Privacy policy

This page explains what Muzika-Balkan (www.muzika-balkan.com) records when you use it, and what the services built into the site do. In short: the site itself sets no cookies, has no accounts or forms, and never stores your IP address together with the pages you watch. The ads and the video player come from Google and follow Google's own privacy rules.

What our server records

Like every web server, ours writes a log line for each request: the IP address, the time, the address asked for (including any artist name typed into the search box), the browser's name and the page you came from. The logs are used only to keep the site running and safe, for example to stop automated attacks, and are deleted after 14 days.

The view counter

Each artist page shows how often it has been watched, counted once per visitor per day. To tell visitors apart for that one day, the site stores a one-way scrambled code (a SHA-256 hash) made from your IP address, the date and a secret, never the address itself. These codes are deleted the next day; only the total number stays.

Cookies

Muzika-Balkan sets no cookies of its own and uses no analytics or tracking tool. Cookies may be set by the two Google services described below. You can see, block and delete cookies in your browser's settings; All About Cookies explains how.

Advertising (Google AdSense)

The site is free because it shows ads from Google AdSense. Google and its partners may use cookies and similar technology to show ads, to limit how often you see the same one, to measure them and, if you allow it, to choose ads based on your interests. Google explains this in How Google uses information from sites that use its services. You can turn off personalised ads in My Ad Center.

Music videos (YouTube)

The videos play in YouTube's privacy-enhanced player (youtube-nocookie.com), and nothing from YouTube is loaded until you press play. From then on the player comes from YouTube and Google, who may store information on your device and record what you watch, as described in the Google Privacy Policy.

Fonts and links

The site's fonts are kept on our own server, so showing a page does not contact a font service. The links to Facebook and YouTube in the footer take you there only when you click them.

Your rights and contact

Because the site keeps no accounts and no profiles, there is usually nothing about you for us to show, change or delete apart from the 14-day server logs. For any question about privacy, write to info [at] muzika-balkan.com. If you live in the EU or EEA, you may also complain to your national data protection authority.

Last updated: 23 October 2026.