How Sonar handles your data.

Overview

This Privacy Policy explains how Sonar collects, uses, and protects information when you use the Sonar iOS app and related support pages.

Sonar does not sell your personal information. Sonar uses your information to provide the app experience, save your podcast activity, show social and community features, maintain account security, and respond to support requests.

Information We Collect

Sonar collects information you provide directly, information created through your activity in the app, and limited technical information needed to operate the service.

How We Use Information

• Provide Sonar: Create accounts, authenticate users, save episode logs, sync profile stats, and display feeds.
• Power discovery: Search podcasts and episodes, show trending catalog results, and connect app activity to podcast metadata.
• Support social features: Show public profile activity, followers, following, podcast follows, reviews, and community rating summaries.
• Respond to support: Investigate bugs, account issues, missing podcast metadata, search issues, and review or rating problems.
• Protect the service: Maintain security, prevent misuse, debug errors, and keep Sonar reliable.

How We Share Information

Sonar uses service providers to operate the app. Supabase provides authentication, database, and backend services. Podcast Index provides podcast catalog search and metadata. Search requests and podcast identifiers may be used to return catalog results.

Your public-facing Sonar activity may be visible in the app, including your username, profile, ratings, reviews, followers, following, and podcast activity that powers feeds and community pages.

Sonar may disclose information when required to comply with law, protect rights and safety, investigate abuse, or complete a business transfer such as a merger, acquisition, or asset sale.

Your Choices

• Update activity: You can edit or remove episode logs, ratings, reviews, loved status, and listen later status in the app.
• Manage social data: You can change who you follow and which podcasts you follow from within Sonar.
• Request help: You can contact support to ask about accessing, correcting, exporting, or deleting account information.
• Limit support data: When contacting support, only send screenshots or device details you are comfortable sharing.

Retention and Security

Sonar keeps account and podcast activity information for as long as needed to provide the service, maintain your account, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, and meet legal obligations.

Sonar uses technical and organizational safeguards designed to protect information. No internet service can guarantee absolute security, but Sonar works to keep account and activity data protected.

Children

Sonar is not intended for children under 13. If you believe a child has provided personal information through Sonar, contact support so the information can be reviewed and removed where appropriate.

Changes to This Policy

Sonar may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When the policy changes, the updated date on this page will be revised. Material changes may also be communicated through the app or another appropriate channel.