Privacy, in plain English

Your list is only for your circles. Your Top 10, your name, and your city are visible only to people in a circle with you, unless you choose to make your profile public. There's no feed and no follower counts, ever.

Charts are anonymous, always. The community charts show songs and counts, like "on 214 lists", never who. Your name, your city, and your full list never appear publicly, and a chart only exists once enough people are in it that no one's taste is identifiable. Don't want to be counted at all? Flip the switch in Settings.

Public sharing is your call, per link. The only time your name appears outside your circles is when you tap Share on your own Top 10. That creates a public link showing your first name and your ten songs. Turn it off anytime in Settings and the link goes dead immediately.

Following is opt-in, quiet, and invisible. If your profile is public, friends can follow it. That just rings their bell when you update your Top 10. Nobody can see who follows you, how many people follow you, or who you follow. A public profile can also appear as a “on @yourhandle’s list” link on the genre and community charts, never on place-based charts, so where you live stays private. Make your profile private again and all of it stops instantly.

We collect almost nothing. Your email (to sign you in, we never send passwords because there are no passwords), the name you choose, an optional city, and the songs you pick. We also count how many times each tune's 30-second preview gets played, so the person who shared it can see it's being checked out. Counts only, shown only to them, never who pressed play.

We never sell your personal data. Still no ads, still no third-party ad trackers, and nobody can buy your email, your name, your city, or who's in your circles. We do use privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics (Vercel) to count how many people visit each page. Totals only, never tied to your name or your music taste.

Public tapes can earn you money. One thing is new: the metadata of public tapes, song titles, track order, liner notes, can be licensed through our paid API, including to AI agents. When that happens, 80% of the net revenue goes to you. It only ever covers what's already public, never your personal details, and the terms spell out the whole deal. Some outbound links may also earn SFtunes an affiliate commission at no cost to you. Those links are always marked.

Email you control. The monthly digest has an unsubscribe link that works instantly.

Want everything gone?Use the “Delete my SFtunes account” button in Settings, or contact us and we'll delete your account and personal data. We retain anonymized earnings and accounting records with no user identifier for bookkeeping.