Privacy notice

Lucas Media House runs lucasmedia.co.za and is responsible for how your information is handled here. For any privacy question or request, email privacy@lucasmedia.co.za.

• There are no accounts, sign-ups or forms. We don’t ask for your name or email.
• Your listening history and player settings stay on your device.
• Google Analytics only runs if you choose Accept, and you can turn it off anytime.
• Music and videos play through YouTube, which has its own privacy policy.

To make the player work, your browser stores the following locally. We never receive it.

• Your recently played mixes and videos (up to 50) and where you stopped in each.
• The track currently loaded in the player, the previous track and your volume.
• Your analytics choice (Accept or Decline).
• Pages and artwork saved when you prepare the offline library.
• Scroll positions, kept only until you close the tab.

You can remove all of this by clearing this site’s data in your browser settings. Offline files can also be cleared from Settings → Offline library.

If you choose Accept, we use Google Analytics to understand which pages and mixes people visit, so we can improve the site. Google Analytics sets cookies (named _ga) and collects information such as the pages you view, how long you stay, your approximate location, and your device and browser type. Google processes this on our behalf, which may involve servers outside South Africa.

Nothing is collected until you accept. To change your mind, open Settings and switch off Share usage analytics. This stops further collection and deletes the analytics cookies from your browser.

All music and videos are played through YouTube’s embedded player. The player loads when you open a video page or press Play. YouTube (Google) may then set its own cookies and collect information under the Google Privacy Policy. Album artwork is fetched by our server, so browsing the catalog doesn’t contact YouTube from your browser.

Like any website, our hosting provider automatically processes technical request data (such as your IP address and browser type) to deliver pages and keep the service secure. We don’t use this to identify you.

Under POPIA you may ask us to:

• confirm whether we hold personal information about you, and give you a copy;
• correct or delete it;
• stop processing it, including withdrawing your analytics consent.

Email privacy@lucasmedia.co.za. If you’re unhappy with our response, you can complain to the Information Regulator (South Africa).

If we change how information is handled, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.