Last updated: 13 September 2026
This policy explains what information rockthehiphop.com collects, why, and what you can do about it.
Who we are
Our website address is https://rockthehiphop.com. Rock The Hip Hop is a hip-hop news, interview and music-gear site.
Advertising: Google AdSense
We display advertising through Google AdSense. This means:
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to this and other websites.
- Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visit to this site and other sites on the internet.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising at Google Ads Settings.
- You can opt out of third-party vendor cookies for personalised advertising at aboutads.info/choices.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics, loaded through Google Tag Manager, to understand how people find and use the site. It records information such as pages viewed, approximate location, referring site, device type and browser. This data is used in aggregate to improve the site.
You can prevent Google Analytics from collecting your data using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
We also use Jetpack Stats, which records page views and referrers.
Affiliate links
Some links on this site are affiliate links, meaning we may earn a commission if you make a purchase. Clicking an affiliate link may pass a referral identifier to the retailer so the sale can be attributed to us. We do not receive your payment details, name, or address from these purchases — only aggregate commission reporting. See our Affiliate Disclosure for the full picture.
Comments
When you leave a comment, we collect the data shown in the comment form, plus your IP address and browser user-agent string, to help with spam detection. Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely so follow-up comments can be recognised and approved automatically.
An anonymised string created from your email address (a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
We use Akismet to filter spam comments. Comment data may be sent to Akismet for that purpose.
Media
If you upload images to this website, avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies, so you do not have to fill them in again. These last one year. If you have an account and log in, we set a temporary cookie to check that your browser accepts cookies, and further cookies to store your login details and screen display choices.
Advertising and analytics cookies are described in the sections above. You can clear or block cookies through your browser settings at any time.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content — YouTube videos, Spotify players, social media posts. Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if you had visited that website directly. These sites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content.
Security
This site uses Wordfence for security monitoring, which logs IP addresses and request data to detect and block malicious activity.
How long we retain your data
Comments and their metadata are retained indefinitely. For users who register, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except that they cannot change their username. Site administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have left comments, you can request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, and you can request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal or security purposes. Contact us through the contact page to make a request.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Data may also be processed by the advertising, analytics and security providers named above, which may store and process data outside your country of residence.
Contact
Questions about this policy can be sent through our contact page.
