Privacy notice

What we collect today

Browsing this site collects nothing. There are no cookies, no analytics, no tracking pixels and no third-party scripts. Fonts and images are served from this domain rather than from a content network, so no request leaves it while you read.

If you email us, we hold that correspondence in order to answer it.

What we will collect when applications open

An entry will require the performer's name, date of birth and country, the instrument and repertoire, a link to the performance, contact details, and — for entrants under eighteen — the registering parent or guardian's name and contact details. Teachers and institution are collected solely to detect conflicts of interest and are never shown to jurors while they score.

Payment is handled by a payment processor. We receive confirmation that a payment succeeded and a reference; we never see or store card details.

Why

To run the competition you entered: to assess the performance, to contact you about it, to prevent conflicts of interest, to pay an award, and to keep an auditable record of how a result was reached.

Publication

Winners are published: name, country, instrument, repertoire, the performance and a jury citation. Non-winning entrants are never named and their entries are never published. Where a winner is a minor, publication happens only with the registering guardian's consent.

Your rights

You can ask what we hold about you, ask for it to be corrected, ask for it to be deleted, or object to our processing it. Write to [email protected] and a person will answer.

One limit, stated plainly rather than buried: published results form a permanent public record and removing a past result is not something we do lightly. Where a request concerns a minor, we will reconcile that with the guardian's rights case by case.

Still to come

This notice will be reviewed by counsel and expanded before any form on this site accepts data. Until then, it describes the whole of what happens, which is very little.