phone's share sheet a line of text: the station name, its EgyGrooves link and the Google Play link. Nothing is sent until you pick an app, and then it is that app's to send.
Feedback email
The feedback row in About opens your email app with our address filled in. We only see what you choose to send.
What it does not do
EgyGrooves has no account or sign-in, no ads, and no analytics, crash-reporting or advertising SDKs. It does not collect, share or sell personal data, and it does not track you across apps or websites. It never asks for your location, contacts, camera, microphone or photos.
Permissions and why
Internet
To load the station list, the logos and the radio streams.
Background playback
On Android, a media playback service with its notification. On iOS, background audio. Both keep the radio playing when you leave the app or lock the screen.
Nothing else
No other permissions are requested on either platform.
Removing your data
Tap the heart again to remove a favorite. To wipe everything, including recent stations, clear the app's storage (Android: Settings, Apps, EgyGrooves, Storage, Clear storage) or uninstall the app. We hold no data about you, so there is nothing to delete on our side. Backups made by your phone's own system may include the app's data, as for any app.
Children
EgyGrooves is for a general audience. It collects no personal information from anyone, children under 13 included.
Changes and contact
If this policy changes, this page is updated and its date with it. Questions: labyrinthcode10@gmail.com.