Privacy

Last updated 4 October 2026.

The short version: this site keeps no accounts, no database, no analytics and no advertising. What you save here goes into your own Bluesky account, and it is public there.

What this site stores about you

Nothing on its servers.

Your browser keeps three things on your own device:

• your sign-in, so you stay signed in for up to two weeks;
• a note of which account last signed in, so your own page can offer you its controls;
• whether you last ticked “Also post to Bluesky”.

Signing out removes the first two. There are no tracking cookies.

What is public

An earworm is a public record in your Bluesky account, the same way a post is. It holds the song, the artist, the album, the artwork link, your links, your note, and the time you saved it. Anyone can read it, here or with other tools.

Deleting an earworm removes it from your account. Copies that other services made while it was public are outside this site’s control, the same as with a deleted post.

What you allow when you sign in

You sign in on your own account’s server, not here. This site never sees your password. It asks for permission to do three things:

• save and delete earworm records;
• create Bluesky posts, when you tick the box to post one;
• upload the small artwork image that goes with such a post.

It cannot read your messages, change your profile, follow anyone, or edit or delete your posts.

Signing out here withdraws the site’s access. You can also see every app you have authorised, and revoke any of them, on your account’s own web page. For accounts hosted by Bluesky that is bsky.social/account. It is a web page, not a setting in the Bluesky app. On Bluesky-hosted accounts a revoked app can keep working for up to fifteen minutes.

Who else your browser talks to

Using the site means your browser contacts some other services directly. Each sees your internet address, as any website you visit does.

• Your Bluesky account’s server, to sign in and to save and read earworms.
• Bluesky’s public services, to look up handles and, for some pasted links, to read the song’s title and artwork.
• Apple, when you search for a song or play a preview clip. Apple receives what you typed.
• Music services’ image hosts, to show cover artwork on a page.
• A music service’s player, only after you press Play. That service may then set its own cookies.

What this site’s server sees

• When you paste a Spotify, YouTube or SoundCloud link, the link is sent to this site’s server to look up the song. It is not kept.
• When anyone opens a person’s page, the server reads that person’s public earworm to build a link preview. The result is held for a few minutes and then discarded.
• The site is hosted on Cloudflare, which handles every request and may keep its own technical logs.

Questions

Ask @michaelbishop.me on Bluesky.