Privacy

The short version

The BOLT is a free radio stream. There are no accounts, no ads, no tracking cookies and no analytics, and we never sell data. The only personal details we receive are the ones you type into the contact form, and we use them only to reply.

Who we are

The BOLT (thebolt.stream) is a station of the ClubFM network, operated by Radiant Ventures. For anything privacy-related, email info@clubfm.stream.

Listening

Listening needs no account and no personal details. Like any web server, our streaming servers log standard connection data (IP address, user agent) for operations, capacity planning and aggregate listener counts. We don’t use those logs to identify or profile listeners.

SongRank ratings

When you rate a song we store the track, your rating, the time, and a hashed form of your IP address (never the address itself). The hash lets us limit repeat votes; we don’t use it to identify you. Ratings are summarised in an hourly email to the station. Your own ratings are also kept in your browser so the site can show them back to you.

Song requests and the contact form

A song request contains only the song and artist you type. It reaches us as an email.

The contact form asks for your name, email address, an optional company or artist name, and your message. We use them only to read and answer you. They’re delivered to our mailboxes and kept only as long as the conversation needs.

Both are sent by Resend, our email provider, to mailboxes hosted by Spacemail. When you submit, your IP address is used briefly for rate limiting and bot protection; it isn’t included in the email we receive for a request.

Bot protection

Requests and the contact form are protected by Cloudflare Turnstile, an invisible check with no puzzles or checkboxes. To tell people from bots, Turnstile processes a limited set of signals: your IP address, TLS fingerprint, user agent, and the site key and origin.

Cloudflare says these signals are used only to detect and block bots, not to identify, profile or target anyone, and it processes them for us and to improve its own bot detection. See the Turnstile Privacy Policy and the Cloudflare Privacy Policy.

Hosting and security

The site runs on Cloudflare Workers. Cloudflare processes connection data, including IP addresses, to deliver the site and to protect it (DDoS protection, firewall, rate limiting). The content we keep there, the airplay chart and the play log, is about the music, not about visitors.

Cookies and local storage

We set no advertising or tracking cookies, and we run no analytics. Your browser’s local storage keeps a few things that never leave your device:

• your light/dark choice, which lapses after a week away;
• the ratings you’ve given, so the site can show them back to you;
• the player’s volume.

A session cookie is set only on the staff admin pages, only for staff who sign in there.

What we never do

We don’t sell or rent data, run advertising or ad tech, build listener profiles, or share personal information beyond the providers named above (Cloudflare, Resend, Spacemail), each of which handles it only to provide its service to us.

Your rights

Depending on where you live, you may have the right to see, correct or delete personal data we hold, which for this site mostly means contact-form correspondence. Email info@clubfm.stream and we’ll handle it.

Children

The BOLT is a general-audience stream with no accounts, and doesn’t knowingly collect personal information from children.

Changes

If our practices change, we’ll update this page and the date at the top.