Ascend Music Privacy Policy Ascend · Music player for Android Privacy Policy Effective 4 October 2026 App ID com.ascendmusic AT A GLANCE Account or sign-in NONE Ads, analytics, tracking NONE Your library, playlists and history ON YOUR PHONE Sent for lyrics (can be turned off) TITLE · ARTIST · ALBUM · LENGTH Payments for Ascend Pro GOOGLE PLAY Personal data sold or shared NEVER Ascend is an offline music player: it plays the audio files that are already on your phone. It has no accounts and no servers of its own, and it doesn't collect information about you. This policy explains what the app stores, the one thing it sends over the internet, and how purchases work. 1What stays on your phone To work, Ascend keeps the following in its own storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us or anyone else. The songs it found in the music folders you chose, with their tags (title, artist, album, genre, track number, length) and where each file is. Your playlists, Liked Songs, hidden songs, and any pictures you picked for playlists. How often and when you played songs, for Recently played and Most played. Your settings: music folders, theme, equalizer, volume leveling, lyrics and other options. Things it works out to save time later: cover art, waveforms, loudness measurements and lyrics it found. Whether you have Ascend Pro, and how much of a Pro theme's free try you've used. 2Your music files Ascend reads your audio files and their tags so it can list and play them. It changes a file only when you use Edit metadata, and Android asks for your permission before any file is changed. Files you export (an M3U playlist, or all your playlists in one file) are saved where you choose; they contain song names and file locations, and sharing them is up to you. When you pick a picture or a file, Android's own picker gives Ascend access to that one item only. 3Lyrics lookup: the only data that leaves your phone When you show a song's lyrics and Look up lyrics online is on (it is on by default), Ascend asks LRCLIB, a free public lyrics service, for that song. What is sent: the song's title, artist, album and length. What is not sent: your name, account, email, contacts, location, the audio itself, or any identifier for you or your phone. Like any website, LRCLIB's servers see your IP address and the request when it arrives. Lyrics that are found are kept on your phone, so the same song isn't looked up again. To stop this entirely, turn off Settings → Lyrics → Look up lyrics online; Ascend then only shows lyrics that are inside your music files. 4Purchases (Ascend Pro) Ascend Pro is a one-time purchase made through Google Play. Google handles the payment and your Google account under the Google Privacy Policy. Ascend never sees your payment details. From Google Play it receives only whether Pro was bought (and a purchase token it uses to confirm the purchase), and it remembers the answer on your phone so Pro works offline. 5Android backup If you have Android's backup turned on, Android may copy Ascend's app data (settings, playlists, likes and play history) to your Google account, encrypted, so it can be restored on a new phone. This is a service of Android and Google; we can't see that data. You can turn backup off in your phone's settings. 6Permissions Music and audio (storage on older Android versions): to find and play your music. Internet: for the lyrics lookup and for Google Play purchases. Playing in the background (foreground service, wake lock): to keep the music going with the screen off and show the playback controls. Ascend doesn't ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone or phone calls. 7What Ascend doesn't do No accounts or sign-in. No ads and no advertising IDs. No analytics, crash reporting or tracking of any kind. No selling, renting or sharing of personal data. 8Children Ascend is not directed at children under 13. It doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included. 9Deleting your data Everything Ascend keeps is on your phone. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, deletes it. Your music files and anything you exported are left as they are. Because we keep nothing on our side, there is no account or server data to delete. 10Changes to this policy If Ascend starts handling data differently, this page will be updated and the effective date above changed before the new version of the app is released. 11Contact Ascend is made by Mihai Nidelea. Questions about this policy, or requests about your data, can be sent to mihainidelea.developer@gmail.com. If you're in the European Union, you have rights over your personal data under the GDPR. Since Ascend doesn't collect any, there is nothing we hold to access, correct or delete. For data handled by LRCLIB or Google Play, contact them directly.

Ascend Music Privacy Policy Ascend · Music player for Android Privacy Policy Effective 4 October 2026 App ID com.ascendmusic AT A GLANCE Account or sign-in NONE Ads, analytics, tracking NONE Your library, playlists and history ON YOUR PHONE Sent for lyrics (can be turned off) TITLE · ARTIST · ALBUM · LENGTH Payments for Ascend Pro GOOGLE PLAY Personal data sold or shared NEVER Ascend is an offline music player: it plays the audio files that are already on your phone. It has no accounts and no servers of its own, and it doesn't collect information about you. This policy explains what the app stores, the one thing it sends over the internet, and how purchases work. 1What stays on your phone To work, Ascend keeps the following in its own storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us or anyone else. The songs it found in the music folders you chose, with their tags (title, artist, album, genre, track number, length) and where each file is. Your playlists, Liked Songs, hidden songs, and any pictures you picked for playlists. How often and when you played songs, for Recently played and Most played. Your settings: music folders, theme, equalizer, volume leveling, lyrics and other options. Things it works out to save time later: cover art, waveforms, loudness measurements and lyrics it found. Whether you have Ascend Pro, and how much of a Pro theme's free try you've used. 2Your music files Ascend reads your audio files and their tags so it can list and play them. It changes a file only when you use Edit metadata, and Android asks for your permission before any file is changed. Files you export (an M3U playlist, or all your playlists in one file) are saved where you choose; they contain song names and file locations, and sharing them is up to you. When you pick a picture or a file, Android's own picker gives Ascend access to that one item only. 3Lyrics lookup: the only data that leaves your phone When you show a song's lyrics and Look up lyrics online is on (it is on by default), Ascend asks LRCLIB, a free public lyrics service, for that song. What is sent: the song's title, artist, album and length. What is not sent: your name, account, email, contacts, location, the audio itself, or any identifier for you or your phone. Like any website, LRCLIB's servers see your IP address and the request when it arrives. Lyrics that are found are kept on your phone, so the same song isn't looked up again. To stop this entirely, turn off Settings → Lyrics → Look up lyrics online; Ascend then only shows lyrics that are inside your music files. 4Purchases (Ascend Pro) Ascend Pro is a one-time purchase made through Google Play. Google handles the payment and your Google account under the Google Privacy Policy. Ascend never sees your payment details. From Google Play it receives only whether Pro was bought (and a purchase token it uses to confirm the purchase), and it remembers the answer on your phone so Pro works offline. 5Android backup If you have Android's backup turned on, Android may copy Ascend's app data (settings, playlists, likes and play history) to your Google account, encrypted, so it can be restored on a new phone. This is a service of Android and Google; we can't see that data. You can turn backup off in your phone's settings. 6Permissions Music and audio (storage on older Android versions): to find and play your music. Internet: for the lyrics lookup and for Google Play purchases. Playing in the background (foreground service, wake lock): to keep the music going with the screen off and show the playback controls. Ascend doesn't ask for your location, contacts, camera, microphone or phone calls. 7What Ascend doesn't do No accounts or sign-in. No ads and no advertising IDs. No analytics, crash reporting or tracking of any kind. No selling, renting or sharing of personal data. 8Children Ascend is not directed at children under 13. It doesn't knowingly collect personal information from anyone, children included. 9Deleting your data Everything Ascend keeps is on your phone. Uninstalling the app, or clearing its storage in Android's settings, deletes it. Your music files and anything you exported are left as they are. Because we keep nothing on our side, there is no account or server data to delete. 10Changes to this policy If Ascend starts handling data differently, this page will be updated and the effective date above changed before the new version of the app is released. 11Contact Ascend is made by Mihai Nidelea. Questions about this policy, or requests about your data, can be sent to mihainidelea.developer@gmail.com. If you're in the European Union, you have rights over your personal data under the GDPR. Since Ascend doesn't collect any, there is nothing we hold to access, correct or delete. For data handled by LRCLIB or Google Play, contact them directly.

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