Bandalong privacy policy

Effective 13 November 2026 (last changed the same day: the website's visit counting). Contact: [email protected]

The short version

The Bandalong apps collect nothing. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and the app doesn't need the internet. (The website counts visits, without cookies: see "The website" below.) Everything you make in Bandalong stays on your device unless you choose to share it.

What stays on your device

Bandalong keeps these on your device, in the app's own storage, and never sends them to us or anyone else:

• your settings, and the bands, songs and stations you choose;
• the tapes you save, and the songs you add (typed in, imported from a file, or read from a photo of a chord sheet: the photo is read on the device and isn't kept);
• your recordings (takes), and what you sing or play into the tuner and the follow features;
• a teacher's class lists: the names you type in and the students' takes.

We have no server that receives any of this, and we hold no copy.

Permissions and what they're for

Each one is asked for only when you use the feature, and you can turn it off at any time in your device's settings.

• Microphone: recording a take, the tuner, singing with the band and the band following your guitar or voice. The sound is processed on the device as you play; nothing is uploaded.
• Camera (iPhone and iPad): taking a photo of a chord sheet to add a song. The photo is read on the device.
• Bluetooth: connecting MIDI keyboards and pedals.
• Notifications (Android): the playback controls shown while the band plays in the background.

Photos and files you pick come through your device's own picker; Bandalong sees only the one you choose.

Sharing

When you share or save a tape, a recording or a chart, your device's share sheet or file picker opens and you choose where it goes. What happens to it there is governed by the app or service you choose.

Children and classrooms

Bandalong is made to be used by students and teachers. Because it collects no personal information from anyone, it collects none from children. Class lists a teacher keeps stay on the teacher's device.

Backups

Your device's own backup (iCloud or Google backup), if you have it turned on, may include Bandalong's storage, under your account with Apple or Google and their terms. Bandalong itself sends nothing.

Deleting your data

Delete tapes, songs, recordings and class lists in the app, or delete the app: that removes everything it stored. There is nothing for us to delete, because we never received it.

The website

Bandalong's website has a home page, a support page, this policy, and a version of the app that runs in your browser. There is no account, no advertising and no tracking on any of it, and it sets no cookies.

The site does count its visits, with Cloudflare Web Analytics, from the company that hosts it. That tells us how many people came, which pages they opened, the site that sent them, their country, the kind of browser and device, and how quickly pages loaded. It uses no cookies, doesn't follow you to other sites, and builds no profile: it counts visits, it doesn't know who makes them. A song's code is taken out of a link's address before the count is made, so the count doesn't carry which song you opened.

Like any host, Cloudflare also receives what a web server receives when a page is asked for (your device's internet address, the page and the time) and uses it to deliver the page and keep the service safe, under its own privacy policy. We don't ask it for visitor records.

What you make in the web app (your songs, tapes and settings) is kept by your browser, on your device. It isn't sent to us. Clearing the browser's data for the site removes it. A link to a song carries the song's code after a # sign; a browser doesn't send that part of an address to any server.

If you write to us

If you email us, for help or to ask to be told when the app is out, we receive your address and what you wrote, as with any email. We use them to answer you, or to send that one notice, and for nothing else: no mailing list, no sharing. Ask and we'll delete them.

Changes

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted here with a new date, and the app will say so in its release notes.

Contact

Questions about privacy, or anything else: [email protected]