Privacy Policy
The short version
What's stored, and where
Your favorites and singing history are stored locally on your device, using standard on-device storage, unless you choose to sign in to sync them (see Optional account and sync below). Without an account they are not uploaded, synced, or shared with us or anyone else. Your own party queue also lives on your device. Data leaves your device only if you host an online party or sign in to sync, described below.
If you delete Mic Night from your device, this data is deleted with it. Synced copies stay in your account until you delete the account.
Online parties
Online parties (in the web app) let friends join a shared queue from their own phones using a short room code. To make that work, the app uses Google Firebase (anonymous sign-in and the Cloud Firestore database). Here is what is involved:
- An anonymous session ID. Firebase creates a random ID for your browser. It is not linked to your name, email, or any account, and it is used only to run the party and to recognize the host.
- The party room. When you host, a room is created that holds the room code, the host's anonymous ID, the current queue (song titles, artists, and the singer names people entered), the song now playing, and party game state such as theme, duet calls, dare votes, and awards. Anyone who has the room code can see the room.
- Guest activity. When a guest joins, a simple record of when they joined is stored so the app can count guests. When a guest requests a song or sends a reaction, duet join, or dare vote, the request (the song, the artist, and the name the guest typed, up to 40 characters) goes to the host.
- Short lifespan. The host's device deletes the room when the party ends, and rooms are set to expire automatically about 12 hours after they were last active.
Use any nickname you like; we never ask for your real name. Party data is used only to run the party. We don't use it for advertising, we don't sell it, and we don't build profiles. Google processes it on our behalf (see Firebase privacy information), and, like any online service, may handle technical data such as your IP address to deliver the service.
Optional account and sync
Mic Night has an optional account. You never need to sign in to use the app, host or join a party, or use the free songbook. Sign-in options may vary by platform. They include Sign in with Apple, Google (on the web), and an emailed sign-in link. Sign-in is handled by Google Firebase Authentication.
- What we store when you sign in: the sign-in provider's identifier, the email address you used (or Apple's private relay address), and the same random ID the web app already uses, so purchases already made in this browser stay with your account.
- What is synced: your favorite songs, your setlists, your singing history (song, time, the singer name you entered, and the party name if any), and your singer name and avatar choices. They are stored in Google Cloud Firestore.
- How it is used: only to show them to you on your other devices. We don't use it for advertising, we don't sell it, and we don't build profiles. Syncing is automatic only after you sign in. Without an account, everything stays on your device as before.
- Purchases: if you buy on the web and then sign in, the purchase record is attached to your account so you can restore it on another device or browser.
- Your control: you can sign out any time (the device keeps its local copy) and delete your account in Settings, which deletes the synced favorites, history, and profile. Purchases are tracked by payment and Apple records and are not removed by deleting the sync data.
Anonymous counters in the app
Mic Night sends a small, anonymous counter each time you sing a song, each time you tap a locked (paid-pack) song you don't own, and at a few steps of the purchase flow (for example opening the pack browser, tapping Buy, or a purchase succeeding or being canceled). We also count a few anonymous app events, such as the app being opened or a party being started, and we add three coarse labels to the counters: the platform (iPhone or iPad, Mac, or web), a two-letter country code, and which screen a step started from. These are stored in our Firebase database as plain per-day totals, such as "this song was played 12 times today," with no name, account, anonymous session ID, device ID, or advertising identifier attached. The counts are aggregated across all users and used for one thing: deciding which songs belong in the free book versus a paid pack, so the free experience stays worth singing and the paid packs stay worth buying. We never build a profile of you individually, and there's no way to trace a count back to a person or a device.
Web purchases
On the web app, paid packs and access passes are bought through Stripe, a payment processor. Stripe collects your payment details and email address on its own checkout page; they never pass through our servers, and we never see or store your card number. Stripe's handling of that data is described in the Stripe Privacy Policy.
After a purchase, Stripe tells us what was bought. We store a record in our Firebase database, linked to your anonymous session ID, of what you own (packs, access pass or subscription, free trial and access start and end times) and, for subscriptions, your Stripe customer ID so you can manage billing. We use it only to unlock what you bought. In the iOS app, purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store, and we do not receive your payment details or Apple ID.
Our website
The pages at sviewstudios.com, including the Mic Night song lists, guides, comparison pages and this policy, use Google Analytics 4 to count visits, pages viewed, approximate location and the kind of device. Google may set cookies or similar identifiers for this. It applies to the website only and not to the Mic Night app. We use it to learn which pages help people find the app, and we do not use it for advertising or combine it with anything from inside the app. You can block it with a content blocker or your browser settings, and the pages work the same without it.
What we don't do
- We don't sell your data or use it for advertising or profiling.
- We don't use crash-reporting SDKs, advertising SDKs or behavioral analytics inside the app. The app contains no Google Analytics and no Firebase Analytics.
- We don't show ads or work with ad networks.
- We don't require user accounts. The optional account is used only to sync your data and restore purchases, as described above.
- We don't track you across apps or websites.
YouTube playback & YouTube API Services
Mic Night is a songbook and a queue manager, it doesn't host or stream video itself. Every song in Mic Night's catalog is pre-matched to a karaoke video ahead of time, so when you pick a song, Mic Night plays it directly in the official embedded YouTube player inside the app. There's no live YouTube search while you use the app, no YouTube API key for you to set up, and Mic Night never opens the YouTube app or a browser to play a video.
Mic Night uses YouTube API Services. By using Mic Night's playback features you also agree to the YouTube Terms of Service, and YouTube/Google's handling of data during playback is governed by the Google Privacy Policy.
What the API integration touches, concretely:
- On your device: the app loads a pre-selected video ID from Mic Night's catalog into YouTube's official embedded player. The app performs no live search and sends no personal information when it does this. Mic Night does not use Google sign-in (OAuth) and never accesses your YouTube account.
- On our side: before we publish each catalog update, we match catalog songs to YouTube video IDs offline, using our own YouTube Data API key, never one tied to you or your device, and bake the results into the catalog data the app reads. This matching runs on our own schedule, not in response to anything you do in the app, and doesn't see or record who's using Mic Night. Because there's no live API activity while you use the app, there are no search queries, requests, or other YouTube API data to store per user, we store no user identifiers at all.
To remove data Mic Night stores on your device (favorites, history, queue), use the clear options in Settings or delete the app. Because we don't use Google sign-in, there is no Mic Night access to revoke on your Google account; if you ever want to review third-party access to your Google account generally, visit your Google security settings.
Children's privacy
Mic Night doesn't knowingly collect personal information from children, and it asks for no ages or emails, and needs no account. If a child joins an online party, the only information involved is an anonymous session ID and whatever nickname they type, which is shared with that party and used only to run it. We suggest using nicknames rather than real names.
Changes to this policy
If this policy changes, we'll update the effective date above and post the new version at the same location. Given how little the app does with data, we don't expect this to change often.
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