Last updated 11 September 2026
Svibe is a campus music board. You post a song, people rate it, and at midnight the board resets. To do that it needs to know a few things about you, and this page is an honest list of them.
Svibe is made by Ivan Seredkin. It is a small app. There is no growth team behind it and no advertising business attached to it. If something here is unclear, or you want your information out of it, write to support@svibe.live and you will get a reply from the person who built it.
An email address and a password, because you have to sign in somehow. A username and a display name, because the leaderboard has to call you something. Your campus, because the whole point is that your board is your campus and not the internet. A few vibe tags, which shape your profile.
That is the entire account. No phone number, no date of birth, no real name field, and nothing that asks who your friends are.
The songs you post, the ratings you give, the best parts you mark, the messages you send, the tracks you add to rooms. That is less data collection than it is the app itself. None of it would exist if you had not made it, and all of it is visible to whoever you aimed it at.
Upload a profile photo or a banner and we store the image. Those live in a public bucket, which means the image URL works for anyone who has it. Treat a profile photo the way you would treat any photo you put on the internet.
Turn notifications on and your phone gives us a token so we can send them. We keep your phone model next to it, because delivery behaves differently across devices.
This is the part worth reading properly.
Svibe asks for your location in two places. Both are things you tap on purpose.
The first is Detect my campus, during setup. It takes one reading, asks our server which schools are near it, and hands you the list. The reading is not stored. Skip it and search for your campus by name and nothing about the app works differently.
The second is the Nearby screen, which has a switch marked Visible. It starts off. While it is on we keep your current position and show you to other people on your campus who also have it on, with a rough distance. Turn the switch off and you disappear from their screens.
Three things it never does. It does not read your position in the background, only while the app is open and you have asked for something that needs it. It does not send your position anywhere except our own server. And it keeps no history. There is one current position, it gets overwritten, and there is no trail of where you have been.
Songs play through your own Apple Music subscription, on your own device. Apple asks your permission the first time and you can take it back in iOS Settings.
One feature reaches further, and only when you tap it. The Pulse check-in asks Apple for the song you played most recently so it can offer that song as your check-in. That is the only moment Svibe looks at your listening and it is the only thing it can see. Not your library, not your playlists, not anything you played before that. What we keep afterwards is the song and not you: a title, an artist, and the identifiers that let us find it again.
Whatever Apple does with your Apple Music account is between you and Apple. We have no access to it.
There are no adverts in Svibe and none planned. There is no analytics package, no advertising SDK and no third-party tracker of any kind in the app, which is why iOS never shows you the "allow tracking" prompt when you install it. We do not sell, rent or trade anything about you. There is nobody to sell it to.
Nobody reads your messages for product research. Messages pass through an automatic filter looking for banned words, and a human only ever sees one because somebody reported it.
Svibe runs on other people's infrastructure. Supabase holds the database, your login and your uploaded photos. Vercel runs svibe.live and the endpoints the app talks to. Apple handles music search, playback and the App Store purchase itself. RevenueCat checks with Apple whether you bought the Studio pack. Expo delivers push notifications. Cloudflare carries mail sent to our support address. Each processes this on our behalf, and none may use it for their own ends.
Two more get told something much narrower. When Svibe needs a song's genre it asks MusicBrainz and Apple's catalogue about that song. When you paste a TikTok, Instagram or YouTube link into a message, our server asks that platform for the title and thumbnail so the link can render as a card. Those requests carry a song, or a link. They do not carry you.
If a law compels us to hand something over we will, and we will tell you unless we are forbidden from telling you.
Your account stays until you remove it. We do not expire accounts for going quiet.
To delete it: open Svibe, go to your Profile, scroll to the bottom, tap Delete Account. The app counts your account first and shows you real numbers, then asks you to type DELETE. There is no undo and no grace period during which we quietly keep it.
What goes, in a single transaction: your login, so every device you were signed in on is signed out; your posts, ratings, sent messages, room tracks, room comments, Pulse entries, leaderboard history, wallet and cosmetics; and your profile photo and banner, deleted from storage rather than merely unlinked.
Two things survive, and both belong to somebody else rather than to you. Messages other people sent to you stay in their own conversation, because they wrote them. Rooms you hosted stay open for the people still in them, with your tracks removed and everyone else's untouched. In both places your name reads "Deleted account". A stub record with nothing personal in it remains so those references do not break.
If you would rather we did it for you, write from the address on the account.
Depending on where you live you may be able to ask for a copy of what we hold, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. The app already lets you do the last one yourself, immediately and completely. For the others, email support@svibe.live and we will answer within 30 days. Asking costs nothing, and you lose no access for having asked.
Some browsers and phones can send a Do Not Track signal. Svibe does not respond to it, for the dull reason that there is nothing for it to switch off: the app carries no tracker, so it cannot follow you across other sites or apps whatever that signal says. No third party collects anything about you through Svibe across other services either.
You need to be at least 16 to use Svibe. The campuses are universities and colleges, so nearly everyone here is older than that anyway, and the app is not built for children. We do not knowingly keep an account belonging to someone younger. If you think a child has signed up, tell us and it goes.
If you are under 18 and you posted something you want gone, you can delete it yourself in the app, and deleting your account removes all of it at once. If something is stuck, write to support@svibe.live and we will remove it. Bear in mind that removal does not reach a copy somebody else already saved or screenshotted, which is true of everything on the internet and not a limit we invented.
Svibe is run from California and is sold only in the United States and Canada. This policy is governed by the law of the State of California.
California's privacy statute for larger businesses, the CCPA, sets thresholds Svibe is nowhere near: it applies to companies above 25 million dollars in revenue, or handling the data of 100,000 people, or making most of their money selling personal information. Svibe does none of those and sells nothing about anybody. If that ever changes, this page changes with it. The rights described above are offered to everyone regardless, because they should be.
Your session is encrypted and stored in your iPhone's keychain rather than left sitting in plain text. Traffic between the app and our servers is encrypted. The database restricts access per account, so one person's login cannot read another person's private messages even if they go looking for them.
None of that makes a system perfect. If your information is ever exposed, you will hear it from us.
Meaningful changes get a new date at the top and a notice in the app before they take effect. Typos and clarifications we will just fix.