What we store about you, who sees it, and how to delete it. Last changed 13 November 2026.
Without an account
Listening needs no account, and we don't track you: no analytics, no ads, no tracking cookies. Your last area, days and filter ticks are remembered only in your own browser. Thumbs up are counted per band, not per person.
Your browser loads a few things directly from other sites, which see your IP address as with any web page: the map tiles (OpenStreetMap), the font (Google Fonts), and the songs themselves (Bandcamp, Subvert, or wherever a poster's audio files are hosted).
With an account
- Your email address signs you in and lets us write to you about your account. Other users never see it; our admins do.
- Your name, if you give one, is shown with what you post, defend, dispute and comment, along with your roles, reputation and points.
- Roles and verification: the band, venue or organizer roles you tick, and what you gave us to check them (a page link, your venue's address or email domain).
- What you add: the concerts you post, your defends, disputes and comments, the genres and music fixes you suggest, and the "Play low confidence events too" setting.
- One cookie keeps you signed in on that device, for up to 180 days or until you sign out.
Comments leave the site 30 days after they're written; defends and disputes once the concert is more than 30 days past. They then go to a private archive our admins can read, kept for up to a year.
If you ask us to take songs down as a rights holder, we keep your request (name, email, what you told us) as the record of why the songs went.
Who handles it for us
- Render runs the site, in Frankfurt.
- Neon holds the database, in Frankfurt (AWS eu-central-1).
- Google Cloud Storage holds the concert lists and the archive.
- Amazon SES sends our emails, from Frankfurt.
- Cloudflare runs our domain and forwards mail sent to it.
We don't sell or share your data with anyone else.
Deleting your account
At the bottom of your account page, choose Delete my account; we email you a link to confirm. We then remove your email address, name, roles (including any verification), settings, API keys, and your band or venue ownership, and sign you out everywhere.
What you gave the community stays, shown as from a former member: your concerts, defends, disputes and comments, so other people's scores don't change. Archive files already written keep your address until they expire, within a year. You can register again later with the same address, as a new account.
Questions
Write to giffyworks@gmail.com to ask what we hold about you, to have something corrected, or about anything on this page.