Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 5, 2026

Tunebout is a free, no-account web tool. This policy explains what little data is involved when you use it, who else gets to see it, and what choices you have. Plain language, no dark patterns.

The short version

Tunebout has no user accounts, no login system, and no backend database that we operate. We do not collect names, email addresses, phone numbers, or any other personal information about you. We do not sell data. We do not send marketing email — we have no email list to send it to.

How quiz data is stored

When you build a quiz, the quiz itself (questions, song selections, answers, settings) is encoded into the share URL. The data lives in the link. If your quiz is small enough, the entire thing is right there in the address bar.

For larger quizzes that exceed practical URL length limits, the encoded quiz is uploaded to bytebin.lucko.me, a free public paste service operated by a third party (not by Tunebout). The share link then contains a short key that points at the bytebin entry. We do not control bytebin and have no special access to its contents; it is a public paste service, and entries there are subject to bytebin's own retention rules and may expire.

What stays in your browser

Your browser's localStorage is used to keep:

  • Quizzes you've recently created or opened, so they show up on the home page.
  • A randomly generated creator token tied to quizzes you make on this device, which is what lets you (and only you) edit them later.
  • Quiz attempts, so your results page works after you finish playing.

None of this is transmitted off your device by Tunebout. Clearing your browser data clears it all, and editing access to your old quizzes goes with it.

Hosting and analytics

The site is hosted as static files on Cloudflare. Cloudflare acts as a processor for traffic to and from the site and receives standard request data (IP address, user agent, timestamps) for security, abuse prevention, and aggregate traffic analytics. This is the same data any web server's access log would contain. We do not cross-reference it with anything else, because there is nothing else to cross-reference it with.

Advertising

Tunebout displays ads served by Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technologies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this site or other sites, and to measure ad performance. You can review and control how Google uses data when you use partner sites at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites and manage personalized ad settings at adssettings.google.com. If you are in the EU, EEA, UK, or Switzerland, you will be shown a consent prompt for advertising and analytics cookies, as required by local law, before non-essential cookies are set.

Embedded third-party players

To play song clips, Tunebout embeds the YouTube IFrame Player and the Spotify embed widget. When these players load, they make requests to YouTube and Spotify directly and may set their own cookies and collect their own data, governed by their own privacy policies. Tunebout does not receive that data and is not affiliated with YouTube or Spotify.

If you import a YouTube playlist, the playlist URL is sent to a public Piped instance to fetch metadata. Piped is an independent third-party project; we do not run it.

Children

Tunebout is a general-audience tool and is not directed at children under 13. Because we don't collect personal information, we don't knowingly collect any from children under 13. If you believe a child has somehow shared personal information with us, contact us and we'll investigate.

Your choices

You can clear your local Tunebout data at any time from your browser's settings. You can use Tunebout without an account because there isn't one. You can opt out of personalized advertising via your Google ad settings linked above, or by using your browser's tracking-protection and cookie controls.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes meaningfully, the effective date at the top will move and the changes will be visible in the site's git history. For non-trivial changes a notice will appear on the home page for a reasonable period.

Contact

Questions about this policy? Email hello@tunebout.com.