Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy explains what information Pixanami Indie Music Blog ("we," "our," or "us") collects when you visit pixanami.com (the "Site"), how we use it, and the choices you have. The short version: we collect very little, we don't sell it, and we don't use advertising or tracking cookies.
1. Information you give us
We only collect personal information that you choose to send us through the forms on the Site:
- Contact form: your email address, your message, and your first and last name if you choose to include them.
- Mailing list: your email address.
- Music submissions: a link to a song, an artist name, a song title and your email address.
- Guestbook: the name you sign with, your message, and, if you choose to add them, where you're from, your website and what you're listening to. The guestbook doesn't ask for an email address.
Names, email addresses and messages from the contact form and mailing list, and email addresses from music submissions, are encrypted before they're stored.
2. Information collected automatically
- Privacy-friendly analytics: we use our own self-hosted analytics, which doesn't use cookies. When you load a page it records the page address, the time, your browser's user agent (browser and device type) and the referring page. Your IP address is used to estimate your country and region, and is anonymized before it's stored (for example, the last part of an IPv4 address is removed). Visitors are counted using a hash that changes every day, so visits can't be tied together across days. If your browser sends a Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signal, you aren't tracked at all. Analytics records are deleted automatically after about 13 months.
- Server logs: like most websites, our web server keeps standard access logs (IP address, time, page requested and browser information) to keep the Site running and secure. These are kept for a limited time and then deleted automatically.
- Spam and abuse prevention: your IP address is used briefly, in memory only, to limit how many times a form can be submitted. It isn't saved for this purpose.
3. How we use your information
- To read and reply to messages you send us.
- To send you an email confirming we received your message, mailing list signup or music submission.
- To send mailing list updates about new posts, if you subscribed.
- To show guestbook entries on the guestbook page. Everything you enter in the guestbook is public once we approve it.
- To listen to and consider music submissions, and to contact you about your submission. If we feature a submitted song, the artist name, song title and link may appear in a published post. Your email address is never published or added to the mailing list.
- To understand which pages are useful, and to keep the Site secure and free of spam.
We do not sell, rent or trade your personal information, and we don't share it with advertisers.
4. Cookies
The Site doesn't set any cookies for visitors. The only cookie we use is a login cookie for the site's administrators, which is set only when an administrator signs in.
If you choose a different look for the Site with the "skin" buttons at the bottom of the page, your choice is saved in your browser's local storage so it sticks between visits. It stays on your device and is never sent to us.
5. Third-party services
- Hosting: the Site runs on servers we manage, hosted by a cloud provider. Your information is stored on those servers.
- Email delivery: emails we send you (confirmations and mailing list updates) are delivered through Amazon Simple Email Service, which handles your email address and the email's contents to deliver it.
- Script library: the Site loads one JavaScript library (htmx) from the unpkg.com content delivery network. As with any website, that service receives your IP address and browser information when your browser downloads the file.
- Embedded media: some posts include players from services such as YouTube, Vimeo, TikTok, Twitch, Spotify, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Apple Music, Mixcloud and Audiomack. Video players don't load until you click to play them; YouTube videos play from its reduced-tracking domain (youtube-nocookie.com). Audio players load with the page. Once a player loads, that service receives your IP address and browser information and may set its own cookies, under its own privacy policy.
- External links: posts link to outside sites such as Bandcamp, SoundCloud, YouTube and Spotify. Images shown on the Site are stored on our own servers, not loaded from other sites. Once you follow a link off the Site, the other site's privacy policy applies, and we aren't responsible for its practices.
6. How long we keep information
- Contact form messages are kept until we delete them.
- Mailing list addresses are kept until you unsubscribe or ask to be removed.
- Music submissions are kept so we can keep track of what we've heard. Ask us if you'd like a submission removed.
- Guestbook entries are kept, and approved ones stay public, until we remove them. Ask us if you'd like your entry taken down.
- Analytics records and server logs are deleted automatically as described above.
7. Your choices and rights
You can ask us to show you, correct or delete the personal information we hold about you, or to remove you from the mailing list, at any time. Just send a request through our contact form. Mailing list emails will also include a way to unsubscribe.
8. Security
The Site is served over HTTPS, and contact, mailing list and submission information is encrypted at rest. No method of storing or sending data over the internet is completely secure, but we work to protect the information you share with us.
9. Children's privacy
The Site is intended for people 13 and older. We don't knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you're under 13, please don't send us any personal information. If we learn that a child under 13 has sent us personal information, we'll delete it. If you believe this has happened, please let us know through the contact form.
10. Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we'll change the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.
11. Contact us
Questions about this Privacy Policy or your information? Reach us through our contact form.