Privacy Policy
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The short version
This site collects as little as it can. No advertising, no tracking cookies, no selling of data. We only store what you type into a form, so we can reply or send you what you asked for, plus anonymous visit statistics that never store your IP address.
Who is responsible
The controller for the personal data on this site is:
ØBLIVION[email protected]
Questions about your data, or a request to see or delete it: email us at the address above.
What we collect, why, and for how long
Filling in a form is always voluntary. Without an email address we simply can't reply.
Contact, booking, press and service inquiries
- What
- Your name, email address, the type of inquiry, your message and any details you add (such as venue, event date, outlet or deadline). If we reply, a copy of that reply.
- Why
- To answer you and handle your request, for example a booking or a project quote.
- Legal basis
- Taking steps at your request before a possible agreement (GDPR art. 6(1)(b)); for general messages, our legitimate interest in answering the people who write to us (art. 6(1)(f)).
- Kept for
- 24 months after you sent it, then deleted automatically. Sooner if you ask.
Ticket alerts and release alerts
- What
- Your email address and which show or release you want to hear about.
- Why
- To tell you when tickets are available or the release is out.
- Legal basis
- Your consent (art. 6(1)(a)). You can withdraw it at any time by emailing us.
- Kept for
- 24 months after you signed up, then deleted automatically. Sooner if you withdraw.
Show requests
- What
- Your city, region or country, email address and optional message.
- Why
- To see where people want a show and to let you know if one comes to your area.
- Legal basis
- Our legitimate interest in planning shows where the fans are (art. 6(1)(f)).
- Kept for
- 24 months after you sent it, then deleted automatically.
Newsletter
- What
- Your email address, the date you signed up, where on the site you signed up, and the IP address you signed up from (as a record of your consent).
- Why
- To send you news about releases and shows.
- Legal basis
- Your consent (art. 6(1)(a)). Unsubscribe at any time by emailing us.
- Kept for
- As long as you are subscribed. Deleted 30 days after you unsubscribe.
Guest writers
- What
- If you write an article for us (through a private write link or a contributor account): your name as you want to be credited, an optional short bio, photo and links to your own profiles, the article and any images you add. Images are re-saved without location or camera data. For a contributor account also your email address, to send you sign-in links.
- Why
- To credit you as the author of your article and to review, edit and publish it.
- Legal basis
- Our agreement with you to publish your article (art. 6(1)(b)).
- Kept for
- Your credit stays with the article for as long as it is on the site; ask us and we remove or change it. Drafts you never send are deleted automatically 30 days after the write link expires. A contributor account is kept until you or we close it.
Visit statistics
- What
- The page you visit, the site you came from, campaign tags in the link, device type (mobile, tablet, desktop) and country. To count unique visitors per day we store a scrambled code made from your IP address and browser that changes every day; your IP address itself is never stored. No cookies are used for this.
- Why
- To understand which pages and links work, without following anyone across days or sites.
- Legal basis
- Our legitimate interest in running and improving the site (art. 6(1)(f)).
- Kept for
- 13 months, then deleted automatically.
Security
- What
- Your IP address and browser details while you browse (in our session store and in short-lived spam-protection counters), and the IP address of failed sign-in attempts on the admin area.
- Why
- To keep the site and its forms safe from abuse and break-in attempts.
- Legal basis
- Our legitimate interest in security (art. 6(1)(f)).
- Kept for
- Session data: until the session expires (about 2 hours). Spam counters: minutes. Failed sign-in logs: 30 days.
Anything we delete in our admin area is permanently removed after 30 days. We do not use your data for automated decisions or profiling.
Who else handles your data
We never sell your data. A few services process it for us, only to make the site work:
- Hosting. The site and its database run on a server we manage ourselves.
- Cloudflare sits in front of the site to deliver it quickly and block attacks. All traffic, including your IP address, passes through Cloudflare, which also tells us your country for the visit statistics. Cloudflare is a US company and may process data outside the EU; such transfers rely on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and the EU-US Data Privacy Framework.
- Email. Replies and notifications are sent through our email provider, which processes your email address and the message to deliver it.
- Spotify, SoundCloud and YouTube. Music players on this site load only after you click play. Until then nothing is sent to them. Once you click, that service receives your IP address and may set its own cookies, under its own privacy policy.
We may also share data when the law requires it.
Cookies and local storage
We only use what the site needs to work, so we don't ask for cookie consent. No advertising or tracking cookies.
- oblivion-session
- Cookie. Keeps forms working between clicks. Expires after about 2 hours.
- XSRF-TOKEN
- Cookie. Protects forms against forged submissions. Expires with the session.
- oblivion_write_…
- Cookie, only on a guest writer's private write page. Remembers which draft is yours so you can come back to it. Expires with the write link.
- oblivion_seen_until
- Local storage in your browser. Remembers the date of the newest thing you've seen, so we can show a "new since your last visit" note. Never sent to us; clear it any time in your browser settings.
Your rights
You can ask us to:
- show you the data we hold about you (access);
- correct it (rectification);
- delete it (erasure);
- limit what we do with it (restriction);
- stop using it where we rely on legitimate interest (objection);
- give it to you in a portable format (portability);
- withdraw your consent, for the newsletter or alerts, at any time. This doesn't affect what we did before.
Email [email protected]. We reply within one month. We may ask you to confirm the request comes from the email address concerned.
Not happy with how we handle your data? You can complain to the Dutch data protection authority, the Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens, or the authority in the EU country where you live. We'd appreciate the chance to fix it first.
Changes
If we change how we handle data, we update this page and the date at the top.