Privacy

Updated November 2, 2026

Hear & Now has no accounts, no ads and no cookies. We don’t sell or share anything about you, and we don’t know who you are.

On your phone

The app remembers a few things on your device only, so it opens where you left it:

• The place you picked: your home place until you pick another, or a city until 4 AM after its night.
• That you’ve seen the map’s hint, so it doesn’t show again.
• If you connect Apple Music: the artists in your library and ones like them, so tonight’s pick can start with music you love. They’re read on your phone and stay there. Disconnect, and they’re gone.

Clearing your browser’s data for this site removes all of it.

Your location

Only when you tap Near me. Your phone sends it to our server, which asks OpenStreetMap which city you’re in, then searches that city. We save the city, never your location. Your phone also uses it to show you on the map, and asks Open-Meteo for tonight’s weather with it rounded to about 10 km. Typing a place instead sends only what you typed.

What we count

• Anonymous daily totals of a few taps (a place picked, a show opened, a preview played, Tickets, Directions, Add to Calendar, Share), some by venue. Just numbers: no identifiers, no times of day.
• Page views, through Vercel Web Analytics, which uses no cookies and doesn’t follow you from one day to the next.
• Our host, Vercel, keeps a log of requests to the app, including the address they came from, for about an hour, so we can fix errors.

Other services your phone talks to

Some things come straight from other services, which see your phone’s address as any website would: the map from OpenFreeMap, the weather from Open-Meteo, and song previews from Apple. Tickets, directions and links open the venue’s page, your map app, Apple Music, Spotify or YouTube, each under its own privacy policy.

If you write to us

What you send through the form, and your name and email if you give them, is used only to answer you and act on it. Once it’s handled we delete your name, email and message, and keep only what it was about (a site or venue removed, say), as a record.

If you say yes to us listing your shows, we keep your name, email, the page and the date, as the record of your permission, for as long as we list from that page and a year after you take it back. App stores can ask to see that permission; we show it to no one else.

Questions

Write to hearandnow.live@gmail.com, or use the form on the support page.