Privacy Policy

Glasgow Soundbath runs sound bath events across Glasgow and central Scotland. This page explains what is collected when you visit this website or book a ticket, why, and what you can do about it.

Last updated: 30 August 2026

Who is responsible

Glasgow Soundbath is run by Iain Ross, who is the data controller for the information described here. You can get in touch at info@glasgowsoundbath.com.

This website does not use cookies

glasgowsoundbath.com sets no cookies, stores nothing in your browser, and reads nothing from your device. There are no advertising or analytics trackers on this site. There is no consent banner because there is nothing to consent to.

What the web server records

Like almost every website, the server keeps an access log of the requests it receives. Each entry contains the page requested, the date and time, the response, the page you came from if your browser sent one, your browser and device type, and your IP address.

These logs are used to understand how many people visit and which links they follow. When they are processed:

• your IP address is used only to group requests from a single visit together, is replaced with an irreversible hash using a key regenerated on every run, and is never stored or exported;
• advertising click identifiers such as fbclid are discarded before anything is read;
• only daily totals — visits per source, clicks per link — are kept.

No individual visitor can be identified from what is retained. The raw log files are kept by the hosting provider for roughly a month and then rotate away.

Links to Eventbrite

Tickets are sold through Eventbrite, not on this site. Links out to Eventbrite carry a short code recording which page or post you came from, so it is possible to tell that (for example) ten bookings came via Instagram. The code describes the route, not the person.

When you buy a ticket you are dealing with Eventbrite, who collect your name, email address and payment details under their own privacy policy. Glasgow Soundbath receives your name and email from Eventbrite in order to run the event and contact you about it.

What is kept for analysis

Booking records are copied into a private spreadsheet used to understand how events sell. Email addresses are never stored there. Each address is converted into an irreversible one-way hash before it is written, which makes it possible to count how many people book more than once without holding anyone's contact details.

What is kept: the event, the date, the ticket price and quantity, and — where you chose to answer it — your response to the optional question "Where did you first hear about our soundbaths?".

Advertising and Meta

Glasgow Soundbath advertises on Instagram and Facebook. Meta Pixels are installed on the Eventbrite ticket pages, which report ticket purchases back to Meta so that the effectiveness of advertising can be measured. Meta acts as an independent controller for what it receives; their handling of it is covered by Meta's Privacy Policy.

There is no Meta Pixel, and no tracker of any kind, on this website itself.

Email

Glasgow Soundbath does not operate a mailing list and does not send marketing email. Any email you receive about a booking comes from Eventbrite as part of the ticketing process.

How long things are kept

• Server logs — about a month, then deleted by the host.
• Daily visit totals — kept indefinitely; they contain no personal data.
• Booking records — kept for as long as the events business runs, with email addresses only ever present as irreversible hashes.
• Your Eventbrite account and order history — governed by Eventbrite's retention policy, not this one.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law you have the right to ask what personal data is held about you, to have it corrected or deleted, to object to how it is used, and to receive a copy of it. Write to info@glasgowsoundbath.com and it will be dealt with within a month.

Because email addresses are stored only as irreversible hashes, and because visit data carries no identifier at all, in practice very little held here is personal to you. Requests about your ticket, your account or your payment should go to Eventbrite, who hold that information.

If you are unhappy with how a request has been handled you can complain to the Information Commissioner's Office at ico.org.uk.

Changes

If this policy changes, the date at the top of the page changes with it.