Privacy

This is a small site about one artist’s music. It runs no analytics, no advertising and no tracking of any kind. The only thing it ever asks you for is a message, and only if you choose to send one.

If you send a message

The form on the contact page asks for your name, your email address and your message. Those three things are stored in this site’s database, emailed to the address that handles enquiries here, and an automatic acknowledgement is sent back to the address you gave so you know it arrived.

Two other things are recorded alongside it. The first is your browser’s user-agent string — the line that names your browser and operating system. The second is a one-way hash of your IP address, not the address itself: the number is put through SHA-256 before anything is done with it, and the original is never written down. The hash exists so the site can tell that the same sender is submitting over and over and apply a per-hour limit, which is what keeps automated spam off the form. It cannot be turned back into your IP address.

The one cookie

This site sets a single cookie, prowess_hiphop_session. It holds a token that proves a form submission came from this site rather than from somewhere pretending to be it. It is marked HttpOnly and SameSite=Lax, it is sent only over HTTPS, and it is deleted when you close your browser. It carries no identifier, it is not read by anyone else, and it is not used to follow you — there is nowhere to follow you to.

What this site does not do

• No analytics. There is no Google Analytics, no Plausible, no Fathom, no Matomo, and no page-view counter of any kind. Nothing on this site records that you visited it.
• No advertising, no tracking pixels, no fingerprinting, no third-party cookies.
• No accounts. There is nothing to sign up for and nowhere to log in.
• No mailing list. No address is collected for one, because there isn’t one.
• Nothing is sold, rented, or handed to a data broker. There is no arrangement under which that could happen.

Other companies your browser talks to

Two are worth naming plainly, because a policy that only describes this server would be leaving out the part you cannot see.

• Google Fonts. Every page on this site loads two typefaces from Google’s servers, which means Google receives your IP address and browser string as part of that request. This is the one unavoidable third party here. If you block it, the site falls back to fonts already on your machine and everything stays readable.
• YouTube. Video pages show a still image and a play button, not an embedded player. Nothing is requested from YouTube until you actually press play. When you do, the player loads from youtube-nocookie.com, and from that point YouTube’s own privacy policy applies to what you do inside it.

Links out to Bandcamp, Spotify, Apple Music, SoundCloud, Patreon, Instagram and the rest are ordinary links. Following one takes you to a company with its own privacy policy, and this site is not told that you went.

Like every web server, the host this site runs on keeps standard access logs — the page requested, the time, the IP address and the browser string. That is the hosting provider’s ordinary operation, not something this site collects or reads.

How long things are kept

Messages are kept until they are deleted by hand; there is no automatic expiry, and it would be dishonest to claim a retention period that nothing enforces. If you want yours removed, ask — see below.

Asking what is held, or asking for it to be deleted

You can ask what this site holds about you, ask for a copy, or ask for it to be deleted, and it will be done. The route is the contact form, or ADST Media, the enquiry route published on the press page. There is nothing to verify against and no account to prove, so say which message was yours and it will be found by the address it came from.

Children

This site is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect anything from them. If a message arrives from a child, it will be deleted.

Changes

If what the site does changes, this page changes with it, and the date below changes too. There is no mailing list to announce it on.

Last updated 2026-08-16. This page describes what the software on this site actually does, verified against the code rather than adapted from a template. It is not legal advice.