Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy describes how NiftyBot LLC (“NiftyBot,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, discloses and otherwise processes personal information in connection with the June mobile application, the june.fm website, and any related products, features and services (collectively, the “Services”). NiftyBot is the controller of personal information processed under this Privacy Policy. By using the Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined here have the meanings given in our Terms of Service.

1. Information We Collect

Information you provide to us.

• Account information: your email address (including an Apple private relay address), your account ID, and an optional first name. You sign in with Apple or with an email address and password. The first time you sign in with Apple and share your name, June keeps only your first name; you can change it in Account. When you share your June link, the people you send it to see your first name on the invite and its page.
• Profile and preference information, such as your time zone, language, what you tell June you want to hear when you set up the app, the shows you follow (“Regulars”), the collections you create (“Flows”) and your settings.
• Content you submit, such as your June Chat messages, the titles of your Flows, your search queries, and any feedback or support requests. We process search queries to return results; we do not store them with your account.
• Voice. When you speak to June, Apple’s speech recognition turns your voice into text, on your device when available and otherwise on Apple’s servers under Apple’s privacy policy. June’s servers receive only the text, never the audio.
• Contact form. When you write to us through june.fm/contact, we receive your name, email address, message and the country your request came from.
• Transaction information. June does not currently offer purchases. If we add them, we may collect the products you purchase, prices, dates and payment status. Payment card details are collected and processed by our payment processors, including Apple, and are not stored by us.

Information collected automatically.

• Listening and usage information, such as episodes you play, skip, finish, seek within, replay, download or remove; playback position; your listening history, Regulars and Flows; interactions with features, screens and content; and the dates, times and duration of your activity.
• Device and connection information, such as IP address, approximate location derived from IP address (for example, country or region), device type, operating system, app version, language settings, and device and other identifiers. June does not collect advertising identifiers.
• Log, diagnostic and performance information, such as crash reports, error logs and service performance data.
• Cookies and similar technologies. We and our service providers may use cookies, local storage, software development kits (SDKs) and similar technologies on the Services, as described in Section 6.

Information from third parties. We may receive information about you from Apple and other sign-in providers, payment processors, analytics providers and other business partners, and we obtain publicly available information such as podcast feeds and related metadata.

2. How We Use Information

We use personal information for the following purposes:

• To provide, operate, maintain and support the Services, including creating and managing your account, building Flows, recommending and playing content, generating spoken briefings, and responding to your requests in June Chat.
• To personalize the Services, including learning your listening preferences and tailoring content, recommendations and features to you.
• To rank and understand shows and episodes across all listeners, using aggregated listening activity.
• To develop, train, test and improve the Services, June Chat and recommendations, and new products and features.
• To conduct analytics and research, including measuring usage, engagement and performance.
• To process transactions, subscriptions and payments, if we offer them.
• To communicate with you, including sending service, security and account notices, and, subject to applicable law, marketing and promotional communications, including June’s email newsletter. Every marketing email includes a way to unsubscribe.
• To protect the safety, security and integrity of the Services, our users and others, including preventing fraud, abuse and unauthorized access, and enforcing rate limits.
• To comply with legal obligations, enforce our Terms of Service and other agreements, and establish, exercise or defend legal claims.
• For any other purpose disclosed to you at the time we collect the information or with your consent.

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized information from personal information and use and disclose it for any lawful purpose.

3. Ask June and recommendations

Automated systems, including language models provided by third parties, currently OpenAI and OpenRouter, process your messages to produce answers and recommendations. When you use June Chat, receive a briefing or use other automated features, we send your inputs and relevant information about your account and listening activity (for example, your Regulars, Flows and recent episodes) to these providers to generate responses, text and synthesized speech. We process your search queries the same way to return results and recommendations. We may retain, review and use inputs and outputs, including through quality monitoring tools such as Langfuse, which receives chat inputs and outputs linked to your account ID, to operate, secure and improve the Services. These providers process this information on our behalf and not for their own purposes. Answers, recommendations and other automatically generated output may be inaccurate or incomplete.

4. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose personal information to the following categories of recipients:

• Service providers that process information on our behalf, including providers of hosting, database and authentication services, background processing, language model and speech services, quality monitoring, network, content delivery and security services, analytics, crash reporting, customer support, email delivery and payment processing. Today these include Supabase (authentication and database), OpenAI and OpenRouter (June Chat and search), Langfuse (quality monitoring of June Chat responses), Trigger.dev (background processing), and Cloudflare (website hosting, security and our contact form). Service providers may use personal information only to provide services to us. Podcast directory providers we use for show and episode data, such as Taddy, receive no information about you.
• Platform providers, such as Apple, in connection with sign-in, CarPlay, app distribution and any in-app purchases we may offer.
• Podcast publishers and hosting providers. Episodes are streamed and downloaded directly from publishers’ servers or their hosting providers, which receive your IP address, device information and request data when you play or download an episode.
• Business transferees, in connection with an actual or proposed merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, bankruptcy, sale of assets or other corporate transaction.
• Legal and safety recipients, such as law enforcement, government authorities, courts and other parties, where we believe disclosure is required by law or necessary to protect the rights, property or safety of NiftyBot, our users or others.
• Affiliates, and other parties with your consent or at your direction.

5. Retention

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Services and for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including to comply with legal, tax and accounting obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements. When you delete your account, we delete or de-identify the personal information associated with it in our production systems, except where retention is required or permitted by law. To prevent abuse of free offers, we keep a one-way hash of your Apple sign-in identifier after you delete your account, and we use Apple’s DeviceCheck to record on Apple’s servers whether your device has had a June account. Information held in backups, logs and systems of our service providers is deleted in accordance with their retention schedules.

6. Cookies, Tracking and Advertising

June does not currently show ads or track you across other companies’ apps and websites, and we do not sell your personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. If we introduce advertising, we will update this Privacy Policy and ask for your permission where the law or Apple requires it, including under Apple’s App Tracking Transparency framework.

We and our service providers may use cookies, local storage, SDKs and similar technologies to operate the Services, keep you signed in, remember your preferences and understand usage. The june.fm website does not currently use analytics or advertising cookies. Our Services do not respond to “Do Not Track” signals.

7. Security

We use administrative, technical and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of your information.

8. Your Choices

• Account deletion. You may delete your account in the app under Account & privacy → Delete account, or by contacting us. Deleting your account removes your Regulars, Flows and listening history.
• Account information. You may review and update certain information in the app.
• Marketing communications. You may opt out of marketing emails by following the unsubscribe instructions in the email. We may still send service and account communications.
• Device permissions. You may disable microphone, speech recognition and other permissions in your device settings. Some features may not function without them.

9. U.S. State Privacy Rights

Depending on your state of residence, including California, Colorado, Connecticut, Virginia and other states with comprehensive privacy laws, you may have the right to: (a) confirm whether we process your personal information and access it; (b) correct inaccuracies; (c) delete personal information; (d) obtain a portable copy; (e) opt out of the sale of personal information, the sharing of personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising, targeted advertising, and profiling in furtherance of decisions producing legal or similarly significant effects; and (f) limit the use of sensitive personal information, where applicable.

In the preceding 12 months, we have collected the categories of personal information described in Section 1, including identifiers, commercial information, internet and electronic network activity information, approximate geolocation, audio-derived information, and inferences drawn from the foregoing, from the sources described in Section 1, for the purposes described in Sections 2 and 3, and have disclosed them to the categories of recipients described in Section 4. We do not sell or share personal information, as those terms are defined under applicable law, and we have not done so in the preceding 12 months. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for purposes that would give rise to a right to limit its use.

To exercise these rights, contact us at june.fm/contact. We will verify your request by matching information you provide with information in our records. You may use an authorized agent, and we may require proof of the agent’s authority. If we deny your request, you may appeal by replying to our decision. We will not discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

10. European Economic Area, United Kingdom and Switzerland

If you are located in the EEA, the United Kingdom or Switzerland, we process personal information on the following legal bases: to perform our contract with you; for our legitimate interests in operating, securing, improving and promoting the Services, where not overridden by your interests or rights; with your consent, which you may withdraw at any time; and to comply with legal obligations. You may have the right to access, correct, delete, restrict or object to the processing of your personal information, to data portability, and to lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority.

11. International Transfers

NiftyBot is based in the United States, and we and our service providers process information in the United States and other countries whose laws may differ from those of your country. Where required, we rely on appropriate safeguards, such as Standard Contractual Clauses, for transfers of personal information.

12. Children

The Services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that we have collected such information, we will delete it. If you believe a child under 13 has provided us personal information, contact us at june.fm/contact.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The “Last updated” date above indicates when it was last revised. Your continued use of the Services after an update takes effect constitutes acceptance of the updated Privacy Policy, to the extent permitted by law.

14. Contact Us