Privacy Policy

Last updated 6 October 2026

Planet FM has no account, no sign-in, no advertising and no third-party analytics or advertising code. Most of what the app knows never leaves your device. This policy covers Planet FM for iPhone and iPad, for Android, and the web app at radio.nextwell.top/app.

Planet FM is developed and operated by Vladimir Mihalevich (Uladzimir Mikhalevich in official documents), an individual developer, referred to as "we" in this policy. He is responsible for the data described here and can be reached at radionull@nullnextwell.top.invalid.

The short version

• No account, no ads, no tracking across other apps or websites. Nothing is sold or shared for advertising.
• No cookies, on the website or in the apps. See the Cookie Policy.
• Your favourites, settings and history stay on your device.
• The app sends anonymous usage counts tied to a random identifier that is not linked to you. This is on by default and can be switched off in Settings, in the apps and on the web.
• Playing a station connects you directly to that broadcaster, who sees your IP address.
• Song recognition is handled by Apple, only when you ask for it. To show cover art, the apps look up the artist and title of the song a station is playing in Apple's public iTunes catalogue.
• Location is used only for the optional speedometer and is processed on your device; only the total time and distance of a drive are counted in the statistics, never where you were.

What stays on your device

Favourites, settings, volume, sleep-timer and Pomodoro preferences, recent searches, the saved copy of the station catalogue, the data-usage counter, the stations your device has heard go silent, the last station you played, and your history of recognised songs (the song, the station and the time). These live in the app's private storage (in the browser's local storage on the web). Uninstalling the app or clearing its storage removes them.

Your device's own backup may include this data: Android backup can copy your favourites and settings to your Google account, and an iPhone or iPad backup (iCloud or a computer) includes app data according to your device settings. We have no access to these backups.

Cookies

Planet FM sets no cookies. The web app and the website keep your settings in your browser's local storage and a copy of the app in its cache so that it opens offline. What is stored, and how to remove it, is listed in the Cookie Policy.

Anonymous usage statistics

These counts tell us whether the catalogue works for the people using it and which parts of the app are worth improving. Roughly every two minutes of use, when the app goes to the background and when a web page is closed, the app sends the following to its own service and nowhere else. Our service adds them up per day and keeps only the daily totals, never the individual reports.

• a random identifier created when the app is installed, used only to count how many different installations were active on a day. It is not an advertising identifier or a device identifier, is not derived from anything about you or your device, and is not linked to you or to any account;
• once per session: the app version, the operating-system version (on the web, the browser family instead), the device type (phone, tablet, desktop or TV), the interface language, the device's region setting (the country chosen in the system settings, not your location), the theme, text size and other display and energy-saving settings, whether the web app runs installed, and the number of favourites;
• which stations were played, for how long, how much data that used, and the local hour of the day when listening happened;
• which stations failed to play;
• feature usage counters: how many times screens and controls were used — for example the list, globe and map, the player buttons, filters, sharing, video, the sleep timer, the Pomodoro, settings changes and onboarding — as counts only, with fixed names and never with anything you typed;
• how many searches were made and favourites added or removed, never what was typed;
• for song recognition: whether it found a song, missed or failed, on which station, and for a found song its artist and title — public catalogue data that is only counted, never tied to your history;
• for the speedometer: the total time and distance driven with the radio playing, and on which stations — never where, never a route, a position or a speed reading.

Never sent: search text, coordinates, speed readings, device names, contacts or account data, or anything else you type.

Statistics are on by default in the iPhone, iPad and Android apps and in the web app, and can be switched off in Settings ("Help with statistics"); after that nothing is counted or sent. Clearing the app's storage or reinstalling it deletes the identifier; the next launch creates a new, unrelated one. Like your settings, the identifier may be carried to a new device by your device's own backup and restore.

Stations that don't play

When a station stays silent, the app reports that station's identifier so the catalogue can stop offering a dead station to everyone. This is a fact about a broadcaster and carries nothing about you or your device.

Ordinary requests

Loading the station list, filters, station logos and the list of hidden stations are requests to the app's own service. If it cannot be reached, the app falls back to the public directory at radio-browser.info, and if that fails too, to the list built into the app.

Broadcasters see your IP address

Audio does not pass through our service. When you play a station, your device connects directly to that broadcaster's server, exactly as a browser would, so that server sees your IP address. What it does with it is governed by the broadcaster's own policy. We have no relationship with the broadcasters in the catalogue and no control over their logging. The same applies to the public directory when it is used as a fallback.

Song recognition

Recognition runs only when you ask for it. The app listens to a few seconds of the station's own audio — not your microphone; the app never asks for microphone access — and turns it into an audio signature, a compact fingerprint from which the original audio cannot be recreated. The signature is sent to Apple's Shazam service to find a match. On Android the app first obtains a short-lived access key from our service; that request carries nothing about you. Apple's handling of the request is governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. The result is kept in your history on the device; the statistics count only the outcome, the station and the song's artist and title.

Song details and artwork

Many stations send the artist and title of the song on air along with their stream. To show that song's cover in the player, on the lock screen, in widgets and next to songs you liked, the iPhone, iPad and Android apps search Apple's public iTunes catalogue for it automatically, sending the artist and the title — the station's own public text, nothing about you — at most once per song. When you open a song in your recognition history for the first time, the apps also ask the same service for the album, release date and length, sending that song's Apple Music identifier and the store country from its link. Cover artwork is then loaded from Apple's servers. Like any server, Apple sees your IP address; these requests are governed by Apple's Privacy Policy. Turning off station logos in Settings stops the cover searches and artwork downloads. The web app does not make these requests.

Location and the speedometer

The speedometer is optional. Only when you turn it on and grant permission does the app use your location, only while the full-screen player is open and the app is in front, and only to calculate your current speed. Location is processed on the device: positions and speed readings are never sent, stored or used for anything else. The app keeps on the device how long and how far you drove with the radio playing, and the statistics, while they are on, receive only those totals, never a position, a route or a speed. After three minutes without movement it switches from GPS to coarse, low-power location that only notices when you drive off, and it is not used at all in energy-saving mode. You can revoke the permission at any time in your device settings. The web app does not use location.

Widgets, Siri and Control Centre

To show what is playing and let you control it, the app shares the current station, its state and whether it is a favourite with its own widgets and extensions on the same device. This data is not sent anywhere.

Feedback form and email

If you write to us through the feedback form, the rights-holder form or by email, we receive what you send: your email address, your message and anything else you enter, such as a name, a station or a link. We use it only to read and answer your message and to handle requests from rights holders, never for marketing, and we do not join it to the statistics identifier.

Messages from the forms are delivered to us through Telegram and by email, sent through the Resend email service, so a copy is also held by those services under their own policies. A copy is kept on our server for up to two years as a record of requests and our answers, then deleted. The forms set no cookies, and your IP address is not stored with a message: it is used only for a short-lived limit on how many messages can be sent from one network. You can ask us to delete your message at any time.

What our service receives

Like any web server, ours receives the IP address of whoever connects to it. It is used to answer the request and, as with ordinary server logs, to keep the service running and prevent abuse. It is not joined to the statistics identifier and is not used to build a profile. Access logs are deleted after 30 days.

What is never collected

No name or email address unless you write to us yourself (see Feedback form and email), and no phone number, contacts, photos, files, calendar, microphone audio, location sent off the device, advertising identifier or crash reports. There is no third-party analytics or advertising code in the apps or on the website.

Your choices and deleting data

• Clear the app's storage or uninstall it to delete everything the app kept, including the statistics identifier and your recognition history.
• Switch off the speedometer or revoke location access in your device settings at any time.
• Switch off statistics in Settings ("Help with statistics"), in the apps or on the web.
• To ask about anything our service has received, write to radionull@nullnextwell.top.invalid. Apart from messages you send us, nothing we receive is tied to your identity, so we may need details from you to find it.
• To have a message you sent us deleted, ask through the feedback form from the same email address.

Legal basis

Where the GDPR or similar laws apply, we process anonymous statistics, reports of silent stations and server logs on the basis of our legitimate interest in running and improving the service, messages you send us on the basis of our legitimate interest in answering them and in handling rights holders' requests, and location on the basis of the permission you give. You have the right to access, correct and delete your data, to object to processing and to complain to your data-protection authority.

Your rights by region

European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland

You have the rights listed above. Apart from messages you send us, nothing we hold identifies you, so to find anything we may need details from you, and we cannot find what we cannot connect to you. We make no decisions about you by automated means.

California and other US states

We do not sell or share personal information (as the California Consumer Privacy Act defines those terms), do not use it for targeted advertising or profiling, and do not collect sensitive personal information. What we handle is limited to what is described above: a random installation identifier, anonymous usage counts, the device's region setting, in server logs IP addresses for 30 days and, if you write to us, your email address and message. Residents of California and of other states with privacy laws may ask what we hold, ask us to correct or delete it, and will not be treated differently for asking. Write to radionull@nullnextwell.top.invalid. We do not track you, so there is nothing to switch off with Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.

Children

Planet FM is not directed at children and collects nothing that identifies anyone, whatever their age.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it.

Contact

Questions about privacy: Vladimir Mihalevich, radionull@nullnextwell.top.invalid.