What this site knows about you.

This site sets no cookies on visitors, shows no advertising, embeds nothing from another company, and asks you for nothing. It counts page views without identifying anybody. There is no account to create and no mailing list to join.

We use Vercel Web Analytics to see which pages people read. It is cookieless: it stores nothing on your device and builds no profile of you across sites or across visits. What it reports back to us is counts — how many people opened the gallery, which pages they arrived from — never individuals.

Its script is served from this site’s own address rather than from somebody else’s network, so loading a page here does not announce your visit to a third party.

None are set for visitors. The only cookie this site can issue belongs to the administrators’ area, where a handful of named people sign in to manage the photograph archive. It is strictly necessary — it is what keeps somebody signed in — and it is never set for anyone who has not signed in.

That is why there is no cookie banner here. There is nothing to consent to.

The photographs in the gallery are served from Vercel Blob storage, so your browser requests those image files from its address rather than from ours. Everything else on these pages — the typefaces, the film on the home page, the map, the analytics script — comes from this site’s own address.

The typefaces are worth naming, because they are usually the exception: they are Google Fonts, but they are downloaded once when the site is built and served from here afterwards. Reading this page sends nothing to Google.

There are no embedded videos, maps, comment widgets, share buttons or tracking pixels anywhere on this site. Links to our Instagram and Facebook are ordinary links: nothing happens until you follow one, and after that you are on their site under their policy.

This site is hosted by Vercel, which keeps the ordinary operational records any web host keeps — including IP addresses — to serve pages and to defend against abuse. We do not use those records to identify readers, and we do not combine them with anything else.

This is a community group, and its archive is full of recognisable faces: members, their families, and people who happened to be in front of the drums. If you are in a photograph here and would rather not be, get in touch through Instagram or Facebook and tell us which one.

Young members are a large part of this group and appear throughout the site. Nothing here collects information from anybody, of any age — there is no form, no sign-up and no account.

If what this site does changes, this page changes with it and the date at the top moves. It is written from how the site is actually built rather than from a template, so it should not drift out of step with the truth.

Ryukyukoku Matsuri Daiko - Los Angeles is a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization, EIN 30-0116913. The way to reach us about anything on this page is Instagram or Facebook, or in person at a Sunday practice.