TamilRadios — Privacy Policy
Effective date: 31 August 2026
Applies to: the TamilRadios Android app (com.tamilradios.android), version 7.0 and later
Developer: AppKoder — appkoder@gmail.com
At a glance
- There is no account and no sign-in. We never ask for your name, email address, phone number or precise location.
- Your favourites, recently played stations and app settings are kept on your device. We do not upload them.
- The app shows ads from Google AdMob, which uses your device’s Advertising ID. In the EEA, the UK and Switzerland we ask for your consent before any ad loads, and you can change that answer at any time in Settings › Privacy Options.
- Crash reports and a push token go to Google Firebase so we can fix faults and refresh the station list. Neither identifies you personally.
- Radio stream URLs are treated as confidential. They are never shown to users or shared with third parties.
- We do not sell, rent or trade your data to anyone.
Data stored on your device
TamilRadios keeps the following on your device only, in its own private storage (an on-device database and a preferences file):
- The station catalogue it has downloaded, so the app opens without waiting for the network
- Your favourite stations and the order you arranged them in
- Your recently played stations (the most recent 20)
- Your settings: theme (List / Grid / Classic), dark mode, autoplay on start, auto-reconnect, programme alerts, high-quality audio and sleep timer
- A counter used to pace how often a full-screen ad may appear
None of this is transmitted to us. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it. If Android backup is enabled on your device, Google may include this data in your personal device backup, which is held in your own Google account and is not accessible to us.
Data that leaves your device
There are only three destinations, and none of them receives your name, email address, phone number or precise location.
1. Our station catalogue server. The app asks this server for the list of stations, their artwork and a few display settings. These are read-only requests: the app can download from this server but cannot send anything to it. As with any internet request, our server sees your IP address and the type of device making the request. We use that only to deliver the response and to keep the service running, and we do not build profiles from it.
2. Google AdMob. See “Advertising and your consent choices” below.
3. Google Firebase. See “Crash and error reporting” and “Station list updates” below.
Advertising and your consent choices
TamilRadios shows banner and occasional full-screen advertisements supplied by Google AdMob. To do this, AdMob may collect and use your device’s Advertising ID together with technical information such as device model, operating system version, approximate location derived from your IP address, and how you interacted with an ad. Google acts as an independent controller of that data under its own privacy policy at https://policies.google.com/privacy.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, the app shows you a consent form from Google’s certified consent platform before it requests a single ad. Nothing is requested from AdMob until you answer it. You can reopen that form and change your answer at any time from Settings › Privacy Options inside the app.
Everywhere else, ads load without a consent form, which is what the law in those regions requires. Wherever you are, you can limit ad personalisation or reset your Advertising ID from your device’s own Settings › Privacy › Ads.
Crash and error reporting
The app uses Google Firebase Crashlytics so that crashes and freezes are reported to us instead of going unnoticed. When the app crashes, a report is sent containing the technical fault details (the stack trace), your device model, operating system version, app version, and a randomly generated installation identifier that lets us tell one device’s reports apart from another’s. That identifier is not linked to you, and it is regenerated if you reinstall the app.
We use these reports solely to diagnose and fix faults. Google retains them for a limited period on our behalf under its own terms.
Station list updates
When a station is added, corrected or removed, we send a silent signal through Google Firebase Cloud Messaging that tells the app to refresh its catalogue. To receive it, your device registers with Firebase and is given a registration token, and it subscribes to a general topic that every installation shares. The token identifies the installation, not you, and we do not use it to send you marketing.
These messages carry no content of their own and are not shown to you. The app also refreshes the catalogue periodically on its own.
Permissions the app requests
TamilRadios requests only what playback needs:
- Internet and network access — to stream radio and download the station list
- Foreground service (media playback) — to keep playing when you leave the app or lock the screen, and to show the playback notification
- Notifications — for the playback controls in your notification shade, and for programme alerts if you turn them on
- Prevent device from sleeping — to stop playback being cut off while the screen is off
The app does not request access to your microphone, camera, contacts, call information, files, or device location.
Third-party radio streams
TamilRadios aggregates publicly available radio stream URLs from broadcasters. When you play a station, your device connects directly to that broadcaster’s server, which will see your IP address. The broadcaster’s own privacy policy governs that connection. We do not log, monitor or relay it.
Some broadcasters still publish their streams over an unencrypted connection. Where that is the case the app has to use it, because no encrypted alternative is offered. Such a connection can in principle be observed by others on your network, so on those stations treat what you are listening to as visible.
Keeping and deleting your data
Because everything personal to you stays on your device, you are in direct control of it:
- Uninstalling the app erases your favourites, history and settings
- Clearing the app’s storage from Android Settings › Apps does the same without removing the app
- Resetting or deleting your Advertising ID from your device settings breaks the link between your device and past ad activity
- Withdrawing consent in Settings › Privacy Options stops personalised ads going forward
We hold no account for you, so there is no profile on our side to delete.
Your rights
If you are in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, data protection law gives you the right to access, correct, delete, export and restrict the use of your personal data, to object to it being processed, and to complain to your national data protection authority.
Where we rely on your consent — advertising is the case that applies here — you may withdraw it at any time in Settings › Privacy Options, without affecting anything done before you withdrew it. Our other processing rests on our legitimate interest in keeping the app working and free to use.
Because we operate no user accounts and store nothing about you on our servers, most requests are satisfied directly on your device using the steps above. For anything else, or to ask what we hold, write to us at the address below and we will respond within one month. For data held by Google as a controller in its own right (advertising and crash reporting), please also see https://policies.google.com/privacy.
Children’s privacy
TamilRadios is a general-audience app and is not directed at children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe a child has provided personal information through this app, please contact us at the address below and we will act on it.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as the app changes. The effective date at the top of this page always tells you which version you are reading, and the current version is published with each release on Google Play. If a change materially affects how your data is handled, we will make that clear in the app rather than relying on you to re-read this page.
Contact us
AppKoder
Email: appkoder@gmail.com
For privacy questions or data requests.
