Privacy

The short version

• Visitors do not need an account, and we do not ask you for personal details to read this site.

• The public pages set no tracking cookies and show no advertising.

• We count visits with a cookie-free tool that does not follow you around the internet.

What your browser stores

If you switch between light and dark mode, your choice is saved in your own browser so the site remembers it. It stays on your device and is never sent to us. You can clear it at any time in your browser settings.

Who helps us run this site

• Cloudflare protects the site and delivers it quickly. We also use Cloudflare Web Analytics to see how many people visit and which pages they read. It does not use cookies and does not track individuals across other websites.Its Turnstile security check on our forms keeps spam out.

• Cloudinary stores and delivers the photos you see here. Like any host, it can see the address of your device when your browser asks for an image.

• Resend sends our emails: the sign-in and password emails our own staff need, and the emails you ask for (a reply to a booking request, the newsletter confirmation and the newsletter itself)..

• Our web server keeps ordinary access logs (the page requested, the time and the device address) for a short time, only to keep the site secure and to fix faults.

Videos from YouTube and Facebook

While a live stream is on, a pop-up with the live YouTube player opens by itself a few seconds after you arrive, and the player loads straight away (muted). That is the one case where YouTube is contacted before you press anything; you can minimise the pop-up to a small player in the corner, and press Hide player to remove it for that stream. We remember that choice only in your browser, not on our servers. Replay videos are shown behind a play button. The YouTube or Facebook player is not loaded until you press play. Until then nothing is sent to those companies. After you press play, their own privacy rules apply to what they collect. For YouTube we use its privacy-enhanced mode. Links such as Share on WhatsApp, Facebook or X only open those services when you click them.

When you contact us

If you phone, message or email us, we use the details you give only to reply to you and to plan your event. We do not sell them or share them with anyone who does not need them to do the job.

People in our streams and photos

We stream and photograph events with the organiser’s agreement. If you appear in a stream, replay or photo on this site and would like it removed or changed, contact us and we will deal with it promptly.

Your choices

You can ask us what information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it. We will answer as quickly as we can.

Booking requests

If you fill in the booking form, we save your name, phone number, the type, date and place of your event, the platforms you would like, your message and, if you give it, your email address. Our team uses them only to call you and plan your event, and we email the request to our team. If you gave an email address, we also send you one message to confirm that we received it. We keep a booking request for up to two years, and we delete it earlier if you ask.

Newsletter

If you sign up for our newsletter, we save your email address and send you a message with a link to confirm it. We send nothing else until you confirm. After that we email you when we publish a new story. Every email has an unsubscribe link, and one press of the Unsubscribe button on that page removes you from the list. We keep your address until you unsubscribe, and we delete it if you ask. We never sell or share the list.

Comments and condolence messages

If you leave a comment or a condolence message, we save the name you type, your message and, if you give it, your email address. Your message is shown on the post only after one of our moderators approves it, together with your name. Your email address is never shown or shared. For protection against spam we also keep, for a short time, a scrambled code made from your internet address (we cannot turn it back into the address) and the type of browser you use. We keep a comment for as long as the post is online, and we delete it, or your email address, if you ask.

Website statistics

We use our own cookie-free statistics to understand how people use this website. We count pages visited, referring websites and campaign links, device and browser, and—when Cloudflare provides them—country and city. For articles, we measure visible reading time and whether the article was read. We also count selected actions, including normalised search terms, live-stream and replay activity, bookings and packages, newsletter signups, comments and outbound links. We do not store IP addresses, set analytics cookies or use a browser identifier to follow visitors. A daily random secret is combined with the IP address and browser details to create a temporary anonymous code; the secret changes every day, so the code cannot be used to follow a visitor across days. Detailed event records are deleted after 90 days, while combined statistics are kept. We do not count visits when the browser sends Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control.

Questions

If anything here is unclear, or you want to make a request, get in touch using the details below.