Privacy

Short version: your address is used to send you the letter, and nothing else. Nobody buys it.

Who we are

This Next Song is run by Alex Vita, Bucharest, Romania. Write to hello@thisnextsong.com about anything on this page.

What we hold, and why

• Your email address. We send you the letter because you asked us to, and you confirm that with one click. Your consent is the legal basis, and you can withdraw it at any time.
• Your replies. They come to our mailbox so a person can read them.
• A song you send in. If we print it, it runs as from "a reader". Your first name runs only if you write "name OK". You can ask us to take it off the site at any time.
• Votes. We store the count and the time. To stop abuse we keep a scrambled version of your IP address, with a salt that changes daily, and delete it after 24 hours. Our legal basis is a legitimate interest in fair votes and a secure site.
• Visits. Cloudflare Web Analytics counts visits to each page, the site that sent you and your country. It uses no cookies and nothing that identifies you, and we see totals only. Our legal basis is a legitimate interest in knowing which pages people read.
• Where you signed up from. If you sign up through a link from a post, a listing or a forwarded issue, Kit keeps which one with your address, for example Reddit or Issue 1. We use it to see which places bring readers, on the same legitimate interest.
• Server logs. Cloudflare, which hosts the site, keeps standard logs for security.

Who else handles it

• Kit sends the letter and stores your address, in the US, under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.
• Cloudflare hosts the site and counts visits. Google Workspace handles mail to hello@thisnextsong.com.
• YouTube plays the videos. Nothing loads from YouTube until you press play on a picture, and then YouTube's own terms and Google's Privacy Policy apply. This site uses YouTube API Services.

We don't sell your data, and no sponsor ever sees it.

How long we keep it

Your address stays until you unsubscribe. Kit then keeps a record of the unsubscribe, so you aren't added again by mistake. Replies stay in our mailbox while the letter runs, unless you ask us to delete them.

Your rights

You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold, and you can withdraw consent at any time. Every issue has a one-click unsubscribe. If you're unhappy with how we've handled it, you can complain to ANSPDCP, Romania's data protection authority.

Cookies

We use none. We don't respond to Do Not Track signals, because we don't track you across sites.