Effective as of 20 January 2020

• Install Spotify App
• Spotify Other Apps Storage
• Spotify Change Storage Location Android
• Spotify App Location

Being able to select a different install locaation seems like a good demand. Also, the ability to choose where the cache is stored during installation (to save some admin work) would be very nice. To Spotify: A pro installer perhaps, with the same software but a more competent insaller?

1 Introduction
2 About this Policy
3 Your rights and your preferences: Giving you choice and control
4 Personal data we collect from you
5 What we use your personal data for
6 Sharing your personal data
7 Data retention and deletion
8 Transfer to other countries
9 Links
10 Keeping your personal data safe
11 Children
12 Changes to this Policy
13 How to contact us

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1. Introduction

Thanks for choosing Spotify!

At Spotify, we want to give you the best possible experience to ensure that you enjoy our service. To do this we need to understand your streaming habits so we can deliver an exceptional and personalized service specifically for you. Your privacy and the security of your personal data is, and will always be, enormously important to us. So, we want to transparently explain how and why we gather, store, share and use your personal data - as well as outline the controls and choices you have around when and how you choose to share your personal data.

That is our objective, and this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) will explain exactly what we mean in further detail below.

2. About this Policy

This Policy sets out the essential details relating to your personal data relationship with Spotify AB. The Policy applies to all Spotify services and any associated services (referred to as the ‘Spotify Service’). The terms governing your use of the Spotify Service are defined in our Terms and Conditions of Use (the “Terms and Conditions of Use”).

From time to time, we may develop new or offer additional services. If the introduction of these new or additional services results in any material change to the way we collect or process your personal data we will provide you with more information or additional terms or policies. Unless stated otherwise when we introduce these new or additional services, they will be subject to this Policy.

The aim of this Policy is to:

1. Ensure that you understand what personal data we collect about you, the reasons why we collect and use it, and who we share it with;
2. Explain the way we use the personal data that you share with us in order to give you a great experience when you are using the Spotify Service; and
3. Explain your rights and choices in relation to the personal data we collect and process about you and how we will protect your privacy.

We hope this helps you to understand our privacy commitments to you. For further clarification of the terms used in this Policy please visit our Privacy Center on spotify.com. For information on how to contact us if you ever have any questions or concerns, please see Section 13 ‘How to contact us’ below. Alternatively, if you do not agree with the content of this Policy, then please remember it is your choice whether you want to use the Spotify Service.

3. Your rights and your preferences: Giving you choice and control

The General Data Protection Regulation or 'GDPR' gives certain rights to individuals in relation to their personal data. Accordingly, we are happy to offer transparency and access controls to help users take advantage of those rights. As available and except as limited under applicable law, the rights afforded to individuals are:

• Right of access - the right to be informed of, and request access to, the personal data we process about you;
• Right to rectification - the right to request that we amend or update your personal data where it is inaccurate or incomplete;
• Right to erasure - the right to request that we delete your personal data;
• Right to restrict - the right to request that we temporarily or permanently stop processing all or some of your personal data;
• Right to object -
• the right, at any time, to object to us processing your personal data on grounds relating to your particular situation;
• the right to object to your personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes;
• Right to data portability - the right to request a copy of your personal data in electronic format and the right to transmit that personal data for use in another party’s service; and
• Right not to be subject to automated decision-making - the right to not be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making, including profiling, where the decision would have a legal effect on you or produce a similarly significant effect.

In order to enable you to learn more about these rights, exercise these rights with ease, and record your preferences in relation to how Spotify uses your personal data, we provide the following resources:

• Privacy Settings (accessed via your account page) - allows you to exercise choices about the processing of certain personal data, and an automated ‘Download your data’ function to download basic account and usage information.

• Privacy Center - provides a convenient central location where you can find more information about how Spotify uses your personal data, your rights in relation to your personal data, and how to exercise those rights.

• Notification Settings (accessed via your account page) - allows you to choose which marketing communications you receive from Spotify. You may toggle these settings to opt in or out of receiving different types of email and push notifications. Please note that email marketing messages from Spotify include an opt-out mechanism within the message itself (e.g. an unsubscribe link in the emails we send to you). Clicking on the link in an email will opt you out of further messages of that category (e.g. Artist Updates). You can use the Notification Settings page to exercise choices about all categories of email and push marketing communication.

• Cookies Policy - provides more information on how we use cookies, including for interest-based advertising. You will also find information about how you can manage your cookie preferences and opt-out of certain types of tracking; and

• Customer Support resources - We have several pages on our customer support site which provide further guidance about data protection questions. A key source of information is the Data Rights and Privacy Settings article which includes answers to “frequently asked questions” about personal data processing in the Spotify Service.

If you have any questions about your privacy, your rights, or how to exercise them, please contact our Data Protection Officer using the ‘Contact Us’ form on the Privacy Center. If you have concerns around our processing of your personal data, we hope you will continue to work with us to resolve them. However, you can also contact and have the right to lodge a complaint with the Swedish Data Protection Authority (Datainspektionen) or your local Data Protection Authority.

4. Personal data we collect from you

We have set out in the tables below the categories of personal data we collect and use about you and how we collect it:

The table below describes personal data collected when you sign up for the Spotify Service:

Spotify comes with a Settings page that lets you tweak a lot of features and sub-features. But do you understand what each of those settings does? Well, if you don’t, we have detailed several of them for you. Let us get right into it.

1. Change Storage Location For Downloads

Is your phone running out of internal storage space because you can’t stop downloading music on Spotify? You will be glad to know that Spotify allows you to transfer the app and all its files, including downloaded music, to an external SD card.

To do this, open the Spotify app and tap the settings icon on the top-right corner. Next, you need to scroll all the way down to the Storage category and click on it, then select SD card.

Accept the prompt that comes up by selecting OK, all your music will be transferred and stored on the SD card.

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2. Spotify Streaming and Download Quality Settings

Spotify has several audio quality settings for both streaming and downloads. These settings range from low audio quality all the way up to very high audio quality. I should mention that higher music quality files will be larger. That means you will need more storage space for high-quality music downloads and consequently more internet bandwidth/data.

With that in mind, let’s show you how to change the streaming quality.

Open the Spotify settings and scroll to the Music Quality category. Here you will find the Streaming subcategory that has a dropdown menu. Open the dropdown menu and choose appropriately. The automatic option means streaming quality will vary continuously to accommodate your internet connection speeds.

To change the quality of the downloads, navigate to the Download subcategory under Music Quality. Next, open the dropdown menu and choose from the three available options.

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3. Normalizing the Volume

This option allows you to have the same volume levels for all music thus eliminating volume differences among songs. To do this, open the Spotify settings and scroll down to the Normalize volume category and toggle the gray dial to activate this option.

Notice that the previously grayed out Volume level section directly below is now active. Open the dropdown menu and choose according to the type of music you are listening to. For example, you may use Quiet for RnB, and Loud for Rock music.

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4. Spotify Crossfade Settings

This is a technique in audio engineering that fills in for the silent moment between two songs. Crossfading creates smooth transitions from one track to another where the current song fades out as the next one fades in.

On the Spotify settings page, scroll down to the Crossfade setting and use the sliding dial to choose how long your music will crossfade for. You can choose anything from 0 to 12 seconds,

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5. Gapless Playback

This feature makes for a seamless flow of tracks on your playlist from one song to the next without silence in between. This is different from crossfade as songs will just connect and the next song will not start playing before the current one is finished.

Spotify believes that this is a perfect feature for fans of live recordings and classical music. Enable this feature by scrolling down to Gapless in the settings page and sliding the gray dial to the right.

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6. Spotify Automix Settings

Automix is an artificial intelligence feature that blends tracks by crossfading songs, skipping intros/outros, and even looping some end sections of a song to offer a smoother transition between songs.

This feature even adds transition effects on some playlists. To enable Automix, open the settings page, scroll to the Automix section and toggle the dial to turn it on.

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7. Data Saver

This feature does the following:

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• When set to ON, the music streaming rate over mobile data will automatically be capped at 24 kbps.
• Only mobile/cellular data is affected, meaning when connected to a WiFi network, streaming will be as per your normal MUSIC QUALITY settings, up to 320 kbps.

To turn Data Saver on, go to the settings page, it should be the first item on the page and simply slide the dial to the right.

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Now that you understand what each of these settings does, you are able to customize your Spotify musical experience. Share with us your views and experiences with these features in the comments section below.

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