— a note on privacy —

what the room knows, and what it doesn't.

coolness listens to what you listen to. that's how the room gets warmer. here's exactly what that means, in plain language.

no account, no password, no email.

coolness does not ask you to sign up. there is no username, no password, no email capture, no social login. if you never tell us who you are, we never know.

your listening signals — bookmarks, play history, which shows you lean into — live on your device and sync privately through iCloud to the other apple devices you already own. we don't hold a copy on our servers.

what the website collects.

no cookies. no local storage. no fingerprinting. pageviews are counted in memory for the length of your tab session and then forgotten. we route the anonymous hit through our own subdomain (cdn.coolness.com) so reputable content blockers don't flag it as a third-party tracker. we don't run advertising scripts. we don't sell or share this data with advertisers or third parties.

if you'd rather not send anything at all, your browser's "do not track" and any reputable content blocker are both honored — the site works the same either way.

what the app collects.

by default the iOS app sends anonymous product analytics to posthog (US cloud) — things like which screens you visit and aggregate listen-time. no account required. no name, email, or precise location collected. you can turn this off at any time in settings → share anonymous usage.

any feedback you send through the leave a note surface is delivered to the team regardless of that toggle, because it's what you chose to tell us. we don't reply — we try to read every note.

bookmarks and offline audio.

when you bookmark an episode, the app caches the audio locally so you can play it later even if the show takes it down. that file never leaves your device. you can turn the behavior off in settings.

shared links.

when someone shares an episode from the app, the link travels as an anonymous source-and-hash pair. it identifies the episode. it does not identify the sender or the recipient. we log the lookup the same way we log any page view.

what we will never do.

• sell your listening data, your device information, or anything else.
• point advertising networks at you.
• email you, because we don't have your email.
• add a social feed, a follower graph, or a leaderboard.

questions.

there's no support inbox to speak of. if something about this page feels wrong, send a note through feedback in the app and it will reach the person who wrote it.