Kwemo Privacy Policy

Last updated: 16 October 2026

Kwemo is a music rating and discussion app. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it. If anything here is unclear, email hello@kwemo.fm.

What we collect

• Account details — the email address and display name you sign up with (by email, Google or Apple), handled by Google Firebase Authentication.
• Your profile photo, if you add one.
• What you create in the app — your ratings, reviews and notes, posts, comments, forum threads and replies, group chat messages, the records, mixtapes and tickets you send (and the notes on them), saved songs and playlists, concert badges, diary notes, and the picks on your Kwemo card.
• Your home city, if you set one on the Live tab, with its map coordinates, so shows near you come first. You type it; Kwemo never reads your location from your phone. It is private to you.
• Who you follow, so your feed and follower counts work.
• Listening history — only if you connect Spotify or Apple Music. See below.
• Push notification tokens, only if you turn on notifications.
• How the app is used — in-app events such as signing up, rating a record or opening a screen, collected with Google Firebase Analytics and linked to your account, so we can see what works and fix what doesn't. It is never used for advertising.

Connecting Spotify or Apple Music

Connecting is entirely optional, and Kwemo works without it. If you do connect:

• We read your recently played tracks to build your listening recap and the "Right now" side of your Kwemo card.
• With your permission we can follow artists and create a playlist in your account — only when you tap the button that does it.
• Your access token is stored on your own device, not on our servers.
• We never receive your Spotify or Apple Music password.
• You can disconnect at any time from your Kwemo profile, and revoke Kwemo's access from your Spotify account page.

Send to Spotify

You don't need a Spotify account linked to use Send to Spotify. When you tap it, Kwemo makes the playlist on Kwemo's own Spotify account and you save it to yours. Those playlists are public on Spotify: anyone with the link can see the songs and the playlist's name. The name comes from the tape's title or your playlist's name (never the sender's name), and a name with a link, a handle or offensive language is replaced with a plain one. Nothing else about you is sent to Spotify.

City suggestions on the Live tab come from a list built into the app, so nothing you type there is sent anywhere until you search. City data from GeoNames, licensed under CC BY 4.0.

Spotify and Apple Music are trademarks of their respective owners. Kwemo is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by either company.

What other people can see

Kwemo is a social app, so some things are visible to other signed-in users by design: your display name, your Kwemo card, your ratings and rankings, your posts and comments, your concert badges, and your follower and following lists.

Your listening snapshot ("Right now") is shared with other users only while the Share my listening setting is on. Turn it off in your profile settings and the stored snapshot is deleted.

Your email address is never shown to other users.

What we do not do

• We do not sell your data.
• We do not share your data with advertisers.
• We do not use your listening history to train machine learning models.
• We do not track you across other websites.

Where your data lives

Kwemo runs on Google Firebase (Authentication, Cloud Firestore, Cloud Storage for profile photos, Cloud Functions, Hosting, Cloud Messaging and Analytics). Data is stored on Google's servers and protected by security rules that restrict each record to its owner.

Deleting your data

You can delete individual ratings, posts, and comments in the app. To delete your account and everything attached to it, use Settings → Delete my account in the app, or email hello@kwemo.fm from your account's email address. Step by step: kwemo.fm/delete-account.html.

Children

Kwemo is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect their information.

Changes

If this policy changes materially, we will update the date at the top and note the change in the app.

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