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Convusic is built and run by me, Varun Santhanam, an independent developer. There is no company behind it collecting data for other purposes. If you have any question about this policy, email [email protected] and a human — me — will answer.

Convusic takes a link for one music service (a song, album, or artist page) and opens the same music in the service you actually use. It does this in two ways: automatically, through its Safari extension, and by hand, when you paste a link into the app. Both work the same way under the hood: the app sends the music link to the Convusic server, the server finds the matching content on the other services, and the app opens the match. Understanding that flow makes the rest of this policy simple.

1. Music links. When a link is converted, that link is sent to the Convusic server so it can be matched across services. The link describes music — a song, an album, an artist — not you. No account, name, device identifier, or advertising identifier is attached to it.
2. Language preference. Requests include your device’s preferred languages so results (like artist and album names) can be returned in your language. This is a standard web header, not a profile.
3. Failure and diagnostic data. When something goes wrong — a conversion fails, the app crashes, the server errors — technical details of the failure (what was requested, what broke, on what OS and app version) may be recorded and may alert me so I can fix it. This data describes the failure, not the person who encountered it.
4. Anonymized usage analytics. To understand what needs fixing and improving, I record how Convusic is used in broad strokes: which screens of the app are opened, which pages of convusic.app are visited (measured without cookies), how many links are converted, which services they come from and go to, and whether the match succeeded. Each record carries technical context — OS version, app version, kind of device, language, and the country and region the internet connection implies — but nothing that identifies you. This runs on analytics software I host on Convusic’s own infrastructure; no analytics company receives anything.

   The records do carry two identifiers, so here is exactly what they are:

   • A session ID, which groups the events of a single session. It is a random number that lives only in memory and is discarded when the session ends.
   • A visitor ID, which groups the records of a single visitor within a single day. It is computed from connection details that are never stored, and the computation changes every day.

   Records from one day cannot be linked to another, and neither ID can be traced to a person.

Like every service on the internet, the Convusic server briefly sees the IP address a request comes from; that is how the internet delivers responses. The address itself is never stored with analytics: it is used in the moment to note the country and region a request came from and to compute the daily visitor ID described above, and then it is gone, persisting only in short-lived infrastructure logs. I never use IP addresses to identify anyone.

• No accounts and no sign-in, so no names, emails, or passwords
• No location data beyond the country or region an internet connection implies — never GPS, never a precise location
• No contacts, photos, messages, or files
• No browsing history
• No advertising identifiers, and no advertising at all
• No selling or sharing of data with data brokers or ad networks
• No tracking across other apps or websites

Safari warns that extensions can “read and alter webpages,” so here is exactly what the Convusic extension does with that permission: it watches for navigation to the supported music services, and when you open a link for a service you don’t use, it redirects that navigation to your service. That’s all. It does not read, collect, or store the content of pages you visit, it ignores everything that is not a supported music link, and the only thing that ever leaves your device is the music link being converted, sent to the Convusic server as described above. Your browsing history stays in your browser.

Your settings — like which music service is yours — are stored on your device. If you use iCloud, that choice syncs to your other devices through your personal iCloud account. That sync happens inside Apple’s infrastructure under your Apple Account; I have no access to it.

Convusic is sold through the App Store. Apple processes the purchase; I never see your payment details, and Apple does not tell me who bought the app.

The Convusic server runs on commercial hosting infrastructure, and it consults music catalog services to match content across platforms. These providers process the data described above (music links and ordinary server traffic) on my behalf to make the product work. None of them receive anything that identifies you, and none of them are advertising or data-broker businesses.

Infrastructure logs are short-lived and rotate automatically. Usage and failure records — which, as described above, identify no one — may be kept longer to track the health of the service over time. Because nothing in these records identifies you, there is nothing that could be traced back to you later.

If you contact [email protected], I will see your email address and whatever you choose to include. I use it only to help you, and I don’t add it to any list or share it with anyone.

Convusic is designed so there is nothing about you to request, correct, or delete — no account to close and no profile to export. If you believe I hold any personal data about you, or you have any privacy question or concern (including rights under laws like the GDPR or CCPA), email [email protected] and I will resolve it.

Convusic is not directed at children, and it collects no personal data from anyone, children included.

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at convusic.app with a new effective date. If a change is material — if Convusic ever starts collecting something this policy says it doesn’t — I will say so plainly rather than bury it in revised wording.

Varun Santhanam
[email protected]
convusic.app