Terms, privacy, credits.

Terms

Use it, share it, don’t break it.

What Elsewhere is

Elsewhere is a directory and a player for live internet radio. When you press play, your own browser connects straight to the station. We don’t host, record, copy or change any station’s audio. Hearing radio here is free.

The stations

Every stream, name and logo belongs to the station that runs it. We can’t vouch for what a station says or plays, and we can’t promise a stream stays up; when one fails we try to find you another. If you run a station or hold rights to something and want it off the board, message us and we’ll take it down.

The Keeper’s notes

The Keeper’s lines and answers are built from the station’s own information and from public sources, and sometimes drafted by an AI from those facts. They can be wrong. Anything that came from his notebook and not from the station is marked that way. He never invents a song title; if the station sends none, he says so. Nothing he says is professional advice.

Using the site

It is for your own listening. Please don’t scrape it, flood it with requests, or try to break or probe it. Some features have limits (for example, the number of questions the Keeper answers in an hour). We may change, pause or end any part of Elsewhere.

Tickets and sharing

A ticket is a link and a picture of a station. It names the station and its place, not you. Share what you’re happy to share.

Our marks, and no warranty

The Elsewhere name, the Keeper and the artwork made for the site belong to us. The site is provided as it is, without promises, and to the extent the law allows we aren’t liable for losses from using it. Nothing here limits rights you have by law. We may update these terms; the date above says when.

Questions, takedowns, anything else: message @elsewheremusic.app on Instagram.

Privacy

No accounts, no ads, no tracking cookies. I don’t sell anything about you.

What stays on your device

Your passport (stamps), kept stations, last station, Night or Day, whether the Keeper is hushed, where you left him, and a few small flags (for example that he has already asked you to pass the radio on) live in your browser’s storage on your device. They are not sent to us. Clearing your browser’s site data erases them, and so does losing the device: there is no account to restore them from.

What we count

We count visits and a few actions (a page type, a ticket shared, the Keeper opened) as anonymous events: just the name of the event, and for a visit the country it came from (a two-letter code the host derives from the request; we don’t keep your address or anything finer). No ID, no station, no text you typed. They are written to our server logs and tallied as daily totals.

What leaves your device

• Radio. The station’s own server sees your IP address when you stream, as with any radio. We don’t control it; it has its own policy.
• Searches and questions. Words you type into search or to the Keeper may be sent to AI services (Google Gemini, TypeSafe’s Jev router, or models reached through OpenRouter) along with the station facts they need, to understand or answer you. Don’t type personal details. We don’t attach your identity to them.
• Looking things up. To write the Keeper’s notes our server asks public sources (Wikipedia, MusicBrainz, Cover Art Archive, iTunes) about a place, language, genre or the artist on air. Those requests come from our server and name the topic, not you. Our server also reads the station’s title feed for the song on air. When a station is named for a person or group, your browser may load their small photo straight from Wikimedia’s servers, which then see your address as they would for any web image.
• Voice search. Only if you press the microphone: your browser’s own speech recognition listens, and depending on the browser it may send the audio to its maker.
• Phone motion. If you allow it (iPhone asks), the leaves in the background follow your phone’s tilt. It stays on the device.
• Hosting. Our host (Vercel) keeps ordinary request logs (IP address, time, page) for security and to run the site. A short-lived counter by IP address limits how many questions the Keeper answers per hour.
• Links out. Instagram and other sites you open have their own policies.

Your choices

Clear site data to wipe everything on your device. Hush the Keeper from his sheet. Since we hold no account and no identifier for you, there is usually nothing of yours to look up or delete, but ask us if you wonder. Elsewhere isn’t aimed at young children and we don’t knowingly collect anything from them.

Credits

Everyone who made the evening you’re hearing.

• The stations and the people who run them. The sound is theirs. Elsewhere only points you to it.
• Radio Browser, the community-built directory of stations behind the board and the Atlas.
• Wikipedia: short passages, a few facts and small photos about places, languages and artists in the Keeper’s notebook (photos are credited by a link to the article, where each image’s own licence is shown), used under CC BY-SA 4.0. Each is labelled as his notebook.
• MusicBrainz and the Cover Art Archive for track details and covers; Apple’s iTunes Search for some artwork. Artwork belongs to its rights holders.
• AI assistance from Google Gemini and models reached through OpenRouter and TypeSafe, working only from the facts we give them, never on the audio.
• Typefaces: Newsreader, Schibsted Grotesk and Azeret Mono, open fonts under the SIL Open Font License, served from this site.
• The Keeper, the pixel-art figure, and the illustrations were made for Elsewhere.

Where a source has its own terms, its terms apply to what it provided.