Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are The Alice Syndrome music band, This is our website.

We want you to know that we take your privacy very seriously, and have tried to minimise any instances of data sharing with third parties, tracking, or any other features that adversely affect your privacy and security.

In summary, all data collected by this site stays on-site with the exception of our current push notifications provider – Webpushr.

When you first land on any of our webpages, we install three cookies only, these are needed in order for the web connection to work, and for us to ensure your cookie choices are respected. Once you have consented to our cookies, depending on whether you have logged in or are simply a visitor, then we will install other cookies, needed to support various features on the site. By default, none of these will take your information off-site.

However, if you choose to view, for example, a YouTube video, then additional Google cookies will be installed on your computer. On our site, before this happens, you will need to provide consent.

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 anonymized 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.

Contact forms

Your contact information is not stored on our server and is sent directly to our admin email address. We will hold your contact details for as long as we need to be in touch with you.

Cookies

For a full breakdown of all cookies used on the site, refer to our Cookie Policy.

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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We record anonymously the IP details of people who visit the site so we can understand the location and type of browser used of visitors, this information is not sent outside 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 recognize 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.