Resonance Privacy Addendum

Last updated: 2026-07-31Listening history, presence, country data, Discord presence, and local-library data specific to Resonance.

Resonance Privacy Addendum

This addendum describes the data practices that are specific to Resonance. It supplements — and does not replace — our general Privacy Policy: for what personal data we collect platform-wide, our legal bases for processing it, your GDPR rights, how to reach us about data requests, and cookies, see that policy.

This page covers what is particular to Resonance: your listening history, your library, presence ("now playing"), the country recorded with each play and what artists see of it, Discord Rich Presence, local tracks and their cover art, and the privacy settings that control all of it.

This addendum is published in good faith and is pending review by qualified EU/Estonian legal counsel; nothing here is a substitute for formal legal advice.

1. Listening history

Resonance records what you listen to — which tracks, when, and for how long — while you use the service. We use this history to:

  • Show you your own listening statistics and your daily listening streak;
  • Build personalised recommendations, including your "Made for You" selections;
  • Calculate the royalties owed to artists for plays of their tracks; and
  • Produce the aggregated audience figures that artists see for their own tracks (Section 4).

This history is tied to your account and is retained while your account is active. General account-data retention and what happens when you close your account are covered in Data Retention.

2. Your library

Your saved tracks, favourites, and playlists are stored against your account so they stay available across your devices and sessions. They are treated as account data under the general Privacy Policy and Data Retention schedule.

3. Presence — "now playing"

Resonance can show what you are currently playing.

It is off by default. Sharing your activity is switched off for every new account. Nothing about what you are playing is shown to anyone until you turn it on yourself.

We ask you, and we record your answer. The first time you open Resonance, a welcome window asks you — separately — whether to share your listening activity, whether to allow a public profile showcase, and whether to show your listening history. Each choice starts off. Every time you change one of these, in the welcome window or later in Settings, we write an entry to a consent record: what you changed, to what value, where you changed it, and when. We keep that record so that both you and we can show what you actually agreed to.

Who can see it once it is on. Please read this carefully, because there are two different surfaces:

  • The friends feed inside Resonance — the "friends listening" list — only ever shows people you follow and who follow you back. A one-directional follow shows nothing.
  • Your profile page is different. If your profile is public and you have activity sharing on, the track you are playing is shown to anyone who opens your profile, including people who do not follow you and people who are not signed in at all.

If you want the second one to be restricted too, use Hide profile in Settings → Privacy: with it on, your profile — and the presence on it — is visible only to you and to your mutual friends. You can also switch off "now playing" specifically, and leave the rest of your profile visible.

You can turn any of this off at any moment, and it stops immediately.

4. Country of listening, and what artists see

We record a country code with every counted play. It is stored alongside the play, and it is used to produce the geographic audience breakdown artists see for their own music.

Where the country comes from. It is taken from the country on your APERTURESyndicate profile — not from your IP address, and not from any geolocation service. Resonance does not geolocate you. If your profile has no country set, the play is recorded without one.

What artists see. An artist can see, for their own tracks and releases, a breakdown of counts by country — how many listeners and how many streams came from each country. This is aggregated: it does not name you, and it does not tell an artist what else you listen to.

Two honest caveats:

  • There is no minimum-audience threshold on this breakdown. If you are the only listener from your country for a given track, that country appears with a count of one. In a small audience, that can be identifying — particularly combined with the top-listeners list an artist can see for their own tracks, which shows nicknames and avatars.
  • Plays made in a private session are excluded from these artist figures entirely.

If this matters to you, a private session is the direct control, and you can also leave the country field on your profile empty.

5. Privacy settings

Settings → Privacy gives you direct control over what is visible to others:

  • Hide your entire profile — when enabled, your profile is visible only to you and to your mutual friends.
  • Independently of the above, you can show or hide, one by one:
    • Your listening statistics
    • Your streak
    • Your top/favourite track — this also controls whether your anthem and garland are served to other people
    • Your public playlists
    • Your listening-history section
    • Your "now playing" presence
  • On the desktop app, Discord Rich Presence (Section 6).

Each toggle applies immediately, can be reversed at any time, and is written to the consent record described in Section 3.

6. Discord Rich Presence (desktop app)

The Resonance desktop app can show what you are playing on your Discord profile.

What is sent to Discord: the track title, the artist name, the cover image address, playback timestamps, and a button linking to the track on Resonance that other Discord users can click. This data goes to Discord and is displayed by Discord to whoever can see your Discord profile — that is outside our control and is governed by Discord's own terms and privacy policy.

How it is switched on. The setting is enabled by default in the desktop app, but it only broadcasts while activity sharing is on — and activity sharing is off by default (Section 3). In practice nothing reaches Discord unless you have turned activity sharing on. You can switch Discord presence off independently, and it appears in two places: Settings → Desktop and Settings → Privacy. It only appears at all in the desktop app.

Private sessions are never broadcast to Discord.

If you would rather nothing at all reached Discord regardless of your other settings, turn the Discord toggle off explicitly rather than relying on the activity-sharing toggle alone.

7. Local tracks, and their cover art

Audio files you add to Resonance from your own device ("Local Tracks") stay on your device. We do not receive, store, inspect, analyse, or use the audio for recommendations, and it is never added to the catalogue.

Three things about a local track can still leave your device:

  1. Cover art you set yourself. If you give a local track your own cover image, that image is uploaded to our public media storage and served from a public, unauthenticated address, so it can be displayed in Listen Together and in your Discord card. It is stored under a name derived from the image's contents, and it is not indexed or listed anywhere, but it is not secret: anyone with the address can open it. The same applies to a cover from your Locker that is used in these features — a copy of it is placed in public storage.
  2. The title and artist, wherever you have chosen to share activity — the friends feed, your profile, Listen Together, or Discord.
  3. The audio itself, but only if you publish it as your profile anthem or in your profile showcase. That is a deliberate act with an explicit confirmation, and it is described in the Locker Policy.

If you never set a custom cover, never share activity, and never publish a track to your profile, nothing about your local library reaches us.

8. Private sessions

You can mark an individual listening session as a Private session. A private session:

  • Still counts normally toward artist royalties and toward your own streak and statistics;
  • Is never added to your listening history;
  • Is never used as input to "Made for You" or any other recommendation;
  • Is never broadcast as presence — to your friends, to your profile, or to Discord — regardless of your other settings; and
  • Is excluded from the country breakdown artists see (Section 4).

9. Uploaded files

Files you upload to your Locker are covered by the Locker Policy, which sets out what is kept private and which of them — your anthem and your showcase — are deliberately public.

10. Identity

Consistent with the platform-wide rule, your internal handle is never shown to other users through any Resonance feature — not in profiles, presence, playlists, Listen Together, family rosters, or anywhere else. What other users see is your nickname and avatar.

This applies inside the Family plan as well: a family owner sees members by nickname and avatar only, and sees nothing about what they listen to. See the Premium & Subscription Terms.

Contact

Operator APERTURESyndicate OÜ · Registry code 17384111 · VAT EE102972654 Priisle tee 8, Lasnamäe linnaosa, Tallinn, Harju maakond, 13914, Estonia Company registration details

This addendum is governed by the laws of Estonia, with the courts of Tallinn having jurisdiction, and is subject to the GDPR, the EU Digital Services Act, and applicable Estonian and EU consumer-protection law. The English-language version of this addendum is the controlling version.

Version history

  • v2.0 — 2026-07-31 — Presence is now documented as it actually behaves: off by default, asked for in the welcome window, written to a consent record — but visible on a public profile to anyone, not only to mutual friends as previously claimed. Newly disclosed: the country code recorded with every play and the per-country breakdown artists see, including its lack of a minimum-audience threshold; Discord Rich Presence and exactly what it sends; and the fact that cover art for local tracks is uploaded to public storage, which the previous "local tracks never reach us" wording contradicted. Corrected private sessions (there is no daily quota any more) and added their exclusion from artist geography.
  • v1.0 — 2026-07-02 — Initial publication.
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