The short version
- No account, no sign-up. Ondial never asks for your name, email address or phone number.
- Your lists stay on your phone. Favorites, history, settings and alarms are stored on your device. Ondial has no server of its own and we cannot see them.
- Stations come from Radio Browser, a free community directory, and play directly from each broadcaster's own stream.
- The free version shows ads from Google AdMob, which uses your device's advertising ID. You can limit or reset it at any time.
- We do not sell your personal information, and the app contains no analytics or tracking tools of our own.
1. Who we are
Ondial is an internet radio app for Android, published on Google Play by an independent developer (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what information the app handles, where it goes, and the choices you have. It applies to the Ondial app and to this page. The same policy is inside the app under Settings → Privacy policy.
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2. Information kept only on your device
To remember how you like to listen, Ondial saves the following in the app's private storage on your phone. None of it is sent to us.
| What | Why |
|---|---|
| Your country and region | So Home opens with stations near you. The first guess comes from your phone's language and region setting — Ondial does not use GPS or ask for location permission. |
| Favorites, recently played stations and recent searches | Your library and quick access to what you played before. |
| Stations you hid | So a broken station stays out of your lists. |
| Theme, favorite genres, equalizer and alarm settings | To keep your choices between sessions and to start the alarm on time. |
| Ad-free time and a count of full-screen ads shown | To honour the 30 minutes without ads you earn from a video, and to limit how often full-screen ads appear. |
| Cached station lists and station logos | So screens open quickly and use less data. Cached lists delete themselves after 7 days. |
Your consent choice for ads (see section 3.4) is stored on your device by Google's consent tool. The app language you pick is stored by Android.
3. Information that leaves your device
Ondial needs the internet to find and play radio. These are the only places it connects to, and what they receive.
3.1 Radio Browser — the station directory
Station names, logos, genres and stream addresses come from Radio Browser, a free directory maintained by its community. When you browse or search, the app sends your request (for example the words you searched for, or the country, region, genre or language you opened) to Radio Browser's servers. Like any website, those servers also receive your IP address and the app's name and version. Radio Browser is an independent service with its own terms.
3.2 Adding a missing station
If you use Settings → Add a missing station, Ondial first opens the stream address once to check that it plays. Then the station's name, stream address, website, country, region and genres are sent to Radio Browser and published publicly in its directory, where anyone can see them. Please do not include personal information. We cannot edit or remove a published entry; Radio Browser's community maintains the directory.
3.3 Broadcasters and logo hosts
Ondial does not host, relay or record any audio. When you play a station, your phone connects directly to the stream server chosen by that broadcaster, and station logos load from the address the directory lists (often the station's own website). Those servers receive your IP address and basic technical details of the request, as with any website, and are governed by the broadcaster's own policies. Some broadcasters stream over plain HTTP rather than HTTPS.
3.4 Advertising — Google AdMob
The free version of Ondial shows ads served by Google AdMob. To deliver ads, limit how often you see the same ad, measure performance and prevent fraud, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in the app may collect:
- your device's advertising ID;
- your IP address, from which an approximate location can be inferred;
- device and app information, such as phone model, Android version and app version;
- how you interact with ads, and diagnostic information about ad loading.
Where the law requires it — including the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland — Google's consent message asks for your choice before personalised ads are shown. If you do not agree, ads can still appear but are not personalised. Wherever that message applies, you can change your answer at any time in Ondial under Settings → Privacy choices. Google may also use information from the SDK as described in How Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services and in the Google Privacy Policy.
Your controls: on Android, open Settings → Privacy → Ads (or Google → Ads on some phones) to reset or delete your advertising ID. Watching a video for 30 minutes without ads is always optional.
3.5 Voice search
When you tap the microphone in Search, Android's own speech recognition service (usually provided by Google) listens and turns your words into text. Ondial never receives the audio — only the text result — and does not request microphone permission.
3.6 Google Play
Google Play handles downloads and updates. If Ondial Pro is offered for purchase, payment is processed by Google Play; we never see your card or payment details, and Google tells us only whether a purchase is valid.
4. What Ondial does not do
- No accounts, and no collection of your name, email address, phone number or contacts.
- No GPS or location permission, no camera, no microphone permission, no access to your files.
- No analytics, crash-reporting or tracking SDK of our own, and no server that stores your data.
- No selling of personal information.
5. Permissions the app uses
| Permission | Why |
|---|---|
| Internet and network state | To load stations and play streams, and to notice when your connection drops or returns. |
| Foreground service and wake lock | To keep playing with the screen off, with controls in the notification. |
| Modify audio settings | For the equalizer and bass boost. |
| Schedule exact alarms and run at start-up | To wake you with the radio on time, and to set the alarm again after the phone restarts. |
| Advertising ID | Added by the Google Mobile Ads SDK, for the ads described in section 3.4. |
6. How long information is kept, and how to delete it
- On your device: kept until you remove it. Remove favorites, recently played stations, recent searches and hidden stations inside the app, or delete everything at once with Android Settings → Apps → Ondial → Storage → Clear storage, or by uninstalling Ondial. Cached station lists delete themselves after 7 days.
- With us: nothing — we do not hold a copy.
- With Radio Browser, broadcasters and Google: handled under their own policies. A station you submitted stays public in Radio Browser's directory.
7. Children
Ondial is a general audience app and is not directed at children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. Ads in Ondial are limited to content rated suitable for general audiences with parental guidance. If you believe a child has provided personal information through the app, contact us and we will help.
8. Security
The directory and ads are reached over encrypted HTTPS connections. Because your lists live on your phone, the best protection for them is your device's own screen lock and updates.
9. Your rights
Depending on where you live — for example under the GDPR in Europe, UK data protection law, or US state laws such as California's — you may have rights to access, correct or delete personal information, or to opt out of targeted advertising. Because Ondial keeps your information on your device, you can exercise most of these directly as described in section 6. For information Google processes for ads, use Google's controls linked in section 3.4. For anything else, email us and we will answer within 30 days.
10. Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. Significant changes will also be mentioned in the app's release notes.
11. Contact
Email fundeveloper27@gmail.com with any question about this policy or your information.