Homesong privacy policy

Last updated: 4 November 2026

Homesong plays the music files you give it, on your iPhone and Mac. This is the privacy policy for the Homesong apps and for your Homesong shelf.

Who is responsible

The controller is Intellectio Ltd, company number 16605569, registered in England and Wales (director: Lauri Chen). Registered office: Unit 82a James Carter Road, Mildenhall, Bury St. Edmunds, IP28 7DE, United Kingdom. Correspondence: Flat 1, 17A Bear Close, Woodstock, Oxfordshire, OX20 1JT, United Kingdom.

Write to privacy@riri.ink about anything on this page.

What we hold about you

• Your sign-in account: your email address, your name, and your password, which we store only as a one-way hash. Homesong signs you in with a riri.ink account.
• Your shelf: the music files you add, the details in them (title, artist, album, cover art), and what the app stores for your account on the shelf: favourites, playlists and play counts.
• Your kids screen choices, if you use them: which pieces the kids screen shows, and any name or pictures you chose for a piece.
• Your plan, if you buy one: the plan, when it renews, and your Stripe customer reference or the identifier Apple gives the subscription. We never see your card number or your Apple payment details.
• Short-lived server logs used to keep the service running and find faults. They can include your sign-in address when a sign-in fails.
• Kept on your own iPhone and never sent to us: the listening memory that shapes the Play button, your offline copies, and whether the kids screen is on or locked, and the PIN if you choose one.

Why, and our legal basis

To run your account and play your music: the contract between you and us. To keep the service secure and prevent abuse: our legitimate interest. To keep accounting records: a legal obligation.

We do not use your music, your listening or your kids screen choices for advertising, profiling or training any model, and we do not sell or rent your data.

Who else handles it

• Oracle Cloud Infrastructure hosts your shelf, in its UK (London) region.
• Railway hosts the sign-in service and records your plan.
• Stripe takes web payments. Apple provides the App Store and, if you buy inside the app, takes the payment and tells us the plan's status.
• Cloudflare hosts this website.

The apps contain no advertising, no analytics and no tracking tools from other companies. Homesong does not track you across other apps or websites. Some providers may process data outside the UK under approved safeguards, such as the UK's international data transfer agreements.

How long we keep it

We keep your account and shelf while you have them. Payment records are kept as long as the law requires, usually six years. Operational logs are removed within 90 days.

Homesong is a way to play your records. It is not a backup. Keep your originals.

Deleting your account

You can delete your Homesong account in the app: Settings, then Delete account. This removes only the music side — your shelf, music files, favourites, playlists, kids screen choices and Homesong plan details. Your riri.ink email mailbox, if you have one, is a separate service and is not deleted; manage it at riri.ink/settings. You can also email us and we will delete your Homesong data within 30 days.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you can ask to see, correct, export or delete your data, and object to some uses. Email privacy@riri.ink. You can also complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Age

You must be 13 or over to have an account. A child can use the kids screen on a grown-up's account; there is no separate account for a child.

Changes

We will update this page if what the apps do changes, and change the date above.