Privacy policy
Metal Country respects your privacy. This page explains which information may be processed when you use the site, why it is needed and how to manage your choices.
Who operates the site
Metal Country is an independent Ukrainian music publication and community. For privacy questions or requests to exercise your rights, contact the editorial team at contact@metalcountry.net.
Hosting and technical information
Our website is hosted on Vercel. Delivering pages, maintaining security and diagnosing errors may involve processing IP addresses, browser information, request logs and timestamps in accordance with service-provider terms.
Google Analytics
With your separate consent, we use Google Analytics 4 to measure site visits. You can reject analytics cookies or change your choice using the “Analytics cookie settings” control in our footer. Google may process technical identifiers, device information and page interactions.
Google AdSense and advertising partners
If Google AdSense advertising is enabled, Google and participating advertising technology partners may process IP addresses, cookies and other identifiers to serve, frequency-cap and measure ads and, where appropriate consent is obtained, personalize them. Learn more: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Our configured Google privacy message will list participating vendors and processing purposes.
Consent, withdrawal and European rights
For visitors in the EEA, UK and Switzerland, advertising choices will be available through a Google-certified consent management platform (CMP) when advertising is activated. You can accept, refuse or manage processing purposes, and later withdraw consent through the advertising privacy control at the bottom of the site. You can also contact us about access, correction or deletion requests.
Privacy choices for US visitors
For users in US states with applicable privacy legislation, when Google advertising messages are active an opt-out of sale or sharing of personal information and certain targeted advertising will be available as required by applicable law. Please send privacy requests to contact@metalcountry.net.
Other services and policy updates
You can also manage Google advertising preferences at https://myadcenter.google.com/. A functional NEXT_LOCALE cookie remembers a language you select; the default language for new visitors is chosen using browser language preferences, not IP geolocation. We may update this policy if the site adds new functions or partners. The current version is always available here.