Privacy policy

What data we process

Approximate location: our hosting provider (Vercel) derives your approximate country and city from your IP address. We use it on the spot to show nearby stations and to apply territorial rights restrictions. We do not store it and we never use GPS.

Favorites, recently played, volume and language: stored only on your device (browser or app storage); we never receive them. On Android, when updating from “Radio Live”, your previous favorites are moved into Orbyo on the device itself.

Song history and Orbyo Plus: the songs stations announce while you listen and your equalizer settings are stored only on your device. If you subscribe to Orbyo Plus, payment is handled by Google Play or the App Store: we never receive your payment details, and the app only asks the store, from your device, whether your subscription is active.

Searches: the text you search for is sent to our servers to return results and is not linked to your identity. If you use AI search, the text is sent to Anthropic, which interprets it as our service provider.

Technical logs: like any internet service, our servers temporarily log technical request data (IP, browser, time) for security and operation.

Error diagnostics: if the app or website fails, or a station can't be played, a technical report is sent to Sentry, our monitoring provider, with servers in the European Union. The report includes the error type, device model and OS version, app version and the affected station. It contains no IP address or personal data, and we use it only to fix problems. To measure stability, the app uses a random installation identifier that cannot identify you.

Third-party services your device connects to

Radio stations: audio and logos are loaded directly from each station's servers, which receive your IP as with any connection. Each station has its own policy.

Radio Browser: when you start listening to a station, your device notifies this community database, which ranks stations by popularity. Only the station is sent, with no identifier of yours.

Maps are loaded from OpenFreeMap. Song artwork is looked up in Apple's public catalog from our servers, without any of your data.

Cookies, advertising and analytics

We only use one functional cookie (orbyo-locale) to remember your language. Orbyo shows no ads and uses no analytics tools. If that changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent where the law requires it.

Legal basis and retention

We process this data to provide the service you request and for our legitimate interest in running it securely (GDPR art. 6(1)(b) and 6(1)(f)). You control what is stored on your device: clear your browser data or uninstall the app. Technical logs are kept for as long as the provider sets, usually a few days.

Your rights

You can exercise your rights of access, rectification, erasure, objection, restriction and portability, and lodge a complaint with the Spanish Data Protection Agency (aepd.es) or your local authority. Since we have no user accounts, almost all of your data lives only on your device.

Children, changes and contact

Orbyo is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their data. Any change will be published here with its date. For any question, write to the contact email shown on our Google Play and App Store listings.