Six Strings

Privacy policy

In short: accounts are optional, no tracking cookies, no analytics. Without an account, your progress stays in your browser; with one, we keep your email and your progress, nothing else. Whatever the microphone records never leaves your device.

What’s stored, and where

The site stores a few pieces of information in your browser, on your device (local storage, or “localStorage”). Without an account, they’re never sent to a server:

  • your progress: the guitar and course you chose, the goals you’ve checked off in each lesson;
  • your warm-ups: the tempos you reached, the days you warmed up and the session in progress;
  • the Studio: the chord charts you’ve saved, the current song and your settings (volumes, metronome, count-in);
  • your recent transcriptions: the name of the analyzed file, its chords and your corrections, never the audio;
  • your display preferences: light or dark theme, site language, neck length and whether the course menu is open.

You can erase everything at any time: from the My account page for your progress, or by clearing the site’s data in your browser settings.

Backing up your progress creates a file on your device. It contains your progress (guitar, course, goals checked off) and your warm-ups, and it stays with you.

If you create an account

Accounts are optional: they’re only there so your progress can follow you across devices. If you create one, we store:

  • your email address, to recognise you when you sign in;
  • a fingerprint of your password, computed so that nobody, not even us, can work out the password from it;
  • your progress: the guitar you chose, the goals you’ve checked off and your warm-ups (tempos reached, warm-up days);
  • your sessions: one identifier per signed-in device, which expires after 30 days.

This data is stored with our host, Cloudflare (D1 database). It’s only used to make your account work: never for advertising, never sold, and you’ll never get an email you didn’t ask for.

When you’re signed in, the site sets a single cookie, needed to keep your session open. It does nothing else and is removed when you sign out.

You can delete your account at any time from the My account page: your email, password, sessions and saved progress are then erased from our servers for good.

The microphone

The Studio lets you record yourself. Your browser first asks for permission to use the microphone, and you can refuse or withdraw it at any time.

The sound is processed only in your browser: the recording isn’t sent anywhere. It disappears when you close the page, unless you choose to download it to your device.

Likewise, an audio file you drop into the transcription tool is analyzed in your browser and never sent anywhere.

What isn’t collected

  • Without an account, no personal data at all: no email address, no name.
  • No advertising or analytics cookies: the only cookie is the session one, when you’re signed in.
  • No analytics or tracking tools.

Hosting

Like any website, Six Strings is served by a host, Cloudflare (see the legal notice). To deliver pages and protect the site against attacks, Cloudflare processes technical connection data (IP address, browser type) and may keep it briefly in its logs, under its own privacy policy.

Your rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), you can request access to, correction of or deletion of data about you by writing to [TO BE COMPLETED: contact email address]. If you don’t have an account, in practice there’s nothing to delete on our side. If you do, you can delete it yourself from the My account page.

You can also file a complaint with the CNIL, the French data protection authority (cnil.fr).

Last updated: [TO BE COMPLETED: launch date].