Privacy

Last changed 11 November 2026

Chordhalla sets no cookies, and accounts are optional: one only keeps your licence key for you. You can use all of it without telling us who you are. Your settings stay in your own browser. With the full version, the sheets and sets you save are kept online for you as well, under a code made from your licence, which stays the same if you replace the key.

Who we are

Chordhalla is made by Pyrokinesis Ltd, a company in New Zealand. If you have a question about this page, or about anything we hold about you, write to contact@chordhalla.com.

What stays in your browser

So that you do not have to set things up on every visit, the site keeps a few things in your browser’s own storage:

• the instrument, tuning and capo you last used;
• how you like chords shown and heard: fingers or intervals, cards or a list, left-handed or not, the fretboard they are drawn on, which strings and voicings, which guitar sound and how quickly it strums, and the site’s look;
• with the full version, your settings: the instrument pages open on and what new sheets start with;
• tunings you have saved, the styles you save for chord charts, and the course pack you are putting together (its title and which sheets);
• the chords you looked at most recently, and your last search;
• the chord progression you are working on, and the ones you save in the builder;
• the chord chart you are making in the chord chart maker, the sets of chords you save there (and, once there is a full version, whether you have it);
• the practice sheet you are making in the practice sheet maker (its scales and notes, and the colours of its necks), the sets of colours you save for necks, and the key, scale and position it last showed you; how you set its player and metronome (sounds, click patterns, training); and a log of what you practised there: the day, what it was, for how long and at what tempos (kept online with your key too when you have the full version, as below);
• with the song maker: your songs (their parts, chords, strums, lead lines, words and notes), your set lists, the song structures and parts you save, the part you last copied, and earlier versions of each song, so that you can go back to one; and, for a moment in that tab only, the chords you send to a song from the Library or the chord chart maker, on their way there;
• with the song maker, only if you choose to keep them: the recordings you make of yourself playing along (“Keep my takes on this device”) and an audio file you choose to play along with (“Remember it on this device”). The tuner and Record yourself use your microphone only while they are on, after your browser asks you, and what they hear is never sent to us or to anyone else;
• the paper and the look you choose for the printable chord charts and the chord book (A4 or US Letter, dark or white), and how many chords the chord book has on each page;
• your scores in the chord change trainer: for each pair of chords, your best and your last thirty, with their dates;
• the steps you tick as done on the Learn pages;
• your scores in the find-the-note game: for each setting, your best and your last thirty, with their dates;
• with the tuner, the pitch of A it tunes to, if you change it, and whether it shows a meter or a strobe. The tuner uses your microphone only while it is on, after your browser asks you, and what it hears is never kept, nor sent to us or to anyone else;
• how you set the metronome, and the styles you save in it; and any click sounds you add to it from your own files: those files are kept whole in this browser so that they can be played, and are never sent to us or to anyone else;
• shapes the site has already worked out, so that pages open faster.

None of this is sent to us or to anyone else. It is not a cookie, and no other website can read it. (A progression’s link carries its chords in the address itself, so whoever you give the link to can open it; nothing is stored anywhere to make that work. A metronome style shared by link is the same: its beats, tempo and name are written in the address.) Clearing this site’s data in your browser removes all of it. In a private window nothing is kept once you close it.

What other computers see

Showing you a web page means your browser has to ask a computer for it. These are all the computers the site asks:

• The one that serves Chordhalla, the lettering included. They are run by Cloudflare. Like every web server, they see your internet address, which page you asked for, and what kind of browser you use, and keep a short record of this to keep the service running and safe. We do not use that record to work out who you are.
• Counting visits. We count how many times each page is opened, using Cloudflare Web Analytics. It sets no cookie and does not tell us who you are.

That is the whole list. There is no advertising on the site, and nothing that follows you from one website to another. The sound you hear is made in your browser. Chords are worked out in your browser too: what you search for is not sent anywhere.

The full version

The full version is sold through Polar, who take the payment, send the receipt, handle the tax and email you a licence key. We never see your card. An account with us is optional (see Signing in below).

• The key: when you paste it in, your browser sends it to Polar to check it, and does so again about once a week so that a refunded key stops working. Polar sees the key, your internet address and what kind of browser you use; it tells your browser the email address the key was bought with, which is shown only to you.
• Your sheets, sets and settings: the sheets (chord charts and practice sheets) and sets you save, the settings on your page, the practice sheet maker's metronome settings and your practice log (what you practised, when, for how long and at what tempos, noted separately for each browser so the time adds up), are kept online as well as in your browser, in a database run by Cloudflare for us alone, so they are there in every browser where you enter your key. With them we keep a code made from your key and one made from Polar's record of your licence (not the key: neither code can be turned back into it), when each was saved, and nothing else about you. Your browser sends the key with each of these requests so that the service knows they are yours, and the service checks the key with Polar about once an hour, so a key that is replaced or refunded stops working.
• Live sheets: a sheet you publish can be opened by anyone with its link or its QR code; search engines are asked not to list it. We count how many times each one is opened, as a number only, and keep nothing about who opened it. When you stop sharing, the link says the sheet is no longer shared; when you delete the sheet, what it showed is deleted too.
• Your songs: with the full version, the songs you make in the song maker, and the parts you keep with Save part, are kept online too, the same way and under the same one-way code, so that they are on each device you use your key in. Your recordings and audio files are not: they stay in the browser that made them.
• Shared songs: a song you share by a short link can be opened by anyone with the link or its QR code; search engines are asked not to list it. The link shows only what you chose (your words and notes are left out unless you tick them), we count how many times it is opened as a number only, and when you stop sharing it or delete the song, its copy is wiped. A link with the song written into it is never sent to us at all.
• Deleting: delete a sheet or a set on your page, or a song in the song maker, and it is gone from the service straight away (a song deleted while your key is not in that browser, or with no connection, goes the next time it is). To have everything kept under your key deleted, write to contact@chordhalla.com. Export writes your sheets and sets to a file on your computer, as a copy of your own.

Signing in

An account is optional. It keeps your licence key for you, so that signing in, in any browser, turns the full version on without finding and pasting the key. You sign in with a six-digit code emailed to you, or with Google or Apple: there is no password.

• What we keep: your email address; if you use Google or Apple, the number it gives your account (not your password, contacts or anything else); your licence key, encrypted; when the account was made and last used. Sign-in codes and sessions are kept only as one-way codes: a code for ten minutes, a session for up to 180 days.
• Where: in a database run by Cloudflare, for us alone.
• In your browser: signing in keeps a random sign-in token in this site's storage in your browser (not a cookie). It says nothing about you. Signing out removes it, and takes the key out of that browser too.
• Email: the codes are sent through Resend, which sees the address they go to.
• Google and Apple: when you sign in with one of them, it knows you signed in to Chordhalla, and tells us your email address and whether it is checked. With Apple you can hide your real address; you then add your key once by hand.
• Your key, found for you: when your account has no key yet, we ask Polar for one bought with your account or your checked email address. Buy while signed in and the purchase is tied to your account.
• Leaving: Delete my account, on the sign-in page when you are signed in, deletes the account and the key kept with it at once. The full version stays yours: the key still works pasted in by hand, and your sheets and songs stay with it.

Messages you send us

The Contact page sends us what you write, the kind of message you picked, the page on this site you came from, and your email address if you give one. They are kept in a database run by Cloudflare for us alone. We read them to improve the site and to answer you, and use your email address for nothing else. Ask, and we delete what you sent.

Your rights

You can ask us what we hold about you, and ask us to correct it or remove it. Because the site has no accounts and gathers nothing, the answer will almost always be: nothing. Write to contact@chordhalla.com and we will answer within 20 working days.

These rights come from New Zealand’s Privacy Act 2020 and, if you live in the European Union or the United Kingdom, from the data protection law there (the GDPR). If you are unhappy with our answer you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner in New Zealand, or to the data protection authority where you live.

Children

Chordhalla is made for people learning to play, of any age. It gathers nothing about anyone, so there is nothing about children for us to hold.

When this page changes

If the site starts doing something new with information, such as accounts for saving your work, this page will say so before it happens, and the date at the top will change.