Privacy policy for deadair for Android
Last updated: 20 September 2026
deadair for Android is published by Marooned Software. It is a listening app for a deadair radio station, which is server software that its users run themselves.
What the app collects
Nothing. The app has no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, and no third-party components that gather data. Marooned Software receives no information from it at all.
Listening needs no account. The app can optionally sign in to a station, which lets it read more of what that station publishes about itself than the public stream carries. That is a sign-in to that station alone, never to Marooned Software or to any service of ours.
What the app stores on your device
A handful of settings, and only on the device:
- the address of the station you chose to listen to, and the name it gave when the app checked it
- which audio format you picked
- whether the app takes its colours from your wallpaper
- if you add the home-screen widget: what the station last told the app it was playing — its name, the record's title and artist or the name of whoever was talking, a link to the cover art, and when that answer was given. It is what the widget draws when the app is not running, it is replaced by the next answer, and it is cleared when you point the app at a different station
And, only if you sign in, the session that station issued:
- the email address you signed in with, so the app can show you which account it is using
- the two tokens the station gave it, which are what later requests to that station are made with
- which roles that station reports for your account (an operator, or only a listener), so the app knows which controls to show you
Your password is not stored. It is sent to the station once, in exchange for those tokens, and is not kept afterwards. Nor is the one-time code, when the station asks for one. The tokens and the roles are removed when you sign out, when you point the app at a different station, and when the app is uninstalled. None of it is transmitted to Marooned Software, and none of it is included in a cloud backup or in a transfer to a new phone.
If you are the station's operator and turn on "Lock the operator's controls", the app remembers that setting and asks your phone to check that it is you. The phone does the checking: the app never sees your fingerprint, face or screen lock, only whether the check passed, and nothing about it is sent anywhere.
What the app connects to
Only the station address you enter, and whatever that station's own responses point at.
That address is a server operated by you or by whoever runs the station you are listening to. It is not operated by Marooned Software. Because it is an ordinary network connection, that server can see your device's IP address, the requests the app makes, and the identifier the app sends to describe itself. deadair station software uses this to count how many people are listening. What the operator of a given station does with it is governed by that operator, not by this app.
Cover art is a second case worth naming. A station may answer with artwork it holds itself, in which case the image comes from that same server. It may instead answer with a link to an image elsewhere, such as a music provider's image host, in which case the app fetches the image from there and that host sees the request. The app follows only the links the station gives it, and it sends no information of yours when it does.
Permissions
The app requests network access, permission to keep playing while the screen is off, permission to run playback as a foreground service, and permission to show a notification. Each is used to play audio and to show what is playing. None is used to collect information.
The app does not request the camera. Scanning your station's code on the setup screen opens Google Play services' own scanner, which reads the code on the device and hands the app only the text of the code, the station's address. No picture reaches the app.
Children
The app is not directed at children and collects no data from anyone.
Changes
If this policy changes, the revised version will be posted here with a new date.