Privacy Policy

Effective October 30, 2026

MusicPlayer is an iPhone app for finding and playing music. It is made by an independent developer (“we” and “us” on this page). This policy explains what the app keeps on your iPhone, what it sends over the internet and to whom, and the choices you have.

• 1. What stays on your iPhone
• 2. iCloud Sync
• 3. Finding and playing music
• 4. Advertising
• 5. App updates
• 6. Backups and sharing
• 7. Content reports and email
• 8. What we don’t do
• 9. Children
• 10. Your choices and deleting data
• 11. Security
• 12. Changes to this policy
• 13. Contact us

1. What stays on your iPhone

The app keeps the following in its own storage on your iPhone. It is not sent to us.

• Favorites and playlists. For each song: its title, artist, length, artwork link and the ID the music service uses for it, plus your playlist names and when you added or changed things.
• Listening history. The songs you played and when, and for each song the spot where you stopped, so it can pick up there. Clearing your history removes those songs, their saved spots and the song details kept only for History. Songs in your favorites or playlists keep their details.
• Recent searches. Your last 20 searches.
• Hidden artists. The artists you hid with Hide Artist, so lists can leave them out.
• What was playing. Your queue and how far into the current song you were, so the app can reopen where you left off. This is kept apart from your history, so clearing History doesn’t remove it. Turning off Resume Where You Left Off does.
• Settings. Your choices in Settings, such as theme, start tab, video quality and Autoplay, and when the app last checked for updates.

The app may also keep copies of artwork it has shown in its cache, so pictures load faster.

Like other app data, this can be included in your iPhone’s own backups (iCloud Backup or a backup on your computer), depending on how you set up your iPhone.

2. iCloud Sync

Versions of the app that offer Settings → iCloud → iCloud Sync can keep your playlists and favorites the same across your devices. Sync uses Apple’s iCloud key-value storage under your own Apple Account. What syncs: playlist names, the songs in them and in Favorites (title, artist, length, artwork link, song ID), when they were added or changed, and a note of recently deleted playlists and favorites so deletions reach your other devices.

Your listening history, searches and settings do not sync. iCloud Sync is on by default where it is offered, and runs only when you are signed in to iCloud. You can turn it off at any time. The data is stored by Apple under Apple’s Privacy Policy. We can’t see it.

3. Finding and playing music

MusicPlayer does not host music. It shows and plays songs, videos, playlists and podcasts from two third-party content providers: YouTube, run by Google LLC, and Audius. To do that, the app sends these providers:

• what you search for, and what you type in the search box (YouTube suggests searches as you type);
• the songs, videos, playlists, artists and moods you open, by their IDs;
• your device’s region (country code) and the language of results, so results fit where you are;
• for YouTube, a visitor ID that YouTube gives the app (see below);
• for Audius, the app’s name, as Audius asks of apps that use it;
• the technical details any internet request carries, such as your IP address.

Song and video streams, search suggestions and artwork are loaded directly from the providers’ servers (for YouTube, Google’s servers such as youtube.com, googleapis.com, googlevideo.com and ytimg.com). When you play a YouTube song, your iPhone asks YouTube directly for the stream of that video, with its ID and the visitor ID. Some search and browse requests go through a small relay service we run on Cloudflare, which passes the request on to YouTube and returns the answer. The app does not send your name, email or any account to providers. The visitor ID is a temporary ID YouTube issues to the app, not to you. The app keeps it only in memory while it is running.

Each provider handles what it receives under its own privacy policy: YouTube’s is the Google Privacy Policy. Audius’s is linked from Settings → Licenses and is available here. Cloudflare’s is at cloudflare.com/privacypolicy.

4. Advertising

MusicPlayer is free and shows a banner ad. Ads are served by Google AdMob (the Google Mobile Ads SDK). Through Google’s mediation, ads may also come from AppLovin.

How you are asked

• Google’s consent form. Where the law requires it (for example in the European Economic Area and the UK), Google’s consent form asks for your choices before ads are personalized.
• Apple’s tracking prompt. After that, iOS asks whether MusicPlayer may track you across other companies’ apps and websites (App Tracking Transparency). If you declined storing data on your device in Google’s form, the app doesn’t show this prompt.

What ad partners may collect

• the device advertising identifier (IDFA), only if you allow tracking;
• your IP address and an approximate location derived from it;
• device and app details, such as iPhone model, iOS version and language;
• how you interact with ads, such as views and taps;
• diagnostic and performance data about ads.

They use this to show ads, measure them, limit how often you see the same one, prevent fraud and, if you allow it, personalize them. If you don’t allow tracking, ads still appear, but they are not based on tracking you across other companies’ apps and websites. We see only overall reports in our AdMob account, such as how many ads were shown. We get nothing that identifies you.

Learn more in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services, the Google Privacy Policy and the AppLovin Privacy Policy.

Changing your choice

• In the app: Settings → Privacy → Ad Privacy Options opens Google’s form again. It appears where the law requires it.
• On your iPhone: Settings → Privacy & Security → Tracking, then turn MusicPlayer on or off.

Third parties

We only work with third parties (Google AdMob, AppLovin, Cloudflare and the content providers named above, YouTube and Audius) whose own policies protect your data at least as well as this policy and as Apple’s App Store rules require.

5. App updates

The app gets updates to its own code from our update server at ota.kimngan.uk. It checks when you open the app and when you tap Settings → Check for Updates. Each check sends:

• the platform (iOS), the app’s runtime version and its update channel;
• the IDs of the update you are running and of the one built into the app;
• a random installation ID created by the update software. It is not linked to you and is not used for ads;
• if the last update failed to start, a short error message;
• your IP address, as with any internet request.

Our server uses these details only to pick the right update, and its code does not save them. The server runs on Cloudflare, which handles your IP address to deliver the response.

Check for Updates also asks Apple’s App Store whether a newer version is out. That request includes the app’s ID and your region.

6. Backups and sharing you do yourself

• Export Backup (Settings → Library Backup) makes a .musicplayer file with your playlists and favorites. It does not include your listening history. The file goes only where you send it with the share sheet. Import Backup reads only a file you choose.
• Share Song and Share Playlist open the share sheet with a link. A shared playlist link carries the playlist’s name and songs inside the link itself. Nothing passes through our servers.

7. Content reports and email

When you use Report Song or Settings → Contact Support, the app opens an email to support@kimngan.uk in your mail app. A report already includes the song’s title, artist, ID and link. Both include the app version and iOS version. Nothing is sent until you send the email yourself, and you can read and change it first. When you email us, we receive your email address and what you write. We use it only to look into your report or question and to reply, and we keep it only as long as we need to for that.

8. What we don’t do

• We don’t have accounts, and we don’t collect your name, email or phone number through the app.
• We don’t run our own analytics, tracking or crash reporting in the app.
• We don’t sell your personal information.
• The app doesn’t ask for your location, contacts, photos, camera or microphone.

9. Children

MusicPlayer is not directed to children under 13, and we don’t knowingly collect personal information from them. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email us and we will delete it.

10. Your choices and deleting data

Depending on where you live, for example in California or the European Economic Area, you may have the right to ask what personal information we hold about you, to correct it or to delete it. Because the app keeps your data on your device, we usually hold nothing beyond emails you send us. Email us with any request and we will answer it.

11. Security

The app’s data is stored inside its own private space on your iPhone, protected by iOS. The app talks to content providers, our relay and our update server over encrypted HTTPS connections.

12. Changes to this policy

If we change how the app handles data, we will update this page and the effective date at the top. If a change is significant, we will also say so in the app or in the App Store release notes.

13. Contact us