Privacy

What I collect

If you only browse: nothing that identifies you. A cookie remembers the region you last picked so the home page opens on it, and Google Analytics counts visits (see below).

If you sign in:your email address, the artists you follow, the gigs you save, your alert settings, and the emails the site has sent you (so it doesn't send the same alert twice). There is no password because sign-in works by emailing you a link.

If you subscribe to the weekly news email: your email address and the fact you confirmed it.

If you use the contact form: whatever you type in it, plus your email so I can reply.

Cookies

The site sets a signed session cookie when you sign in, and a few small preference cookies: your chosen region, whether you've dismissed the “follow this artist” tip, whether you've subscribed to the news email, and an invite code if you arrived through an invite link. None of these are used for advertising.

Google Analytics sets its own cookies (_ga) to tell repeat visits apart. I use it to see which pages get used and roughly how many people visit. I don't link it to accounts. You can block it with a browser extension or by disabling third-party cookies and the site will work exactly the same.

What I use it for

Running the site: signing you in, sending the alerts and emails you asked for, remembering your saves and follows, answering messages, and keeping the site working and free of abuse. That's it. I don't sell personal information and I don't use it for advertising.

Who else sees it

The services the site runs on handle data on my behalf:

• Cloudflare hosts the site and runs the bot check on forms.
• Convex stores the database (accounts, follows, saves, settings).
• Resend delivers the sign-in links, alerts and news emails.
• Google Analytics counts visits, as above.

Ticket links to Ticketmaster and Moshtix go through an affiliate network (Impact), which records that the click came from GigJunkie so I can be paid a commission if you buy. It doesn't receive your account details from me.

Gig, artist and venue data is not personal information. It comes from the ticketing sites, MusicBrainz and a geocoding service, and some of it is processed by language models to tidy names and dates.

I would only hand over personal information beyond this if the law required it.

How long I keep it

For as long as you have an account or a subscription. Delete your account, or unsubscribe, and the related data goes with it. Contact-form messages are kept until the conversation is finished. Analytics data follows Google's default retention.

Your rights

Under the Privacy Act 2020 you can ask to see the personal information I hold about you and ask for it to be corrected. You can also ask me to delete it. Use the contact form and I'll sort it out.

If you think I've handled your information badly and I haven't fixed it, you can complain to the Office of the Privacy Commissioner.

Other sites

Once you click through to a ticketing site, an artist's page or Buy Me a Coffee, their privacy policy applies, not this one.

Changes

If this policy changes in a way that matters, I'll update the date at the top of this page and, for anything significant, email account holders.