Records On Ribs is committed to keeping as little as possible information about people downloading, sharing and listening to our music. The personal data we do handle is to enable us to continue providing Creative Commons music and enabling as many listeners as possible to find out about it. We will never pass information onto third parties or sell your information onward.

Personal Information We Collect

  • Logging systems – we use a web server (Nginx) and a reverse proxy (Varnish) to host this website that logs IP addresses, as is the case with all websites. From those IP addresses we could derive geographic information like your location. We can also make inferences on your behaviour on this site – what pages you visited and in what order. We also use Amazon Web Services, particularly S3 and CloudFront to host our downloads. This also takes logs which can identify you through your IP address.
  • Google Analytics – we use Google Analytics. Though this data is anonymised you may be including in demographic and location categories provided in the Google Analytics interface. Your presence on certain pages of the site is recorded, as well as your path through those pages.
  • Your name, email address and mailing address if you make a purchase or a donation on this website. This is all obtained through PayPal, which is our payments provider.
  • You email address if you decide to sign up to our mailing list. We use MailChimp so we are also able if you open the email and if you click any of the links.

Please note if you listen to Records On Ribs music through streaming or downloading platforms onto which we distribute our music (for example: Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, YouTube) these platforms may be collecting further information about you. Please refer to the Privacy Policy of each of these platforms to understand what.

How We Use This Personal Information

  • We use data from logs on the rare occasion that we need to debug this site in order to find problems. In the general case we would not make any effort to tie an IP address to a location unless this IP address was involved in vexatious activity.
  • We use the data from Google Analytics to understand how users use the site and to make improvements to it based on this data.
  • We use logs from S3 and CloudFront from Amazon Web Services (AWS) to work out how many people are downloading our releases over time and where roughly they come from geographically, which is derived from their IP address. This is provided by a third party service called S3Stat which takes in AWS logs and provides a dashboard with this information.
  • We use your email address to send you email updates from Records On Ribs.
  • We use your opening and clicks from our marketing emails to establish how effective these emails have been and try to hone the messages more appropriately.

The Legal Basis For Using This Personal Information

Legitimate Interest – We believe we have a legitmate interest in using your data to understand roughly who is listening to or downloading Records On Ribs releases, where they are located and their rough demographic match. This enables us to better understand our audience and tailor marketing activity and press relations to that audience. In the end we hope this allows more people to listen to our music who would like to. It is also exciting for our artists to learn how far their music has gone.

Consent – In the case of signing up to our mailing list your explicit consent to be emailed by Records On Ribs is obtained through a two stage process facilitated by MailChimp.

Contract – If you purchase something from Records On Ribs then we use your personal data in order to send that purchase to you. This may be of interest to our artists to know their work is being sent to a particular location, but we do not process this data electronically. If you make a donation to Records On Ribs we may use this to thank you for your donation but do not use it further, outside of the marketing purposes outlined below.

Disclosure

In order to make Records On Ribs run we employ the following services to process your personal data noted above.

  • Google – by using Google Analytics we disclose the above noted personal information with Google Analytics. Google Analytics are fully GDPR compliant.
  • MailChimp – your information that is provide for signing up to our mailing list is used by MailChimp. MailChimp themselves are exhaustively GDPR compliant.
  • PayPal – we use PayPal to process payments to Records On Ribs in the form of donations and purchases. PayPal are themselves fully GDPR compliant.
  • Amazon Web Services – logs for downloads are hosted in S3 buckets on Amazon Web Services (AWS) meaning your IP address is on their servers but not accessable from the outside world. AWS are GDPR ready.
  • S3Stat – the logs taken by Amazon Web Services for downloads via S3 and the CloudFront are processed by S3Stat to provide information on downloads from this site. They remain in the S3 buckets hosted by Amazon Web Services, yet are handled by S3Stat which is GDPR complaint.

Marketing

Our email list is an occasional marketing email sent to inform subscribers of new releases, artist news or other Records On Ribs events of interest. This service is provided by MailChimp who are themselves entirely GDPR compliant.

We add people to the mailing list on two legal bases. Either their consent, in the case that they signed up to our mailing list directly via our website and hit the sign up button on the email they subsequently received. Or through legitimate interest on your behalf. If you have downloaded a release from one of our third party download sites (like Bandcamp), purchased or donated to Records On Ribs we consider it to be legitimately interesting to you to receive this information.

You are welcome to unsubscribe at any time and if you wish to do so it is a single click process.

Security

The majority of personal data held by Records On Ribs is held by third parties and we choose best in class providers who will keep your data secured. Our own websites are secured to the best of our ability. In the case of a breach in either these third party providers or on Records On Ribs servers themselves where personal data is accessed we will inform you immediately.

Retention

We retain your email on our mailing list as long as you do not unsubscribe, at which point we delete it. You retain other information as long as third party services like Google, PayPal and S3Stat retain them. For example Google Analytics stores the anonymised data it collects for fifty months. However we endevour to clean up these services or re-seek consent every three years.

If you wish to see the data Records On Ribs has on you and have it corrected, updated or deleted please email hello@recordsonribs.com and we will process your request within the legally mandated timeframes.

Changes To This Policy

Changes to this policy will be sent to our email list and this page on our website will be updated.

Contacting Us

For further information on our privacy policy please contact hello@recordsonribs.com

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