Privacy
Magpie is a Chrome extension and a service for record diggers, run by Apekksu. This page says what Magpie reads, what it keeps, what leaves your browser, and how to take your data with you or delete it. Magpie does not sell your data, show ads, or use it for anything other than Magpie itself.
Your account
- Your email address, to sign you in with one-time codes and to send you the waitlist confirmation and your invite.
- The name and note you give when you join the waitlist, so we know who is asking.
- Sign-in codes and session tokens are stored only as hashes. We also keep when you last signed in, and which copy of the extension you use (from the Chrome Web Store or the early version installed by hand) and its version number.
What you do in Magpie
Kept with your account, and visible only to you:
- Your digs: the artist names you search for and the page you dug from.
- Your crate, the records you mark as seen or not for you, and your watches.
- Your answers to “same artist?” when Magpie isn’t sure two profiles are one artist.
Releases, artists, labels and tracklists are a shared catalogue: anything Magpie reads from Bandcamp, Discogs or Beatport for one person is kept for everyone, without saying who found it. Tempos and keys your browser measures from a track’s audio are added to that catalogue too.
The pages you browse
On Bandcamp, Discogs and Beatport, the extension reads which artist, release or label the page is about, so the side panel can follow you. On an artist’s own Bandcamp domain it does this only after you click Magpie on that page. When the panel looks something up, the page address and those names are sent to Magpie. On any other site, the extension reads nothing.
Requests your browser makes for Magpie
While the side panel is open, the Magpie service asks your browser to fetch public pages from Bandcamp and Beatport’s catalogue for your digs. Your browser sends the results back to Magpie, which keeps the release details in the shared catalogue. These requests are made without your cookies. For Beatport, your browser adds your own beatport.com sign-in token; that token never leaves your browser.
What you bought
If “Read what I bought on the stores” is on in Settings, the extension reads your purchases from Bandcamp, Beatport and Discogs, using the accounts you are signed in to in this browser. It sends Magpie each purchase’s title, artist, release, format, date and link, so records you own are marked. Your store passwords and cookies never leave your browser. Turn the setting off to stop.
Your Rekordbox library
Only if you connect it. You pick Rekordbox’s folder yourself, and the extension reads its database in your browser, without changing it. It sends Magpie, for each track: title, artist, remixer, album, label, genre, tempo, key, length, rating, year, ISRC, play count, the date you added it, the file name, and the names of the folder it is in and the one above. For your history: each set’s name, date, and the order the tracks were played. Magpie never receives your music files, their full paths, your playlists or cue points. Disconnecting Rekordbox in Settings deletes the library Magpie kept.
Who else handles it
- Amazon Web Services, in Frankfurt, Germany, runs Magpie’s servers and database.
- Our email provider sends sign-in codes and invites.
- Cloudflare answers for the magpie-dig.com domain name.
Server logs record requests, including your IP address, for security and rate limits, and are deleted after 14 days. This website uses no cookies, analytics or trackers.
Taking it with you, or deleting it
- Download: Settings › Account › Download my data gives you everything above that is yours, as one file.
- Delete: Settings › Account › Delete my account removes your account and everything that is yours, including your place on the waitlist, at once. Database backups are kept for up to 30 days and then they are gone too.
- Or write to us and we will do either for you. If you are in the EU or UK, you also have the right to object, to have data corrected, and to complain to your data protection authority.
Children
Magpie is not meant for anyone under 16.
Changes
If this changes, we will update this page and its date, and tell you by email if the change matters.