Last Updated: September 13, 2026
Support Hip Hop (“Support Hip Hop,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) is an independently operated website and online media brand based in Illinois.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and otherwise process information when you visit supporthiphop.com (the “Website”), subscribe to our newsletter, submit music or other materials, contact us, purchase or request services, participate in promotions, or otherwise interact with Support Hip Hop.
By using the Website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
The information we collect depends on how you interact with Support Hip Hop.
You may voluntarily provide information when you:
The information you provide may include:
Please do not provide sensitive personal information that is not necessary for your interaction with Support Hip Hop.
When you visit the Website, certain information may be collected automatically by Support Hip Hop and services used to operate, analyze, secure, and monetize the Website.
This information may include:
We may use this information to operate and secure the Website, understand how visitors use Support Hip Hop, measure Website and content performance, improve our services, and support analytics and advertising.
We may use information collected through Support Hip Hop to:
We may also use aggregated or de-identified information for analytics, research, Website improvement, business planning, and other purposes where that information no longer reasonably identifies an individual.
If you subscribe to the Support Hip Hop newsletter, we may use the email address you provide to send you newsletters, music updates, hip hop news, Website updates, promotional opportunities, giveaways, and other Support Hip Hop communications.
You may unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by using the unsubscribe option included in an email, where available, or by contacting Support Hip Hop.
Unsubscribing from marketing communications does not necessarily prevent us from sending non-promotional communications that are reasonably necessary to respond to an inquiry, provide a service you requested, communicate about a transaction, or provide important administrative or legal information.
We do not require you to remain subscribed to marketing emails to access ordinary editorial content unless otherwise stated in connection with a particular feature or promotion.
Support Hip Hop allows artists and others to submit music and related materials for potential review, coverage, promotion, or other services.
When you use Submit Your Music or otherwise provide materials to Support Hip Hop, we may collect information contained in your submission, including:
We may use this information to evaluate your submission, communicate with you, provide requested services, verify information associated with the submission, and create or publish editorial or promotional content where appropriate.
Some information submitted to Support Hip Hop may become publicly available if we choose to publish, feature, or promote your Submission.
For example, your artist name, approved photograph, biography, song title, artwork, social media profile, streaming link, or similar promotional information may appear in an article, music feature, social media post, or other public content.
Please do not include private or sensitive information in materials intended for publication.
Ownership, permissions, and other terms applicable to submitted content are further described in our Terms of Service.
Support Hip Hop and third-party services used by the Website, including Google Analytics and Google AdSense, may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, device identifiers, and similar technologies.
Cookies are small pieces of information stored on or associated with your browser or device. They can help websites function, remember preferences, measure usage, understand audiences, and support advertising.
We and third parties may use these technologies for purposes including:
You may be able to control cookies through your browser settings and, where available, through cookie or consent controls provided on the Website.
Blocking certain cookies may affect Website functionality.
Depending on your location and applicable law, we may request consent before using certain non-essential analytics or advertising technologies.
Support Hip Hop uses Google Analytics, including Google Analytics 4 (“GA4”), to understand how visitors interact with the Website and to measure Website traffic and performance.
Google Analytics may collect or process information such as:
We use analytics information to understand our audience, evaluate Website performance, identify useful or popular content, improve navigation and user experience, evaluate traffic sources, and make decisions about future content and services.
Google may use cookies and similar technologies in connection with Google Analytics.
Information processed through Google Analytics is subject to Google's applicable privacy and data-processing practices.
Depending on your location, consent may be requested before certain analytics technologies are activated.
Support Hip Hop uses Google AdSense to display advertisements on the Website.
Google and advertising partners participating through its services may use cookies, IP addresses, device or browser information, advertising identifiers, Website activity, and similar technologies to:
Depending on your location, consent choices, and applicable law, advertisements may be personalized or non-personalized.
Google and its advertising partners may process information according to their own privacy policies and applicable advertising practices.
Where required by applicable law, Support Hip Hop may use consent controls to obtain or manage choices concerning advertising cookies and similar technologies.
You may also have options to manage certain advertising preferences through your browser, Website consent controls, or privacy and advertising controls provided by Google.
Support Hip Hop may contain or embed content and features provided by third parties.
These may include:
When you view or interact with third-party content, the third party may receive information about your browser, device, IP address, cookies, or interaction with that content.
Third-party services operate according to their own privacy policies and practices. Support Hip Hop does not control how independent third parties process information.
Support Hip Hop may disclose information to service providers and other third parties when reasonably necessary to operate the Website or provide requested services.
These parties may provide services involving:
We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:
Third-party service providers may process information on our behalf or under their own applicable privacy terms depending on their role and the service involved.
Support Hip Hop does not sell personal information for money as part of its ordinary business operations.
However, our use of advertising and analytics technologies, including Google advertising services, may involve disclosing identifiers, device information, or Website activity to third parties.
Some privacy laws may define certain advertising-related disclosures as a “sale,” “sharing,” or use for “targeted advertising,” even when Support Hip Hop does not receive money specifically in exchange for personal information.
Where applicable law provides a right to opt out of these practices, we will honor applicable rights as required by law.
Available Website privacy or cookie controls may also provide options concerning certain advertising technologies.
Support Hip Hop may use third-party payment processors to process payments for services or other transactions.
When payment information is entered directly into a third-party payment processor's system, Support Hip Hop may not receive or store your complete payment-card number.
Payment processors may collect information such as payment-card details, billing information, contact information, transaction information, device information, and fraud-prevention information according to their own privacy policies.
We may receive transaction information necessary to confirm and maintain records of a purchase, such as your name, contact information, amount paid, purchased service, transaction status, or transaction identifier.
If you enter a Support Hip Hop giveaway, contest, sweepstakes, or similar promotion, we may collect information necessary to administer the promotion.
This may include your name, email address, social media information, entry information, eligibility information, and, where necessary for a winner, information required to deliver a prize.
Additional privacy disclosures or official rules may apply to individual promotions.
We will use information collected through a promotion for purposes reasonably related to administering that promotion and for other purposes disclosed when you enter.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and as appropriate for our legitimate operational, legal, and business needs.
For example, information may be retained as necessary to:
Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information and why it was collected.
We may retain aggregated or de-identified information where it no longer reasonably identifies you.
Publicly published editorial material may also remain in Support Hip Hop's archives in accordance with our editorial practices and Terms of Service.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information handled through Support Hip Hop.
However, no website, server, database, electronic storage system, or Internet transmission can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
Accordingly, we cannot guarantee the absolute security of information transmitted to or stored by Support Hip Hop.
Please use reasonable care when submitting information online and do not send sensitive information that is unnecessary for the service or interaction you are requesting.
Support Hip Hop is not directed to children under the age of 13.
We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without parental consent where such consent is required by applicable law.
If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 in circumstances where we were not legally permitted to do so, we will take reasonable steps to delete that information.
If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to Support Hip Hop, please contact us.
Depending on how you interact with Support Hip Hop and where you live, you may have choices or legal rights concerning your personal information.
These may include the ability to:
Not every right applies in every jurisdiction or circumstance, and applicable laws may provide exceptions.
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain privacy requests.
Residents of certain U.S. states may have additional rights under applicable comprehensive state privacy laws.
Depending on where you live, whether a particular law applies to Support Hip Hop, and the nature of our processing activities, applicable rights may include the right to:
We will process legally valid privacy requests as required by applicable law.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
California residents may have additional rights under applicable California privacy laws.
Depending on which laws apply to Support Hip Hop and our data practices, California residents may have rights concerning access, correction, deletion, disclosure, and certain uses or transfers of personal information.
Applicable law may also provide the right to opt out of certain “sales” or “sharing” of personal information.
As explained above, Support Hip Hop does not sell personal information for money as part of its ordinary business operations. However, certain advertising technologies may constitute “sharing” or similar activity under applicable privacy law.
California residents may submit an applicable privacy request using the contact information provided below.
We may request information reasonably necessary to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (“EEA”), United Kingdom, or another jurisdiction that provides specific data-protection rights, you may have additional rights regarding personal information processed about you.
Depending on applicable law, these rights may include the right to:
Where applicable law requires us to have a legal basis for processing personal information, our legal basis may depend on the circumstances and may include:
Consent: where you have given us permission to process information for a particular purpose.
Contractual necessity: where processing is necessary to provide a service you requested or take steps at your request before providing a service.
Legal obligations: where processing is necessary for us to comply with applicable law.
Legitimate interests: where processing is reasonably necessary to operate, secure, improve, or protect Support Hip Hop or pursue another legitimate interest, provided those interests are not overridden by applicable privacy rights.
Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw your consent as permitted by applicable law.
Withdrawal of consent does not affect processing that was lawful before consent was withdrawn.
Support Hip Hop may contain links to websites, applications, stores, social networks, streaming platforms, or other services that we do not operate.
Once you leave Support Hip Hop or interact directly with a third-party service, that third party's privacy practices apply.
We are not responsible for the privacy, security, content, or data practices of independent third-party websites or services.
We encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing personal information.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to Support Hip Hop, our services, technologies, advertising or analytics providers, legal requirements, or privacy practices.
When we update this Privacy Policy, we may revise the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.
If a change materially affects how we process personal information, we may provide additional notice or obtain consent where required by applicable law.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, our privacy practices, or your personal information, or if you would like to submit an applicable privacy request, please contact Support Hip Hop through our Contact page.
When submitting a privacy request, please provide enough information for us to understand your request and locate the relevant information.
We may request additional information when reasonably necessary to verify your identity or your authority to make a request on behalf of another person.
