TIDAL is a paid, subscription-only, no-ads music-streaming app owned by Block, Inc. (NYSE: XYZ), the public payments company formerly known as Square. Block's FY2025 Form 10-K describes a "TIDAL Ecosystem" as one of its three consumer-facing businesses alongside Square and Cash App, but Exhibit 21 (Subsidiaries) does not name TIDAL's specific legal entity, stating that non-major subsidiaries are omitted as not individually significant. TIDAL's own tidal.com domain (privacy policy, cookie policy, and support pages) is fronted by a bot-blocking service (Datadome) that returned a CAPTCHA challenge to both a live fetch and the only available 2026 Wayback Machine snapshot, so this draft relies on TIDAL's Apple App Store privacy label and Block's SEC filings rather than TIDAL's privacy policy text directly. The App Store label discloses that TIDAL collects location, contact info (email), search history, identifiers (including device ID), usage data, and diagnostics, linked to the user's identity, for purposes including the developer's own advertising/marketing, analytics, product personalization, and app functionality — but the label does not declare a "Data Used to Track You" category, unlike several ad-supported streaming peers. No TIDAL-specific privacy enforcement action, breach, or settlement was found in Block's FY2025 10-K or during drafting.
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TIDAL's Apple App Store privacy label, as disclosed by the developer "TIDAL Music AS," states that data collected and linked to the user's identity may be used for several purposes, and the label lists Location, Contact Info (Email Address), Search History, Identifiers (Device ID, User ID), Usage Data (Product Interaction), Diagnostics (Crash Data, Performance Data), and Other Data as categories linked to identity.
Block, Inc.'s Form 10-K for the fiscal year ended December 31, 2025 describes a "TIDAL Ecosystem" as one of the company's core businesses, alongside its Square and Cash App ecosystems, stating that TIDAL is a global platform for musicians and fans with more than 250 million songs, directly documenting TIDAL's ownership by the publicly traded parent.
Exhibit 21.1 to Block, Inc.'s FY2025 Form 10-K, "Major Subsidiaries of Block, Inc.," lists eleven named subsidiaries (including Afterpay and Square entities) but does not name a TIDAL-specific legal entity, stating that the names of other subsidiaries are omitted from the exhibit because they would not constitute a significant subsidiary in the aggregate.
TIDAL's App Store privacy label's full set of declared purpose identifiers is limited to DEVELOPERS_ADVERTISING, ANALYTICS, PRODUCT_PERSONALIZATION, and APP_FUNCTIONALITY (plus the DIAGNOSTICS/OTHER data categories); Apple's privacy-label taxonomy includes a separate "Data Used to Track You" category for cross-app/cross-site ad-network tracking, which does not appear anywhere in TIDAL's label, unlike several ad-supported streaming peers whose labels explicitly declare it.
Block, Inc.'s FY2025 Form 10-K risk factors disclose that the company (whose businesses per the same filing include the TIDAL Ecosystem) is subject to the EU's General Data Protection Regulation and UK equivalent, which "impose stringent privacy and data protection requirements and provide for greater penalties for noncompliance of up to the greater of 4% of worldwide annual revenue or €20 million or £17.5 million"; the filing discloses no TIDAL-specific enforcement action, breach, or settlement.
TIDAL's App Store privacy label groups the identity-linked data it collects under four disclosed purposes: "Developer's Advertising or Marketing" (using Contact Info/Email and Identifiers/Device ID), "Analytics" (using Search History, Identifiers/User ID, and Usage Data), "Product Personalization," and "App Functionality" — all first-party developer purposes rather than third-party ad-network sharing.