What they may do · DPDP §6(4)
What Pocket FM does with your data
Pocket FM does targeted advertising: it shares your IP and activity data with ad networks and lets third parties track you across other sites and apps, and it can keep data past deletion in backups. It says nothing about AI training or biometrics.
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Shares your data with partners
Passed to group companies, advertisers or analytics firms you never chose.
What this costs you. Your number and habits travel to companies you have never heard of and never agreed to. This is the step where the spam calls start.
Show me where they say that
Pocket FM’s own policy says “These categories of personal information are shared for cross-context behavioral advertising or targeted advertising with advertising networks and other companies that facilitate digital advertising.”
Our summary personal information is shared with advertising networks and digital-advertising companies, and disclosed to service providers that process payments, manage customer information, host the website, advertise and market products, and provide analytics; the policy applies to Pocket Entertainment Ventures Private Limited together with its affiliates and group companies.
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Builds an advertising profile of you
They watch what you view, tap and buy, and use it to decide which ads you see.
What this costs you. Your attention gets priced. What you hesitate over becomes a bid — and a profile built to predict you is a profile built to persuade you.
Show me where they say that
Pocket FM’s own policy says “When we engage in digital advertising, we may share the following categories of personal information for purposes of cross-context behavioral advertising, or use them for targeted advertising: personal identifiers (IP address); and internet or other electronic activity information.”
Our summary IP address and information about the user's interaction with the sites and advertisements are used for targeted advertising and shared for cross-context behavioural advertising; 'inferences drawn from personal information we collect' is listed as a collected category and appears in the advertising purpose row of the policy's own table.
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Follows you onto other websites and apps
Their tracking carries on after you leave, through pixels and SDKs embedded elsewhere.
What this costs you. You get recognised on sites that have nothing to do with them. Closing the app does not close the file.
Show me where they say that
Pocket FM’s own policy says “We do so by allowing third parties to place cookies or other tracking technologies on our website that may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites or applications.”
Our summary third parties are permitted to place cookies and other tracking technologies that collect the user's online activity over time and across other websites and applications; the policy also states it does not respond to or honour Do Not Track signals, and that social media plugins let those platforms receive information about use of the sites.
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Keeps your records long-term
Held on after you stop using the service.
What this costs you. Years after you delete the app, the record is still sitting there — and every year it sits there is another year it can leak.
Show me where they say that
Pocket FM’s own policy says “We may retain your personal information for an additional period to the extent deletion would require us to overwrite our automated disaster recovery backup systems or to the extent we deem it necessary to assert or defend legal claims during any relevant retention period.”
Our summary personal information may be kept beyond the ordinary retention period at Pocket's own discretion where deletion would require overwriting automated disaster-recovery backups, or where it deems retention necessary to assert or defend legal claims.
What the policy does not mention
These are uses Pocket FM’s policy is silent on. Silence is not a promise — it means the document does not say, and we do not infer either way.
- Processes your face or other biometrics
- Trains AI models on your content
Pocket FM is one app. How many are on your phone?
Most people carry twenty to forty. Add yours and see the total in one screen — how many share your data, profile you for ads, or follow you across the web. Then take it back from all of them at once.
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Questions
What does Pocket FM do with my personal data?
According to Pocket FM's own privacy policy, read on 2026-08-14, it discloses 4 of the six uses we track: shares your data with partners, builds an advertising profile of you, follows you onto other websites and apps, keeps your records long-term.
Can I withdraw my consent from Pocket FM?
Section 6(4) of India's Digital Personal Data Protection Act 2023 gives you the right to withdraw consent for processing you agreed to. The Act's substantive provisions commence in stages up to May 2027, so a request made now asks for voluntary compliance and puts the date on record. Processing a company carries out under a legal obligation — such as KYC records the RBI requires — cannot be withdrawn.
Does Pocket FM track me for advertising?
Yes — Pocket FM's published policy discloses this. The exact sentence it is based on is quoted on this page, with the date we read it and a link to the source.
Every use above is one Pocket FM declared in its own published privacy policy, which we
read on 2026-08-14. Quotes are verbatim; the summary beside each one is ours
and is labelled as ours. Nothing here is inferred.
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made today asks for voluntary compliance and records the date you asked.
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