Privacy

The short version

Reading the site doesn't need an account. We don't run ads, we don't sell anything about you, and we don't use tracking cookies. The only personal details we get are the ones you type into our forms.

Weekly recap

If you sign up for the weekly recap, we keep your email address to send it, and nothing goes out until you click the confirm link. The emails are sent through Resend. Every email has a one-click unsubscribe link. We don't sell or share your address.

Forms

The Get featured form asks for your name, email, the artist, and the news. The playlist form asks for the artist, Instagram handle, city, Spotify link and your email. We use these to check the news or the song and to reply to you. Nothing else.

Form entries are stored by Netlify, the company that hosts this site. To speed up our first draft of a story, the details of a news tip (not your name or email) may be sent to Anthropic's Claude service. A person or our rules check every draft, and a tip is never published until the facts are confirmed from the artist's own post or another confirmed source.

Server logs

Like every website, our host records basic request data (such as IP address, browser type and the page asked for) to keep the site running and to stop abuse. We use this to see which pages get read and to fix problems.

Players and links

Song and video players on the site come from Spotify and YouTube. They load from those companies and follow their own privacy policies, which may include cookies. YouTube videos use YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode. Links to Instagram and other sites take you to those sites and their rules.

How long we keep it

We keep form entries as long as we need them to follow up on the news or the song, then delete them.

Your choices

To see, fix or delete what you sent us, DM @ruffbufftv on Instagram or send a note through the Submit news form (pick "Other"). We'll take care of it.

Kids

This site is not aimed at children under 13, and we don't knowingly collect their details.

Changes

If this page changes, the date at the top changes with it.