Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 19, 2025

This Privacy Policy describes how Paddez.com ("we", "us", or "our") handles information in connection with your use of our application, covering both data managed on your device (client-side) and data processed or stored on our servers to provide application features.

Information We Collect

We strive to minimize the personal data we collect. This policy outlines how we handle information, including data stored on your device and data processed or temporarily stored on our servers to provide application features.

Data Stored Locally on Your Device: (Covered in detail in 'Client-Side Storage').

Data Processed or Stored on Our Servers: To provide core application functionality, such as fetching album information, enabling caching, and supporting the 'Share Your Grid' feature, certain data you provide or that is generated by your requests is processed and may be temporarily stored on our servers. This includes your Last.fm username (when provided), selected time periods for album charts, album/artist names (for lookups), and the generated album grids for sharing. We do not store personal identifiers like your name or email address unless you provide them directly (e.g., by contacting us via email).

Beyond the analytics described in the 'Google Analytics' section and functional client-side storage, our application does not use traditional browser cookies for tracking your activity across other sites.

Client-Side Storage

As mentioned in the "Information We Collect" section, some data is stored locally on your device. Our application utilizes your browser's localStorage to enhance your experience. This data remains on your device and is not transmitted to our servers. Specifically, we store the following information in your browser's localStorage:

• Last.fm Username:
  • Purpose: To prefill the username input field when you revisit the application, saving you from re-entering it.
  • Scope: Only the last successfully used username is stored.
  • Storage: Stored exclusively on your device in your browser; not sent to our servers.
• Theme Preference:
  • Purpose: To remember your preferred viewing theme (e.g., light or dark mode) for subsequent visits.
  • Storage: Stored exclusively on your device in your browser; not sent to our servers.

Interaction with Third-Party Services

Last.fm

Our application uses the Last.fm username you provide to request your top album data for a selected time period directly from Last.fm's servers. We do not store your Last.fm username persistently on our servers beyond what is necessary for caching.

To improve performance and reduce the load on the Last.fm API, we cache the responses we receive from Last.fm. This cached data includes album details for your charts.

• Successful responses: Cached for up to 1 hour. This means if you request the same chart for the same username and time period within this window, you may receive a faster response from our cache.
• "Not found" or empty results: Cached for up to 10 minutes. This helps avoid repeated requests for data that is unlikely to appear quickly.
• Cache Key: The cache is keyed using a combination of your Last.fm username and the selected time period. This ensures that the cached data is specific to your request.

We encourage you to review Last.fm's privacy policy to understand how they handle your data.

Spotify Album Links

Our application can fetch and display links to albums on Spotify. When you request a Spotify link for a specific album, the application sends the album name and artist name you provide to our server. Our server then uses this information to query the Spotify API to find the relevant album link.

To improve performance and reduce the number of API calls to Spotify, we cache the results of these lookups on our server.

• Data Cached: The cache stores the provided album name and artist name along with the corresponding Spotify link if found, or a "not found" status. No personal user data is included in this cache.
• Cache Key: The cache is keyed using a combination of the album name and artist name to ensure specificity.
• Successful lookups: Cached for up to 24 hours.
• "Not found" status: Cached for up to 1 hour.

The use of the Spotify API is subject to Spotify's Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review their policy to understand how Spotify handles your information.

Share Your Grid

Our application allows you to generate a unique link to share your created album grid with others. When you choose to share a grid, the following information is stored on our servers to make this feature possible:

• The Last.fm username used to generate the grid.
• The time period selected for the grid (e.g., 7-day, 1-month).
• The list of albums (including artist name, album name, and album cover image URL) that constitute the grid.

This information is stored on our servers for 30 days from the date you share the grid. After this period, the shared grid data and its unique link may be automatically deleted.

Please be aware that anyone with whom you share the unique link will be able to view the generated grid, which includes the Last.fm username, the selected time period, and the album details. You are responsible for deciding with whom you share these links.

Google Analytics

We use Google Analytics to collect information about your use of our application. This information helps us understand how users engage with our site and allows us to improve your experience.

Google Analytics may collect data such as:

• Pages you visit on our site
• Time spent on those pages
• Interactions with site elements (e.g., button clicks)
• Browser type and version
• Operating system
• Referring URLs

This data is aggregated and anonymized by Google Analytics, and we do not use it to personally identify you. The information collected is used solely for statistical analysis and to enhance the functionality and user experience of our application.

For more information on how Google Analytics collects and processes data, please visit Google's Privacy Policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy.

Data Security

We prioritize your privacy and aim to minimize the data we store. We do not store direct personal identifiers such as IP addresses or detailed raw server access logs related to your individual requests, apart from what is collected by Google Analytics as described in its own section.

However, as detailed in other sections of this policy, certain data is temporarily stored on our servers to enable specific application functionalities. This includes:

• Cached API responses from Last.fm and Spotify (containing album and artist information, usernames for Last.fm, and time periods) to improve performance and reduce external API calls.
• Data for the "Share Your Grid" feature (Last.fm username, selected time period, and album list) to allow shared grids to be viewed via a unique link.

This storage is implemented for the specific, disclosed purposes of enhancing application performance and enabling sharing features. We take reasonable technical and administrative measures to protect the information that we do temporarily store on our servers. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: privacy@paddez.com

This policy is owned and operated by Paddez.com.