Spinlight privacy policy
Effective date: 25 October 2026
Andrew Beniston, of Leeds, United Kingdom, provides Spinlight for iPhone and iPad. This policy covers that app. Contact support@spinlight.app about this policy or your information.
Music access
Spinlight asks permission to use your music library and Apple Music. It reads albums, playlists, song details, artwork, recent listening and favourites to show your music. It sends playback commands and favourite changes to Apple when you use those controls.
Apple manages your Apple Account and Apple Music subscription. Spinlight does not receive your Apple Account password. Apple processes service information under its own privacy terms. Read Apple Music and Privacy.
Information on your device
The app keeps your appearance choices and your selected music service on your device. It also keeps the last random record choice with its song identifier. It temporarily stores music details, artwork, colours and rendered images to display the interface. The system can cache artwork requests. The app passes the playing song's details to its own widgets on the same device. Release builds record local performance messages without song names.
We do not operate a server that receives your music library, listening history or appearance choices. The app has no advertising, and no third-party analytics or crash-reporting software. We do not sell your information or use it for advertising or tracking.
Apple's system services and your device backup settings can affect how device information is stored. Artwork requests go to the image addresses that Apple supplies. Those services receive the network information needed to answer the requests.
Spinlight Pro
Apple processes the optional Spinlight Pro purchase through the App Store. We do not receive your payment card details. The app checks your purchase with the App Store to open the Pro choices and to restore them.
Your choices
- To stop using Apple Music in Spinlight, open Settings, then Music Provider, then Disconnect. This does not remove the system permission or delete music from your library.
- To remove Spinlight's music permission, change it in the device's Settings app.
- Your appearance choices stay on the device until you delete the app or its data.
- Apple manages the information that Apple Music keeps.
Support emails
If you email us, we receive your message, your reply address and any files you choose to send. We use them only to answer your request and to fix the problem you report. Do not send passwords, sign-in codes or account tokens.
Email to support@spinlight.app passes through Cloudflare Email Routing (Cloudflare, Inc.), which forwards it to Gmail (Google). They process it for us. Read the Cloudflare privacy policy and the Google privacy policy.
We keep support emails only as long as we need them to help you, and delete them within 12 months.
To ask about access to, correction of or deletion of information we hold, contact support@spinlight.app. You can also complain to the UK Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.
Changes
We update this page when our privacy practices change. The effective date shows the current version.