Privacy

Last updated: October 4, 2026

Old Time Radio Tuner was built with privacy in mind. There is no account, no advertising and no third-party analytics or tracking, in the app or on the website.

The app

What the app collects

By default, nothing. Old Time Radio Tuner has no account, no ads, no third-party analytics and no tracking.

There is one optional setting, "Share anonymous usage data" (at the bottom of the series list). It is off until you turn it on. If you turn it on, the app sends us anonymous usage data: counts of things like plays, downloads and sleep timers. It does not send your name, your email, an account, a device identifier or which shows you played or looked at. Events are grouped by a session number that is made up fresh each time the app opens and never stored, and timestamps are rounded to the minute. A short-lived token, which only shows the request came from a genuine copy of the app, rides along; it doesn't identify you.

The data goes to a server we run, and it isn't shared with anyone, sold or rented. Turn the switch off at any time and the app stops sending and discards anything still waiting to go out. Because the data isn't tied to you, we can't pick out one person's events to export or delete.

What stays on your device

Your downloads, the shows you follow, your history and where you left off all live on your device. We don't keep them on our servers. None of it is synced between your devices, and none of it goes to a server of ours.

What it never collects

Old Time Radio Tuner never collects your name, email address, phone number, location, contacts, photos, microphone or camera, health or purchase information, or your advertising identifier. It does not track you across other companies' apps or websites, and it never sells or rents data, and never will.

archive.org

Old Time Radio Tuner gets its shows from the Internet Archive (archive.org). When you browse, stream or download, the app talks to archive.org the way a web browser would, so archive.org can see your IP address, and its Terms and Privacy Policy applies to that. The app also asks our own server (api.oldtimeradio.app) for a small settings file. If you turn on Share anonymous usage data, it also sends anonymous usage counts to usage.livemusicarchive.app. Like archive.org, our servers see what any network request carries, such as your IP address.

Not affiliated with the Internet Archive (archive.org). Shows are streamed from its public collections.

The website

This site doesn't set any cookies and doesn't run any tracking or analytics. There are no ads, and everything on the page, fonts included, comes from this site. Nothing loads from anyone else. Like any web server, ours sees the basics of each request, like your IP address and browser, so it can send you the page.

Contact

For a privacy question or request, email jason@livemusicarchive.app.