Effective date: 2 November 2026

FindBand helps musicians find each other: you post an ad as a poster, browse other people's ads and chat with them. This policy explains what we collect, why, and what you can do about it.

"We" means Doruk Arslan, the individual developer who runs FindBand from Berlin and is the data controller for the personal data described here. Contact: [email protected].

What we collect

• Your account. Your name, email address and password. Passwords are never stored in readable form; the server keeps only a secure hash. Your email address isn't shown to other users.
• Your profile (optional). A profile photo, a short bio, the instruments you play, your country and city, and up to three links (for example YouTube, Spotify, SoundCloud or Instagram). Other users of the app can see your profile.
• Your ads. Title, band name, the positions you're looking for, up to three genres, country and city, description, an optional performance link, and the poster style and colours you choose. Ads are visible to other users of the app.
• Messages. The chats you have with other users about an ad, including when messages were sent and whether they've been read. Only the people in a chat can see it.
• Notifications. If you allow notifications, we store a push token for your device (from Google Firebase Cloud Messaging) and your app language, so we can tell you about new messages in your language. A notification contains the sender's name, the ad's title and a link to the sender's profile photo, never the message text.
• Reports and blocks. If you report an ad or a user, we store who reported what, the reason and any note you add. If you block someone, we store that block so their ads and messages stay hidden from you, and yours from them. We never tell anyone who reported or blocked them.
• Location. We don't use GPS and don't track where you are. Your "location" is only the country and city you choose yourself.
• What we don't collect. There are no advertising or analytics trackers in the app. We don't sell your data and don't share it for marketing.

Why we use it, and the legal basis

• *To run the service (performance of a contract): your account, profile, ads and messages, and showing ads by place, instrument and genre.
• *To keep the community safe (legitimate interest): reviewing reports, automatically hiding an ad or account that several different people have reported until we review it, and removing content or accounts that break our Terms of Use.
• *To send notifications (consent): only if you allow them. You can turn them off in your phone's settings at any time.
• *To meet legal obligations: when the law requires us to keep or disclose information.

Where your data is stored, and who else is involved