Privacy policy
Last updated: October 7, 2026
What we collect
Account data: your email address, an optional username and your role. Contributions: the releases, artists, credits and edit proposals you submit, linked to your account. Technical data: standard server logs, such as IP address and browser type, kept by our hosting provider.
What is public
Catalogue data is public. Usernames and roles are publicly readable by design, and each contribution records the account that created it, so a contribution can be linked to a username. Your email address is never shown publicly.
Cookies
We use only the cookies needed to keep you signed in. We do not use advertising or analytics cookies. Our sign-in bot protection (Cloudflare Turnstile) may use its own technical cookies or storage to work.
The liner-note scanner
Photos you scan are processed entirely in your browser. They are not uploaded, stored or sent to us. The first time you use the scanner it downloads language data files from a public content network.
Services that process data for us
Supabase (database and sign-in), Vercel (hosting), Cloudflare Turnstile (bot protection at sign-up and sign-in) and our email provider (confirmation and password-reset emails).
Keeping and deleting data
We keep your account until you ask us to delete it. When an account is deleted, its email and profile are removed and its contributions stay in the catalogue without your account attached.
Your rights and contact
Write to hello@ethiopianmusicdb.com to see, correct or delete your data. This site is not intended for children under 13.
Changes
We may update this policy. The date at the top shows the latest version.