Privacy Notice
Last updated: 5 September 2026
Genre Dive collects almost nothing about you. There is no analytics script on this site, no advertising, no tracking, no profiling, and no newsletter signup form. This notice explains the little that does happen, because you are entitled to know it even when the answer is small.
Who we are
This site is operated by Curious Ear Media LLC, a Colorado limited liability company trading as Genre Dive. Curious Ear Media LLC is the data controller for the purposes of the UK and EU General Data Protection Regulation.
You can reach us at admin@genredive.com for any question about this notice or about your personal data.
The Mixcloud player, and what it means for you
Please read this part even if you skip the rest.
Most episode pages contain an audio player provided by Mixcloud, where the shows are hosted. That player loads automatically when the page loads. It does not wait for you to click, and it does not wait for you to press play. This means that simply visiting one of those episode pages sends your IP address to Mixcloud, along with information your browser routinely provides, before you have interacted with anything. Mixcloud may also set its own cookies or use similar technologies once the player has loaded. What Mixcloud does with that information is governed by Mixcloud’s own privacy policy, not by this one.
We have chosen to load the Mixcloud player this way deliberately, because the player is the point of an episode page and hiding it behind an extra click makes the site worse to use. We think you should be told plainly rather than have the trade-off made quietly on your behalf. If you would prefer not to share anything with Mixcloud, do not visit episode pages — the rest of the site does not load the player.
A small number of episodes use a YouTube-hosted player instead. On those pages, nothing is sent to YouTube until you press play. The player loads only when you ask it to, so visiting the page alone does not share anything with YouTube. Once playback starts, your IP address and playback data are sent to YouTube (via youtube-nocookie.com, a reduced-tracking host). What YouTube does with that information is governed by Google’s privacy policy, not by this one.
What we collect
Server logs. Our hosting provider records standard web server logs for every request. These include your IP address, the time of the request, what you requested and how the server responded, the browser and device you are using, and the country the request came from. This happens automatically for any website and is not something we have switched on.
Emails you send us. If you email us, we have your email address and whatever you chose to write.
That is the complete list. We do not use analytics of any kind. We do not set cookies. The typefaces are served from our own server rather than from a font network. There is no contact form, no comments section, and no account to create.
Why we process it, and on what legal basis
| What | Why | Lawful basis |
| Server logs | Keeping the site running, diagnosing faults, and identifying abuse or attacks | Legitimate interests — operating and securing a website |
| Emails you send us | Replying to you | Legitimate interests — responding to correspondence |
Where we rely on legitimate interests, we have considered whether our interest is outweighed by your rights, and concluded that keeping a website running and answering correspondence are ordinary and expected uses that a visitor would not be surprised by.
Who else is involved
- Hostinger hosts the site and generates the server logs described above. Hostinger acts as our processor, meaning it handles that data on our instructions under a data processing agreement rather than for its own purposes. Hostinger in turn uses its own suppliers to run its infrastructure, including Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud and Cloudflare; the current list is published in Hostinger’s Data Processing Addendum.
- Cloudflare provides DNS for our domains.
- Mixcloud receives your IP address when an episode page loads its player, as described above.
- YouTube (Google) receives your IP address when you press play on an episode that uses the YouTube-hosted player, as described above. The player uses youtube-nocookie.com, a reduced-tracking host.
Where the site links out to Apple Music, Spotify, Discogs, Bandcamp, Substack, Bluesky or anywhere else, those are ordinary links. Nothing is sent to them unless you click, at which point their own privacy policies apply.
Where your data goes
The site is hosted in the United States, on a server in North Carolina, and Curious Ear Media LLC is a United States company. If you are visiting from the UK or the European Economic Area, your personal data is therefore processed outside your own country.
Our agreement with Hostinger provides the safeguards for that. Where personal data is transferred out of the European Economic Area, the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses apply, in the controller to processor form. Where it is transferred out of the United Kingdom, the UK International Data Transfer Addendum applies. The Hostinger entity that is party to those clauses is Hostinger International Ltd, in Cyprus.
How long we keep it
We do not keep server logs at all. We do not download them, export them, copy them, or maintain any separate record of visits.
The logs are generated and held by Hostinger as part of running the server. Our hosting control panel lets us look at roughly the last week; beyond that we have no access to them and no copy of them.
Our data processing agreement with Hostinger provides that data processed on our behalf is held for as long as the hosting service is running, and deleted within thirty days of that service ending. That is an outer limit rather than a promise that logs are kept that long — Hostinger does not publish how often raw access logs are rotated or overwritten in the ordinary course, and we have asked. If we get a more specific answer, this notice will say so.
If you want to know what is held about a particular visit, email us and we will ask them on your behalf.Emails you send us are kept for up to two years, and deleted sooner where there is no reason to keep them.
Your rights
If you are in the UK or the European Economic Area, you have the right to:
- access the personal data we hold about you;
- correct it if it is wrong;
- erase it in certain circumstances;
- restrict how we use it in certain circumstances;
- object to our processing where we rely on legitimate interests;
- receive a copy of it in a portable format in certain circumstances;
- withdraw consent at any time, where we have relied on consent — at present, we do not rely on consent for anything.
To exercise any of these, email admin@genredive.com. In practice, the main thing we can help with is server log data, and to find yours we would need to know the IP address and roughly when you visited.
You also have the right to complain to your data protection supervisory authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner’s Office; in the EEA it is the authority for your country.
If you are in the United States, you may have comparable rights under your state’s law. Curious Ear Media LLC does not meet the thresholds that make most state privacy statutes applicable, and we do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioural advertising — we have nothing to sell and nobody to share it with. If you would like to exercise a state-law right, email us and we will do what we can.
Some things we do not do
We do not make automated decisions about you or profile you. This site is not directed at children and we do not knowingly collect information from them. We do not sell, rent or trade personal data.
Changes
If this notice changes we will update the date at the top and, where the change is significant, say what changed. This notice was first published on 14 August 2026.