Privacy
AudioPress is a podcast-hosting platform by Plabayo. This explains what we collect, why, where it lives, and how to get it removed. We keep it to the minimum we need to run the service — no ad networks, no third-party trackers.
What we collect
- Waitlist signups. The email you give us, so we can send a confirmation link and, later, a beta invitation. Confirmation is double opt-in — we only keep an address once you click the link.
- Your account. Your email and the details needed to sign in, protect your account with 2FA when enabled, and manage your show(s). A first-time sign-in also creates a short-lived email challenge containing your address, language, and requesting IP address.
- Your show's content. For a hosted podcast we mirror your feed's metadata, audio, artwork, and transcripts so we can serve your site and re-publish your RSS feed.
- Operational logs. Standard request logs (e.g. IP address, user agent) for security and debugging, kept briefly.
- Privacy-first show statistics. Episode download starts are counted so show owners can see totals, listener-ish counts, apps, devices, variants, and approximate geography. We hash client IPs with an app-private key, use User-Agent strings only for classification, keep raw IPs only for a short repair window, and never use ad trackers or cross-site tracking pixels.
- Dashboard preferences. Your browser may store local preferences such as theme and playback speed so the site feels consistent when you return.
Show statistics
Show dashboards use the minimum signal needed to make podcast analytics useful: episode, audio variant, timestamp, a keyed IP hash for coarse uniqueness, User-Agent classification, and country/region/continent when a local GeoIP database is available. Precise IP addresses are not shown to show owners and are cleared after the enrichment window.
Cookies
No tracking or advertising cookies. Public visitors may receive a small per-show flag remembering that they dismissed the “this show is in another language” banner. Dashboard users receive strictly necessary sign-in cookies, including a session cookie and, when 2FA is enabled, a short-lived pending-2FA cookie. These cookies are HttpOnly, SameSite=Lax, and marked Secure on HTTPS deployments.
Where it's stored & who processes it
Data lives on infrastructure operated by Plabayo and a few reputable processors we rely on to run the service: object storage for media, a database for metadata, and an email provider (Lettermint) to deliver confirmation and sign-in emails and receive first-time account-verification messages. We don't sell your data or share it beyond what's needed to provide AudioPress.
Operational backups may contain database rows and media objects for recovery. Backup access is restricted, backups are used only to restore the service after data loss or operational mistakes, and restored data is subject to the same deletion rules once active again.
How long we keep it
- Unconfirmed waitlist emails are discarded automatically within 7 days if you never confirm.
- First-time sign-in challenges expire within 24 hours. AudioPress verifies the sender and authentication results but does not store the inbound message body or attachments in its database.
- A hosted show's mirrored content is kept while your subscription is active, and removed when you delete the feed or close your account.
- Raw IP addresses for statistics enrichment are kept only for the short repair window needed to derive the keyed hash and approximate location.
- Backups are retained only as long as needed for operational recovery and are rotated as part of the backup policy.
Your choices & deleting your data
You're always in control of your data. Show owners can delete a podcast feed from the dashboard, including its mirrored media, transcripts, and editorial overrides.
For account deletion, access, correction, or anything you prefer not to handle in the dashboard, email us at privacy@audiopress.space to access, correct, or delete your data, and we'll take care of it.
Contact
Questions about privacy? Reach us at privacy@audiopress.space, or via Plabayo.