I bet you expected a page full of legalese. The following is everything I know about data collection that I can’t avoid doing here for various reasons, and what I intend to do with it. (Spoiler: nothing. Except sending you little notes about new music.)
- I pledge to never sell or share your email address, or for that matter, any other data connected to you that this website incidentally collects.
- I hate tracking as much as you do. Actually, based on my conversations around the subject with friends, I’d guess that I probably hate it quite a lot more than you do. I think it has turned most of the web into complete garbage. Therefore, I don’t intentionally put code that engages in tracking on my websites or in my newsletters.
- That “intentional” part is important. I’m a musician with limited technical skills and a finite budget, not a backend web designer. I’m obliged to use off-the-shelf code at the lowest cost available, so something is likely to sneak by my offended nostrils at some point. I’d ask that you just send me an email if you learn about something tracking you without my knowledge, and I will see if it can be switched off somehow.
- All that said: some information inevitably must be collected, because of how the internet works. When you download my tracks, for example, I can’t help but see your IP address. That’s going to pop up on a dashboard somewhere in here and it’ll hang out there for 30 days or whatever. Personally I think this sucks, and that’s why I use a VPN everywhere I go, and you should too.
- Finally I have to address the issue of embedded content, which is absolutely the most annoying thing here. Unfortunately, it is not possible for me right now to host my videos and DJ sets right here on my own (rented) server. That means I have to use YouTube and SoundCloud for now, and in order for those things to be collected here in one convenient place for your enjoyment, I have to open up these cute little portals to my work on those sites. Unfortunately, those cute little portals engage in precisely all of the surveillance-capitalism bullshit that the full sites on the other side also do. For now, I’m guessing you use both sites anyway and therefore don’t care much about this fact, so I’ll continue to use those services for our mutual convenience. (But let me know if I’m wrong.) I’d also highly recommend that you protect yourself against this kind of crap by using a web browser with robust ad blocking and tracking protection in addition to a VPN. Like I said above: these things have turned most of the web into a pile of steaming garbage, not unlike an endless strip mall featuring one major chain after another, on infinite shuffle.
So that is my combined privacy policy and privacy manifesto. I hope you found it instructive and entertaining. And thank you so much for signing up to the newsletter. I’m looking forward to sharing my music with you!
Sincerely,
BABY TIGER