Privacy policy

“The Scene” and scenemusicmedia.com are owned and operated by Scene Music Media. We are the “data controller” in respect of your personal information. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal information and how it will be treated.

Types of personal information we collect

Scene Music Media is committed to respecting and protecting your data whilst it is in our care. We collect personal information which you may provide to us, or which we collect automatically. 

Automatically collected personal information

This website is hosted by Squarespace. This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

  • information about your browser, network and device

  • web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • web pages you view while on this website

  • your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyses the data in a depersonalised form.

Submitted personal information

When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. We also share this information with Squarespace for storage.

Types of information third-parties collect

This website serves font files from and renders fonts using Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, these third parties may receive personal information about you, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, or device

  • Information about this site and the page you’re viewing on it

  • Your IP address

Cookie Policy

Cookies are small text files that are stored on your device when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the website.

Types of cookies

We use the following types of cookies on our website:

  • Essential cookies: These cookies are necessary for the basic operation of our website, such as allowing you to log in or add items to your basket.

  • Performance cookies: These cookies collect information about how visitors use our website, such as which pages they visit most often and whether they encounter any errors. This information helps us to improve the way our website works.

  • Functionality cookies: These cookies allow our website to remember your preferences, such as your language or region. This helps us to provide you with a more personalised experience.

  • Targeting/advertising cookies: These cookies are used to deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests. They may also be used to limit the number of times you see an advertisement.

We use cookies for a variety of purposes, including:

  • To make our website work more efficiently and to improve your user experience.

  • To track website usage and compile statistics to help us improve our website.

  • To deliver advertising that is more relevant to you and your interests.

You can manage your cookie settings in your web browser. You can choose to block all cookies, or to only allow certain types of cookies. Please note that blocking all cookies may prevent you from using some features of our website.

For more information about cookies, please visit the website of the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO): https://ico.org.uk/for-the-

We may update this cookie policy from time to time. If we make any changes, we will publish the updated policy on our website. Please check this page regularly to stay up-to-date on our cookie policy.­

Essential/Necessary Cookies

  • _acloggedin: Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account. (Expires: January 1, 2025)

  • _client_acloggedin: Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account. (Expires: January 1, 2025)

  • _dd_cookie_test: Tests if cookies are supported. (Expires instantly)

  • _dd_s: Tracks browser errors. (Expires: Four hours)

  • _dd_site_test: Tests if cookies are supported. (Expires instantly)

  • _grecaptcha: Helps reduce spam. (No expiry)

  • CART: Shows when a visitor adds a product to their cart. (Expires: Two weeks)

  • CHECKOUT_WEBSITE: Identifies the correct site for checkout when checkout on your domain is disabled. (Expires on session end)

  • client_username: Remembers a logged in Scheduling client's username between visits. (Expires: One year)

  • clientUser: Stores the Scheduling client's username, OAuth2 Access Token, and OAuth2 Refresh Token. This cookie is required for functionality of logged-in clients. (Expires: 30 days)

  • Commerce-checkout-state: Stores state of checkout while the visitor is completing their order in PayPal. (Expires on session end)

  • Crumb: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF). (Expires on session end)

  • hasCart: Tells Squarespace that the visitor has a cart. (Expires: Two weeks)

  • Locked: Prevents the password-protected screen from displaying if a visitor enters the correct site-wide password. (Expires on session end)

  • orderStatusSessionToken: Authenticates a visitor who logs into an order status page. (Expires: One year)

  • PHPSESSID: Securely authenticates a visitor during their checkout in Scheduling. (Expires: One month)

  • RecentRedirect: Prevents redirect loops if a site has custom URL redirects. Redirect loops are bad for SEO. (Expires: 30 minutes)

  • remember_client: Remembers Scheduling client’s login details if they have an account. (Expires: 365 days)

  • siteUserCrumb: Prevents cross-site request forgery (CSRF) for logged in site users. (Expires: Three years)

  • SiteUserInfo: Identifies a visitor who logs into a customer account. (Expires: Three years)

  • SiteUserSecureAuthToken: Authenticates a visitor who logs into a customer account. (Expires: Three years)

  • squarespace-announcement-bar: Prevents the announcement bar from displaying if a visitor dismisses it. (Persistent)

  • squarespace-likes: Shows when you've already "liked" a blog post. (Persistent)

  • squarespace-popup-overlay: Prevents the promotional pop-up from displaying if a visitor dismisses it. (Persistent)

  • squarespace-video-player-options: Remembers video player selected preferences (volume, playback speed, and quality) for videos uploaded directly to Squarespace. (Persistent)

  • ss_cookieAllowed: Remembers if a visitor agreed to placing analytics cookies on their browser if a site is restricting the placement of cookies. (Expires: 30 days)

  • ss_sd: Ensures that visitors on the Squarespace 5 platform remain authenticated during their sessions. (Expires on session end)

  • Test: Investigates if the browser supports cookies and prevents errors. (Expires on session end)

  • TZ: Enables a Scheduling client’s appointments to display correctly based on their time zone preferences. (Persistent)

Analytical/Performance Cookies

  • _acloggedin: Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account. (Expires: January 1, 2025)

  • _client_acloggedin: Supports login by Scheduling client if the client has an account. (Expires: January 1, 2025)

  • _dd_cookie_test: Tests if cookies are supported. (Expires instantly)

  • _dd_s: Tracks browser errors. (Expires: Four hours)

  • _dd_site_test: Tests if cookies are supported. (Expires instantly)

  • _grecaptcha: Helps reduce spam. (No expiry)

  • _ga: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to calculate visitor, session, campaign data and keep track of site usage for the site's analytics report. The cookies store information anonymously and assigns a randomly generated number to identify unique visitors. (Expires: 2 years)

  • __gid: This cookie is installed by Google Analytics. The cookie is used to store information of how visitors use a website and helps in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. (Expires: 1 day)

  • _gcl_au: This cookie is used by Google Analytics to understand user interaction with the website. (Expires: 3 months)

  • CLID: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity and stores information about how visitors use the website. The cookie contributes to the creation of an analysis report. The data collection includes numbers of visitors, where they visit the website from and pages visited on the website. (Expires: 1 year)

  • SM: Used by Microsoft's Clarity analytics service to synchronise the MUID across Microsoft domains. (Expires: end of session)

  • _clck: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. The data collected includes the number of visitors, the source where they have come from, and the pages visited in an anonymous form. (Expires: 1 year)

  • _clsk: This cookie is installed by Microsoft Clarity to store information of how visitors use a website and help in creating an analytics report of how the website is doing. (Expires: 1 day)

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

  • Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 

  • Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

  • Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

  • Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at hello@scenemusicmedia.com if you wish to make a request.