Privacy Notice

Last updated: 2026-06-17

This notice explains what data scrobble.life collects, where it goes, and what you can ask us to do with it. It is written for everyone, with a dedicated section at the end for users in the European Union, the European Economic Area, and the United Kingdom.

What we collect

Scrobbles — metadata about each music track, movie, TV episode, or podcast you finish playing. For music: artist, title, source URL, timestamp, percent played. For movies and TV: title, series title (if any), season and episode number, year, Wikipedia and IMDb identifiers, source URL, timestamp, percent played. For podcasts: show, episode, source URL, timestamp, percent played. The Hive Scrobbler extension records these locally and broadcasts them to Hive.
Comments and reactions — anything you post through the website or extension.
Chat messages — messages you send in the site chat are stored on our server with your Hive username, the message text, and the time. Used to display chat to other users and to enforce the per-account rate limit.
Daily game records — when you play any of the site games (Hang the DJ, Scroddle, Scroddlemix, Recall) we store the date, your guess history for that day, the final score, and whether you solved it. Tied to your Hive username.
Import previews — if you use the import flow to bring in scrobble history from another source, the uploaded file is parsed in memory to generate a preview. Nothing is persisted until you confirm; once you confirm, the imported scrobbles flow through the normal scrobble pipeline (Hive, plus our indexed database).
Hive account— if you connect one, we store its name in a cookie and in your browser's local storage so the site can show your data. Private keys never leave Keychain.
Anonymous reaction ID— a random per-browser UUID used only to enforce the "3 reactions per song" cap. Not linked to any other identity unless you explicitly sign in.
Standard server logs — IP address, user agent, URL path, retained for ~14 days for abuse detection and debugging.

Guest (Google) accounts

You can sign in with Google instead of a Hive account. If you do, we store your email address and the usernameyou pick, and your scrobbles are saved on our serverrather than on the Hive blockchain — tied to your guest account.

Guest scrobbles are stored unencrypted. The optional private-scrobble feature encrypts your listening data with your Hive posting key (held only in Keychain), so it is only available to Hive accounts — a guest has no such key. If that matters to you, you can claim a free Hive accountonce you've scrobbled enough; doing so gives you on-chain ownership of your future scrobbles and unlocks encrypted private scrobbling. Your guest history stays on our server unless and until you choose to publish it.

Where it goes

Two destinations, with very different deletion properties:

The Hive blockchain. Scrobbles and comments are written here as custom_json operations. Hive data is public and permanent: thousands of independent nodes maintain identical copies, and there is no entity (us included) that can delete or rewrite a record once it's confirmed. Treat anything you scrobble or comment as published forever.
Our server. Reactions, chat messages, daily game records, server logs, the indexed scrobble database. We control these and can modify or delete them on request.

Cookies

zingit_hive_username — your connected Hive account name. Set after Keychain login. 30 days.
zingit_reactor_id — anonymous UUID for the reaction rate-limit. HttpOnly. 1 year.
The scrobbling site uses first-party cookies only — no third-party trackers or analytics beacons. The one exception is our Wilds game; see Advertising below.

Advertising

The main scrobble.life site — scrobbling, charts, the player, reviews, and games like Hang the DJ — does not show ads. Our incremental game Wilds (wilds.scrobble.life) may display advertising served by Google AdSense to help fund its development.

Google and other third-party vendors use cookies and similar technologies to serve and measure ads, including ads based on your prior visits to Wilds or other websites.
You can opt out of personalised advertising in Google Ads Settings. Opting out doesn't remove ads — it makes them non-personalised.
For how Google uses information from sites that use its services, see Google's partner-sites policy and its advertising policies.

What you can ask us to do

Hide your account on the website. We will stop displaying your scrobbles, comments, and reactions. Other Hive front-ends may still display your on-chain activity — we only control scrobble.life.
Delete server-side data. Reactions, chat messages, daily game records, server logs older than the active session.
Export what we hold. A copy of all server-side data we have associated with your account, in a machine-readable format.
What we can't do. Delete or alter any record on the Hive blockchain. This is a property of the public chain, not a policy choice. The same record is held by thousands of independent nodes worldwide and we have no authority over them.

Send requests to the email listed in the extension's store listing or via a Hive comment to @hscr. We aim to respond within 30 days.

For users in the EU, EEA, and UK

The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the UK Data Protection Act grant you rights including access, rectification, erasure, restriction of processing, data portability, and objection. The procedures above describe how we exercise these rights as far as the data we control. Two GDPR-specific notes you should read before scrobbling:

The right to erasure does not extend to the Hive blockchain.When you scrobble, the resulting record is replicated to thousands of independent nodes globally that are not operated by us. Erasure of those records is technically impossible. You can ask us to remove your account from scrobble.life's display, and we will. You should not scrobble information you would not want to be public forever. By using scrobble.life you accept this trade-off.
Lawful basis. We process your data on the basis of your consent (signing in) and our legitimate interest in operating the service. You can withdraw consent at any time by signing out and asking us to hide your account.

Our service is small and personal — there is no dedicated Data Protection Officer. Reach us through the channels above for any GDPR-related request and we will respond personally.

Children

scrobble.life is not directed at children under 13 (or 16 in the EU/EEA). If you believe we've received data from a child, contact us and we will remove it server-side immediately. The on-chain immutability constraint applies here too — we cannot retroactively delete chain data, which is one more reason not to scrobble underage.

Changes

We may update this notice. The "last updated" date at the top will reflect any change. We won't silently expand what we collect — material changes will be highlighted on the homepage for at least 30 days.