Privacy Policy

Nothing you type into the site itself. The song search downloads the list of songs once and searches it in your browser, so what you type is not sent to us. When a search finds nothing, Google Analytics records what you typed if you accepted analytics (see below), and the link to ask us to check the song opens your own email app with what you typed in the subject, which reaches us only if you send that email. Apart from the playlist review form below, we do not ask for your name, email address, age, school, or location. We do not run accounts, and we do not sell, rent, or share data about visitors with anyone.

Choosing a search result, a song or an artist, opens its page. Most songs open at their row on a song list, and if that is the list you are already reading, the page only scrolls there. Any other result loads a different page: our server logs the request like any other page load, and Google Analytics may record it if you accepted analytics.

Like every web server, ours keeps a log of the requests it answers: the page asked for, the time, the IP address the request came from, the browser's user-agent string, and the page that linked here. We use it to count visits in total — how many pages were read each month, and by roughly how many visitors — and to look into abusive traffic when it happens. It sets no cookies, runs nothing in your browser, and does not depend on your answer to the analytics banner. The log stays on our server and is deleted after about two months.

If you ask us to review a dance or event playlist, you fill in a Google Form, which opens on Google's site rather than this one. It asks for your name and email address, who the event is for, the event and its date, your song list or a playlist link, how you check playlists today, and, if you like, which artists you would like us to cover.

Google Forms stores your answers in the form itself and in a linked Google Sheet, both of which only we can open, and Google's own privacy policy applies to the form. We use your email address to send your review back and to follow up about it. Only the song titles go into our checks, where an AI model reads each song's lyrics; your name and email address never do. We do not add you to a mailing list or share your answers with anyone.

The form is for the adult organizing the event. It asks nothing about students, and please do not include their names or details. We delete your answers from the form and the Sheet 12 months after we send your review back, along with our copy of the review and our emails with you about it. To have them deleted sooner, write to the address at the bottom of this page.

We use Google Analytics to see which pages get visited and roughly where visitors arrive from. It reports on traffic in aggregate — how many people opened a page, which search brought them, which country they were in — and we use it only to decide which pages are worth working on. It also counts uses of the page controls, such as choosing a filter, pressing play or opening a song's page, along with which song it was, and what was typed into the site search when it found no song.

It does not run unless you agree to it. On your first visit a banner asks, and nothing from Google Analytics is loaded until you choose Accept — decline and the script is never fetched at all, rather than loaded and told to behave. Your answer is remembered in your own browser so you are not asked again.

When it is switched on, Google Analytics sets cookies in your browser and receives your IP address. We do not use it to build advertising profiles, and this site runs no advertising. Clearing your site data for clean-music.org resets the choice and you will be asked again next time.

Song pages can play a lyric video without leaving the site. Those players are embedded through youtube-nocookie.com, YouTube's privacy-enhanced mode, which does not set viewing cookies until someone actually presses play. Loading or reading a page does not hand YouTube anything on its own.

Once you do play a video, YouTube receives the request and applies its own privacy policy, which we do not control. Where we do not already know the video for a song, the play button instead opens a YouTube search in a new tab — that is ordinary youtube.com, and YouTube's own terms apply from the moment you arrive.

Artist and album artwork is served from Spotify's image CDN rather than copied onto this site, so your browser requests those files from Spotify and Spotify sees that request. No account information is involved, and this site does not connect to your Spotify account or read anything from it.

This site is built for teachers, parents, and event planners who are choosing music for young audiences. It is written for the adult doing the choosing, not for children, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. The playlist review form is the only place we ask for personal details. It is for the adult organizing an event, and it asks nothing about students. There is no account and no profile.

Because children may nonetheless read these pages, we route video embeds through YouTube's no-cookie host so that simply opening a page does not start tracking a young visitor. If you believe a child has somehow provided personal information through this site, please write to us and we will look into it and delete whatever we find.

Declining on the banner is the simplest one, and it is a real decline: the analytics script is never requested. Blocking cookies for clean-music.org, using your browser's private mode, or running an extension that blocks trackers all work too, and none of them affect what you came here to read — the song lists and their explanations are plain pages either way.

If the services this site loads change — if advertising is ever added, for instance — this page will be updated and the date at the top will change with it. We will not quietly start collecting something and leave this page saying otherwise.

Questions about any of this can go to contact@clean-music.org.