Privacy Policy for Moraine Band
We believe transparency rocks as hard as a good riff, so here’s exactly how we handle your data when you visit our little corner of the Seattle instrumental art rock universe. Our team takes your privacy seriously, and we’ve written this policy in plain English because nobody wants to wade through legal jargon when they could be discovering new prog rock.
What Information We Collect
We only collect what you voluntarily share, like your name and email when signing up for our mailing list via our Bandcamp-powered form, or details you provide when reaching out about booking our prog rock ensemble. We’re not in the business of hoovering up data behind the scenes, and we never will be. Our server also automatically logs basic technical information like your IP address and browser type, but this is kept separate from anything that could personally identify you. Think of it as the digital equivalent of a sound engineer noting which frequencies are coming through the desk, not which specific person is standing in front of the speakers.
Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our site uses essential cookies to function and a few analytics cookies to understand how fans discover our instrumental art rock. Essential cookies keep the site running smoothly, handling things like remembering your cookie preferences and ensuring our Bandcamp embeds load properly. We don’t run invasive ad trackers or sell your browsing habits to third parties. You won’t find any creepy retargeting pixels following you around the web after visiting us, because frankly, that would be a terrible way to build a community around music. You can adjust your cookie settings directly in your browser or through our consent banner when you first visit. If you ever want to revisit your choices, clear your browser data for our site and the consent banner will reappear.
Analytics We Use
We use privacy-focused Plausible Analytics, a GDPR-compliant service hosted in the EU, to count page views without dropping heavy tracking pixels. Plausible doesn’t use cookies, doesn’t collect personal data, and doesn’t build user profiles. It simply tells us things like “fifty people visited the discography page yesterday” without revealing who those fifty people were or what they did afterwards. All analytics data is fully anonymized. We can see aggregate numbers like page views, referral sources, and broad geographic regions at a city level, but we cannot trace any of this back to an individual visitor. We don’t create user profiles, track you across sessions, or build behavioural dossiers. Our analytics answer simple questions like “did that interview in a UK music blog send people our way,” and nothing more invasive.
Third-Party Services We Rely On
We embed Bandcamp players for our albums and might link to our YouTube channel for live performance videos. When you play a track through our site or click through to purchase an album, Bandcamp may set its own cookies and collect data according to its privacy policy. We chose Bandcamp specifically because of their artist-friendly ethos and transparent practices. Our mailing list runs through a dedicated newsletter service that handles subscriptions, email delivery, and unsubscribe requests under their own GDPR-compliant infrastructure. We only access your name and email address, and we use that solely to send the updates you signed up for. We never import this data into other systems or cross-reference it with anything else.
Your Rights Under UK GDPR
Because we have fans across the UK, we fully respect your rights under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018. You have the right to request a copy of any personal data we hold about you, provided in a structured, machine-readable format within one month. You can also ask us to delete your personal data at any time, no questions asked. If you unsubscribe from our mailing list, we remove your details immediately. You also have the right to object to processing and to restrict processing, though given how little we do with your data, these rights are refreshingly straightforward to exercise. If you believe we’ve fallen short, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office, the UK supervisory authority for data protection matters. We’d always prefer you contacted us first so we can make things right directly.
How Long We Keep Your Data
We retain mailing list data until you unsubscribe, and we scrub inactive contacts after two years of no engagement. Server logs from our Seattle-hosted site vanish automatically after 30 days. We don’t hoard information indefinitely because there’s simply no reason to, and responsible data hygiene is part of running a trustworthy operation. Active subscribers remain on our list as long as they want to hear from us. You can unsubscribe at any time through the link in every email we send, and removal is instant.
Contacting Us About Your Privacy
Our team handles all privacy requests directly, no automated runarounds. For any privacy-related questions, data access requests, or deletion demands, email us at [email protected]. We monitor this inbox regularly and aim to respond within a few business days. We’re musicians, not a faceless corporation, so when you reach out, you’re talking to actual humans who care about getting things right.
Trust is the bedrock of our community, and we’ll update this page promptly if our practices evolve. We’re grateful you took the time to understand how we handle your data, and we look forward to sharing more Seattle instrumental art rock with you, free from privacy worries and full of the progressive spirit that drives everything we do.