Privacy policy.

Who handles your data

Hot Joe & The CoffeeKillers is a band with no legal personality. The data controller — the one who decides what happens to your data and answers for it — is therefore a person of flesh and blood:

Michele Frosio, as the band’s contact person — Brescia, Italy.
music@thecoffeekillers.com · +39 393 7011409

If you need the full personal details for a formal request, write to us and we will provide them. We have no data protection officer (DPO): we are not required to appoint one.

What data we collect

If you ask for a quote, only what you type into the form: your name, one contact detail (email or phone) and the details of the night — type of event, date, place, how many people, length, rough budget, the extras you want and any notes you leave us.

If you subscribe to our date updates, only your email address.

While you browse we ask you for nothing and we do not recognise you. We only collect anonymous statistics: how many visits a page gets, from which country, on what kind of device. None of it is linked to you.

We use no profiling cookies. In fact, we install no cookies at all — which is why you see no banner to accept.

What we need it for, and why we may process it

• To reply and make you an offer. Legal basis: the pre-contractual steps you asked for by writing to us (art. 6.1.b GDPR).
• To send you the date updates, if you subscribed. Legal basis: your consent (art. 6.1.a), which you can withdraw whenever you like.
• To see how the site is doing through anonymous statistics. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in knowing whether the site works (art. 6.1.f), with no impact on you because the data does not identify you.

We do not use your data to profile you, we take no automated decisions about you and we neither sell nor pass it on to anyone for commercial purposes.

Who else sees it

Only the five of us in the band, and the technical suppliers we need to keep the site running. Each of them processes the data on our behalf, under a contract that requires them to:

• Formspree (Formspree Inc., United States) — receives what you write in the forms and delivers it to us.
• Netlify (Netlify Inc., United States) — hosts the site; its servers log accesses, as any web server does.
• Cloudflare (Cloudflare Inc., United States) — provides the anonymous visit statistics, with no cookies and without recognising individual visitors.

Transfers outside the European Union. These suppliers are based in the United States, so your data may be processed outside the EU. The transfer relies on the standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission and, where applicable, on their certification under the EU–US Data Privacy Framework. Ask us if you would like a copy of those safeguards.

The fonts used on this site are hosted on our own servers: opening a page does not contact Google or any other outside service.

The YouTube video

There is a video on some pages. Until you start it you only see a still image hosted by us: YouTube is not contacted and does not know you are here. The moment you press play, the YouTube player loads and from then on Google may collect data and install its own cookies, under its own rules (Google privacy policy). It stays your choice: if you do not press play, nothing happens.

How long we keep it

• Quote requests: up to 24 months from our last exchange. If we do end up playing for you, we keep what tax obligations require, for as long as the law says.
• Date update subscriptions: as long as you stay subscribed. If you unsubscribe, we remove your address.
• Anonymous statistics: kept by Cloudflare for a limited period, and in any case not traceable back to you.

Do you have to give it to us?

No. But without a name and a contact detail we cannot reply to you, and without your email we cannot send you the updates. Everything else (date, place, number of guests, budget) only serves to make you a sensible offer: leave it out and our offer will be vaguer.

Your rights

At any time you can ask us to see the data we hold about you, to correct it, to erase it, to restrict its use, to receive it in a readable format or to object to the processing. If you gave us a consent, you can withdraw it whenever you like, without affecting what we did before.

An email to music@thecoffeekillers.com is enough: we reply within one month.

If you think we are getting it wrong, you can turn to the Italian data protection authority, the Garante per la protezione dei dati personali (Piazza Venezia 11, 00187 Rome, Italy), to the supervisory authority of the EU country where you live, or to a court.

If this policy changes

We update it whenever something changes on the site or in the services we use, and the date at the top always tells you which version you are reading. If the change is an important one and you left us a contact detail, we will tell you.