Drift — Privacy Policy

Summary

Drift is a one-person podcast stream app. It collects the bare minimum needed to play episodes and improve the product — anonymous usage analytics, and (if you sign up) your email. No advertising, no cross-app tracking, no data sale.

What Drift collects

• Anonymous usage analytics. When an episode starts, completes, or is skipped, Drift sends an event with the episode's title, show name, and a generated session identifier to PostHog (EU cloud). No name, email, or device identifier is attached.
• Email address. Only collected if you submit one via an alpha-signup or show-suggestion form. Used to contact you about the alpha and (where applicable) to follow up on your suggestion.
• Show suggestions. What you submit via the "Suggest a show" form, stored to evaluate for the catalogue.
• Voice input (iOS app only, optional). Speech recognition is processed by Apple — on-device or via Apple's servers, per your iOS settings. Drift never stores or transmits the raw audio.

Third-party services

• PostHog — anonymous analytics. EU-hosted.
• Resend — stores email addresses submitted via the alpha signup form so we can email you about the alpha.
• Vercel — hosts the Drift web infrastructure and receives standard server access logs.
• Cloudflare R2 — serves the generated DJ-segue audio clips. Standard CDN access logs only.
• Apple TestFlight — handles tester enrollment, build delivery, and crash reporting under Apple's own privacy policy.

What Drift does not do

• No advertising or ad-tracking SDKs.
• No cross-app or cross-site tracking. Drift does not show the iOS App Tracking Transparency prompt.
• No data sold or shared with third parties beyond the infrastructure providers listed above.
• No login. Drift has no user account system.

Data retention

Analytics events are retained by PostHog according to the project's default retention. Email addresses are kept until you ask for removal or the alpha programme ends, whichever comes first.

Your rights

You can request deletion of your email address or any submitted show suggestion at any time. Email driftpodcasts@gmail.com.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes meaningfully, the "Last updated" date at the top will change and (where reasonable) registered alpha testers will be notified by email.

Contact

Questions about anything on this page — driftpodcasts@gmail.com.