Effective date: 10 June 2026 Last updated: 10 June 2026
Simuze is created and operated by Atypisch.nl, a digital infrastructure studio based in the Netherlands.
Most cookie policies on the internet are long because most sites use a lot of cookies. Ours is short.
What we use
Essential cookies only. Just enough to keep the platform working for you.
| Cookie | Set when | Purpose | Lifetime | |--------|----------|---------|----------| | simezu_session | You log in | Keeps you logged in across pages | Session, or up to 30 days if you ticked "remember me" | | csrf_token | Visiting any page | Protects forms against cross-site request forgery attacks | Session | | cart | You add an item to cart | Remembers what you wanted to buy | 30 days, cleared on checkout | | lang_pref | You change language | Remembers your language choice | 1 year |
All of these are first-party cookies set by Simuze. None of them track you across other websites. None of them are needed before you log in or interact with a form.
What we don't use
- No analytics. Not Google Analytics, not Matomo, not Plausible, not Fathom, not anything. We don't measure how many people visited what page. We work on Simuze based on direct feedback and design judgment, not behavioural data.
- No tracking cookies. No advertising cookies. No cross-site tracking.
- No third-party scripts that track you — no Facebook Pixel, no Google Tag Manager, no LinkedIn Insight, none.
- No embedded social media widgets that load data from third parties before you click. If we link to YouTube, Spotify, or anywhere else, we link — we don't auto-embed in a way that pings their servers.
- No fingerprinting. We don't read your fonts, plug-ins, canvas data, or screen specifics to build a unique signature.
- No session replay or heatmap tools.
- No advertising. There are no ads on Simuze, anywhere, ever.
Why we made this choice
Two reasons.
The structural reason: the original Simuze (2005–2010) was a community platform that ran for years on minimal infrastructure. The rebuilt Simuze is designed from the ground up to be light, owned, and free of third-party dependencies. Tracking infrastructure introduces dependencies, attack surface, and complexity we don't need.
The principled reason: musicians and music fans deserve a place online that doesn't treat their attention as inventory. Simuze is funded by a fair, transparent fee on sales (see our Fair Trade Policy at /legal/fair-trade). We don't need to know what you clicked at 2am to keep the lights on.
What this means in practice
- No cookie banner. Under the GDPR and the Dutch implementation of the ePrivacy Directive, you don't need consent for strictly necessary cookies, and we don't use any others. So you don't get a banner.
- No tracking opt-out, because there's nothing to opt out of.
- No third-party cookies ever, including when you're logged out.
A note on what your browser sends
Your browser sends some technical information when it requests a page from any website, including ours: your IP address, the page you're requesting, the time, your browser type, and so on. We use this minimally for security and to deliver the page — see section 3.4 of our Privacy Policy at /legal/privacy for what we do with it and how long we keep it.
If you've come from somewhere that tracks you
Some links to Simuze might contain UTM parameters (e.g. ?utm_source=...) added by other services. We don't act on these, we don't store them, we don't pass them along. They're inert on our side.
Changes
If we ever change this — for example, if we one day add a privacy-respecting first-party analytics tool — we'll update this page, mark the date, and tell registered users in advance.
Questions
Email support@atypisch.nl.