Hushwave

Privacy policy

Last updated: 13 November 2026

Hushwave is a sleep sounds, calm music and breathing app for Android from Anom, the app studio of Zest Plate LLC ("we", "us"). This policy explains what happens to your information when you use Hushwave.

No account, no personal data from you

• You don't need an account to use Hushwave, and we don't ask for your name, email address or any other personal details.
• Hushwave itself includes no analytics.

What stays on your phone

• Your favorites, recently played tracks, sound mixes, settings and any tracks you save for offline are kept only in Hushwave's private storage on your phone.
• Hushwave does not include them in cloud backups or phone-to-phone transfers, and none of it is sent to us.

Music from our website

Hushwave downloads its list of tracks and the music itself from https://hushwave.anomllc.app, which is hosted by Cloudflare. As with any website, your phone's IP address and a short description of the app (its name and version) reach Cloudflare so the files can be delivered. We don't use this to identify you, and we don't combine it with anything else. Cloudflare's privacy policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/

The nature sounds (rain, ocean, noise and the others) are made on your phone and need no internet.

Hushwave Premium

• Premium is a subscription bought and billed through Google Play. We never see your card or other payment details.
• To unlock Premium on your phone, Hushwave asks Google Play whether you have an active subscription. Google Play answers with the purchase details (such as an order number and a purchase token); Hushwave uses them only to unlock Premium and keeps nothing about them except whether Premium is active.
• You can cancel at any time in Google Play > Payments & subscriptions > Subscriptions.

Ads (free version)

The free version of Hushwave shows small banner ads from Google AdMob, Google's advertising service, on the browsing screens. If you choose, you can watch a short video ad to play a locked track for one night. There are never ads on the player or during a breathing or meditation session, and Premium has no ads.

• To show ads, measure them and prevent fraud, the Google Mobile Ads SDK in Hushwave collects and sends to Google: your device's advertising ID and other device identifiers (such as the app set ID), your IP address (from which an approximate location can be worked out), information about the ads you see and tap, and technical and diagnostic information about your phone and the app (for example the model, Android version, crash reports and performance data).
• Google may use this information to show personalised ads where the law allows it and you agree, and non-personalised ads otherwise. How Google uses information from apps that use its services: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites
• We (Zest Plate LLC) don't receive personal data from the ads. We only see totals, such as how many ads were shown and what they earned.
• Ads in Hushwave are limited to content suitable for general audiences.

Your ad choices

• In the European Economic Area, the UK, Switzerland and US states with privacy laws, Hushwave asks for your choice with Google's consent form. You can change it at any time in Settings > Privacy choices.
• Anywhere, you can reset or delete your advertising ID, or turn off ad personalisation, in your phone's Settings > Google > Ads (on some phones, Settings > Privacy > Ads).

Permissions

• Internet and network state: to stream the music and, in the free version, for the ads.
• Playing in the background (a media playback service and a wake lock): so the sound keeps going with the screen off, with controls in a notification and on the lock screen.
• Notifications (optional): only for the evening note when new music arrives, asked when you turn it on in Hushwave.
• Hushwave has no access to your microphone, camera, location, contacts, photos or files.

Deleting your data

Uninstalling Hushwave deletes everything it stored on your phone. A Premium subscription is managed in Google Play and is not cancelled by uninstalling.

Children

Hushwave is not directed at children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them.

Changes to this policy

If this policy changes, the new version will be posted on this page with a new date.

Contact

Zest Plate LLC — hushwave@anomllc.app