Privacy Policy
Audio XX is a conversational audio equipment guide. We collect only what is needed to provide a useful experience, and nothing more.
What we collect
If you create an account, we store your email address, listening preferences, and any system or component information you choose to enter. This data is used solely to personalise recommendations across sessions.
Anonymous visitors can use the recommendation engine without providing any personal information. No tracking cookies are set for anonymous users.
We record a small number of anonymous usage events — for example that an assessment was completed, or that a product link was followed — so we can tell which parts of Audio XX are useful. These events are written to our server logs and are not tied to your name or email address.
If you answer one of the short feedback prompts beneath an assessment, your answers and any comment you write are recorded together with an identifier for the assessment they refer to, so we can tell which piece of advice the feedback was about. Feedback is entirely voluntary.
How we use your data
Your preferences and system data are used exclusively to generate personalised audio recommendations. We do not sell or rent your personal information, and we do not pass it to anyone for their own advertising or marketing. The service providers listed below handle information only in order to run Audio XX.
Affiliate links
Some product links on this site are affiliate links, including links to Amazon.com. When you click an affiliate link and make a purchase, we may earn a small commission at no additional cost to you. Affiliate relationships do not influence which products are recommended or how they are ranked. For more details, see our Affiliate Disclosure.
Third-party services
Audio XX runs on services operated by other companies. These are the ones that currently handle information, and what each one receives:
- Vercel — hosting. Serves every page and request, and stores the server logs, which include the anonymous usage events described above and any comment you type into a feedback prompt.
- Turso — database. Stores accounts, saved systems and listening preferences.
- OpenAI — language model. When you describe a system or ask a question, that text is sent to OpenAI to help generate the response you read. When you name a product that is not in our catalog, Audio XX also sends that product name to OpenAI to check whether the product actually exists. Only the name is sent for that check, and it is used only to confirm identity against the manufacturer’s own page — never to gather opinions or reviews.
- Sentry — error monitoring. Receives diagnostics when something breaks: the error, a stack trace, and the address of the page you were on. Request bodies and cookies are removed before a report is sent, and your name and email are not included. Note that an assessment’s web address contains the system description you entered, so that text can appear in an error report.
- Amazon Associates — affiliate links. Receives a referral tag when you follow a shopping link.
Sign-in is handled in Audio XX itself using the NextAuth.js library. It is not a separate company and your credentials are not sent to a third party for authentication.
An email service (Resend) is integrated but is not currently in use: password-reset email is switched off, and no other feature sends mail. If that changes, this page will be updated first.
Data retention and deletion
You may delete your account and all associated data at any time by contacting us. Your account, saved systems, assessments and stored preferences are permanently removed. Server logs and error reports are held separately by the services above and expire on their own schedule rather than being deleted on request.
Changes to this policy
We may update this policy occasionally. Material changes will be noted on this page. This policy was last updated on August 16, 2026.
Contact
If you have questions about this policy, please reach out via the contact information on the site.