Privacy Policy

Salone Gospel Hubis the home of Sierra Leonean gospel — a free directory and community for artists, musicians, choirs, churches, producers, DJs, songs and events, at home and across the diaspora. This policy explains what information we collect, why, and the choices you have. We've kept it plain and short on purpose.

We collect as little as we can. Creators never pay to be listed, and we don't sell your information or run cross-site advertising trackers.

What we collect

• Your account. An email address, so you can sign in with a magic link or with Google. We never set or store a password. If you use Google, we receive only the basic profile Google shares to confirm who you are.
• Things you publish. When you add a profile, song or event you give us the details you choose to share — a name, photo, bio, location, genres, links and so on. This content is meant to be public in the directory once approved.
• Your activity. Follows, likes and event RSVPs are kept private to you — only the totals are shown publicly, never who you are. Comments are public and show the display name you choose. Reports you send are private to our moderators.
• Community updates.If you manage a church or choir profile, you can post short announcements (“updates”) on its page. These are public the moment you post them and are shown to everyone, the same as the rest of that profile. Anyone can report an update, and our moderators can hide or remove it; you can delete your own updates at any time.
• Appearing as a supporter. You can choose to appear publicly as a supporter of an artist you follow. This is off by default— you stay private unless you turn it on, from the artist's profile page, and you can turn it off again at any time from that same profile page. When it's on, your display name and photo are shown in that artist's “Supporters” section and in their private creator dashboard. The rest of the follow list is never revealed.
• Creator insights. If you manage an artist or church profile, you get a private dashboard for it showing aggregate counts and trends — your followers and public supporters, plays and followers from your linked platforms, and reactions and comments on your own content. It shows totals, plus the names of the fans who chose to appear as your supporters; it never reveals the identity of anyone else who follows or reacts to you.
• Worship check-ins. Your worship check-ins and daily streak are completely private to you. We never show them to anyone else, and we never publish any total or count of them.
• Your playlists.You can create playlists of approved songs. Private playlists are visible only to you; if you make one public or unlisted, it is reviewed by a moderator and then shown with your display name. You can change a playlist's visibility or delete it at any time.
• New-release and weekly-summary emails.We send two non-essential emails, both on by default and both with a one-click, no-sign-in unsubscribe link: (1) when an artist you follow releases a new song, we email you so you don't miss it; (2) if you have a listed profile, we email you a weekly summary of how your own music performed (aggregate plays, new followers and likes — never who they are). Why we can do this: choosing to follow an artist, or listing a profile you own, is a clear signal you want exactly this information, so we rely on that relationship (a legitimate, expected use) rather than a separate sign-up. You can turn either off at any time from your dashboard, or with the unsubscribe link in every such email. We look up your sign-in email on the server only; your address is never shown to artists or other users, and we never share or sell it.
• Ticket orders. If you buy a ticket, we record the order, the amount and its status. We never see your card or mobile-money details — the payment provider handles those. Your display name and ticket status are shared with the event organizer so they can check you in at the door, but never your email.
• Booking requests.If you send a booking request to an artist, choir or producer, we record your message and any details you add — event date, type, location, budget and a contact number if you choose to share one. Your message, those details and your display name are shared with that profile's owner so they can reply; the request and its status stay private to you and them, and are never shown publicly. You can withdraw a request you sent while it's still open, and you can ask us to delete your booking history at any time using the contact email below.
• Tips.If you tip a creator (“Support this ministry / artist”), we record the amount, an optional message and the tip's status. A tip is private to you and the creator: the creator sees the amount, your message and your display name in their private dashboard, and you can see the tips you've sent in yours — no one else sees either. We never publish tip totals. As with tickets, we never see your card or mobile-money details — the payment provider handles those.
• Technical basics. Standard server logs needed to run and secure the site. The app works offline by caching pages on your own device. Sponsor click counts are recorded in aggregate using a one-way hash — we never store your raw IP address. To understand how the site is used, we measure page visits with a privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics service (Vercel) that reports aggregate trends only — visits, popular pages, rough country and referrer — without cookies, cross-site tracking, or storing your IP address.
• Outbound link measurement.When you click a link on a profile that takes you to an artist's external account, we count the click so we can show how much traffic the Hub sends to artists. We store only a salted, irreversible hash (no raw IP address), de-duplicated per visitor per day, and we publish only aggregate totals.
• Usage measurement.To learn what is working, we count a few in-app actions: when a song or video is played, when a card or link is shared, and when a search is run. When you open a link that was shared to WhatsApp (those links carry a small “?s=wa” marker), we count the arrival the same way — it tells us a share led to a visit, never who you are, and it is never tied to an account. These are stored as salted, irreversible hashes (no raw IP address), de-duplicated per visitor per day, and only aggregate totals are kept and shown. For searches that return nothing, we also record the search words so we know which artists or songs to add next, with offensive terms removed, and a word is shown to our team only once at least three different people have searched it. These records are trimmed automatically over time. If your browser sends a “Do Not Track” or Global Privacy Control signal, we skip this measurement entirely.

How we use it

We use your information to:

• run the directory and show your approved profiles, songs and events;
• review submissions, and check reports about content that is already live;
• keep the community safe — preventing spam, abuse and impersonation;
• show aggregate counts (followers, likes, RSVPs) and basic, privacy-respecting usage trends;
• contact you about your account or submissions when we need to.

Moderation & what becomes public

New profiles are always reviewed by a human moderator before they appear — usually within 48 hours. Once you own an approved profile, songs and events you add publish straight away, so you can share them immediately.

Content published this way is still checked: an automated screen holds anything that trips our language filter for a moderator to look at, and if several people report an item it is taken off the public pages and returned to the review queue. Every moderation decision, automatic or human, is recorded in an internal audit log. Your private activity (follows, likes, RSVPs and reports) is never published.

Who else is involved

We rely on a few trusted providers to run the service, and share only what each needs:

• Supabase — our database, sign-in and (for earlier uploads) file storage.
• Cloudflare — stores the photos, cover art and audio files you upload (Cloudflare R2) and delivers your public media from its global network so it loads quickly wherever you are. Cloudflare also manages our domain name. Your uploads are all it receives; it never sees your email, account or private activity.
• Vercel — hosting, content delivery and privacy-friendly, cookieless analytics.
• Google — only if you choose to sign in with Google.
• Your browser's speech service — only if you use the microphone (voice) search. Your spoken audio is sent by your browser (for example, Google for Chrome) to convert it into a text search query. We never receive or store the audio — only the text it produces, in your browser.
• Payment provider — processes ticket payments (named here once this feature is enabled). We do not process payments or refunds ourselves.
• Email provider (Resend) — sends our emails (booking and ticket notifications, and the new-release emails for artists you follow) to your sign-in address; it receives only your email address and the message contents.
• Embedded players (YouTube, Spotify, Audiomack, SoundCloud) load only after you tap play, so those platforms receive nothing about you until you choose to watch or listen.

Cookies

We use cookies only to keep you signed in and secure. We don't use advertising or cross-site tracking cookies. Our page-visit analytics is cookieless, so there is no tracking-cookie banner to click through.

Your choices and rights

You can ask us to show you the personal information we hold about you, correct it, or delete your account and content. If you're in the UK, EU or another region with data-protection laws, those rights apply to you here too. To make a request, email us at danielbangs@dsbdigital.biz. You can also flag any page with the “Report this page” link.

Keeping your information

We keep your account and content for as long as your profile is active or until you ask us to delete it. Aggregate sponsor-click, outbound-link and in-app usage records (stored as irreversible hashes) are automatically trimmed over time, and we remove information we no longer need.

Children

Salone Gospel Hub is intended for a general audience and is not directed at children under 13. If you believe a child has given us personal information, please contact us and we will remove it.

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy as the platform grows. When we do, we'll change the “last updated” date above, and we'll flag any significant changes.

Contact

Questions about your privacy? Email danielbangs@dsbdigital.biz. See also our Terms of Use.