Last updated: August 21, 2026

Relay Radio ("Relay Radio," "Relay," "we," "us," or "our") uses cookies, browser storage, and similar technologies to keep Relay-Radio.com working, remember useful choices, understand website usage, support advertising, and provide optional third-party features.

This policy explains those technologies in plain language and describes the choices available to you.

What Cookies and Browser Storage Are

Cookies are small pieces of information that a website or service can store in your browser.

Relay also uses browser features such as local storage and session storage. Local storage can remain on your device until it is cleared or replaced, while session storage is generally temporary and ends when the applicable browser tab or session ends.

Some third-party services used by Relay may also use cookies, local storage, advertising identifiers, or similar technologies when their services are allowed to load.

Storage Relay Uses

Relay uses browser storage for website operation and features you choose to use. Examples include:

• Sessions and sign-in: Relay uses session information to keep the website and account features working. If a staff member or listener chooses a remember-me option, Relay may use additional cookies to keep that account signed in for about 30 days.
• Guest nickname: The shoutbox can remember a guest nickname in a browser cookie so it does not have to be re-entered each time. The current cookie can remain for up to about 300 days unless it is cleared sooner.
• Player and listening preferences: Browser storage may remember choices such as stream quality, player volume, and volume for recorded shows or podcast-style audio.
• Requests and community features: Relay may save request-status tokens, a requester nickname, or similar feature information in your browser so the site can recognize your own recent activity without requiring an account.
• Voice clips: When a voice clip is submitted, Relay may store a delete token in the submitting browser so that browser can later remove the clip.
• DJ alerts and Web Push: Relay may store whether you enabled DJ alerts, related push-notification preferences, and feature state needed to keep those choices working. Browser notification permission itself is controlled by your browser.
• Convenience and temporary caches: Relay may store recently used emoji and temporary album-art, playlist, or other interface information to make repeat visits and page updates smoother.

Some of this storage is necessary for requested website functions to work correctly. Other storage supports preferences or optional features that you choose to use.

Google Analytics

Relay uses Google Analytics to understand general website traffic and how visitors use Relay-Radio.com.

Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies and may receive information such as:

• browser and device information;
• pages or features used;
• approximate location derived from network information;
• referring pages;
• interaction and usage information; and
• technical information about your visit.

Where required by applicable law or Relay's privacy controls, analytics storage may depend on your consent choices.

Analytics information is used to help Relay understand website usage, identify problems, and improve the site and its features.

Google AdSense and Advertising

Relay uses Google AdSense to display advertising that helps support the website.

Google and advertising providers participating in Google's advertising systems may use cookies, browser storage, advertising identifiers, IP addresses, or similar technologies for purposes such as:

• selecting and displaying advertisements;
• measuring advertisement performance;
• limiting how often an advertisement is shown;
• detecting invalid traffic, fraud, or abuse;
• producing aggregated advertising reports; and
• where permitted, personalizing advertisements.

Depending on your location, consent choices, and Google's advertising settings, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.

Personalized advertising may use information associated with your browser, device, activity, or interests to help determine which advertisements are shown.

Non-personalized advertising does not use past behavior for ad personalization, but Google or participating advertising providers may still use cookies or similar technologies for purposes such as frequency capping, security, fraud prevention, and aggregated advertising reporting.

Advertising and Privacy Choices

Visitors in some locations may be shown additional privacy controls before certain advertising or analytics technologies are used.

For visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland, Relay may use a Google-certified consent management platform to collect and communicate choices regarding cookies, browser storage, personalized advertising, analytics, and related data processing.

Visitors in certain U.S. states may also be provided with controls relating to the sale or sharing of personal information, targeted advertising, or similar rights where required by applicable law.

The exact choices displayed may differ depending on your location and applicable privacy requirements.

Where a privacy or cookie settings control is available on Relay, you may use it to review or change eligible choices.

Third-Party Services and Embedded Content

Some Relay pages or features may communicate with outside providers when their services are loaded or used.

These may include:

• Google AdSense for advertising;
• Google Analytics for website usage statistics;
• YouTube for video, live video, or live chat;
• Google-hosted website resources;
• PayPal for donations;
• Brevo for newsletter-related services;
• AzuraCast-powered services for radio streaming and related station functions; and
• other services identified in Relay's Privacy Policy.

These providers may use their own cookies, browser storage, or similar technologies according to their own policies.

Optional embedded services such as YouTube may not function normally if the storage or third-party access they require is declined or blocked.

Following an external link, such as a Lyrics link or a link to a social network, takes you to a separate website whose cookies and privacy practices are controlled by that site's operator rather than Relay.

Necessary and Optional Storage

Some cookies or browser-storage items are necessary to provide functions that you specifically request, such as maintaining a signed-in session, remembering security information, processing a request, or maintaining feature state.

Blocking or deleting necessary storage may cause sign-in, requests, account features, preferences, or other parts of Relay Radio to stop working correctly.

Other technologies, particularly those associated with analytics, advertising, or optional third-party content, may be subject to additional privacy choices depending on your location and applicable law.

Declining optional technologies should not prevent you from accessing Relay's basic website and radio-streaming functions, although certain optional features, embeds, advertising, preferences, or measurement functions may be unavailable or operate differently.

How Long Browser Storage Lasts

Different items remain for different periods.

• Session storage is generally temporary.
• Local storage generally remains until Relay replaces or removes it, a feature cleans it up, or you clear it in your browser.
• Remember-me account cookies are generally set for about 30 days.
• Remembered guest-nickname cookies may remain for up to about 300 days.
• Other Relay feature storage may remain until it expires, is replaced, is no longer required, or is manually cleared.

Third-party providers such as Google control the duration of their own cookies, identifiers, and storage according to their systems, settings, and privacy policies.

Your Choices

You can control cookies and browser storage in several ways.

You may:

• use Relay's privacy or consent controls when they are presented;
• decline eligible optional technologies where that choice is offered;
• change previously selected privacy choices where supported;
• clear cookies, local storage, and site data through your browser;
• configure your browser to block certain cookies or third-party storage;
• choose not to use remember-me options;
• disable browser notifications;
• avoid optional third-party features or embedded content; and
• manage certain advertising preferences through Google's own privacy and advertising controls.

Browser settings vary, and blocking all cookies or browser storage may interfere with functions that rely on them.

Changes to This Policy

Relay may update this Cookie & Storage Policy as website features, advertising practices, third-party providers, browser technologies, or privacy requirements change.

The current version will be posted on this page with its last-updated date.