Cookie Policy

What Are Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit our website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to website owners.

We use cookies and similar technologies in accordance with applicable privacy laws including the GDPR (EU), CCPA (California), LGPD (Brazil), and other global privacy regulations.

How We Use Cookies

We categorize cookies into the following types. You can manage your preferences using the "Manage Cookies" link in our footer.

Essential Cookies

These cookies are necessary for the website to function properly and cannot be disabled. They include:

• cookie_control_consent — Stores your cookie consent preference (localStorage)
• yt_playlist_… — Keeps the list of latest podcast episodes for 30 minutes so it is not fetched again on every page (sessionStorage, cleared when you close the tab). It holds public episode information only.

Analytics Cookies

With your consent, we use analytics cookies to understand how visitors interact with our website. These cookies collect information such as:

• Number of visitors and unique users
• Pages visited and navigation paths
• Time spent on the website
• Traffic sources and referrers
• Device and browser information
• Geographic location (country/region level)

Marketing Cookies

We do not currently run advertising or retargeting cookies on this website. If that changes, we will update this policy and ask for your consent before any marketing cookies are set.

Preference / Functionality Cookies

These cookies remember your preferences and settings to provide a more personalized experience. They include:

• modal_dismissed — Remembers if you've closed the subscribe popup (30 days)

Third-Party Services

We use the following third-party services that may set cookies or collect data:

Google Tag Manager & Google Analytics 4

We use Google Tag Manager (GTM) to manage our analytics and marketing tags, and Google Analytics 4 (GA4) to analyze website traffic. With your consent, these services set the following cookies:

• _ga — Distinguishes unique users (2 years)
• _ga_<container-id> — Persists session state (2 years)
• _gid — Distinguishes users (24 hours)
• _gat — Throttles request rate (1 minute)
• _gac_<property-id> — Campaign-related information (90 days)

We have implemented Google Consent Mode v2, which means:

• No tracking cookies are set until you provide consent
• If you deny consent, Google uses cookieless pings for basic measurement
• Your IP address is anonymized before being sent to Google

Google Privacy Policy · Google Analytics Opt-out Add-on

Web Fonts

Our fonts are served directly from our own domain. Your browser does not contact any font service, so no IP address or request data is shared for fonts, and no cookies are set.

PunchUp (Tour Dates & Ticketing)

Tour dates on this site are sourced from PunchUp. The dates are fetched when the site is built and refreshed from our own tour-dates database when you load the page, so browsing this site sets no PunchUp cookies. When you click through to buy tickets you are redirected to PunchUp, which has its own privacy policy and may set cookies.

PunchUp Privacy Policy

Laylo (Stokeletter Sign-up)

Our Stokeletter sign-up form is Laylo's own embedded form. It loads from Laylo's servers, and Laylo (and the spam protection it uses) may set its own cookies or similar storage inside the form, under Laylo's policies, not ours.

Laylo Privacy Policy

YouTube (Podcast Player)

The podcast player is YouTube's privacy-enhanced embed and loads only when you press play. Until then no YouTube player cookies are set; once it plays, YouTube may store cookies or similar data under Google's policies.

Google Privacy Policy

External Links & Social Media

Our website contains links to external sites, such as our social media profiles and ticket sellers. These sites have their own privacy policies and cookie practices. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of external websites.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal data:

• Right to Access: Request a copy of the data we hold about you
• Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data
• Right to Erasure: Request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Right to Restrict Processing: Request limitation of data processing
• Right to Data Portability: Receive your data in a structured format
• Right to Object: Object to processing for direct marketing
• Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw consent at any time via "Manage Cookies"

Managing Cookies

You have several options to manage cookies:

• Our Cookie Banner: Use the "Manage Cookies" link in the footer to change your consent preferences at any time
• Browser Settings: Most browsers allow you to view, delete, and block cookies through their settings
• Google Opt-out: Install the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on
• Meta Opt-out: Manage your Meta ad preferences at facebook.com/ads/preferences
• Industry Opt-out: Visit aboutads.info or youronlinechoices.com for advertising opt-outs

Note that disabling cookies may affect the functionality of our website.

Contact Us

If you have questions about this Cookie Policy or wish to exercise your privacy rights, please get in touch with us directly.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Cookie Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post the updated policy on this page with a new "Last updated" date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.