This explains what the app does with information about you. It is written to be read, not to be impressive.
The short version. Your songs stay in your own browser. We hold your email address and a count of how much you have used. Your card details go to Stripe and never to us. The words you write are sent to Anthropic to produce the AI results you asked for. We do not sell anything about you to anyone.
Lyrics, titles, styles, bands, albums, saved settings, cover designs and audio you attach are stored in your browser on your own device. They are not uploaded to us and we cannot read them.
The consequence is important: clearing your browsing data deletes them, and we cannot get them back. The app backs up automatically and has an export button. Please use them.
| What | Why | How long |
|---|---|---|
| Your email address | To sign you in and to know which account has paid | Until you ask us to delete it |
| A count of songs generated | To apply trial and plan limits | While your account exists |
| A one-way scrambled version of your network address | To stop one person taking unlimited free trials. It cannot be turned back into your real address | Rolling, short-lived |
| Sign-in codes | To confirm your email is yours | 10 minutes, then deleted |
| Your purchase record | To keep your access working | While your account exists |
We do not hold your lyrics, your song titles, your albums or your audio.
When you use an AI feature, the text involved - your theme, your lyrics, your style description - is sent to Anthropic, who run the AI model, so the result can be produced and returned to you. That is the only way the feature can work.
We do not keep a copy of what was sent. Anthropic's handling of it is governed by their own policies at anthropic.com/legal/privacy.
Practical advice: this is a songwriting tool. Please do not paste anything into it that you would not want processed by a third-party AI service - other people's private information, for instance.
Payments are processed by Stripe. Your card number never reaches us and we could not see it if we wanted to. We receive confirmation that a payment succeeded, the amount, and the email used. Stripe's policy: stripe.com/privacy.
That is the complete list. There is no advertising network, no analytics company and no tracking pixel in this app.
The app does not use advertising or tracking cookies. It uses your browser's own storage to remember your work and whether you are signed in. Nothing there is shared with anyone.
You can ask us to:
Email thecrossroadsot@gmail.com and we will deal with it within 30 days. You can delete the work held in your own browser yourself at any time by clearing site data - export it first.
Depending on where you live you may have additional rights under laws such as the GDPR or the CCPA. We apply the same approach to everyone: hold as little as possible, sell nothing, delete on request.
The app is not intended for children under 13, and we do not knowingly hold information about them. If you believe a child has signed up, contact us and we will remove the account.
Sign-in codes are stored scrambled, never in plain text, and expire after ten minutes. Sessions are cryptographically signed so they cannot be forged. Traffic is encrypted in transit. No system is perfectly secure, but we hold very little that would be worth stealing.
If this policy changes in a way that matters, we will tell you by email or in the app before it takes effect.
Midnight Forge Creative Services, New York, NY
thecrossroadsot@gmail.com