Who we are

Our website address is: https://stats.avr-music.com.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

if you use a contact form on our site the information will be redirected to our email servers with the potential to also be stored in our website database. Your email might be use to send an automated confirmation replies, or relevant messages regarding your specific use on our website. You will also have the option to opt into further correspondence for promotional purposes.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We analyse user activity in order to improve the Site and the websites of Indeed affiliates. For example, we can use cookies to look at aggregate patterns like the average number of job searches that users perform. We can use such analysis to gain insights about how to improve the functionality and user experience of the Site.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

We may store your i.p. address, name and email address in our databases if you use our contact forms. We do not sell your contact information to any third parties.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We protect you data in an encrypted database on our servers. We use SSL certificate to increase safe use of our site features and we also have regular security maintenance performed by our hosting services.

What data breach procedures we have in place

If an unauthorised third party accesses your data or if your data is lost or stolen, we will inform as soon as possible to minimise high risk adverse affects. Where feasible, a relevant supervisory authority will also be contacted within 72 hours of us becoming aware of the breach.

What third parties we receive data from

stats.avr-music.com uses the AdWords and Remarketing Lists features of Google Analytics for Display Advertisers. We also use Google Analytics and Facebook pixel to carry out some analytics on our website. These analytics providers use cookies to capture aggregate demographic info about our readers.

• Third party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to your website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to your users based on their visit to your sites and/or other sites on the Internet.
• Users may opt out of personalised advertising by visiting Ads Settings. (Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of a third-party vendor’s use of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.)

If you haven’t opted out of third-party ad serving, the cookies of other third-party vendors or ad networks may also be used to serve ads on your site, which should also be disclosed in your privacy policy in the following manner:

• Notify your site visitors of the third-party vendors and ad networks serving ads on your site.
• Provide links to the appropriate vendor and ad network websites.
• Inform your users that they may visit those websites to opt out of the use of cookies for personalised advertising (if the vendor or ad network offers this capability). Alternatively, you can direct users to opt out of some third-party vendors’ uses of cookies for personalised advertising by visiting www.aboutads.info.

We attempt to do once a day, daily updates of all the numbers displayed on the websites. Estimated value are calculating values based on data we’ve stored for no more than 30 days on the website. In accordance with YouTube API policy and we do not store Non-Authorized YouTube Data on the site than 30 days.

Data Sources

In order to keep statistical data updated, stats.avr-music.com utilises API services of third parties including but not limited to Twitter, Spotify, Soundcloud, YouTube and LastFM. We are only gathering publicly available data from each of the API services and not private data about your account, unless specific access is asked for at time of use (i.e. to validate your identity).

This third party data is use to create internally ranked profile pages and lists. These data profiles and lists are made publicly accessible via our website pages. The ranks do not reflect official ranks given by the respective music streaming and social media data platforms.

YouTube and Google Data

We DO NOT use YouTube metrics to derive artist popularity, Total or 24hr in accordance with Google Privacy Policy

We DO NOT use the YouTube Analytics 24hr, 7day and 30day metrics. These numbers are estimates we calculate internally based on YouTube’s public API data. These figures therefore do not represent the figures in artist’s personal YouTube Analytics API. For more details on YouTubes terms of service

Request you data

Under the GDPR, EU residents have the following rights regarding their personal data.

• Right to Access: You have the right to know what data we process, how it is used, and why.
• Right to Rectification: You have the right to alter any personal data as you see fit. This includes correction, revision, and deletion of data.
• Right to be Forgotten: Upon cancellation of your account, you can request all of your personally identifiable data to be purged.

Please email us at [email protected] or [email protected] with the heading ‘Request My Data’  using the relevant email associated with the data. 

CONTACT US

If you have questions about either our Agreement or Policy, or would like to make a complaint, please email us at [email protected] or [email protected].