Last updated September 22, 2026

DUSTPONY is one person making records. There are no third-party analytics here, no embedded trackers, and nothing is ever sold or shared. There is one exception, and it is deliberate: the listen pages — the ones at dustpony.com/stream with the buttons to Spotify, Apple Music and the rest — carry a Meta advertising pixel. No other page on this site does. What it is for and how to be rid of it are set out under Advertising below.

What gets counted

The site keeps anonymous tallies so it's possible to know whether anyone showed up: a page-view count, a visit count, and a count of which streaming links get clicked. These are plain numbers in a table — a date, a page, a song, a platform, whether the visit arrived from an ad, and the kind of site that linked here (YouTube, Instagram and so on). The ad one is a yes or no: not which ad, and not the tracking code an ad adds to the link, which is never recorded. The linking site is kept as that one word, never the address of the page you came from. They carry no identifier of any kind, so there is no way to single out a person, follow them between pages, or recognize them on a later visit. Nothing is stored in your browser for this beyond a flag that lasts until you close the tab, which exists only so one visit isn't counted twice.

Like any website, the servers keep short-lived technical logs of requests, including browser user-agent strings, which are used to filter out bots and to debug problems. They are not used to build any profile.

Advertising

The listen pages at dustpony.com/stream carry a Meta pixel — the tracking code behind Facebook and Instagram advertising. No other page on this site has it.

It is there for one reason. Promoting a record costs money, and without it the only thing measurable is whether somebody clicked an ad — not whether they then went and played the song. The pixel tells Meta two things: that a listen page was opened, and that one of the streaming buttons was pressed, along with which song, which link the visit came from, and which streaming service. To connect that button press back to a particular ad it also lets Meta recognize a browser it has seen before, and it stores cookies on this site in order to do that.

Your name and email address are never part of this — the band does not have them to send. But this is ordinary advertising tracking, and describing it as anything gentler would be untrue.

It does not load at all for visitors who appear to be in the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area. Not disabled, and not held behind a consent banner: the code is never requested and no cookie is ever written. Everywhere else, any ordinary content or tracker blocker stops it, and the page works exactly the same with it blocked — the buttons still go where they go. It is switched off for the band's own browsers too.

The contact form

If you write in, the name, email address and message you type are emailed to the band so it can be read and answered. That's all it's used for. It isn't added to a mailing list and isn't passed to anyone else.

Cookies

Away from the listen pages, ordinary visitors are not given any cookies at all. On the listen pages the Meta pixel sets its own, described under Advertising above. Separately, the band's own private rehearsal area — which requires a password and is not reachable from the public site — sets a session cookie to keep members signed in, and a second cookie that marks a browser as the band's own so their visits are left out of the counts above.

Google account data

DUSTPONY runs a small private tool that reads the band's own YouTube channel statistics — view counts, watch time, traffic sources and audience-retention figures — through Google's YouTube Analytics and YouTube Data APIs, using Google OAuth. Access is granted by, and limited to, the DUSTPONY channel's own Google account.

This tool reads no data belonging to any other person or channel. The information it retrieves is used only to see how the band's own videos are doing, is never sold, shared or transferred to anyone, and is not used for advertising or combined with anything else. Nothing is retained beyond the credential that permits the reading, which is held encrypted and can be revoked at any time from the Google account's own permissions page. Its use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements.

TikTok account data

The same private tool publishes the band's own videos to the band's own TikTok accounts through TikTok's Content Posting API, and reads back the public statistics for those posts. Access is granted by each of those accounts signing in, and is limited to them.

It reads no data belonging to any other person or account, and it has no access to anyone's followers, messages or private information. What it sends is a video file the band made and a caption the band wrote. What it keeps is the identifier TikTok returns for each published post — so a view count can later be attributed to the language it went out in — and the credential permitting the posting, held encrypted in AWS Systems Manager Parameter Store and revocable at any time from the TikTok account's own settings. None of it is sold, shared, transferred, used for advertising, or combined with anything else.

Children

This site isn't directed at children and doesn't knowingly collect anything from them. Since it collects no personal information from visitors at all, there is nothing held to remove.

Changes and questions

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. Questions, corrections, or a request to delete something you sent through the contact form: dustpony@dustpony.com.