Privacy Policy

MOTR (Music On The Rox) is a music discovery service operated from the United States. This policy covers the MOTR app and the pages under musicontherox.com. Questions go to officialmusicontherox@gmail.com.

If you swipe anonymously

• A randomly generated username and account ID. No email, no name.
• Which tracks you swiped on, which direction, and when.

If you sign in with Google

• Your email address and the name on your Google account.
• Your swipe history and saved tracks.

Signing in is only so your saves survive a cleared browser and follow you to another device. We ask Google for nothing beyond your name and email, and we never post anywhere on your behalf.

If you submit music as an artist

• Your name, email, and the track you submitted.

Automatically

• Standard server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested) kept briefly for security and debugging.

• To run the feed and make sure you never see the same track twice.
• To count swipes and decide which tracks break through.
• To keep your saves attached to you rather than to one browser.
• To email you about things that concern you: a track of yours picking up saves, or breaking through. If you signed in as a listener, that also includes the occasional reminder when you haven't swiped in a while, and news about tracks you saved. Those carry an unsubscribe link and stop the moment you use it. We never sell your address or email you on anyone else's behalf.
• To detect fraud and abuse, and to meet our tax and accounting obligations.

We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we hand nothing about you to data brokers. Artists see a track's swipe totals, never who swiped. MOTR does carry Google ads, and serving them lets Google set its own cookies in your browser; that is described under Cookies below. We pass Google nothing about you to do it.

Only the services needed to run MOTR, and only what each one needs:

• Google: sign-in. We receive your name and email; Google is told nothing about what you listen to.
• Resend: transactional email.
• Neon and Netlify: database and hosting.
• Google AdSense: the ads on the site. Google receives your IP address and the page you are on, as it does on any site carrying its ads. It is not told your account, your saves or what you played.
• Apple: track previews and artwork. These are lookups we make about music, not a handover of anything about you.

The Spotify buttons on your saved tracks are ordinary links. Tapping one opens Spotify with that song; nothing about you is sent to them, and MOTR has no access to your Spotify account.

We may also disclose information if the law requires it, or to protect the rights and safety of MOTR and its users.

We count page views so we can tell whether anyone is finding the site at all. For each view we store the page, the country your request came from, the site that linked you here if there was one, and a random id kept in a first-party cookie so repeat views can be counted as one person rather than several.

That id identifies a browser, not a person. It is never joined to your account, your email or the tracks you swipe, it is never sent anywhere outside MOTR, and we do not store the full address of the page you came from, only the site it was on.

We use a small number of first-party cookies to keep you signed in, to hold your session while you sign in with Google, and to count a returning visit as the same person rather than a new one. Blocking those will break sign-in.

MOTR also shows ads from Google AdSense, and Google sets its own cookies and similar identifiers through them, which it may use to personalise advertising across sites. We do not control those and we receive nothing from them about you. You can review and turn off personalised advertising at adssettings.google.com, and see how Google uses this data at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

• Swipes and saved tracks: as long as your account exists.
• Artist submissions: kept while the track is in the feed and for a reasonable period after, so we have a record of decisions.
• Server logs: a short rolling window.

• Ask for a copy of what we hold about you, or ask us to correct it.
• Ask us to delete your account. We'll remove your profile and sign-in data. Anonymised swipe counts stay in a track's totals, and financial records we're required to keep will remain.
• Unsubscribe from any non-essential email using the link in it. If you are an artist, that also takes your music off the platform, because email is the only way we can reach you about it. We ask you to confirm first, nothing is deleted, and submitting again puts you back on.

Email officialmusicontherox@gmail.com for any of the above and we'll respond within 30 days. We won't treat you differently for exercising these rights.

If you live in California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia, or another state with a comparable privacy law, you have the right to know what we collect, to request deletion, to correct inaccurate information, and to opt out of sale or targeted advertising. We don't sell personal information or run targeted advertising, so there's nothing to opt out of, but the other rights apply, and the email above is how to use them.

MOTR is operated in the United States and your information is stored and processed there. MOTR is free and open worldwide, and we take no payment from anyone. If you're in the UK or EU, you may have additional rights over your data under UK GDPR or GDPR. Email us and we'll honour them.

MOTR isn't for children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect anything from them. Submitting music requires you to be 18 or older, because it involves payments. If you believe a child has given us information, email us and we'll delete it.

Traffic is encrypted in transit, sign-in tokens are stored server-side, admin accounts require two-factor authentication, and card details never touch our servers. No system is perfectly secure, but if a breach ever affects your information we'll tell you promptly.

If we change this policy we'll update the date at the top of the page, and for anything significant we'll tell you in the app or by email before it takes effect.