Who we are
The windscene app is made by WindScene LLC. "We" on this page means WindScene LLC, and this page covers the app. The website has its own policy.
windscene is not affiliated with Apple. It plays music through your own Apple Music subscription, and Apple's own privacy policy governs everything Apple does.
Who you are to us
You sign in with Apple. From that we keep:
- The identifier Apple gives us for you. This is your account. It is specific to windscene — it isn't your Apple ID, and it can't be used to look you up anywhere else.
- Your email address, if Apple sends it. You may choose to hide it, in which case we get one of Apple's relay addresses instead, and that is fine with us. We never use the address to identify your account, only to reach you.
- Your name, if Apple sends it. Apple offers it once, on the first sign-in, so that Settings doesn't have to ask you to type it.
We do not ask for, and have no way to see, your Apple ID password. If you connect a music service that uses a login token, the token is encrypted before it is stored.
What we read from your music library
With your permission, the app reads your Apple Music library — and it genuinely reads the whole thing, because a playlist built from a sample of your library is not built from your library. For each track that means its title, artist, album and genre, how long it is, how many times you've played it, when you last played it, when you added it, and the identifiers Apple uses for it.
Play counts are the point rather than a side effect. What you reach for, what you've shelved and never played, what you've not played in two years — that's what the app is reasoning about. It cannot make a playlist that sounds like you without them.
No music and no pictures. We store no audio and no image files, anywhere. Cover art is a link back to Apple that your phone fetches; the picture itself is never sent to us. Your phone keeps a copy of cover art so the app isn't blank when you scroll, and that copy stays on your phone.
What you tell the app on purpose
These are things you state, and we keep them because you stated them:
- the playlists it has made for you, and the tracks in them;
- records you put in the crate, and where you found each one;
- tracks you've told it never to play again;
- what you said when you told it a playlist was wrong;
- publications you follow, and tracks someone shared with you, with their name;
- the dials — how much variety, how much unfamiliar music, which genres, which eras;
- badges you've earned, and the day each one was earned.
Weather, and why your location never leaves your phone
If you turn weather on, the app asks iOS for your location at city-level accuracy and uses it to look up the local weather on your phone. What it then sends us is the weather, and only the weather: a condition such as "cloudy", the temperature, the wind speed, and whether it's daylight.
No coordinates, no city, no place name, ever. That is a deliberate line. A weather feature should not quietly turn this into a service that knows where you are, and "cloudy and 11°" describes a great many places. Weather currently only colours the order of a playlist — it doesn't change which songs are picked. You can leave it off and everything else works.
Weather data is provided by Apple Weather.
Music you don't own
To suggest something new, the app has to know a little about records that aren't in anybody's library: a title, an artist, an album, a genre, a link to Apple, and which artists sit near which. That catalog is shared across everyone who uses windscene, which is what lets your playlist offer you something a stranger's library taught us about.
It is built only to make our own listeners' playlists better. We don't publish it, sell it, or offer it as a catalog to anyone. If you want the long version of the reasoning, it's written out in the repository as our data policy.
What we don't do
- No advertising, and no ad trackers. There is no ad SDK and no advertising identifier in the app.
- No analytics SDKs. We don't carry a third-party analytics or attribution kit.
- We don't sell your data, or share it for anyone else's marketing.
- We don't use your library to profile you for anything other than making your own playlists.
Who else sees it
- Apple — the app is an Apple Music client. Playback, your library, your subscription and the catalog are Apple's, handled under Apple's terms. When you export a playlist, it is written into your Apple Music account.
- Cloudflare hosts the server and the database. Like any host, it handles the requests your phone makes in order to serve them.
- Apple, during beta testing. While windscene is on TestFlight, Apple gives us crash reports and whatever you choose to send through TestFlight's feedback. That's Apple's pipeline, with Apple's own settings on your phone controlling it.
That's the list. There is no fourth party, and we'll change this page before there is one.
How long we keep it
Your account and its data stay until you ask us to delete them. Items in the crate expire on their own after a week, which is what a crate is for.
Deleting your account
Write to hello@windscene.co from the address on your account, or from any address if you tell us which account you mean. We delete the account and everything attached to it — your library, playlists, crate, rejections, feedback, badges and sign-in — and confirm when it's done.
Deleting your windscene account does nothing to your Apple Music library or to any playlist you exported into it. Those are yours and they stay. You can also revoke windscene's access to your library at any time in iOS Settings, and revoke the sign-in under your Apple ID.
You can ask us the same way to see what we hold about you, or to correct it.
Children
windscene isn't meant for children under 13, and we don't knowingly keep their data. If you think a child has an account, tell us and we'll delete it.
Changes
If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change affects what we do with data you've already given us, we'll tell you in the app before it takes effect.
Contact
WindScene LLC · hello@windscene.co