/sidedig

/sidedig controls supported music players in your Chrome tabs, keeps a local register of saved finds and offers an optional room for sharing music.

Your listening, saved finds, colours and uploaded artwork are not automatically sent to MIDGAR or Sidechat. Sidechat connects when you choose to join; messages and tracks you send are visible to other room members.

Who operates it

MIDGAR operates /sidedig and Sidechat. For privacy questions, requests or support, contact midgar.records@gmail.com.

Music controls and your open tabs

The extension processes open-tab addresses, titles and player information locally to identify supported music sources, show the current track, and carry out playback commands. This includes track and artist names, source links, playback position and state. It does not use Chrome's browsing-history database or send a list of your tabs to our server.

Music is provided by the original platforms. Starting a source or loading a shared preview may open its page in a background tab. Those sites receive their normal page and media requests and may use your existing login and cookies under their own policies. /sidedig does not ask for your platform password.

What stays on this device

• Saved finds: track title, artist, platform, link, save date and time, and the result of any attempted platform like or wishlist save.
• Preferences: colours, named themes, uploaded artwork, layout, playback settings and your remembered nickname ending.
• Session state: selected sources and temporary playback information needed to control and restore a track.

These records use this Chrome profile's local or session storage, not our server or Chrome Sync. They do not automatically move between laptops. Artwork uploads are stored locally. Exporting finds creates a file on your device; copying them to another service is your choice.

The track heart saves a local record and, where supported, also tries the platform's own Like or Wishlist control. This sends the same save action to that platform as using its page control. You may need to be signed in, and Bandcamp may save the whole release.

Sidechat: what is transmitted

Joining opens an encrypted WebSocket connection to our Cloudflare-hosted service. The service receives your chosen nickname ending and a randomly generated session token. It derives a pseudonymous session identifier, which appears with your nickname in room presence and messages. The token is generated for the chat session; it is not a platform account or password.

Only messages and tracks you choose to send are shared. A shared track contains its title, artist, platform and public track link. It does not include your tab list, listening history, playback position or uploaded skin. Do not post private information in this public room.

The server keeps at most the last 40 messages from the last 30 minutes. Older messages are removed by scheduled cleanup. Room members may copy or screenshot messages; we cannot remove their copies.

Reports, security and retention

Reporting a message sends its identifier to the service. The report stores the reported message and your pseudonymous reporter identifier privately for up to 7 days, subject to scheduled cleanup. Reports are available to the operator for abuse handling, not to other members. Session bans expire after 24 hours.

Cloudflare processes network information, including your IP address, to deliver the service. Our application uses a daily salted hash of that address to limit connection abuse and does not store the raw address in its room database. Connection-rate records expire after a minute and are pruned during cleanup; connection metadata lasts while that connection is retained. Cloudflare may separately process network and security records under its privacy policy.

We do not use advertising or analytics trackers in /sidedig or Sidechat, and we do not sell this data. Data is used to provide the functions described here and protect the service. Any transfer, including to the hosting provider, is limited to those purposes or a legal obligation.

Permissions and your choices

Required site access is used to read and control supported music players and their embeds. Storage keeps your settings and finds; scripting connects the controller to those players. The optional “Show /sidedig on webpages” setting requests additional website access to display a launcher on ordinary webpages. That launcher does not read the page's content or start music. You can turn it off or revoke access in Chrome's extension settings.

You can use the player without joining Sidechat, leave the room to disconnect, mute or report messages, remove finds in the archive, replace or remove uploaded artwork, and export your finds. Removing the extension clears its local storage; export first if you want to keep it. Removing a local find does not undo a platform Like or Wishlist action. Manage those on the platform itself.

For access, correction or deletion questions about Sidechat data, email us with the nickname and approximate time of the interaction. Because the chat does not require an account, we may need information to identify a relevant record and cannot promise to identify expired or unlinked sessions.

Changes

Updates to this policy will be published here with a revised date. Material changes to data use will be explained before enabling the affected feature.