Privacy

This website

auraworks.dev uses a self-hosted Umami instance at analytics.auraworks.dev to count page views. It runs on infrastructure operated by AuraWorks rather than a third-party analytics company, and the data is not sold, shared or used for advertising.

Umami sets no cookies and does not track you between sites. Each page view records the page you visited, the referring page, and coarse information derived from your request: browser, operating system, device type and country. It also records anonymous Web Vitals measurements, which describe how quickly the page loaded rather than anything about you. Clicks on the project links are counted as anonymous events so it is possible to tell which projects people open.

No account is required to read anything here, and there is no comment system. The one place the site asks for an email address is the early access form on the home page. Submitting it sends your address to Loops, which holds the list and sends the mail; nothing else about you is collected with it, and every message carries an unsubscribe link.

The AuraLyrics app

AuraLyrics contains no analytics, no crash reporting and no account system. It never reports anything back to AuraWorks, and there is no server operated by this project for it to report to. Nothing you do in the app is visible to me.

Two things do leave your machine while it is running, both of them because the app cannot work otherwise:

• The name, artist, album and duration of the track currently playing, sent to lrclib.net to look up its lyrics. The request identifies the app and its version so that LRCLIB's maintainer can contact the author of a misbehaving client. It carries nothing that identifies you.
• A request to Spotify's image servers (i.scdn.co and mosaic.scdn.co) for the album artwork of that track, which is what the app takes its colour from.

Playback information is read from the Spotify desktop app through Spotify's own scripting interface. AuraLyrics never sees or handles your Spotify credentials, and it does not use the Spotify Web API, so there is no account to connect and no token to store.

Track metadata and fetched lyrics are cached on your own disk, under ~/Library/Caches/AuraLyrics, so a song you have already played appears instantly. Deleting that folder removes the cache. Your window position, chosen theme and size are stored in the app's own preferences on your Mac. None of it is uploaded anywhere.

Contact

Questions about any of this, at ozc.berkay@gmail.com.