Bandalong privacy policy

Effective 13 November 2026. Contact: [email protected]

The short version

Bandalong collects nothing. There is no account, no advertising, no analytics and no tracking, and the app doesn't need the internet. 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. We add no cookies, no analytics and no tracking to any of it. The company that hosts the site (Cloudflare) receives what any web server receives when a page is asked for: your device's internet address, the page and the time. It uses that to deliver the page and to keep the service safe, under its own privacy policy; we don't ask it for visitor records and build no profile from them.

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.

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]