Privacy

Without an account

Your subscriptions, queue, play positions, downloads and settings live in a database on your own device. Nothing about what you listen to leaves it. The only requests PodNod makes are for catalogue pages and artwork, and those are the same for everybody.

With an account

Signing in adds one thing: a copy of that same state on the server, so your other devices can see it. That means an email address, a password hash, the shows you follow, your position in episodes, your queue, your playlists, your settings, and a row per device — its name, platform, app version and when it last synced — so you can revoke one without signing out everywhere.

Signing in for the first time merges what you already had; it never replaces it. Signing out stops syncing and leaves the local copy alone.

Audio and artwork

Episode audio streams directly from the publisher, so pressing play makes a request to their server, with whatever that server records. PodNod cannot see inside that request and does not proxy it. Artwork is cached and resized on PodNod’s servers so the publisher’s host is not hit once per listener.

What there is not

• No advertising, and no advertising identifiers.
• No third-party analytics, no tag managers, no social pixels.
• No sale or sharing of personal data. There is no arrangement under which that could happen.
• No tracking cookies. The only cookie on this site is the session cookie that keeps you signed in.

Deleting it

Deleting your account purges every user-state row that belongs to it — subscriptions, play states, queue, saved episodes, playlists, settings and devices — not just the login. The local copy on each device is yours to keep or clear from that device’s settings.

Contact

Questions about any of this, or a request to see or delete what is stored: privacy@example.com.