Effective November 11, 2026
Privacy policy
Alcove LP is designed to work without an Alcove account and without collecting personal data.
Information stored on your device
Alcove LP stores your saved album shelf, album queue, listening notes, and any listening activity you choose to keep—such as play counts or last-played dates—locally on your device. This information is used only to provide your personal library, queue, journaling, and history features. Alcove LP does not transmit this information to us.
Deleting the app removes this locally stored information, subject to the device and backup behavior controlled by Apple.
Apple Music
If you choose to connect Apple Music, Alcove LP uses Apple's MusicKit framework to request authorization, search the Apple Music catalog, load provider artwork, and start playback. Your Apple ID password is never provided to Alcove LP. Apple's handling of Apple Music and device information is governed by Apple's terms and privacy policy.
Apple platform diagnostics
Apple may collect crash or diagnostic information through iOS, TestFlight, or the App Store under Apple's terms and the device owner's settings, and may make some reports available to developers. Alcove LP does not embed a crash-reporting SDK, operate a crash-collection endpoint, or use platform diagnostics as product analytics.
Data collection and tracking
Version 1.0 of Alcove LP:
- does not require an account;
- does not include advertising or third-party analytics;
- does not include telemetry, crash-reporting, or behavioral-tracking SDKs;
- does not track you across apps or websites;
- does not collect or sell personal data; and
- does not transmit your shelf, queue, notes, searches, playback activity, or local listening log to Alcove LP infrastructure.
Alcove LP has no telemetry or analytics endpoint to phone home to. These Alcove LP web pages also omit Alcove's optional analytics script.
User-directed export is not phone home
A future version may let you explicitly export selected metadata to an Alcove semantic-search instance that you choose and control. Such an export must show the exact fields and destination before it runs, occur only after an explicit user action, and connect directly to that destination. It will not enable background telemetry or route data through Alcove LP infrastructure.
Version 1.0 does not implement this export and contains no general-purpose network client. Its only outbound-capable surfaces are Apple's MusicKit framework and Apple Music artwork supplied through the provider. Alcove LP has no server for the app to contact.
Changes
Alcove LP will not add product analytics or telemetry. If another user-directed feature changes how information is handled, this policy will be updated before that feature is released.
Questions
During the TestFlight alpha, privacy questions and reports can be sent with Send Beta Feedback from Alcove LP's page in the TestFlight app. Do not include private listening notes or account credentials.