Trimbitas

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 6 August 2026

Trimbitas is an internet radio player for Android. This policy describes what it does with your information. The short version is that it collects nothing, because it was built that way deliberately — there is no server to send anything to.

What Trimbitas collects

Nothing.

Trimbitas has no accounts and no sign-in. It contains no analytics, no advertising, no crash reporting, no telemetry and no third-party tracking libraries of any kind. The developer receives no information about you, your device, or your listening, and has no means of doing so.

What Trimbitas stores on your device

The following are kept on your device only, and are never transmitted anywhere:

Favourite stations you have saved.
Recently played stations, so you can find your way back to one.
Stations you add by URL, including any name you give them.
Your settings — theme, Wi-Fi-only playback, crossfade length, buffer size, custom User-Agent, resume-on-start, stop-on-unplug, metadata display, and sleep timer.
A cache of station directory results, so browsing works without re-fetching and degrades gracefully when the network does.

This data lives in Trimbitas's private app storage. Uninstalling the app deletes all of it.

Trimbitas can export your favourites to a file, and import them back. That happens only when you ask for it, the file goes where you choose, and nothing is uploaded.

Connections Trimbitas makes

Trimbitas is a radio player, so it must talk to the internet. It connects to:

Radio Browser (api.radio-browser.info) — the community-maintained station directory used for browsing and searching. When you start playing a station from the directory, Trimbitas reports that play to Radio Browser as an anonymous station identifier. This is how their popularity rankings stay useful. The report contains the station's identifier and nothing about you. Their site is radio-browser.info.
Radio station stream servers — whichever station you choose to play. These are operated by the individual broadcasters, not by Trimbitas.
Station artwork hosts — station logos are loaded from the addresses the station listed in the directory.

As with visiting any website, the operators of those servers can see the IP address your request came from, because that is inherent in how internet connections work. Trimbitas does not send them anything else that identifies you. It does send a User-Agent that identifies the app — this is a courtesy to Radio Browser so they can identify traffic from the app, and you can change it in Settings.

Trimbitas does not control these third parties and does not share your data with them, because it has no data to share.

Cleartext (non-HTTPS) connections

Many internet radio streams — including major public broadcasters — are still served over plain http:// from long-lived legacy servers. Trimbitas permits these connections, because refusing them would make a large share of the world's radio silently unplayable.

What this means for you: on an untrusted network, someone positioned between you and the station could in principle observe which station you are streaming, or substitute different audio. This is the same exposure as listening to broadcast radio. No credentials and no personal data are ever sent over these connections. The Radio Browser directory API is always contacted over HTTPS.

Permissions

Trimbitas requests the minimum set it can function with:

Permission	Why
`INTERNET`	To fetch the station directory and play streams.
`ACCESS_NETWORK_STATE`	To know when the network dropped, so it can stop retrying and resume when it returns.
`FOREGROUND_SERVICE` `FOREGROUND_SERVICE_MEDIA_PLAYBACK`	To keep playing while the app is in the background, which Android requires a foreground service for.
`WAKE_LOCK`	Held only while audio is actually playing, so the stream is not cut off when the screen sleeps.
`POST_NOTIFICATIONS`	To show the playback notification with its controls. Playback works without it; you only lose the notification.

Trimbitas requests no access to location, contacts, phone state, microphone, camera, or your files. It remains fully functional for playback with every runtime permission denied.

Children

Trimbitas is a general-audience application and is not directed at children. It collects no personal information from anyone, including children. The station directory is community-maintained and its contents are not curated by Trimbitas.

Your rights

Because Trimbitas holds no data about you on any server, there is nothing for us to disclose, correct, export or delete on request. All data the app creates is on your device and under your control: clear it from Android's app settings, or uninstall the app to remove it entirely.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the updated version will be posted at this address with a revised date above. Material changes will be noted in the app's release notes.

Contact

Questions about this policy, or about privacy in Trimbitas: andreitv@gmail.com