Hi, we’re Cheer Up Club. You can check out our website at https://cheerupclub.org, but you probably already knew that since you’re reading this.

Privacy is like, super important, especially in these scary days of internet ads and government surveillance. So we though it would be good to share our intentions with you along with give you an inside look at how we handle your personal data.
After all, if it’s your info, you should have a right to know about it!

First things first, read on to see how we define personal data.

Great questions! Well, some examples of personal data would be:

• Your name
• Email address
• City/State (if you want to know when we’re playing in your town)
• Browsing data and cookies (yum!)
• Physical address (if you want us to send you buttons, stickers, and other goodies!)
• Your username and IP address if you leave comments (this is to prevent spam; go visit your first AOL or Yahoo email address if you need a reminder as to why Spam = Bad!)

You probably fill a ton of these out whenever you want to win a contest or something. That’s cool, we do too!

But what do we do with your contact info? We use it to contact you!

• If you sign up for our email list, we’ll use that info to email you.

• If you follow us on any social media sites (which why wouldn’t you?), we’ll probably contact you there.

• Want stickers/buttons/other merch? Then send us your good ‘ol snail mail info!

• It’s rare people like getting calls/texts from unknown numbers so we probably won’t ask for your phone number. But if we change our minds in the future, it’ll probably be for good reason!

Any/all of this data will be stored on secure servers and will never ever ever be sold or shared because that’d be a shitty thing to do. We’d prefer to ask you for money directly (feel free to Venmo us @cheerupclub if you like what we do!) then to pawn off your info and trust. Of course, if some cyberwhiz were to hack into the Mailchimp mainframe or something, there’s not much we can do, but barring that, your info is safe with us!

Of course, if you don’t want to get emails or anything else from us, simply unsubscribe. Heads up – your email address will probably still live in that super safe server, but that’s just to make sure you don’t accidentally get added back onto the list!

When the tech-giants decided to develop the creepiest ways to stalk us on the internet, they thought it would be best to give that technology the most cute and unassuming name possible – cookies!

Cookies are little bits of info that get stored to make pages load faster, log behavior (like what pages you click, videos watched, time spent on a certain page, etc.), save your username/login info (see that “remember me” checkbox?)… They’re probably able to do a bunch of other stuff too, but we’re not super tech-savvy, so that’s about all we know and all we’ll use it for. If that changes, we’ll be sure to update this here section. 

If you go to our Media page, you’ll be able to stream some tunes and see some cool videos. Those are actually magical links that lead to sites you probably already know and trust like Spotify and YouTube. But heads up – those sites might log some info whenever you play any of that media. It’s usually not really personalized – more of a general “this person played this video and managed to sit through 3 minutes before they got bored and moved on to the next!” Of course, we hope that you watch the entirety of any videos we post, but no judgements if you can’t.

Long story short – each time you click a link to one of these other sites, a little bit of info is stored. That likely applies to any social media stuff too.

Buckle up, cuz this is where shit gets SPOOKY! You and I both know that Facebook, Google, and all their cohort companies track you like a poonhound at a pool party. (Is that a saying? I don’t think so, but I guess it manages to capture the creepy nature of it all.)

Anyway, those sites will log all the info you give them and compile it into a big anonymous report card that can show who, where, when, why , and how people use those tools (or any site connected to them). Don’t worry – the “who” is still somewhat anonymous – like age range, location, gender (they’re not super progressive on this yet, but…) etc.

We’ll use some of this info to get a better sense of who our audience is, but we’d much prefer you just comment on our shit saying what you like or don’t like. We won’t go too out of our way to gather this stuff though – we’ll mainly just use the info handed to us from these bigger fish (like how Spotify tells us that there are some people in Hungary around our age that like our tunes. That’s awesome! If that’s you, we should be friends.)

In short, we’re a band, not some tech giant or government agency. We’d like some mutual trust, and we’d rather be upfront and honest about it. And hey, if you don’t want us to have any of that info, that’s cool. Just know that we ain’t half as malicious as some of your favorite websites!

Depends – do you wanna be forever or fair-weather friends? 

We’re not really data-hoarders (gotta leave room for all the recording gear and art supplies!), so we won’t keep anything longer than we need to. I guess the exception here would be your email address – as mentioned above, if you unsubscribe, we’ll hang on to your email address to make sure you don’t get added again accidentally.

The other exception is if you leave comments or anything on this site – that data sticks around so you can keep adding comments on other posts!

If you trust us with your info, it’s our duty to Keep It Like A Secret. Of course, we have a website, social media, email, payment processors, “third party service providers” (whatever that means) etc. so it’s possible that some of your info might be shared with those entities.

You’re probably asking “who are these entities?!”

Well, a mostly complete list off the top of my head will include:

• Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, MailChimp
• Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal, Deezer, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, Reverbnation, etc.
• Venmo, PayPal
• Google (Gmail plus they control everything, so I’ll add it just to be safe), web hosting
• Any other 3rd party software needed to run things (i.e. spam detection for you naughty nellies trying to leave your porn links in our comments!)

If we start using any other similar services in the future, we’ll do our best to add them here. Further to that, we’ll never give them more info than we/they absolutely need, because hey, you gave it to us, so why would we give it to them if we don’t have to?!

On a similar note, if the companies above have servers in far and distant lands, inevitably, some of your information might land there. BUT – it’ll be as safe as if… well, as safe as any of the other info you give Facebook, Google, Spotify, etc. The upside is that we don’t got no ulterior motives or anything, so we’re not going to maliciously or knowingly put any of your data at risk. What’s more, we’ll do everything in our power to protect it!

Like The Clash once said, “this is a public service announcement – with GUITAR!”

Except I can’t tell if a privacy policy is more or less dystopian than the rest of that song…

But anyway, here goes. If you knowingly or unknowingly give us any of your info, you should have a right to see what it is, know how we handle it, get a copy of it, and have it purged from the record if you so choose. This does not include any data we’re obliged to keep for any administrative, legal, or security purposes, but at this point, I’m not sure we’ll be knowingly or unknowingly collecting anything that falls under those parameters.

Well, if you made it this far, congrats! I hope it was as informative and entertaining as any Privacy Policy could be.

If you have any questions, comments, concerns, or simply want to see what data of yours we have and whether or not you want it thrown into the fires of Mordor, just drop us a line at: info[at]cheerupclub.org

The weird @ in brackets is because we hate spam just as much as you do.