Privacy

If you just read the site

Nothing about you is collected. The site counts page loads: for each page, how many times it was opened each day, and the website that sent the visit (Instagram, Google, and so on) as a single word. That count is all that is kept — no IP address, no browser details, nothing that tells one visitor from another, and nothing from a visitor is ever stored against them.

There are no analytics scripts, no tracking pixels, no advertising scripts and no third-party measurement of any kind — not Google Analytics, not anything else. The counting happens on this site’s own server; nothing runs in your browser to do it, and no cookie is set on your browser.

Album artwork and audio previews are loaded from Apple and Discogs, and a reel from Instagram if you press play on one, so those companies can see that a browser requested an image, a clip or a video, in the same way they can on any site that shows their content. That is between you and them; nothing about it comes back here.

If you write in through the contact form

Then the form stores what you typed, which is:

• your name and email address
• a label or company, and a link, if you filled those in
• your message
• the IP address the message came from, used only to stop the form being flooded

It is used to read your message and reply to it. It is not sold, not shared with anyone, not added to a mailing list, and there is no mailing list to add it to. It sits in a private database that only the site’s owner can read.

If you want it deleted, say so in a reply and it will be — there is no process to go through, it is one person deleting a row.

If you mark a wish-list record as a gift

The record comes off the public wish list so nobody else buys it, and the site keeps:

• which record it was, and when
• your name and a note, only if you typed them in — both are optional
• for one day, a scrambled code made from your connection (not the address itself), used only to stop one person marking the whole list — then it is deleted

Only the site’s owner sees any of it, so they know what is coming and who to thank. Once the record has arrived and they have said thanks, your name and note are deleted too.

Cookies

One, and only for the owner: signing in to manage the collection sets a signed cookie so the session is remembered. If you are not signing in, you never receive it.

Where it is kept

The site runs on Vercel and its data is in a Neon Postgres database, both in the United States. Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Discogs and Apple Music supply the numbers and artwork the site displays about the collection itself.

Changes

If what the site collects changes, this page changes with it. It describes the code as it stands rather than reserving rights for things the site does not do.

Asking

Use the contact form. It reaches one person, which is the entire privacy team.