Privacy policy
Who is responsible
This site is run by an individual, Arnau Gran i Romero, who is the data controller for the purposes of the UK and EU GDPR. Contact: editor@aiaudioreport.com.
What is collected, and when
By default: nothing we can identify you from
AI Audio Report is a set of static files. Visiting it creates no account, sets no cookie of ours, and stores nothing about you on our side. There is no contact form, no comment system, no newsletter sign-up and no login.
By our host
The site is served by GitHub Pages (GitHub, Inc.). Like any web server, it processes your IP address and request metadata in order to deliver the page, and it may retain that in logs for security and abuse prevention. We do not have access to those logs and cannot query them. GitHub's handling of that data is governed by its own privacy statement.
Analytics, only with consent
We would like to know which pages are worth writing more of. If, and only if, you press Accept on the cookie banner, Google Analytics 4 is loaded and sets its own cookies. It is configured with IP anonymisation on, and with advertising storage, ad personalisation and ad user data all explicitly denied.
Press Reject, or ignore the banner, and no analytics script is ever fetched. Nothing is loaded before you choose: this is a genuine prior-consent gate, not a banner that tracks you while it asks.
The only thing stored in your browser by us is a single localStorage entry
recording your answer, so we stop asking. It contains the word “granted” or “denied” and
nothing else, it is not a cookie, and it is never transmitted anywhere. Details on the
cookies page.
If you email us
We receive your address and whatever you write, in order to reply. The legal basis is our legitimate interest in answering correspondence. It is not shared with anyone, and it is never added to the newsletter: that only happens if you subscribe yourself.
What we never do
- Sell, rent or trade personal data. There is no scenario in which this changes.
- Run advertising cookies, retargeting pixels, fingerprinting or session recording.
- Load third-party fonts, embeds or widgets that would disclose your IP to someone else.
- Use dark patterns to extract consent. Reject is as easy to press as Accept.
The newsletter
If you subscribe, your email address is stored in order to send you the newsletter, and for nothing else. The legal basis is your consent, which you give by subscribing and can withdraw at any time using the unsubscribe link in every email. We do not sell, rent or share the list, and nobody who merely writes to us is ever added.
The newsletter is operated for us by Buttondown, LLC, which acts as our processor and stores subscriber addresses in the United States. That transfer is covered by the Standard Contractual Clauses, incorporated into Buttondown's data processing agreement, which forms part of its service agreement. Buttondown is therefore a recipient of your address, and you can read how it handles data in its own privacy policy.
Subscribing uses confirmed opt-in: you receive an email asking you to confirm, and you are not added to the list until you do. If you never confirm, nothing further is sent to you.
Advertising
No advertising runs on this site today, and no ad script or advertising cookie is requested whichever button you press. An application to Google AdSense is under review. If advertising is ever switched on, this policy and the cookies page are updated before the change, not after it.
Separately, note that serving personalised advertising to visitors in the EEA and the UK requires a certified consent platform integrated with the IAB Transparency and Consent Framework. The banner used here is our own and is not certified, which limits what could be served even if advertising were enabled.
Your rights
Under the GDPR you may request access to, correction of, or erasure of personal data we hold about you, object to processing, and request portability. Realistically, the only personal data we are likely to hold is an email you sent us, and you can have it deleted by asking. Write to editor@aiaudioreport.com. You also have the right to complain to your national data protection authority.
Transfers and retention
Our host operates internationally, so serving a page may involve processing outside the EEA. Email correspondence is retained only as long as it is useful for the conversation it belongs to. Analytics data, once it exists, is retained for the shortest period Google Analytics allows us to set.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, the date at the top changes and the substance of the change is described here rather than silently swapped in.