PRIVACY
Short version: we barely know you're here.
No account. No sign-up. No password. There is nothing to delete because there is no profile to keep. This page explains the full picture: what the site collects, what it deliberately does not collect, and where your tape actually lives.
What we collect
One thing only: anonymous usage events through Google Analytics 4, so we know which parts of the deck work and which parts confuse people. Concretely, the events look like this:
- when you press REC, search, or pick a song
- when a song finishes recording, and how long the tape ended up being
- when a tape is ejected, a share link is created or copied, or a shared tape is opened and played
Each event carries a tape side, a track position, or a track count. That is the whole payload. No cookies for advertising, no cross-site tracking, no fingerprinting.
What we never collect
Song titles, artist names, and tape contents never touch analytics. We cannot tell what your tape says, who it is for, or which songs you chose, and we built the event schema specifically so that stays true. We also do not collect names, email addresses, or messages. There is no upload form anywhere on the site.
Where your tape lives
Your tape is encoded into the share link itself. The songs, the order, and the label travel inside the link as compressed text: there is no server-side storage, no tape database, and no way for us to read a tape back after you close the browser. This also means anyone who has the link can open the tape. Share links the way you would share a letter: deliberately, to the person it is for.
Shared links use the URL fragment (the part after the hash), so tape contents are not sent to our servers, do not appear in referral logs, and are not reported to analytics. A crawler cannot read a tape either, which is why shared tapes are private by default.
Third parties involved
- Apple (iTunes Search API). When you search for a song, your browser queries Apple's iTunes Search API directly. When a tape plays, preview clips stream from Apple's servers straight to your browser. Those requests never pass through us.
- Google Analytics 4. Receives the anonymous events described above. You can block it with any ad blocker or tracking protection; the deck works perfectly without it.
- Cloudflare. Serves the static site files. Standard CDN request logs apply, which is exactly why tape contents live in the URL hash instead of the address path.
Data retention
Analytics events are retained by Google under standard GA4 settings. Everything else: tapes, labels, links, recordings: is retained by nobody, because it only ever existed in your browser and inside the link you chose to share.
Your choices
Block analytics with an ad blocker and nothing on the site breaks. Share links only with people you actually want to hear the tape. If something on the site concerns you, the contact page reaches a human, and the terms cover the boring details.
Changes to this policy
If the architecture ever changes (for example, if tapes ever gain optional server storage), this page will be updated the day that ships, and the date below will move.
Questions: hello@recordatape.com