Privacy

The short version

Dr. Tape uses no cookies to follow you, does not fingerprint your browser and stores nothing on your device to recognise you later. To learn how the studio and this website are used and where they break, we count anonymous events, keep them for 35 days and then keep only daily totals. Nothing is sold or shared with advertisers.

What the studio counts

Things you do and how they went: opening the editor and how long it took to load, adding a track, an instrument or an effect, keeping a sound from the library, the first note or recording, playing, saving and exporting, and which parts of the studio you open. It also counts whether the audio dropped out, and error messages, with names, file names, addresses and links removed before they leave your browser. With each visit it notes the language your browser asks for, whether the screen is phone, tablet or computer sized, whether you use a mouse or touch, which browser features the studio can use, such as MIDI, and which link on this website opened it, if one did.

A visit to the studio gets a random number, held in memory, so that the steps of one visit can be counted together. It is forgotten when you close the tab or after thirty idle minutes. Nothing connects one visit to the next. The studio also notes whether it found any of its own saved settings or projects in your browser, as a plain yes or no, so first visits can be told apart from later ones. It reads only what it already keeps for itself and stores nothing new.

What this website counts

Which pages are viewed, the site or campaign link that brought you here, how far down a page you scroll, how long it stays in view while you use it, which links to the studio you follow and which sound examples you play. Also the language your browser asks for and whether the screen is phone, tablet or computer sized. An address that does not exist on this site is counted as a missing page, whatever was typed. Each page view is counted on its own, and nothing connects one page to the next.

What is never collected

• Your music: audio, MIDI, projects, track and file names, presets you make.
• Anything you type.
• Your IP address. Cloudflare sees it to deliver the request and tells us only the country; the address itself is not stored.
• Your browser's full identifying string. We keep only the browser family and operating system, such as Chrome on macOS.
• A fingerprint, or any identifier that would recognise you on another visit, another site or another device.

Where it goes

Events go to our own analytics service on Cloudflare, the same network that serves the studio, and are stored in a database in the European Union. Raw events are deleted after 35 days. What remains are daily totals, such as how many sessions added a reverb, which cannot be traced back to a visit. Only the people building Dr. Tape see the reports. Database recovery copies can keep deleted events for up to 30 days more.

We collect these statistics because the service cannot be run, planned or fixed without knowing whether it is used and where it fails.

Turning it off

In the studio, choose Settings and clear Share anonymous usage statistics. On this website, use the switch below; it remembers your choice in this browser only. If your browser sends Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track, nothing is collected on either.

Accounts and cloud storage

Accounts are optional and currently open to invited testers. When you sign in, we store your name, email address, a hash of your password, your sign-in sessions and workspaces, and what you choose to save to the cloud. Cloud songs, chains and their audio are stored in the European Union. We use this only to run your account. You can export your account data or delete your account from your account settings. Security records of sign-ins and account changes are kept for 90 days. Usage statistics are not linked to your account.

Who to contact

Dr. Tape is provided by Renki Solutions AB, Margaretavägen 52, 741 44 Knivsta, Sweden, which is responsible for the data described here. See also the terms of use.