Privacy you can trust.

Only what Needl needs to work:

• Your account: your name and email, from Sign in with Apple.
• Your collection: your records, wishlist, listening history and value snapshots.
• How Needl is used: product analytics — which features get used — so we can make Needl better. You can turn this off.
• Your location: your precise location, only when you ask Needl to find record stores nearby.

Your collection is stored on your device and synced across your Apple devices through iCloud and your Needl account. We never sell your data.

Needl uses Sign in with Apple to create your account, so we never see your Apple Account password. Your account stores your name and email, and it’s secured through Supabase, our backend provider, so your collection stays in sync and safe across your devices.

We use this information only to run your account and provide Needl’s features — never for advertising.

When you add a record, details about it sync to your Needl account, so your collection is backed up and the same on every device:

• Album, artist, year, genre, cover art and format
• Pressing details: vinyl color, edition, label, catalog number, barcode, country and pressing year
• Condition, and whether it’s signed

Some of what you add is only ever visible to you — see What stays private.

Ask AI and cover scan start on your device, with Apple’s Foundation Models. At this step, nothing leaves your device.

When a question or a scan needs more power, Needl uses Apple’s Private Cloud Compute. It processes the request, sends the result back to your device and keeps nothing — the request isn’t stored, and it isn’t accessible to Apple.

Only the hardest Ask AI questions, and cover scans Apple’s models can’t match, are sent to Claude, Anthropic’s AI. Claude receives just what it needs — your question, or the photo of the sleeve — and it isn’t used to train AI models or for advertising.

We don’t store your Ask AI questions on our servers. To give grounded answers, Needl looks up album and artist details from its own catalog and trusted music sources.

Needl works with Siri and Shortcuts through App Intents. To answer questions like what your collection is worth, Needl makes your collection available to Siri on your device.

Siri requests are handled by Apple — on your device or on Private Cloud Compute — under Apple’s Privacy Policy. With Siri AI’s onscreen awareness, Siri looks at your screen only when you ask it something.

When you add a record with Visual Intelligence — the Camera’s Siri mode — the photo is used only to identify the record, the same way as cover scan.

Listen uses your microphone only while it’s listening for what’s spinning, and recognizes the song with Apple’s ShazamKit. Needl doesn’t keep recordings of what it hears.

You can turn microphone access off any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Microphone.

Needl asks for your location only when you look for record stores nearby, and uses it to show the stores around you with Apple Maps. You can change this any time in Settings → Privacy & Security → Location Services.

When you connect Apple Music or Spotify, Needl uses secure system and provider sign-in to sync your listening history and, with Spotify, save liked tracks to your Liked Songs. We don’t store your streaming passwords. To match albums and look up details, Needl may send album and artist information to these services and other music sources.

When you connect Discogs, the import happens directly between your device and Discogs, and we don’t store your Discogs password. Imported records — artwork, pressings and details — become part of your collection, stored on your device and synced to your Needl account.

You can connect Needl to AI assistants such as ChatGPT. You sign in on Needl’s own connect page and choose what the assistant may use: your collection is always included, and your wishlist, changes to your wishlist, your listening history and Shuffle can each be switched off.

The assistant gets only what you allow, and only from your own account. It never sees your password, and it can’t edit or remove the records you own. What it uses is sent to the assistant’s provider (for example OpenAI) to answer you, and is handled under that provider’s privacy policy. Needl doesn’t share market prices or Discogs images with assistants.

We keep a record of each connection — which assistant, what you allowed and when it was last used — so it keeps working. To stop sharing, disconnect Needl in the assistant’s settings.

We use PostHog to understand how features are used, so we can improve Needl. This includes the screens you visit and the actions you take, and may include session recordings — but text you type, images, and sensitive screens like sign-in, pricing and your profile are masked before anything is captured.

We don’t track you across other apps or websites, and there are no advertising trackers in Needl. You can turn analytics off any time, in your Profile under Settings.

Needl is powered by a shared music catalog that every collector benefits from. Album, artist and pressing facts from the records you add help build it.

When you contribute through Suggest an Edit — album descriptions, themes, fun facts, credits, standout tracks or artist bios — it’s added to the shared catalog so other collectors can see it, and it may be credited to your handle. Factual details may publish automatically; longer write-ups are reviewed first. This shared information also helps power Ask AI’s answers.

Needl has social features. Other Needl users can see:

• Your collection and wishlist: album and artist details, year, genre, format, vinyl color, signed status and cover art
• Your profile: name, handle, photo, bio, collection size and estimated value

People you follow see your additions in their activity feed. If you allow it, people who have your phone number or email in their contacts may be able to find you.

Some things are always private to your account, and never shown to other users:

• Your personal notes
• What you paid — purchase price, taxes, shipping and dates
• The condition of your own copies
• The photos you take of your records

They stay tied to your account, aren’t part of the shared catalog, and no one else can see them.

• Your account and collection: for as long as you have a Needl account. When you delete your account, your personal data is deleted; your contributions to the shared catalog stay, no longer linked to you.
• AI assistant connections: the record of each connection is kept while you have an account.
• Ask AI: we don’t store your questions on our servers.
• Listen: we don’t keep recordings.

• Analytics: turn it off any time, in your Profile under Settings.
• Connected services: disconnect Apple Music, Spotify or Discogs whenever you like.
• Location and microphone: allow or deny them any time in your iPhone’s Settings.
• Your data: for a copy of your data, or to delete your account and the data tied to it, email support@needlvinyl.app.

When we update this policy, we’ll change the date at the top of this page. Questions about your privacy or this policy? Email support@needlvinyl.app and we’ll get back to you.

Needl is run by Needl Vinyl LLC.