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Privacy Policy

Last updated: September 2026

What Groovepede is

Groovepede is a local-first app for queuing albums from any streaming service. It is available on the web and as an Android app, which is the same web app in a thin wrapper. There are no accounts and no login. Groovepede shows no ads and uses no analytics and no tracking cookies.

Data stored on your device

Everything you put in Groovepede is kept only in your browser's storage (localStorage) on your device:

• The albums you add: title, artist, cover image URL, release year, genre tags and streaming links
• Your listen count
• Your preferred listening service

We never upload this data to our servers. A backup you export is a file that stays under your control. To delete all of it, clear the site's data in your browser or uninstall the app.

What is sent over the network, and why

• Our resolver (api.groovepede.gregolsky.pl, self-hosted). When you paste a link, the app sends that album URL to the resolver. The resolver looks up the album's title, artist, cover and year, and finds matching links on Deezer, Apple Music and Spotify. Tracklists and artist info are fetched later using album and artist identifiers. Spotify is queried with app-level credentials, so Groovepede never has access to your Spotify account or any other streaming account.
• Public music databases, queried anonymously: Last.fm, MusicBrainz, Cover Art Archive and TheAudioDB. They receive only artist and album names or IDs, used to look up tags, bios, similar artists and artwork. Cover images load directly from the streaming services' image servers.
• Error reports. When something breaks, the app sends a short diagnostic report to our resolver. It contains the error message, a stack trace, the request that failed, the album ID and service involved, and your browser's user-agent. The report has no personal identifiers and is only written to the server logs.

Server logs

Like any web server, the resolver logs incoming requests, including the IP address and user-agent. We use these logs only for rate limiting, blocking abuse and debugging. They are rotated automatically and kept only briefly. We don't share them with anyone or use them to build profiles.

No selling or sharing

We never sell data about you, and we never share it with advertisers or data brokers.

Third-party services

The Listen and Explore links open Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Last.fm and other services. Those services have their own privacy policies.

Children

Groovepede is not directed at children under 13.

Changes

If this policy changes in a material way, we'll update the date at the top of this page.

Contact

Questions or requests: groovepede@gregolsky.pl, or open an issue on GitHub.