Effective Date: 14 August 2025
1. Who We Are
TuneQuiz (“we”, “our”, “us”) offers music quizzes using public catalog data and 30-second previews from Apple services. This Policy explains how we collect, use, and share information and the choices you have.
2. What We Collect
- Information you provide (e.g., name, email, message via our Contact form).
- Automatically collected: IP address, device/browser, timestamps, pages viewed, referrer, and cookie identifiers.
- From third parties: We query Apple’s public APIs to fetch artist/track metadata and previews based on your searches; we do not receive your Apple account data.
3. How We Use Information
- Operate, maintain, and improve the site; fix bugs; prevent abuse.
- Analytics and performance measurement.
- Advertising delivery and measurement where enabled (see Section 5).
- Respond to inquiries; comply with legal obligations.
4. Cookies & Controls
We use cookies necessary for site operation and (where enabled) cookies for analytics and advertising. You can control cookies in your browser. Disabling cookies may impact features.
5. Advertising (Google AdSense)
Disclosure required by Google: Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this and/or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to our site and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Ads Settings. You can learn how Google uses information from sites or apps that use its services at Google Policies. Google’s list of ad technology providers is available here.
- Personalized ads: use advertising cookies to infer interests and show more relevant ads.
- Non-personalized ads (NPA): ads are served using contextual information; cookies may still be used for frequency capping, aggregated ad reporting, and to combat fraud/abuse.
6. Analytics
We use Google Analytics (Google LLC). Data may be processed by Google to provide aggregated reports. Controls:
- Opt-out add-on: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
- Google Privacy Policy: policies.google.com/privacy
7. EEA/UK Users (GDPR & Consent Mode)
Where required, we display a consent prompt and honor your choices. If you do not consent to advertising/analytics cookies, we will not use them and may serve non-personalized ads. We support Google’s Consent Mode v2 signals (e.g., ad_user_data, ad_personalization, analytics_storage) to reflect your consent status to Google services.
Legal bases: consent (for analytics/ads cookies), legitimate interests (site operation, security, fraud prevention), contract (to provide requested services), and legal obligations. You may have rights to access, rectify, erase, restrict, object, and data portability; you may lodge a complaint with your supervisory authority.
Additional regional controls: EU—YourOnlineChoices.
8. California Residents (CPRA)
Under the California Consumer Privacy Rights Act, you may have rights to know/access, correct, delete, and to opt out of certain “sharing” for cross-context behavioral advertising.
- Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information: visit /privacy-choices or contact us via the form below to exercise your rights.
- We do not knowingly sell personal information for money. Some analytics/ads disclosures may be considered “sharing.”
- We do not knowingly sell/share data of users under 16 years of age.
9. Sharing
We share information with service providers (hosting, analytics, advertising) under appropriate contracts; to comply with law; or to protect rights, property, and safety. We do not sell personal information.
10. Retention & Security
We retain information as needed for the purposes above and take reasonable measures to protect it. No system is perfectly secure.
11. Third-Party Links
Our site may link to third-party websites. Their privacy practices are governed by their own policies.
12. Changes
We may update this Policy. Changes will be posted here with an updated Effective Date.
13. Contact
Use our Contact form for privacy inquiries or to exercise rights.
Additional Choice Resources
- US DAA opt-out: optout.aboutads.info
- NAI opt-out: optout.networkadvertising.org
- Canada (DAAC): youradchoices.ca