Crime Recordings

Privacy and information practices

Privacy Policy

This policy explains how Crime Recordings collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit the website, create an account, purchase a membership, or use the archive.

Effective date: July 22, 2026

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Information we collect

We may collect information that you provide directly when you create an account, purchase a membership, contact us, or otherwise interact with Crime Recordings.

  • Your email address and account identifier.
  • A display name or other profile information you choose to provide.
  • Membership status and subscription-related records.
  • Messages, questions, or requests you send to us.
  • Technical information such as browser type, device type, approximate location, pages visited, referring pages, and interaction data.

We do not intentionally collect Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, or full payment-card numbers through the Crime Recordings website.

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How we use information

We may use collected information to:

  • Create, authenticate, and maintain user accounts.
  • Provide access to public and members-only recordings.
  • Process and administer memberships.
  • Maintain account, billing, and subscription status.
  • Respond to questions, requests, and support needs.
  • Operate, secure, troubleshoot, and improve the website.
  • Understand how visitors use the archive.
  • Detect fraud, abuse, unauthorized access, or technical problems.
  • Comply with legal, accounting, tax, and regulatory obligations.

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Payments and memberships

Membership payments are processed by Stripe. When you begin checkout, Stripe may collect information such as your name, email address, billing details, payment-method information, transaction amount, and information used for fraud prevention.

Crime Recordings does not receive or store your complete credit- or debit-card number. We may receive limited payment and subscription information from Stripe, including a Stripe customer identifier, subscription identifier, payment status, billing-period dates, and cancellation status.

Stripe processes information according to its own privacy policy and legal obligations.

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Analytics, cookies, and similar technology

Crime Recordings may use Google Analytics and Vercel Analytics to understand website traffic, page visits, general device and browser information, referral sources, and how visitors interact with the site.

Analytics services may use cookies, local storage, pixels, or similar technologies. Cookies are small files or identifiers that help websites recognize a browser or device.

You may be able to limit cookies through your browser settings, privacy controls, tracking protection, or browser extensions. Blocking certain cookies may affect some site features.

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Service providers

We use third-party companies to operate portions of Crime Recordings. These providers may process information on our behalf when necessary to provide their services.

Supabase

Account authentication, user profiles, membership records, and database services.

Stripe

Membership checkout, subscription billing, fraud prevention, invoices, and customer billing management.

Vercel

Website hosting, deployment, performance, security, and analytics.

Cloudflare R2

Private storage and delivery of audio and video archive files.

Google Analytics

Website usage measurement and traffic analytics.

Resend

Delivery of authentication and transactional email messages.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to comply with law, respond to valid legal process, protect the safety or rights of others, investigate abuse, or protect Crime Recordings and its users.

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Public-record and case material

Crime Recordings publishes documentary and informational material related to criminal cases, including recordings and information obtained from public agencies, official sources, court-related sources, or other lawful sources.

Information contained in case records may concern victims, witnesses, accused persons, convicted persons, law-enforcement personnel, attorneys, public officials, or other people connected to a case. This material is distinct from information collected from website members and visitors.

A person who believes that published material is inaccurate, unlawfully disclosed, improperly identified, or should be reviewed may contact us using the address at the end of this policy. Submitting a request does not guarantee removal, but we will review reasonable requests.

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Data retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to provide accounts and memberships, maintain business and transaction records, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, prevent fraud, and meet legal, tax, accounting, and security obligations.

The length of retention may vary according to the type of information and the reason it was collected. Some records may remain in backups or logs for a limited period after deletion from active systems.

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Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures intended to protect information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These measures include authenticated accounts, access controls, private media storage, encrypted website connections, temporary signed media links, and restricted server credentials. However, no website, database, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure.

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Your choices and requests

Depending on your location and applicable law, you may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of certain personal information associated with your account.

  • You may sign out of your account at any time.
  • Members may manage billing details and cancellation through Stripe’s customer portal when available.
  • You may adjust browser cookie and tracking settings.
  • You may contact us to request correction or deletion of eligible account information.
  • We may need to verify your identity before completing a privacy request.

Certain information may be retained when required for billing, fraud prevention, legal compliance, recordkeeping, dispute resolution, or security.

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Children’s privacy

Crime Recordings is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we learn that such information has been collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

Crime-related material may contain mature, disturbing, or sensitive subject matter and is intended for an adult or appropriately supervised audience.

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Changes to this policy

We may update this Privacy Policy as Crime Recordings develops, adds services, changes providers, or responds to legal or operational requirements.

The revised policy will be posted on this page with an updated effective date. Continued use of the website after an update means the revised policy applies to future use.

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Contact us

Questions, privacy requests, or requests concerning published case material may be sent to:

privacy@crimerecordings.com

Crime Recordings is a Stabile USA project.