NextBanger

Privacy Policy

Last updated: 13 October 2026

This policy explains what personal data NextBanger processes, why, and what choices you have — including how curators can have their listing removed.

  1. 1. Data about our users

    • Account data: email address and login information.
    • Campaign data: track links, artist names, pitch texts and pitch statuses you create.
    • Waitlist: the email address you leave to be invited.
    • Technical data: session information needed to keep you signed in and the service secure.

  2. 2. Data about curators

    Our catalogue contains information that playlist curators have made public themselves: playlist and profile names, follower counts, genres, descriptions, and contact or submission details published in playlist descriptions, bio-link pages or public submission directories.

    We process this on the basis of legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR): connecting artists with curators who publicly invite submissions. We never buy contact lists and do not publish curator data outside the signed-in platform.

  3. 3. Curator removal on request

    Are you a curator and do you not want to be listed? You can have your profile, specific playlists or only your contact details removed at any time — free of charge and without giving a reason.

    • Email privacy@nextbanger.com from the address listed, or include a link to your playlist or profile.
    • We handle requests within 7 days (and always within the 30 days required by law) and confirm by email.
    • We keep a minimal suppression record (e.g. the playlist ID) solely to prevent your listing from being re-added by future discovery.

    You can also ask which data we hold about you, or ask us to correct it.

  4. 4. How we use data

    To operate the service, rank and match curators, track pitches, prevent abuse and improve quality. We use AI models to check catalogue data (e.g. detecting duplicates or bot playlists); these process only catalogue data, not your private campaign content beyond what is needed.

  5. 5. Sharing and processors

    We do not sell personal data. We use trusted processors for hosting, database, authentication and AI processing, bound by data processing agreements. When you pitch a curator, your track and pitch text are shown to that curator via a private review link.

  6. 6. Retention

    Account and campaign data are kept while your account is active and deleted on request. Curator data is refreshed regularly and removed when no longer public or on request.

  7. 7. Your rights

    Under the GDPR you have the right to access, rectify, erase, restrict and object to processing, and to data portability. Contact privacy@nextbanger.com. You may also lodge a complaint with the Dutch Data Protection Authority (Autoriteit Persoonsgegevens).

  8. 8. Cookies and storage

    We use only functional browser storage: your login session and language preference. No advertising or tracking cookies.

  9. 9. Security

    Data is stored with access controls per user; credentials for external platforms stay server-side. No system is perfectly secure, but we take reasonable measures to protect your data.

  10. 10. Contact

    Privacy questions and removal requests: privacy@nextbanger.com.