Your profile

Signing in tells us an account identifier that means nothing outside our two systems, your display name, your account type and your country. When you open this page we also read your public MiSFY profile — the same one anyone can read on MiSFY — so that you can see it here: your photo and cover, your bio, your genre, the links you list, your follower and post counts, and the year you joined.

Only a short list is kept in this site's cookie: those first four fields, your photo, your Instagram handle and your join year, re-read once a day so a rank granted this morning is not a month out of date here. Everything else on this page is read when you open it and is never stored by us.

We do not receive your email address, your real name or your phone number, and we do not ask MiSFY for them. The Instagram handle is what lets this site find your own artist or venue page when we already track it — it is the same key MiSFY uses to connect an account to an act. Nothing you do here is written back to your MiSFY account, and reading Ground Frequency signed in does not change what MiSFY shows you.

Everything we report stays open: the pieces, the charts, the methodology and the corrections log are readable without an account and always will be. Signing in is for the reference layer we are building on top of that reporting — the deeper cuts of the data. If a page is worth citing, it is worth leaving open.

Today that is two things. Every country chart runs twenty places further for a signed-in reader than it does on the page. And if we already track your act or your room, your account finds its own page here — matched on the Instagram handle your MiSFY profile already carries, so there is nothing to claim and nothing to tell us twice.

Signing out drops this site's cookie and nothing else — you stay signed in to MiSFY. The cookie is set by us, readable only by our server, and carries the four fields above and nothing more. See the privacy page for how it sits alongside everything else this site sets.