BeatFlow Radio

Privacy

This describes exactly what the station records and what it does not. It was written by reading the code, not by filling in a template.

Last updated 7 November 2026

The Roku and Fire TV apps send nothing

The BeatFlow Radio channel on Roku and the BeatFlow Radio app on Amazon Fire TV each make exactly three kinds of request, all of them ordinary downloads from the station’s own addresses:

• the audio stream, from stream.beatflowradio.com
• what is currently playing, from beatflowradio.com/api/now
• the pictures shown with it — the cover art and the scannable code — from beatflowradio.com

It sends no information back. There is no sign-in, no profile, no device identifier, no viewing history and no analytics code of any kind. The apps do not know who you are and have nowhere to put the answer.

The website counts, it does not identify

When you listen on the website, it records a small number of events — that a listen started, that it ended, roughly how long it lasted, and whether a promotion was clicked.

Those events are added into daily totals and nothing else is kept. There is no row for you, no identifier to join rows together, and no way to reconstruct one listener’s activity from what is stored. Specifically:

• No cookies are set for tracking, and there is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.
• No IP address is stored.
• Listening time is kept as a sum and a count, so an average can be worked out, with no individual durations retained.
• Country is recorded as a daily tally. Cloudflare, which delivers the site, works out the country from the network address of the request as it arrives; the address itself is not stored, and the country is added to the tally with nothing to link it back to you. Listening through the TV apps or the audio stream is not given a country at all.
• For the YouTube live stream, only the number of people watching, as YouTube itself reports it every five minutes, is added to the same daily totals. YouTube does not tell the station who is watching, and the station does not ask.
• Everything expires automatically after around 400 days.

What stays in your own browser

The website keeps a little information in your browser’s local storage — when you tuned in, and a short log used for playback. That never leaves your device and is never sent to the station. Clearing your browser data removes it.

The same goes for the songs you save: the list lives only in your browser, with no account behind it, and is never sent to the station.

The microphone is used only if you choose to record a shout-out. The browser asks your permission first, the recording is made and played back on your device, and nothing is uploaded; the microphone is released when you finish or close the panel.

No third parties

There is no Google Analytics, no advertising network, no social media pixel, no tag manager and no third-party tracking script anywhere on this site or in the Roku and Fire TV apps. Nothing about your listening is sold, shared or passed to anyone. The one outside script is Cloudflare Turnstile, the human check on the shout-out form, which loads only if you open that form.

The site loads its fonts from Google Fonts. Google sees the request your browser makes for the font file, as is unavoidable for anything loaded from another domain. Cover artwork is not loaded from anyone else: every cover is a file on the station’s own site.

When you follow a link or scan a code

Promotions on air and the scannable codes shown on television carry tags identifying which station and which placement sent you — for example that a visit came from the TV channel rather than the website. That tells the destination where the visit came from, never who you are.

Once you arrive, that site’s own privacy policy applies, not this one.

The stream server

Like any server on the internet, the machine sending the audio can see the network address of a device connecting to it, for as long as the connection is open. The station counts how many connections are active, but the address itself is not shown to the operator. It is not written to a file, not retained after you disconnect, and not used in the audience figures.

When a connection stays longer than ten minutes, the server’s log notes the kind of player it is, using the product names the player announces (for example “VLC” or “Sonos”), so the station can tell people listening from machines recording the stream. Nothing that identifies the device or the person is written: no address, no model, no system details.

Shout-outs from the YouTube live chat

The station also streams live on YouTube. If you add #shoutout to a message in that live chat, you are asking for it to be shown on the YouTube stream’s screen. Only those tagged messages are read, through YouTube’s own service; nothing else in the chat is kept.

• What is kept: your YouTube display name, the message, and when you posted it, on the station’s own computer. It is deleted after 30 days.
• What is shown: only messages the station has read and approved. Your display name and the approved words appear on the YouTube stream’s screen for 24 hours. They do not appear on the website, the Roku or Fire TV apps, or anywhere else, and are not read out on air.
• The approved words may be shortened or have a spelling corrected; they are never changed to say something you did not.
• To have a message taken down or deleted early, write to the address on the support page.

YouTube’s own privacy policy covers everything you do on YouTube itself, including the chat.

Shout-outs sent from this website

You can also send a shout-out from this site with the Shout-out button. It works the same way: the name and city you type (as you want them shown) and your message are kept on Cloudflare until the station collects them, then on the station’s own computer, for no more than 30 days in all; only approved ones appear on the YouTube stream’s screen, for 24 hours. No IP address, cookie or device identifier is kept with it.

To stop automated spam, the form uses Cloudflare Turnstile, a check that you are a person. It is loaded only when you open the shout-out form, never otherwise, and Cloudflare’s own privacy policy covers it.

Children

The station is a general-audience music service. It does not ask for anyone’s age, name or any other detail. The only personal information it ever holds is a name, city and message that someone chose to send as a shout-out, from YouTube or this site, as described above; it does not knowingly hold any from children, and will delete any it is told about.

Changes

If what the station records ever changes, this page changes with it, and the date at the top moves. It is maintained alongside the code it describes rather than separately from it.

Questions

BeatFlow Radio is run by Beatflow Media Group, which is responsible for what this page describes. Anything about this page, or a request about information you believe the station holds, can go to the address on the support page.