The Radio Mason Android app (which also runs on Android Auto in the car) plays our live radio stream, our news bulletins and our shows. It needs no account and shows no ads. It makes only the network requests needed to play: fetching the audio stream, the "now playing" information, and the spoken news/travel from Mason's own servers.
Approximate location (optional). If — and only if — you grant the location permission, the app reads your device's approximate last-known position (accurate to a few hundred metres, never precise GPS) and sends those coordinates to Mason's own server for a single purpose: to pick out the road and rail disruptions closest to you, so the travel you hear is your road rather than a national list.
The app requests only what it needs: internet access, a foreground media-playback service (so audio keeps playing in the car and on the lock screen), notification permission (the playback controls), and the optional approximate location above. It uses your phone's built-in text-to-speech engine to read bulletins aloud; nothing you say or do is recorded.
The Radio Mason Chrome extension does not collect, store, transmit or sell any personal information. It makes only the network requests needed to do its job:
No information about you is sent to us or to any third party. There are no cookies, no user accounts, and no tracking of any kind. Your play/pause preference stays on your own device.
If you choose to fill in a form on our website — contact, newsletter sign-up, music submission or an advertising enquiry — we store only what you enter (such as your name, email and message) so we can reply to you and provide the service you asked for. We do not sell or rent your information, and we do not share it except where needed to respond to you.
You can uninstall the extension at any time from Chrome's extensions page, which removes it completely. To ask what data we hold from a website form, or to have it deleted, just get in touch.
Radio Mason is a general-audience service and is not directed at children under 13.
If this policy changes, we'll update this page and the "last updated" date above.
Questions about privacy? Get in touch here.