Privacy Policy

This policy explains what GenerateLyrics.io ("we") collects, why, and what you can do about it. We keep it short and specific.

What we collect

When you use a tool without an account

What you type into the tool (your topic, details and options) and the song or result we create.
A random guest ID stored in a cookie, so your recent songs appear under "My songs" on this browser and daily limits work.
Simple usage counts (how many songs were written today) and actions you take on a song, such as like, copy or edit. These help us learn which example songs lead to songs people like.

When you create an account

Your name, email address and a securely hashed password, or your Google account's name and email if you sign in with Google.
Your songs, their versions and your chat edit messages, so they follow you across devices.
Whether you chose to get Feedough's newsletter (see Newsletter below).

When you browse the site

How you use our pages, such as which pages you view and which buttons you use. See Analytics below.

We don't collect payment details, precise location or contacts, and we don't sell your data.

How we use it

To write, check and save your songs and show them back to you.
To keep the service working and fair (daily limits, abuse prevention).
To improve quality, for example by learning which example songs lead to songs people like.
To find slow pages and errors, and to see which tools and pages people use.
To add you to Feedough's weekly newsletter, only if you chose it when you created your account.

The sign-up page has a box that says "Send me Feedough's newsletter". It is ticked when the page opens; untick it before you create your account if you don't want the newsletter. It covers both ways to sign up: with your email or with Google.

If the box is ticked, we send your name and email address to Feedough's newsletter list once your email address is confirmed. Google accounts are confirmed straight away; email accounts once you enter the code we send you.
We send them once. Signing in to an account you already have never adds you.
The newsletter is weekly. Every issue has an unsubscribe link, and unsubscribing doesn't change your GenerateLyrics account or your songs.
Your songs, topics and usage are never sent to the newsletter.

Analytics

Our own analytics

A small script on our pages sends us events that we store in our own database. It records:

The pages you view, how long you stay on each and how far you scroll.
Page speed (Google's Core Web Vitals) and errors your browser runs into on our pages.
Actions such as writing, copying, sharing or liking a song.

Each event is tied to your gl_guest cookie (a random ID that lasts 1 year) and to a session ID kept in your browser's local storage (gl_sid). A new session starts after 30 minutes without activity. If you're signed in, events are also tied to your account. We add your country, which Cloudflare (the network in front of our site) works out from your connection, and your browser, operating system and device type, which we read from the information your browser sends with each request.

The text of your songs, your topics and your email address never go into analytics. Raw events are deleted after 400 days.

If your browser sends a Global Privacy Control signal, our own analytics records nothing from your visits.

Third-party analytics tools

We may switch on any of the tools below. A tool only loads on the site while it is switched on in our settings, and each one sets its own cookies (listed in our cookie policy).

Google Analytics 4 measures visits and the same actions as our own analytics. See Google's privacy policy. You can stop it measuring you with the Google Analytics opt-out add-on.
Google Tag Manager loads other measurement tags for us. It doesn't collect data itself, but the tags it loads may.
Microsoft Clarity records how you use our pages, such as clicks, scrolling and mouse movement, to make session replays and heatmaps that show us where pages confuse people. A replay can show what was on the screen during your visit. Clarity collects this data with first- and third-party cookies and similar technologies, and Microsoft also uses it for its own purposes as described in the Microsoft Privacy Statement.
Meta Pixel tells Meta when someone visits, signs up or writes a song, so we can measure and improve ads on Facebook and Instagram. See Meta's privacy policy. You can control ads based on this activity in your Facebook or Instagram ad preferences.

Google Search Console

We use Google Search Console to see how GenerateLyrics appears in Google Search: which searches show our pages, how often people click, and where we rank. Google gives us these figures in total, not per person, so they don't identify you.

Services that process data for us

OpenAI writes and edits songs from your request, through their API.
Neon hosts our database, including accounts, sessions, hashed passwords and our own analytics events.
Brevo delivers account emails, such as sign-up and password reset codes.
Feedough receives your name and email address for its newsletter, only if you ticked the newsletter box when you signed up.
Google confirms who you are if you choose to sign in with Google.
Google AdSense shows ads on the site (see Advertising below).
Cloudflare sits in front of the site to deliver it quickly and protect it from attacks, and tells us which country a visit comes from.
Google Analytics, Google Tag Manager, Microsoft Clarity and Meta Pixel, only if we switch them on (see Analytics above).
Our hosting provider runs the server for the website and API.

Each receives only what it needs to do its job.

Advertising

GenerateLyrics is free because of ads, served by Google AdSense. Ads appear in the articles below the tools, never inside the generator or your songs.

Google and its partners use cookies and similar technologies to show ads and measure them. These can be based on your earlier visits to this site and other sites.
Google's advertising cookies let it and its partners show you ads based on those visits. Read how Google uses information from sites that use its services.
You can turn off personalised ads in Google's Ads Settings, or opt out of many third-party vendors at aboutads.info and, in Europe, youronlinechoices.eu.
If you are in the European Economic Area, the UK or Switzerland, we ask for your consent before personalised ads are shown, and you can change your choice at any time from the privacy link the consent message leaves on the page.

What you type into a tool and the songs you make are never shared with advertisers.

How long we keep it

Guest songs: up to 12 months after your last visit.
Account data and songs: until you delete them or ask us to delete your account.
Newsletter: until you unsubscribe.
Our own analytics events: 400 days.
Data in third-party analytics tools: as long as each tool's own retention settings allow.
Server logs: up to 30 days.

Your choices

Ask for a copy of your data, a correction, or deletion of your account and songs by emailing [email protected] from your account's address.
Unsubscribe from the newsletter with the link in any issue, or ask us to remove you by email.
Clear your browser's cookies to remove your guest ID (guest songs on that browser will no longer show).
Turn on Global Privacy Control in your browser to stop our own analytics, and use the opt-outs listed under Analytics for the third-party tools.

Children

GenerateLyrics is for a general audience and is often used in classrooms. Children under 13 should use it with a parent or teacher and should not create an account.

Cookies

See our cookie policy for the cookies we, Google and our analytics tools use.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update the date at the top. For questions, write to [email protected].