This is the privacy policy page. Prepare yourself for some technical jargon.
It’s not fun, but it must be done (like how I rhymed there?).
This page refers to Musician With A Day Job as “we,” “I” and “MWADJ.”
Affiliate Programs
My goal with this blog is to help fellow musicians, not sell products. I don’t base articles on trying to sell something.
That being said, I do promote products I use and love and some of them offer kickbacks for me. Any benefit I get from these partners goes right back into the blog.
So you might see affiliate links from these companies:
- Canva (I use this for every graphic you see on this blog)
- Evernote (I use this exclusively for songwriting)
- LANDR (I’ve mastered a lot of my music through them)
- Simple (my bank account for music income)
- Bandzoogle (my official website builder)
- MailChimp (I use them for this blog’s monthly emails)
- MailerLite (I use them for my email list as a musician)
- Dropbox (I use this for storing/sharing songs with fellow musicians)
- Honey (I have the Chrome plugin that auto-finds discounts for online shopping)
- Soundfly (I’ve been contributing to their music advice blog for a while)
- The Six Figure Freelance Writer (I took this course to help my freelance writing career)
What personal data this site collect and why
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
We do not share personal information you’ve provided to us without your consent, unless:
- Doing so is appropriate to carry out your own request;
- If it’s legally required;
- We believe it’s needed to detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical issues;
- Otherwise protect this website, our legal rights, or that of others.
We don’t share your personal information with third parties, other than external services to help improve Musician With A Day Job, its website, and its products/services.
We currently use Google Analytics (traffic analysis, SEO optimization) and Mailchimp (mailing list management).
We also use social buttons for Facebook, Twitter, and Pinterest. Your use of these third-party services is totally optional. We’re not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third-party services. You’re responsible for reading and understanding those third-party services’ privacy policies.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact information
Caleb J. Murphy
Musician With A Day Job
Additional information
This site uses Bluehost as its main website provider. They have several layers of security and tools to help keep your data safe and this site running smoothly.