Privacy Policy

Andrea Stolpe GmbH is responsible for the information described here. You can reach me about anything in this policy at support@writerecordrelease.ch.

If you take the Creative Assessment, I collect your answers, your name and your email, so I can send you your Songwriter Profile. If you join a waiting list or send an enquiry about the mentorship or the Studio Recording Sessions, I collect what you type into that form — usually your name, your email and a note about where you are with your writing. I also record which page or link brought you here, so I know which of my own pages are actually useful.

Your name and email, so you can sign in and I know who I'm writing to; the songs, lyrics, recordings and videos you choose to upload; and the messages we exchange.

I use your name and email to run the thing you signed up for — sending your assessment results, replying to your enquiry, or running the mentorship we've agreed on. Where I send you writing guidance and news about my programs, I do that because you asked me to, and you can stop it at any time using the unsubscribe link in any email or by writing to me. I keep the portal secure and working because I have a legitimate interest in it not falling over. I don't make any automated decision about you that has a legal or similarly significant effect; your assessment answers are scored to produce a Songwriter Profile, and that's a description, not a judgement.

Your account details, messages, assessment answers and lyrics are held in a private database hosted in the EU. Your audio and video files are held on cloud storage in Frankfurt, EU.

A small number of companies handle parts of this on my behalf, and only for that purpose: Vercel hosts the site and stores your uploaded files, Neon hosts the database, and Resend delivers sign-in and notification emails. If you buy a program, the payment is taken by my checkout provider, not by me — I never see or hold your card details. These companies are US-based and their staff may access data from outside the EU under the standard contractual safeguards their agreements provide. I never sell your data or your music, and I don't use them for advertising or to train any AI.

This site uses one cookie, and only when you sign in: it keeps you signed in on your device until you sign out. There are no advertising cookies, no tracking pixels and no third-party analytics on this site.

Only you and me. Your files are reached through unguessable private links used only inside the portal, so they aren't listed publicly, indexed by search engines, or shared with anyone. You own 100% full-stop rights to all your songs and recordings. Uploading them here gives me no claim over them, and I never sell, license or publish your music, or use it to train any AI.

The portal signs you in with a one-time link sent to your email, so there's no password to store or leak. A secure session keeps you signed in on your device until you sign out.

I keep your songs, recordings and our conversations available to you for at least a year after our active work together ends, so you can return to them. I won't delete anything without telling you first. If you've only taken the assessment or joined a list, I keep that until you ask me to remove it or unsubscribe. If you'd like a specific file, a message, or your whole account removed sooner, just ask and I'll take care of it.

You can ask to see what I hold about you, correct it, have it deleted, have its use restricted, object to how I'm using it, or get a copy of it in a portable form to take elsewhere. Where you've given consent, you can withdraw it at any time, and that doesn't affect anything done before you did. Just email me at support@writerecordrelease.ch. Providing your information is always your choice — but I can't send you a Songwriter Profile or run a mentorship without at least your name and email.

Please tell me first and I'll try to put it right. You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority: in Switzerland that's the Federal Data Protection and Information Commissioner, and if you're in the EU or the UK you can complain to the authority where you live.

If this policy changes, the date at the top changes with it. If a change materially affects how your information is used, I'll tell you rather than quietly editing the page.

Andrea Stolpe, support@writerecordrelease.ch. The same address reaches my team for program and scheduling questions.