Privacy Policy
Last updated: 29 October 2026
The short version
- We collect what the app needs to work: your email, your profile, and the music you record.
- No ads, no tracking, no selling your data. We don't use analytics tools.
- Jams you make public can be seen by anyone. Private jams stay with you.
- You can delete your jams, or your whole account, from inside the app.
1. Who we are
Tunesemble (“Tunesemble”, “we”, “us”) is an app for making music together, one part at a time. We are responsible (the “controller”) for the personal data described in this policy.
Tunesemble is currently in a pre-launch testing phase and is run by its founders in Germany. The full legal name and postal address of the operator will be added here before the public launch. Until then you can reach us for anything privacy-related at hello@tunesemble.com.
2. What we collect and why
Your account
When you sign in, we receive your email address. If you use Sign in with Apple, Apple gives us either your email or a private relay address, if you choose “Hide My Email”. If you sign in with email, we send you a sign-in link. We use your email only to sign you in and to contact you about your account.
Legal basis: performing our contract with you (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR).
Your profile
Your display name, handle and avatar colour, and, if you tell us, what you play. Other users see your display name and handle next to your public jams, joins, likes and comments. We use “what you play” to highlight jams that need your instrument.
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR.
What you record and share
The audio and video you record, thumbnails, jam titles, the instruments and settings you choose, and your likes and comments. We store your recordings and process them on our servers to mix them into a finished jam.
- Public jams, including the parts you record when you join someone else’s jam, can be watched by anyone, including people who aren’t signed in. Other users can join a public jam and record their own parts on top of it.
- Private jams are visible only to you.
Recordings can include your voice and face, and anything else your microphone or camera picks up. Please think about that before you make a jam public.
Legal basis: Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR. You choose what to record and what to publish.
Microphone, camera and Photos
The app asks for the microphone and, for video takes, the camera. It uses them only while you record. If you save a jam to your device, the app asks for permission to add to your Photos. It never reads your photo library.
Error reports
When the app hits an error, it sends us a technical report: what went wrong, where in the code, and your device type, app version and operating system. These reports are set up to leave out your name, email, user ID and sign-in details. We use them only to find and fix bugs.
Legal basis: our legitimate interest in a working, secure app (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR).
On your device
The app keeps your sign-in session and preferences, such as your appearance setting, on your device. That data stays on the device and is removed when you sign out or delete the app.
This website
When you visit tunesemble.com, our web host processes your IP address and basic request data in its server logs to deliver the page and keep it secure (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR). We don’t set cookies on this website and don’t use analytics.
What we don’t do
We don’t show ads. We don’t track you across other apps or websites. We don’t sell or rent your data, and we don’t use your recordings to train AI models.
3. Who we share data with
We use a few service providers (“processors”) to run Tunesemble. They may use your data only on our instructions and under a data processing agreement.
| Provider | What for | Data |
|---|---|---|
| Supabase Pte. Ltd. (Singapore) | Database, sign-in and file storage | Account, profile, jams, recordings, likes and comments |
| Scaleway SAS (France) | Sending sign-in emails | Email address |
| Bugsink B.V. (Netherlands), data stored in the EU | Error reports | Technical error data (see above) |
| Codefloe, run by devXY GmbH (Switzerland), servers in Germany | Hosting this website | Server logs, kept for 30 days |
Apple provides Sign in with Apple and distributes the app through the App Store and TestFlight. Apple handles that data under its own privacy policy, not on our instructions. For users in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, the company responsible is Apple Distribution International Limited (Ireland).
We may also disclose data where the law requires it, for example to comply with a court order.
Transfers outside the EU
Some providers are based in, or may access data from, countries outside the European Economic Area, such as Singapore or the USA. In that case the transfer is protected by the EU–US Data Privacy Framework, where the provider is certified, or by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses. You can ask us for a copy of these safeguards.
4. How long we keep it
- Account, profile and jams: for as long as you have an account. A jam you delete is removed straight away.
- When you delete your account: we delete your profile, jams, recordings, likes and comments. Copies in backups are overwritten within 30 days.
- Error reports: up to 90 days.
5. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the right to:
- access your data and get a copy of it (Art. 15);
- correct it (Art. 16). You can edit your profile in the app;
- delete it (Art. 17). Use Settings › Account › Delete account, or write to us;
- restrict how we process it (Art. 18);
- take it with you in a portable format (Art. 20);
- object to processing based on our legitimate interests (Art. 21).
Email hello@tunesemble.com to use any of these rights. We’ll answer within one month.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection supervisory authority, either in the EU country where you live or in Germany, where we are based.
6. Age
Tunesemble is for people aged 16 and over. We don’t knowingly collect data from anyone younger. If you think a child under 16 is using Tunesemble, let us know and we’ll delete the account.
7. Security
Data is encrypted in transit. Recordings are stored in private storage, and each file can be opened only by people allowed to see its jam. No system is perfectly secure, but we work to protect your data and will tell you if a breach puts it at risk.
8. Changes to this policy
If we change this policy, we’ll update the date at the top. If a change matters, for example when paid plans arrive, we’ll tell you in the app before it takes effect.
9. Contact
Questions about privacy: hello@tunesemble.com