Privacy Policy
Effective October 1, 2026 | United States
Privacy at a glance. Your music library and listening history are primarily kept on your device. SongHarbor has no user accounts, advertising, or cross-app tracking. Information leaves the device only for features you choose to use, as explained below.
This Privacy Policy explains how the SongHarbor apps for iPhone and Mac handle information. Optional analytics and Send Feedback are currently available only on iPhone.
SongHarbor is operated by Kadeem Palacios ("SongHarbor," "I," or "me"). This version of SongHarbor is offered in the United States.
1. Summary
No account is required to use SongHarbor.
Music files, library metadata, playlists, preferences, and listening history are stored locally on your device.
Optional usage analytics are disabled by default and are sent only after you choose to enable them.
Song-detail searches send an audio fingerprint to Apple's Shazam service, not your original audio file.
Purchases are handled by Apple. SongHarbor does not receive your payment-card details.
SongHarbor does not sell personal information, display advertising, or share information for targeted advertising.
2. Information stored on your device
SongHarbor creates a local music library from audio files you add. Depending on how you use the app, the local library may contain audio files; file names and locations; song title, artist, album, genre, artwork, duration, and audio fingerprints; ratings; trim points; volume adjustments; BPM; playlist membership and artwork; play counts; dates and duration of listening; playback context; metadata-change history; addition and deletion history; app preferences; and an installation-specific identifier and first-launch information used for local app operation.
SongHarbor does not require an account and does not operate a cloud library or sync server. If you pair your devices, they sync directly with each other, as described in Section 3. On a Mac, you can keep your library in SongHarbor's own folder or in a folder you choose, including one on an external drive; a library in a folder you choose keeps the information listed above in a hidden ".songharbor" folder inside it, next to your music. Local information remains under the control of your devices and the choices described in Section 7.
3. Information sent when you choose a feature
Song recognition and Apple Music metadata
When you choose Find Song Details or start a batch recognition scan, SongHarbor reads a limited portion of the selected audio on your device and generates a Shazam audio signature. SongHarbor sends that signature to Apple's Shazam service to look for a match. SongHarbor does not send the original audio file or raw audio recording to Shazam.
A match may return a title, artist, genres, artwork address, and Apple Music catalog identifier. If you authorize Apple Music access, SongHarbor may use that catalog identifier through MusicKit to request album information, structured artist credits, genres, and artwork. Apple manages the authorization and any Apple Account relationship; SongHarbor does not receive your Apple Account password or payment information.
Syncing between your devices
If you pair SongHarbor on your Mac with SongHarbor on your iPhone or iPad, the apps exchange your library directly over your local network. This can include audio files, song details and artwork, ratings, trim and volume settings, playlists, listening history, deleted-song records, and each device's name, model, and free storage space. The connection is encrypted with a key created when you pair the devices. Synced information goes only to your paired device. It does not pass through a SongHarbor server and is not sent to Kadeem Palacios.
Optional usage analytics
SongHarbor uses TelemetryDeck for optional product analytics. Analytics are off by default. On the third distinct day you open the app, SongHarbor may invite you to enable them. Nothing is sent through this analytics feature unless you affirmatively enable it, and you can turn it off at any time in Settings.
When enabled, analytics may include an anonymized identifier that is constant for that app installation; an app action or feature event; a timestamp rounded to the hour; app version and build; iOS version; device type; App Store or TestFlight status; session and locale information; and coarse event details such as whether an import succeeded or a count range. SongHarbor's analytics events do not include song titles, artist names, album names, playlist names, file names or paths, audio, artwork, search terms, exact listening history, transaction identifiers, localized prices, or storefront information. TelemetryDeck states that it does not store IP addresses for app analytics.
Turning analytics off stops future analytics from SongHarbor and removes analytics events still queued on the device. Because previously transmitted analytics are designed not to identify you, SongHarbor generally cannot locate or delete a particular person's past analytics events. TelemetryDeck currently states that it has no scheduled deletion date for cold-storage events, expects to delete them after approximately seven to ten years, and does not guarantee that period.
Feedback and support
When you choose Send Feedback, SongHarbor prepares an email for you to review and send. The message may contain the feedback you enter, the selected feedback category, reproduction details, an optional screenshot, the SongHarbor version and build, the iOS version, the hardware model identifier, and a random report ID. If you attach a screenshot through the in-app picker, SongHarbor removes the original image metadata before attaching it, but the visible image may still contain song or library details.
Feedback is sent only after you choose to send it through an email service. The sending address and message content are processed by your email provider and received in SongHarbor's Proton Mail inbox. Only Kadeem Palacios is intended to access that inbox.
Purchases
SongHarbor Premium is a non-consumable in-app purchase handled through Apple's StoreKit and the App Store. SongHarbor receives product availability and verified entitlement status needed to unlock Premium features. Apple processes the transaction and payment information; SongHarbor does not receive your full payment-card details.
Files, photos, and the clipboard
SongHarbor accesses only audio files, images or music folders you deliberately select through Apple's file and photo pickers. On a Mac, when you choose a music folder, SongHarbor reads the audio files in it and its subfolders, and watches it for songs you add. Selected audio files may be copied into SongHarbor's local library. Selected images may be normalized and stored locally as song or playlist artwork. SongHarbor does not request broad access to your photo library.
SongHarbor reads artwork from the clipboard only after you choose a paste action. If the clipboard contains an image URL, SongHarbor may request that URL from its host to download the image. The host may receive ordinary network information such as your IP address under its own privacy practices.
4. How SongHarbor uses information
To import, organize, edit, play, trim, rate, and manage your local music library.
To maintain playlists, playback statistics, metadata history, and locally recoverable song information.
To sync your library between devices you pair.
To identify recordings and propose missing song information when you request recognition.
To verify and restore SongHarbor Premium access through Apple.
To understand general feature use and improve SongHarbor when you enable analytics.
To respond to feedback, investigate reports, and provide support when you contact SongHarbor.
To protect the app, comply with law, and enforce applicable terms when necessary.
5. Sharing and service providers
SongHarbor shares information only as needed for the user-initiated and optional services described in this policy. The relevant providers are Apple, including Shazam, Apple Music, MusicKit, StoreKit, and the App Store; TelemetryDeck for optional analytics; Proton Mail for receiving feedback; your chosen email provider; and a remote image host if you choose to paste artwork from a URL.
These providers process information under their own terms and privacy policies. SongHarbor uses providers only for the purposes described here and requires information shared with service providers to receive protections consistent with this policy and applicable law. SongHarbor may also disclose limited information when legally required by a valid request or when reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, or the security of the app.
6. Retention and deletion
Local library information
Local library information remains on the device while SongHarbor is installed, unless you delete particular content. A song deleted in SongHarbor normally enters Recently Deleted for a 30-minute recovery period. If the period expires, or you choose permanent deletion sooner, SongHarbor deletes the audio file.
Permanent deletion of the audio file does not erase every related local record. SongHarbor keeps archived song metadata and artwork, ratings, trim and volume settings, BPM, audio fingerprints, play counts, listening events, and addition, deletion, and metadata-change history indefinitely on the device. This supports local history and can restore prior information if the same recording is imported again. SongHarbor does not currently provide a separate Release-build control to erase all of that retained history. Deleting SongHarbor removes the app's local container from the device. On a Mac, a library kept in a folder you chose is outside that container, so its music and its ".songharbor" folder stay there until you delete them.
Feedback
Feedback emails and attachments may be retained indefinitely until Kadeem Palacios manually deletes them. You may request access to or deletion of feedback you sent. A request can be fulfilled only if the message can still be identified and located, such as by the sending email address or report ID. SongHarbor does not guarantee that a particular message will remain available forever.
Analytics
Analytics still queued on the device are removed when you disable analytics. Analytics already received by TelemetryDeck follow TelemetryDeck's retention practices described in Section 3.
7. Your choices and privacy requests
Analytics: Leave analytics off, decline the invitation, or disable Share Usage Analytics in SongHarbor's Settings at any time.
Apple Music: Allow or deny Apple Music access, and change that permission in Settings on iPhone or in System Settings > Privacy & Security > Media & Apple Music on a Mac.
Files and photos: Choose which files and images to provide through Apple's pickers.
Local content: Delete songs through SongHarbor and remove the app if you want to erase its remaining local container. On a Mac, also delete the music folder you chose, or the hidden ".songharbor" folder inside it, to erase a library kept there.
Device sync: Pair only the devices you want to sync, and unpair a device at any time to stop syncing with it.
Feedback: Email the privacy contact below to request access to or deletion of identifiable feedback still retained.
Depending on applicable law, you may have additional rights concerning personal information. SongHarbor will consider and respond to a verifiable request as required by applicable law. Because SongHarbor has no user accounts and most information remains only on your device, SongHarbor may not possess or be able to identify the information covered by a request.
8. Children
SongHarbor is not directed to children under 13 and does not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. The app does not contain explicit material, but it is designed as a general-audience personal music-library tool. If you believe a child under 13 has sent personal information through feedback, contact SongHarbor so the message can be reviewed and, when identifiable, deleted.
9. Security
SongHarbor limits collection, keeps the music library primarily on the device, uses Apple's system frameworks for permissions and purchases, removes original metadata from feedback screenshots, and restricts analytics payloads to approved categories. No method of storage or transmission is completely secure, so absolute security cannot be guaranteed.
10. No sale, advertising, or tracking
SongHarbor does not sell personal information, share information for cross-context behavioral or targeted advertising, display third-party advertising, or track you across apps or websites owned by other companies.
11. Changes to this policy
This policy may be updated when SongHarbor's features, providers, or legal obligations change. A revised policy will show a new effective date and will be made available through SongHarbor and its public privacy-policy page. Material changes will be communicated in a manner appropriate to the change.
12. Contact
Operator: Kadeem Palacios
Privacy and support email: inbox.tunara@proton.me
Apple Privacy Policy: https://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/
TelemetryDeck Privacy Policy: https://telemetrydeck.com/privacy/
TelemetryDeck Privacy FAQ: https://telemetrydeck.com/docs/guides/privacy-faq/
Proton Privacy Policy: https://proton.me/legal/privacy