Privacy Policy

Last updated: April 24, 2026

This document is provided in multiple languages. In case of inconsistencies between versions, the English version prevails.

This Privacy Policy explains how Psytrance Net collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you use our website, create an account, interact with events, artists, organizers, or use any related features of the platform.

By using Psytrance Net, you agree to the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. Who We Are

Psytrance Net is a platform for discovering psytrance and electronic music events, artists, organizers, and related community content.

For privacy-related questions, you can contact us at:

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you provide directly, information generated by your use of the platform, and information received from third-party services.

2.1 Information You Provide

When you create an account or use Psytrance Net, we may collect:

  • display name;
  • username;
  • email address;
  • password, stored in protected form;
  • country;
  • date of birth;
  • profile information;
  • event interactions, such as events you mark as attending or interested in;
  • comments, messages, reports, or other content you submit;
  • organizer or artist information submitted through forms;
  • images, flyers, logos, descriptions, links, or other uploaded content;
  • support or contact messages you send to us.

2.2 Information Collected Automatically

When you use Psytrance Net, we may automatically collect technical and usage information, such as:

  • IP address;
  • device type;
  • browser type;
  • operating system;
  • language preferences;
  • pages visited;
  • actions taken on the platform;
  • dates and times of access;
  • referring URLs;
  • approximate location based on IP address;
  • cookies and similar technologies;
  • logs related to security, errors, performance, and abuse prevention.

2.3 Information from Third-Party Login Providers

If you sign in using a third-party provider such as Google, we may receive information from that provider, such as:

  • name;
  • email address;
  • profile image;
  • account identifier;
  • email verification status.

The information we receive depends on your settings with the third-party provider and the permissions you grant during login.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use your information to operate, improve, protect, and personalize Psytrance Net.

This includes using information to:

  • create and manage user accounts;
  • authenticate users;
  • verify email addresses;
  • provide access to platform features;
  • display public profile information;
  • show event, artist, and organizer content;
  • process event submissions, organizer submissions, claims, and moderation workflows;
  • allow users to interact with events and community features;
  • improve search, recommendations, user experience, and platform performance;
  • send transactional emails, such as account verification, password reset, security, or service-related messages;
  • respond to support requests or contact messages;
  • detect, prevent, and investigate spam, fraud, abuse, security incidents, or policy violations;
  • comply with legal obligations;
  • measure traffic, performance, and usage;
  • display, measure, and improve advertising.

4. Public Information

Some information on Psytrance Net may be public, such as:

  • display name;
  • username;
  • public profile URL;
  • public event interactions, if enabled;
  • comments or community activity, if enabled;
  • organizer profiles;
  • artist profiles;
  • event pages;
  • uploaded event flyers, images, logos, descriptions, and links;
  • organizer announcements or public submissions.

Do not submit information or content that you do not want to be publicly visible.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Psytrance Net may use cookies, local storage, pixels, tags, and similar technologies to operate and improve the platform.

These technologies may be used to:

  • keep users signed in;
  • remember preferences;
  • protect accounts and prevent abuse;
  • measure traffic and performance;
  • understand how users interact with the platform;
  • display and measure advertisements;
  • improve user experience.

You can control or disable cookies through your browser settings. However, some features may not work properly if cookies are disabled.

6. Analytics

We may use analytics tools to understand how users interact with Psytrance Net.

Analytics tools may collect information such as pages visited, session duration, device type, browser type, approximate location, referral source, and interaction events.

We use this information to improve the platform, fix issues, understand growth, and make product decisions.

7. Advertising

Psytrance Net may display advertisements through third-party advertising providers, including Google AdSense or similar services.

Advertising providers may use cookies, device identifiers, IP addresses, browser information, ad interactions, and similar technologies to serve, personalize, limit, measure, and improve ads.

Third-party advertising providers may use information about your visits to Psytrance Net and other websites to provide ads that may be more relevant to you.

You may be able to manage ad personalization through your browser settings, device settings, or the advertising provider's own privacy controls.

8. Third-Party Services

We may use third-party providers to operate Psytrance Net and provide platform features.

These providers may process information on our behalf or according to their own privacy policies. They may include providers for:

  • hosting and deployment;
  • databases;
  • file storage and image hosting;
  • authentication;
  • email delivery;
  • analytics;
  • advertising;
  • security and monitoring;
  • maps, links, embeds, or external integrations.

Examples of third-party services we may use include Google services, hosting providers, database providers, cloud storage providers, email providers, and infrastructure providers.

We do not control the privacy practices of third-party websites or services linked from Psytrance Net.

9. Legal Bases and Reasons for Processing

Depending on your country or region, we may process personal information based on one or more legal grounds, including:

  • your consent;
  • the need to provide the platform and its features;
  • our legitimate interests in operating, improving, securing, and growing Psytrance Net;
  • compliance with legal obligations;
  • protection against fraud, abuse, security threats, or misuse.

10. How We Share Information

We do not sell your personal information.

We may share information in the following cases:

Service Providers

We may share information with providers that help us operate Psytrance Net, such as hosting, database, storage, analytics, advertising, security, and email providers.

Public Platform Features

Information you submit publicly, such as event pages, organizer profiles, artist profiles, comments, or public interactions, may be visible to other users and visitors.

Legal and Safety Reasons

We may disclose information if required to comply with applicable law, legal process, government requests, or to protect the rights, safety, security, and integrity of Psytrance Net, our users, or others.

Business Transfers

If Psytrance Net is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, or sale of assets, user information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to appropriate safeguards where required.

11. International Data Transfers

Psytrance Net may use service providers located in different countries. As a result, your information may be processed or stored outside your country of residence.

When we transfer or process information internationally, we aim to use reasonable safeguards as required by applicable laws.

12. Data Retention

We keep personal information for as long as necessary to provide the platform, maintain your account, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce our terms, prevent abuse, and maintain security.

If you delete your account or request deletion, we may delete or anonymize your personal information, unless we need to retain certain information for legal, security, fraud prevention, moderation, backup, or legitimate operational reasons.

Public content you submitted, such as event listings, organizer content, artist content, comments, or other platform contributions, may remain available if it is necessary for platform integrity, historical event records, moderation, legal compliance, or legitimate business purposes.

13. Security

We use reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your information against unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no online service, database, or transmission system is completely secure. You are responsible for keeping your login credentials safe and notifying us if you believe your account has been compromised.

14. Your Rights and Choices

Depending on your country or region, you may have rights regarding your personal information, including the right to:

  • access your personal information;
  • correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
  • request deletion of your information;
  • object to or restrict certain processing;
  • withdraw consent where processing is based on consent;
  • request information about how your data is used;
  • request portability of your data, where applicable.

To exercise privacy rights, contact us at:

We may need to verify your identity before responding to certain requests.

15. Email Communications

We may send transactional or service-related emails, such as:

  • email verification;
  • password reset;
  • account security messages;
  • important platform updates;
  • organizer or event-related notifications, if enabled;
  • support responses.

If we send marketing or promotional emails in the future, we will provide a way to unsubscribe where required by law.

16. Children and Minors

Psytrance Net is not intended for children under the minimum age required by applicable law.

If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child in violation of applicable law, we may delete that information.

Some events listed on Psytrance Net may be restricted to adults or specific age groups. Users are responsible for checking and complying with event and venue age requirements.

17. User-Generated Content

If you submit content to Psytrance Net, such as event information, images, flyers, logos, descriptions, comments, organizer information, artist information, or links, that content may be visible publicly.

Please do not submit personal information about other people unless you have permission to do so.

18. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will update the "Last updated" date at the top of this page.

Your continued use of Psytrance Net after the updated Privacy Policy is published means that you accept the updated version.

19. Contact

If you have questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy or how Psytrance Net handles personal information, contact us at: