Privacy

The public charts are built from public platform information. SHHC only asks for additional information where it is needed to review a submitted release or investigate a factual correction.

Track submissions

A track submission can include artist and release information, public platform URLs, a claimed Scottish connection, supporting evidence, the submitter's relationship to the release and an optional contact email. Submissions are stored in a private SHHC review queue so eligibility decisions and baseline status can be audited.

Bandcamp catalogue submissions

A Bandcamp submission can include artist/release details, the canonical Bandcamp URL, original release date, Scottish-eligibility information, supporting evidence, the submitter's relationship to the release and an optional contact email. It is reviewed separately from chart measurement.

Correction reports

A correction report can include the issue being reported, relevant public URLs or evidence, a factual explanation and an optional contact email. Reports are stored in the same private operational queue while they are investigated and may be retained as part of the correction audit record.

Contact email

Email is optional. If provided, it is used only for SHHC submission or correction follow-up. It is not published as part of the chart. To request that an optional contact email be corrected or removed from an SHHC review record, use the Report an issue page and include the relevant SHHC submission/report reference.

First-party product history

SHHC records a small amount of first-party usage history so the project can understand which public sections are being used and whether people follow links to the music being catalogued or measured. This can include a page path, an outbound YouTube/SoundCloud/Bandcamp click, submission start/completion, an external referrer hostname and limited campaign/source labels where they are present.

SHHC does not use this system to create visitor profiles. It does not assign a visitor ID or session ID, does not set an SHHC analytics cookie, and does not deliberately store IP addresses or browser user-agent strings in the first-party event table. Outbound destination URLs are stored without query strings or fragments, and referrers are reduced to the hostname rather than the full referring URL.

This audience/product history never affects chart eligibility, scoring or ranking.

Technical data

SHHC does not deliberately add an IP address to its submission, correction or first-party product-history records. The website's hosting, security and infrastructure providers may process ordinary technical logs as part of operating their services.

Public sources

Eligibility evidence and chart measurements can link to or record facts already available publicly on YouTube, SoundCloud, Bandcamp, artist/label pages, interviews and other relevant public sources. SHHC does not treat a public platform counter as private submission data.