PodilaxLegal
Privacy policy
The short version
- Podilax analyses how you use your phone on your phone. App names and usage times are never sent to us or anyone else.
- There are no Podilax accounts, no ads, and no third-party analytics, crash reporting or tracking SDKs.
- To find and play podcasts, your phone talks directly to podcast directories and to the servers that host each show. They see your request like any website would.
- Podilax Plus purchases are handled by Google Play (and by Apple's App Store once the iPhone app is available).
Contents
- Who we are
- Data that stays on your device
- Data that leaves your device
- Permissions
- Device backups
- This website
- Legal bases
- Retention and deletion
- Your rights
- Children
- Security
- Changes
- Contact
1. Who we are
Podilax is made by Frost Creative Agency ("we", "us"). This policy covers the Podilax mobile app and the podilax.com website. For anything about your privacy, write to [email protected].
Because Podilax has no accounts and keeps your activity on your device, we do not hold a profile about you. For the processing described in section 3 that involves us at all (Plus purchases, emails you send us, website logs), we are the controller.
2. Data that stays on your device
The following is created, stored and processed only on your phone. We cannot see it.
| Data | What it is used for |
|---|---|
| App usage statistics (which apps were in the foreground, when, and for how long) | Read from Android's usage statistics when you grant usage access. Each app is immediately mapped to a category such as Navigation, Productivity or Fitness; only categories and times are used to detect your Moments, run Smart rules, show Listening DNA and the "Swap the scroll" suggestion. App names are not stored by Podilax. |
| Your routine and preferences | Moments you set by hand, topics you like, weekly listening goal, language, download and Wi-Fi settings, and whether learning is paused. |
| Shows and episodes | Shows you follow or import with OPML, episode details from their feeds, and downloaded audio files (Plus). |
| Listening activity | What you played, for how long, in which Moment, and where you stopped, so mixes can resume episodes and Wrapped can show your week. |
| Feedback | "More like this" and "Not for this moment" taps, used to tune future mixes. |
| Smart rules | The rules you create and whether each is on. |
| Plus status | Whether you have an active Plus subscription, cached on the device and confirmed with the store. |
On iPhone, once available, Podilax will use Apple's Screen Time framework. Apple runs the activity analysis inside a protected extension on the device and does not let apps send that data off the phone.
3. Data that leaves your device
Podilax has no server of its own that receives your data. These are the only times information leaves your phone:
| When | Sent to | What is sent |
|---|---|---|
| You search for a show, or Podilax looks up suggestions for your topics | Apple's iTunes Search API, and Podcast Index when enabled | The search words or topic, your country code (so results match your region's directory), and the standard technical data of any web request, such as your IP address. |
| Podilax refreshes a show or plays or downloads an episode | The server hosting that show's RSS feed, audio and artwork (chosen by the podcast's publisher) | A normal web request for the file, including your IP address and the app's user agent. Podcast hosts often count downloads this way; their own privacy policies apply. |
| You start or manage a Plus subscription | Google Play (or Apple's App Store on iPhone) | The store processes your payment under its own terms. We receive a purchase record (product, order and status) and never your card details. |
| You share your weekly Wrapped | The app you choose in the share sheet | Only the summary text you see before sharing. |
| You email us | Us | Your email address, name if you include it, and your message. |
We do not sell personal data, share it for advertising, or combine it with data from other sources.
4. Permissions
- Usage access (optional): lets Podilax learn your Moments and run Smart rules, as described above. You can turn it off in Android Settings or pause learning in Podilax at any time.
- Notifications (optional): used to tell you when a Smart rule has a mix ready, and for playback and download controls.
- Network access: to search, refresh feeds and stream or download episodes.
- Background playback and downloads: so audio keeps playing with the screen off and downloads can finish.
Podilax does not request your location, contacts, microphone, camera, calendar or photos.
5. Device backups
If you have device backup turned on, Android may include Podilax's local database (followed shows, listening activity, progress, feedback, rules and preferences) in your Google account backup so it can be restored on a new phone. That backup is stored by Google under your account and is not accessible to us. Usage statistics and downloaded audio are not part of it.
6. This website
podilax.com sets no cookies and uses no analytics or advertising. Fonts and images are served from our own domain. Our hosting and network provider processes standard access logs (IP address, browser user agent, page requested and time) to deliver the site and protect it from abuse; these logs are kept for no longer than 30 days.
7. Legal bases (EEA, UK and Switzerland)
- On-device processing you switch on, such as usage access: your consent, which you can withdraw at any time by turning the permission off.
- Requests needed to search for and play the podcasts you ask for, and Plus purchase records: performance of our contract with you.
- Answering emails and keeping website logs: our legitimate interest in supporting users and keeping the service secure.
- Keeping purchase records where tax or accounting law requires it: legal obligation.
8. Retention and deletion
- Data on your device stays until you delete it. Clearing Podilax's storage in Android Settings, or uninstalling the app, removes all of it. Downloaded episodes can also be removed individually.
- Emails you send us are kept for up to 2 years after our last reply, then deleted.
- Website access logs are kept for up to 30 days.
- Purchase records held by Google or Apple follow their retention policies; records we must keep for tax purposes are kept for the period the law requires.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live, you have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to processing of your personal data, to data portability, and to withdraw consent. Because almost everything stays on your phone, you can exercise most of these directly in the app or in Android Settings. For anything we hold, such as your emails, write to [email protected] and we will respond within one month. You can also complain to your local data protection authority.
10. Children
Podilax is not directed at children under 13 (or the minimum age in your country) and we do not knowingly collect their personal data. Podcast content comes from independent publishers and may not be suitable for every age.
11. Security
Your data is stored in Podilax's private app storage, which Android protects from other apps. Network requests use HTTPS whenever the podcast's host supports it. No method of storage or transfer is perfectly secure, but keeping your activity on your device means there is no central database of it to breach.
12. Changes
If we change how Podilax handles data, we will update this page and the date at the top, and where the change is significant we will tell you in the app before it takes effect.
13. Contact
Frost Creative Agency, publisher of Podilax. Email [email protected].