Privacy

Last updated 22 October 2026

Skip FM has no accounts, no ads and no cookies, and it doesn’t sell or share data about you. Here is what happens when you use it.

Who is responsible

Skip FM (www.skipfm.com). Contact: hello@skipfm.com.

When you open the site

Skip FM runs on Vercel (Vercel Inc., USA). Like any web server, Vercel’s servers see your IP address and the pages you ask for, to deliver them and keep the service safe, and keep technical logs for a short time. Vercel also tells our server which country you are in, worked out from your IP address. Skip FM uses that only to show your own country’s stations first when you search for a station, and doesn’t store it.

The site’s font, flags and player code all come from skipfm.com itself.

Visit statistics

Skip FM uses Vercel Web Analytics to count page views and see, in total, which genres are popular, which countries and devices visitors use and which sites send them here. It sets no cookies and stores nothing that identifies you or follows you to other sites. Vercel tells repeat page views apart with a code worked out from each request, which is thrown away after 24 hours.

When you play a station

Your browser connects straight to that station’s streaming server to receive the audio, as with any radio app. The station, or the company that streams for it, sees your IP address, and its own privacy policy applies. Some stations play their own ads. To show the station’s logo on your lock screen, your device may load it from the station’s website.

The list of stations comes from Radio Browser (radio-browser.info), a free community directory, mostly through our server. When a station starts playing, your browser also tells Radio Browser directly that it was played, which keeps the directory’s popularity counts right; that request includes your IP address.

Song titles and “identify song”

To show the song that’s on, our server reads the title the station sends with its stream. When you tap “identify song”, our server records a few seconds of the station’s stream (never your microphone) and sends that to AudD (audd.io), a music recognition service, to find the song. To prevent abuse, our server counts how often each IP address asks, in memory, for 10 minutes.

Vibe

When you describe a vibe (“rainy Sunday in Paris”) or tap “more like this”, our server sends your words, or the station’s name, what it plays and the song on now, with the language of the page you’re on, to Claude, an AI service by Anthropic (Anthropic PBC, USA), to turn them into a recipe of genres and moods. Nothing that identifies you is sent with it. A vibe you share carries its name and recipe in its link; we don’t store it. Our server remembers each answer for up to a day, to answer the same wish again, and counts how often each IP address asks, in memory, for 10 minutes, to prevent abuse.

Saved in your browser

Your favourite stations and songs, your volume, the genre you listened to last, the stations you heard in the last 30 days (so you hear new ones first) stations that recently failed to play, the stations you played in the current tab (for the back button), and how many times you visited (to suggest adding Skip FM to your phone’s home screen, at most three times) are saved in your browser’s own storage on your device. They are not cookies, and they are never sent to us. Clearing this site’s data in your browser deletes them.

Why, and your rights

We process this data because it is needed to run the site safely and reliably and to understand, in total, how it is used (legitimate interests, GDPR article 6(1)(f)). Under the GDPR you can ask what we hold about you, have it corrected or deleted, restrict or object to its use, and complain to the data protection authority in your country. As we keep nothing that identifies you, there is usually nothing to look up, but you are welcome to write to hello@skipfm.com.

Changes

If this changes, we will update this page and the date at the top. See also the Terms.