Privacy
This policy covers naptownwail.com and the Naptown Wail iOS app. Both are run by one person in Indianapolis.
You can read every show, band, venue, and presenter without an account. Reading takes no name, no email, and no sign-in.
There are no tracking pixels, no advertising networks, and no third-party scripts that follow you. The register keeps one number: how many times each page was opened, by day. It carries no address, no cookie, and no device identifier, so there is nothing in it that links one view to another or to you. Nothing about your visit is sold or shared.
An account does one thing: follow bands, so their shows get flagged in the calendar. Making one is optional.
An account stores exactly this:
- Your username.
- Your password, hashed. The plain password is never written down.
- Your email, only if you type one in. It is optional and can be blank or removed at any time.
- The bands you follow.
- Your show alert preferences.
- Which shows you have already been alerted about, so the same one is not sent twice.
- A notification token for your phone, only if you turn on push notifications in the iOS app.
That is the whole record. No name, no location, no phone number, no contacts, no payment details, and no device identifier except the notification token described below.
If you give an email it is used to send show alerts for bands you follow, and for nothing else. It is never sold, rented, shared, or used for marketing. There is no newsletter attached to it.
The iOS app can send a notification when a band you follow has a show coming up. Turning it on asks the phone for permission and then stores one thing: a push token, the address Apple's notification service uses to reach that installation of the app. A push token is a device identifier. It is stored against your account and used only to send show alerts for bands you follow.
Turning push notifications off deletes the token. So does signing out, and so does deleting your account. If you decline the permission, no token is ever created. Push notifications are separate from email alerts: switching one on does not switch on the other.
Signing in sets one cookie. It holds your session so you are not asked to sign in on every visit, it expires after 90 days, and it is used for nothing else. There are no advertising or tracking cookies.
Delete your account from the account panel on the site, or from the account sheet in the iOS app. Your account, your email, every band you follow, and any push token on file are deleted immediately from the database. There is no undo and there is no backup copy held back.
The site is hosted on Vercel. Account records and the page counts are stored in a Neon Postgres database. Both are service providers acting for the register, not audiences for your data. Alert emails, when they are switched on, are sent through Resend. Push notifications, when they are switched on, are delivered by Apple's Push Notification service, which receives the token and the text of the notification in order to deliver it.
Show listings, band names, venues, and presenters are public information about public events, compiled by hand and by scraper. If you are in a listing and want it corrected or taken down, write the desk and it will be handled.
The register is not directed at children under 13 and does not knowingly collect anything from them.
If this policy changes, the revised version is posted here. Questions, corrections, or a request to see or delete what is on file: email the editor.