Privacy

This is a small band website. It has no ads and no tracking, and it sets a cookie only if you sign in to comment. Here is everything it keeps about visitors.

Server logs

Like any web server, ours logs each request: the address it came from (IP), the browser, the time and the page or file asked for. The hosting keeps these logs only for a short time.

Most played

Once an hour, the plays of each song and video are counted from that log, one per visitor per song per day. The videos play from YouTube, so when you start one, your browser also fetches a tiny file from our server, only to put that play in the log. A visitor is kept only as a salted hash of IP address and browser for a few days, which cannot be turned back into an address. After that, only a number per song remains. The site shows only the bars, never the numbers, and shows no bars at all until there has been enough listening for the numbers not to be guessed from them.

Visitor statistics

We use GoatCounter, running on our own server, to see how many people visit the site, which pages they read, which songs and videos they start and which pictures they open. For each visit it records the page, the site you came from, your browser and screen size, and your country. Your IP address is used only to look up the country and to count a visit once; it is never stored, only a scrambled code that is replaced every few hours. It sets no cookies, and the numbers are seen only by the band.

Star ratings

When you rate a song or video, we store which one, your stars, the time and a salted hash of your IP address and browser, so that each visitor has one vote per song. Your IP address itself is not stored. The site shows only the average, as stars. Your browser also remembers your own votes (in its local storage, not a cookie) to show them to you; clearing your browser data removes that.

Comments

To comment on a song or video, you sign in with Google or Facebook. We only get your name, profile picture and an account number from them; we never see your password, and we do not ask for your email address. We store your comments with your name and picture, and the comment system runs on our own server. Your name, picture and comments are shown to everyone. You can read without signing in.

Signing in sets a cookie that keeps you signed in on this site. It is used for nothing else. It expires after about a week, and signing out removes it.

Removing your data

You can delete your own comments on the site. To have everything removed, your comments, name and picture, click your name above the comments and choose “Request deletion of my data”, then send us the link it gives you. You can also simply contact us and tell us which account you used. We also remove star ratings on request. Our backups are kept for two weeks, so removed data is gone from them within two weeks too.

To also cut the link to our site at your end, remove “Ketebarbo” in your Facebook settings under Apps and websites, or in your Google account under Third-party apps and services.

Videos

The videos come from YouTube, using its privacy-enhanced mode. Nothing is loaded from YouTube until you click a video; from then on, Google’s privacy policy applies.

Questions

If you have a question about your data, contact us.