Privacy

This website is operated by Luca Ferri for the band Crying Steel. Our website address is: https://cryingsteel.org/.

This policy sets out how we process any personal data we collect from you or that you provide to us through our website. We confirm that we will keep your information secure and that we will comply fully with all applicable EU Data Protection legislation and regulations.

Please read the following carefully to understand what happens to personal data that you choose to provide to us, or that we collect from you when you visit this site. By visiting https://cryingsteel.org/ (this website) you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this policy.

Who we are

Crying Steel is a music group, performing and recording heavy metal music.

Types of information we may collect from you

We may collect, store and use the following kinds of personal information about individuals who visit and use our website:

Information you supply to us. You may supply us with information about you by filling in forms on our website. This includes information you provide when you submit a contact/enquiry form or sign up to our mailing list. The information you give us may include your name and e-mail address.

Information our website automatically collects about you. With regard to each of your visits to our website we may automatically collect information including the following:

technical information, including a truncated and anonymised version of your Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, operating system and platform;
information about your visit, including what pages you visit, how long you are on the site, how you got to the site (including date and time); page response times, length of visit, what you click on, documents downloaded and download errors.

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. View our Cookie Policy here.

How we may use the information we collect

We use the information in the following ways:

Information you supply to us. We will use this information:

to provide you with information that you request from us (such as information about our events in your area);

Information we automatically collect about you. We will use this information:

administer our site including troubleshooting and statistical purposes;
to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
security and debugging as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure.

This information is collected anonymously and is not linked to information that identifies you as an individual. We use Google Analytics to track this information. Find out how Google uses your data at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245.

Disclosure of your information

We may use third-party Service Providers to send marketing emails such as Mailchimp. Their privacy policy may be viewed here.

We will use all reasonable efforts to ensure that your personal data is not disclosed to regional/national institutions and authorities, unless required by law or other regulations.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

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.

Personal data may be processed for the following purposes and using the following third party services:

Facebook account login

Permissions: Access to activities; Access to the News Feed; music.listen action; Actions ‘news.reads’; ‘video.watches’ actions

Personal Data: various types of Data as specified in the privacy policy of the service

Viewing content from external platforms

Gravatar

Personal Data: Usage Data; e-mail

Google Fonts

Personal Data: Usage Data; Tracking Tools

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your rights – access to your personal data

You have the right to ensure that your personal data is being processed lawfully (“Subject Access Right”). Your subject access right can be exercised in accordance with data protection laws and regulations. Any subject access request must be made in writing to Luca Ferri at the following e-mail address: timestandsteel@gmail.com. We will provide your personal data to you within the statutory time frames. To enable us to trace any of your personal data that we may be holding, we may need to request further information from you. If you have a complaint about how we have used your information, you have the right to complain to the relevant authorities.

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.