Privacy Policy
Privacy Policy for IndieMusic.News
1. Introduction
Welcome to IndieMusic.News. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal information. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your data when you1 visit our website. By using indiemusic.news, you consent to the practices described in this policy.
2. Who We Are
Our website address is: https://indiemusic.news. We are dedicated to providing you with the latest news and information about independent music.
3. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to enhance your experience and improve our services:
- Comments: When visitors leave comments, we collect the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address, and browser user agent string to aid in spam detection.
- Media: If you upload images, please avoid including embedded location data (EXIF GPS). Visitors can download and extract this data from images on the website.
- Cookies: We use cookies to enhance user experience and for website functionality.
- Comment cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one2 year.
- Login cookies: A temporary cookie is set to determine if your browser accepts cookies. Upon login, we set cookies to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for one year. Selecting “Remember Me” extends login persistence to two weeks. Login cookies are removed upon logout.
- Post editing cookies: When you edit or publish an article, a cookie indicating the post ID is saved, expiring after one day.
- Embedded Content: Articles may include embedded content (videos, images, etc.) from other websites. These websites may collect data, use cookies, and track your interaction. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of these external sites.
- Registration Information: If you register on our site, we store the personal information provided in your user profile.
4. How We Use Your Information
We use your information for the following purposes:
- To manage and display comments.
- To improve website functionality and user experience.
- To prevent spam and ensure website security.
- To personalise your experience when you are logged in.
- To allow you to log in and use the website functionality.
5. Sharing Your Data
- Gravatar: An anonymized string from your email address may be provided to the Gravatar service to display your profile picture. The Gravatar privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/.
- Password Resets: If you request a password reset, your IP address is included in the reset email.
- Third-Party Embeds: Embedded content from other websites may involve sharing data with those websites, according to their respective privacy policies.
- Spam Detection: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties.
6. Data Retention
- Comments and metadata are retained indefinitely to automatically approve follow-up comments.
- User profile information is stored for registered users,3 who can see, edit, or delete their data (except usernames). Administrators can also access this data.
7. Your Rights
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Access: You can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about4 you.
- Erasure: You can request that we erase your personal data, except for data we must retain for legal or security purposes.
- To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@indiemusic.news.
8. Data Security
We implement security measures to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, or destruction. However, no internet5 transmission is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.6
9. Embedded Content from Other Websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction7 with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.8
10. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new9 policy on this page. Your continued use of the website after any changes10 constitutes acceptance of the new policy.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at: info@indiemusic.news or through our contact page.
