Privacy & disclosures

Cuefinda runs no third-party analytics and no advertising scripts, and embeds no third-party players or trackers. Nothing on this site reports to Google, Meta, or anybody else. There are no accounts, so there is nothing to sign in to and no profile to build. Searching the catalogue happens on our own server and is not logged against you.

We do count one thing ourselves. Every link that leaves this site goes to a service that holds the music — Apple Music, YouTube, Amazon — and when one is followed we add one to a counter for that link. That is the entire record: a number beside a link. No identifier of you is sent with it, no time is recorded, and nothing says which links were followed together or by the same visitor. It tells us that a particular link was used 41 times; it cannot tell us anything about the people who used it, and a total cannot be taken apart again into individuals.

The cookie described below is deliberately not read when this happens. Joining it to these counts would turn an anonymous handle into a history of what somebody listened to, which is a different thing entirely from counting links, and not something this site does.

One cookie is set, and only once you vote for a track or a release. It holds a random handle — no name, no email, nothing derived from you or your device — and its only job is to remember which votes are yours, so that a vote can be taken back by the person who cast it and by nobody else. It is not read for any other purpose, never leaves our server, and is not shared. Clearing your site data removes it, and the votes it was holding stop being attributable to you.

Our host keeps standard server logs — IP address, timestamp, requested page, browser user-agent — for the ordinary purposes of serving the site securely and diagnosing faults. We do not use those logs to build a profile of you, and we do not combine them with anything else.

The search box sends what you type to our own server so it can return matching titles and names. Those queries are used to answer the request and nothing else: they are not stored against you, not profiled, and not shared.

This page is about data concerning you. For the data in the catalogue — where each fact was sourced and what each source is trusted for — see where the data comes from, and for the photographs of composers and artists, the image credits, which name every photographer and the licence their work is used under.