Privacy & cookies

Last updated 6 September 2026

gigs.monster is a map of live concerts. There are no accounts on the public site, we do not sell anything to you directly, and there is no form anywhere on it that asks you for anything about yourself. What follows is the whole of what happens to data when you use it.

The short version

We do not build a profile of you. Until you accept cookies, no third-party analytics or partner script loads at all. Your IP address is used to guess roughly where you are, so the map opens near you and so a concert page can tell whether you would need a hotel — it is not stored. We keep no personal data of yours at all. Some outbound links earn us a commission, and those are disclosed below.

Cookies, and the choice you are asked for

The banner on your first visit is a real choice, and declining is not a degraded version of the site — every feature works identically either way. Until you answer, and if you decline, none of the scripts in this section are fetched. They are not loaded and then asked to behave; they are never requested.

Your answer is kept in your browser’s local storage under the key gm.consent, which is stored on your device and never sent to us. It records whether you accepted or declined and when. Clearing your browser’s site data for gigs.monster erases it and you will be asked again. If we ever add a partner to the list below, that answer is retired and the question is put again rather than assumed.

If you accept, these load:

• Google Analytics 4 — which pages get looked at, so we know which gigs people are searching for. See Google’s privacy policy.
• Microsoft Clarity — aggregate interaction data used to find pages that are confusing or broken. See Microsoft’s privacy statement.
• Stay22 (“LetMeAllez”) — rewrites some outbound accommodation links so a booking can be attributed to us. See Stay22’s privacy policy.

Analytics scripts never load on the admin dashboard, and never outside a production build.

Where the map opens

When you load the homepage, your IP address is passed once to findip.net, which returns approximate coordinates so the map opens near you instead of somewhere arbitrary. Only those coordinates come back, we do not store the address or the result, and if the lookup fails the map simply opens on a default city. This happens on the server as part of rendering the page, and it is not a cookie — it works the same whether or not you accepted.

The same lookup runs on a concert page, from your browser, for one purpose: to work out roughly how far you are from the venue. If you are near it, the page shows a one-line link to accommodation instead of a full hotel map, on the grounds that you probably already have somewhere to sleep. The answer is used to decide what to draw and is not stored.

If you press “Near me”, your browser asks for your permission and the coordinates it gives us are used to move the map and are written into the page’s own URL. They are not sent anywhere else and not retained after you leave.

Counting which artists are popular

When an artist’s page is opened, the site increments a per-day view count for that artist — that is what the “Popular on tour” list is ranked on. It is a number attached to the artist, not to you: nothing is written to your device, nothing identifies you, and there is no way to run it backwards to a visitor.

Content embedded from elsewhere

Some pages embed content served by other companies. When one of these renders, your browser contacts them directly and they can see that request, in the same way as if you had visited them.

• Google Maps — the map itself, on the homepage and on artist and concert pages.
• Spotify — tour setlist players, which load only when you scroll to them.
• Stay22 — the accommodation map near a venue, which also loads only when scrolled to.

Affiliate links

Some links on this site earn us a commission. This never changes what you pay, and it does not decide which concerts are listed or in what order — the listings come from the tour data, not from what earns.

Accommodation links and maps are provided by Stay22, who pay us a commission on bookings made through them. It costs you nothing extra.

As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases.

Ticket buttons go through an address on this site of the form /out/… before landing at the seller. It exists so that the destination is decided in one place and so we can count how many people press the button; it sets no cookie and adds nothing to the request beyond the redirect itself. Ticket links are not currently affiliate links, and this notice will say so plainly on the day that changes.

Where the concert data comes from

Event data is provided by Ticketmaster. gigs.monster is not a ticket seller and is not affiliated with any venue, promoter or artist listed here. When you follow a ticket link you are buying from that seller, under their terms and their privacy policy, not ours.

Your choices

You can decline cookies on the banner, and the site works exactly as it did. If you accepted and want to undo that, clear site data for gigs.monster in your browser settings — that removes the stored answer and the banner returns. Browser-level controls such as blocking third-party cookies, Do Not Track, or an ad blocker all work here; none of them break the map.

Contact

Questions about this notice, or about anything on the site, go to privacy@gigs.monster.