Privacy Policy

Personal data (usually referred to just as "data" below) will only be processed by us to the extent necessary and for the purpose of providing a functional and user-friendly website, including its contents, and the services offered there.

Per Art. 4 No. 1 of Regulation (EU) 2016/679, i.e. the General Data Protection Regulation (hereinafter referred to as the "GDPR"), "processing" refers to any operation or set of operations such as collection, recording, organization, structuring, storage, adaptation, alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination, or otherwise making available, alignment, or combination, restriction, erasure, or destruction performed on personal data, whether by automated means or not.

The following privacy policy is intended to inform you in particular about the type, scope, purpose, duration, and legal basis for the processing of such data either under our own control or in conjunction with others. We also inform you below about the third-party components we use to optimize our website and improve the user experience which may result in said third parties also processing data they collect and control.

Our privacy policy is structured as follows:

I. Information about us as controllers of your data

II. The rights of users and data subjects

III. Information about the data processing

I. Information about us as controllers of your data

The party responsible for this website (the "controller") for purposes of data protection law is:

E-Mail: shamaniac@shaxos.com

II. The rights of users and data subjects

With regard to the data processing to be described in more detail below, users and data subjects have the right

• to confirmation of whether data concerning them is being processed, information about the data being processed, further information about the nature of the data processing, and copies of the data (cf. also Art. 15 GDPR);

• to correct or complete incorrect or incomplete data (cf. also Art. 16 GDPR);

• to the immediate deletion of data concerning them (cf. also Art. 17 DSGVO), or, alternatively, if further processing is necessary as stipulated in Art. 17 Para. 3 GDPR, to restrict said processing per Art. 18 GDPR;

• to receive copies of the data concerning them and/or provided by them and to have the same transmitted to other providers/controllers (cf. also Art. 20 GDPR);

• to file complaints with the supervisory authority if they believe that data concerning them is being processed by the controller in breach of data protection provisions (see also Art. 77 GDPR).

In addition, the controller is obliged to inform all recipients to whom it discloses data of any such corrections, deletions, or restrictions placed on processing the same per Art. 16, 17 Para. 1, 18 GDPR. However, this obligation does not apply if such notification is impossible or involves a disproportionate effort. Nevertheless, users have a right to information about these recipients.

Likewise, under Art. 21 GDPR, users and data subjects have the right to object to the controller's future processing of their data pursuant to Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. In particular, an objection to data processing for the purpose of direct advertising is permissible.

III. Information about the data processing

Your data processed when using our website will be deleted or blocked as soon as the purpose for its storage ceases to apply, provided the deletion of the same is not in breach of any statutory storage obligations or unless otherwise stipulated below.

Server data

For technical reasons, the following data sent by your internet browser to us or to our server provider will be collected, especially to ensure a secure and stable website: These server log files record the type and version of your browser, operating system, the website from which you came (referrer URL), the webpages on our site visited, the date and time of your visit, as well as the IP address from which you visited our site.

The data thus collected will be temporarily stored, but not in association with any other of your data.

The basis for this storage is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in the improvement, stability, functionality, and security of our website.

The data will be deleted within no more than seven days, unless continued storage is required for evidentiary purposes. In which case, all or part of the data will be excluded from deletion until the investigation of the relevant incident is finally resolved.

Cookie Consent Banner

When you visit our website for the first time, a consent banner is shown at the bottom of the screen. No third-party cookies or third-party scripts (such as the Kit/ConvertKit newsletter form, Google Ads, or Meta/Instagram conversion tracking) are loaded before you actively click "Accept". If you click "Decline", these services remain disabled. Your decision is stored locally in your browser (in localStorage, not as a cookie) so the banner does not reappear on every visit. You can reset your decision at any time by clearing your browser's site data for this domain.

The legal basis for loading non-essential third-party services after your active consent is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR and § 25 (1) TTDSG / equivalent national implementations of the ePrivacy Directive.

Cookies

a) Session cookies

We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files or other storage technologies stored on your computer by your browser. These cookies process certain specific information about you, such as your browser, location data, or IP address.

This processing makes our website more user-friendly, efficient, and secure, allowing us, for example, to display our website in different languages or to offer a shopping cart function.

The legal basis for such processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR, insofar as these cookies are used to collect data to initiate or process contractual relationships.

If the processing does not serve to initiate or process a contract, our legitimate interest lies in improving the functionality of our website. The legal basis is then Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR.

When you close your browser, these session cookies are deleted.

b) Third-party cookies

If necessary, our website may also use cookies from companies with whom we cooperate for the purpose of advertising, analyzing, or improving the features of our website.

Please refer to the following information for details, in particular for the legal basis and purpose of such third-party collection and processing of data collected through cookies.

c) Disabling cookies

You can refuse the use of cookies by changing the settings on your browser. Likewise, you can use the browser to delete cookies that have already been stored. However, the steps and measures required vary, depending on the browser you use. If you have any questions, please use the help function or consult the documentation for your browser or contact its maker for support. Browser settings cannot prevent so-called flash cookies from being set. Instead, you will need to change the setting of your Flash player. The steps and measures required for this also depend on the Flash player you are using. If you have any questions, please use the help function or consult the documentation for your Flash player or contact its maker for support.

If you prevent or restrict the installation of cookies, not all of the functions on our site may be fully usable.

Cookies set on this site (non-exhaustive list)

The following identifiers may be set on your device when you visit our playlist landing pages, depending on your consent state:

Identifier	Provider	Purpose	Retention
_ga, _ga_W4PYRS2F7Y	Google Analytics	User identifier & session	~13 months
_gcl_au	Google Ads (Conversion Linker)	Stores click ID for cross-domain attribution	~90 days
IDE, NID, 1P_JAR	Google Ads (DoubleClick)	Remarketing & ad personalization	~13 months
VISITOR_INFO1_LIVE, YSC, PREF	YouTube (set only after you press play)	Player preferences & session	Session – 8 months
shamaniac_consent_v1	ShaManiac (localStorage, not a cookie)	Stores your consent state	Until you clear browser data

Google may set additional cookies as part of their tracking services. The exact set depends on Google's current configuration and may change without notice.

Newsletter (Kit / ConvertKit)

Our newsletter sign-up form is provided by Kit (formerly ConvertKit), operated by SeedProd LLC d/b/a Kit, 750 Lindaro Street, Suite 350, San Rafael, CA 94901, USA. When you submit the form, the data you provide (e-mail address and, optionally, first name) is transmitted to and stored on Kit's servers in the United States in order to manage your subscription and to send you the newsletter you signed up for.

The Kit form script (ck.5.js) is only loaded after you have given consent through our cookie consent banner. Once loaded, Kit may set cookies (e.g. ck_subscriber_id) and similar identifiers in your browser to attribute newsletter sign-ups, prevent duplicate submissions, and measure conversions. Kit may also process technical information such as your IP address and the date/time of submission.

The legal basis for loading the Kit script and processing the data you actively submit is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR (your consent). The legal basis for sending the newsletter itself, after you have entered your e-mail, is also Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. Data transfers to the United States are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, Kit's certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework.

You may revoke your consent to the use of the Kit script at any time by clearing your browser data, and you may unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link contained in each e-mail. For more information about Kit's data practices, please see https://kit.com/privacy.

YouTube Embeds

We embed videos from YouTube on our website. YouTube is a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). The embedded videos are loaded with native lazy-loading: the actual player is only requested by your browser once the video becomes visible on screen. As soon as you start playing a video, YouTube may set cookies and process information including your IP address, the URL of our page, browser information and, if you are signed in to a Google account, your account identifier.

The legal basis for displaying the videos and the resulting data transmission to YouTube/Google is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR (your consent through the cookie consent banner) and, in addition, Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR (our legitimate interest in offering an attractive presentation of our music). You can prevent any data transfer to YouTube by simply not clicking the play button.

For more information about how Google processes data, see https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Contact

If you contact us via email or the contact form, the data you provide will be used for the purpose of processing your request. We must have this data in order to process and answer your inquiry; otherwise we will not be able to answer it in full or at all.

The legal basis for this data processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. b) GDPR.

Your data will be deleted once we have fully answered your inquiry and there is no further legal obligation to store your data, such as if an order or contract resulted therefrom.

User posts, comments, and ratings

We offer you the opportunity to post questions, answers, opinions, and ratings on our website, hereinafter referred to jointly as "posts." If you make use of this opportunity, we will process and publish your post, the date and time you submitted it, and any pseudonym you may have used.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your prior consent under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revoking your consent.

In addition, we will also process your IP address and email address. The IP address is processed because we might have a legitimate interest in taking or supporting further action if your post infringes the rights of third parties and/or is otherwise unlawful.

In this case, the legal basis is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR. Our legitimate interest lies in any legal defense we may have to mount.

Follow-up comments

If you make posts on our website, we also offer you the opportunity to subscribe to any subsequent follow-up comments made by third parties. In order to be able to inform you about these follow-up comments, we will need to process your email address.

The legal basis for this is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR. You may revoke your prior consent to this subscription under Art. 7 Para. 3 GDPR with future effect. All you have to do is inform us that you are revoking your consent or click on the unsubscribe link contained in each email.

Google Tag Manager

We use Google Tag Manager (Container ID: GTM-KR6T69ZM), a service provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). Tag Manager is a management interface that coordinates the loading of other tracking scripts (e.g. Google Analytics, Google Ads Conversion Tracking) on our website. Tag Manager itself does not load cookies or process personal data — it acts only as a control layer.

Tag Manager respects your Consent Mode v2 choice: when you click "Reject" or "Decline", all downstream tracking tags are blocked.

Legal basis: Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. f) GDPR (legitimate interest in providing the technical infrastructure of our website). Since Tag Manager itself does not process personal data, no separate consent is required for the Tag Manager script.

For more information, see https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Meta / Instagram Conversion Tracking

We may use conversion tracking technologies provided by Meta Platforms Ireland Limited, 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland ("Meta") — including the Meta Pixel and the Meta Conversions API — in connection with advertising campaigns we run on Facebook and Instagram. These technologies allow us to measure the effectiveness of our ads (e.g. how many people who clicked one of our ads then signed up for our newsletter) and to build remarketing audiences.

The Meta Pixel and any associated cookies are only loaded after you have given your consent through our cookie consent banner. Without consent, no Meta tracking script is loaded and no data is transmitted to Meta. Once loaded, the Meta Pixel may set cookies (e.g. _fbp) and process information such as your IP address, browser/device data, the pages you visit on our site and the actions you take. Meta may transfer this data to servers in the United States.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR (your consent). Data transfers to the United States are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, Meta's certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. You can withdraw your consent at any time by clearing your browser data and revisiting the consent banner.

For more information about Meta's data practices, please visit: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/policy/

Google Ads Conversion Tracking & Remarketing

We may use Google Ads conversion tracking and remarketing, services provided by Google Ireland Limited, Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland ("Google"). These services allow us to measure the effectiveness of advertising campaigns we run on Google (e.g. how many users who clicked on one of our Google ads then signed up for our newsletter) and to display interest-based advertising to visitors of our website on third-party websites that participate in Google's advertising network.

The Google Ads tags and any associated cookies are only loaded after you have given your consent through our cookie consent banner. Without consent, no Google Ads script is loaded and no data is transmitted to Google. Once loaded, Google may set conversion and remarketing cookies on your device and process information such as your IP address, browser data, the page you came from, and the actions you take on our site. Conversion cookies typically expire after 30 days and are not used to personally identify you.

The legal basis for this processing is Art. 6 Para. 1 lit. a) GDPR (your consent). Data may be transferred to Google servers in the United States; such transfers are based on the EU Standard Contractual Clauses and, where applicable, Google's certification under the EU-U.S. Data Privacy Framework. You can withdraw your consent at any time by clearing your browser data and revisiting the consent banner.

Further information on Google's data practices is available at https://policies.google.com/privacy and https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads.

The Google Ads conversion tracking ID used on this site is AW-17292252379. You can permanently opt out of Google Analytics tracking via the official browser extension at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout, and you can manage personalized ad preferences (including opting out of remarketing audiences) at adssettings.google.com.