Privacy policy

Your library

Afterglow stores your imported and recorded tracks, artwork, project details, and timed notes on your device. Waveform analysis runs on your device. You do not need an account.

Afterglow uploads your tracks, artwork, and notes only after you sign in, as described below. You choose what to share through shared notes or support messages. The app has no advertising.

The app requests access to files or artwork that you choose through the system picker. It requests microphone access when you record audio. It does not use your camera.

Optional account and sync

You can sign in with Apple or Google from Settings. An account is optional. Afterglow does not ask for your email address. Apple provides a private identifier and Google provides a signed identity token.

While you are signed in, Afterglow syncs your library in the background when your device is online. Song, recording, note, and label details go to our database hosting provider. Audio and artwork files go to our file storage provider. Waveform data stays on your device.

Your analytics choice and selected recordings stay on your device. A random sign-in token is kept securely on your device. Our providers process your IP address and request details when your device syncs.

Sharing songs

After you sign in, you can share a song. The owner creates an invite link and chooses a role. Editors, the default, can change the song and add items and files. They cannot delete the song or invite or remove people. View-only members can play and download.

Members see your display name, a colored initial chip, the items you added, and the list of people on the song. You enter a display name when you first share or join a song. Afterglow can suggest your name from Apple or Google. Members do not see your email address or your Apple or Google identifier.

Joining a song requires Sign in with Apple or Google and syncs your library as described above.

Each invite link works once and expires after 7 days. Our servers keep only a hash of the link's token.

If the owner removes you, or you leave, the song is removed from your devices. If the owner deletes the song or their account, the song is removed from every member's device. Items you added to someone else's song stay in that song.

App updates and diagnostics

The app checks for and downloads compatible updates through an app update provider. These requests include your IP address and technical information needed to select an update. They do not include your tracks, artwork, or notes.

Apple may make crash reports and TestFlight feedback available to us according to your device and testing settings. You can manage diagnostic sharing in your device settings and choose what to include in testing feedback.

Optional app analytics

When usage analytics is enabled, our analytics provider receives feature actions such as importing a track, playing audio, saving a note or label, and opening comparison. Events include a random installation identifier, session identifiers, timestamps, app and operating system versions, and update details. We use this information to understand feature use and improve the app.

We do not send audio, artwork, project or track names, note text, file paths, or playback positions. We do not record sessions or link app events to a website visitor or account. The provider receives your IP address when handling network requests; we disable location enrichment.

Usage analytics is enabled by default. You can turn it off in Settings. Turning it off stops collection, discards unsent events, and removes the local analytics identifier. It does not delete events already received by the provider. Enabling it again creates a new identifier.

Backups and deletion

Afterglow does not create library backup files. To keep your library across devices, sign in to sync it. You can still restore a backup ZIP you saved earlier. It contains tracks, artwork, and notes without password protection, so keep it somewhere you trust. Places where you save or share files have their own privacy practices.

You can delete tracks, notes, and projects within the app. Previous metadata copies used for recovery can retain earlier notes. Removing the app removes its local data. Copies in device backups or destinations you selected are managed through those services. Offloading an app can retain its data.

Signing out keeps your library on your device and stops syncing. You can delete your account in Settings. This deletes your synced library data, files, and sign-in sessions from our servers. For Apple accounts, it also revokes Afterglow's Sign in with Apple authorization. It removes your display name, your membership in shared songs, and the members and unused invite links of songs you own. Those songs disappear from members' devices. Items you added to someone else's song stay there and show as "Former member". Deletion may not be instant, and provider backups might keep copies for a period afterward.

Deleting your account does not delete the library on your device. Deleting an item in Afterglow does not delete the original file you imported or copies you saved or shared elsewhere.

This website

We use a website analytics provider to understand visits, referring sites and campaigns, and clicks through to our App Store listing. It uses browser storage and cookies with randomly generated visitor and session identifiers to connect these events. We do not send signup email addresses to this provider or record sessions or form contents.

Our integration removes query strings and fragments from recorded page and referrer URLs. Campaign tags are recorded separately. The analytics provider receives connection information when your browser sends events. We skip this tracking when your browser enables Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control. You can still use the website and follow the App Store link.

Our hosting provider also measures website traffic and performance without using cookies or local storage to identify visitors.

Our hosting and security providers process connection information, including your IP address and request details, to deliver and protect this website.

Launch notifications

Launch notification signups are closed. If you signed up before launch, we retain your email address, signup date, and the version of the signup notice with our database hosting provider for the one launch notification you requested. This is not a recurring newsletter.

We delete signup records older than one year during daily cleanup. To leave the list or request deletion, email support@useafterglow.app from the address you used. Our signup database does not store your IP address.

Contacting support

When you email support, our email providers process your email address, message, and any attachments so we can receive and respond to your request. Include only the information you want to share.

Your privacy choices

To ask a privacy question or request access to, correction of, or deletion of information you sent us, email support@useafterglow.app. This applies to information we hold, such as support correspondence. You can delete your account and synced library in the app; your device library is managed within the app.

Depending on where you live and which laws apply, you may also have rights to object to or restrict processing, receive a portable copy of your information, or complain to your local data protection authority.

Changes to this policy

We update this policy when our privacy practices change. The revision date appears at the top of this policy.