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JamPlan

Terms & Privacy

Revision 2026-10-31

The short version

  • JamPlan is a hobby project run by one person - set your expectations accordingly.
  • Anything you put into JamPlan is shared with the other members of the bands you belong to. You only join a band by accepting an invite.
  • You can delete your account at any time from your profile page.
  • You must be 18 or older to use JamPlan.

Who runs JamPlan

JamPlan is a personal project built and run by Phil Ames, primarily to solve problems for the world famous Dads' Night Band from Ridgewood, New Jersey. Questions or requests about these terms or your data go to [email protected].

Using JamPlan

  • It's provided as is. JamPlan may have bugs or downtime, may lose data, and may change or shut down at any time, with or without notice. Keep your own copies of anything important, like setlists and charts.
  • No warranty. To the fullest extent the law allows, JamPlan comes with no warranties of any kind.
  • Be decent. Don't use JamPlan to harass anyone, send unwanted invites, post illegal content, scrape it, or try to get at data that isn't yours.
  • 18 and over. You must be at least 18 to create an account.

What JamPlan collects

  • Account details: your email address, your phone number, or both (whichever you sign in with), the display name you choose, your notification preferences, your calendar feed settings, when you signed up, and which version of these terms you accepted and when.
  • Band content: band names, songs, parts, keys, chart links, setlists, gigs and practices (including venue addresses), and notes.
  • Your band activity: your availability, your RSVPs and any notes on them, and your role in each band.
  • People you invite: when you invite someone, you give JamPlan their email address or phone number. It's used to send the invite, by email or text message, and to recognize them if they sign up. Only invite people who'd expect to hear from you.
  • Technical data: a cookie that keeps you signed in. There are no analytics or tracking cookies. The hosting provider keeps routine server logs (IP address, browser type, pages requested, errors) for a limited time.

Who can see your information

  • Your bandmates. Everyone in a band you belong to can see your display name, email address, phone number, availability, RSVPs and notes, and all of that band's content such as practice addresses and gig addresses. Treat anything you enter as shared with them. Band admins can invite and remove members.
  • Only bands you choose. Nobody can add you to a band. You join by accepting an invite. If you're removed from a band, the content you added stays with it.
  • Calendar apps you connect. If you turn on a private calendar feed, any calendar app or service you give that link to can fetch your upcoming and recent gigs and practices without signing in until you reset or turn off the link. Calendar feed entries include band name, event type, gig name, start/end/load-in times, venue location, and deep-link URLs, and never include bandmate email addresses, phone numbers, or other members' RSVP notes.
  • The operator. Phil Ames can access the database in the general course of operating/maintaining the site in order to fix bug reports, debug errors, etc.
  • Service providers that JamPlan runs on, which handle data for it:
    • Google Cloud for hosting, the database and logs.
    • Amazon Web Services (AWS Simple Email Service) for sending sign-in, invite, confirmation, and notification emails.
    • Twilio Programmable Messaging (SMS) for sending sign-in codes, phone confirmation codes and invites by text message.
    • Google Maps Platform for address suggestions and maps. When you type a venue or practice address, what you type goes to Google. Maps load from Google, which may set its own cookies under Google's Privacy Policy.
    • MusicBrainz for song suggestions and recording durations. When you select a song suggestion, JamPlan's servers may request its duration from MusicBrainz using the recording ID. MusicBrainz receives that ID and routine connection data, including JamPlan's server IP address and User-Agent. JamPlan does not send your account details.
  • When the law requires it, for example under a valid legal order.

Keeping it safe

JamPlan takes reasonable steps to protect your information. Connections are encrypted, sign-in uses single-use email links or one-time codes sent by text instead of passwords, and email addresses and phone numbers are pseudonymized in the database's lookup records. But this is a hobby project with no security team, so it can't promise perfect security.

Keeping and deleting your data

  • Your information is kept for as long as you have an account.
  • You can delete your account from your profile page. You're signed out and removed from all your bands right away, and your email address and phone number can no longer be used to sign in. Deleting your account immediately revokes any calendar feed link and stops notifications. The rest of your data is deleted within 30 days: your account, display name, notification preferences, availability, RSVPs and their notes. Content you added to a band (songs, setlists, gigs and practices) stays with the band, because your bandmates rely on it. Your name and account are no longer attached to it.
  • Copies in server logs and provider systems may last up to about 30 days before they expire.
  • For anything else, like a copy of your data or a correction, email [email protected].

Where your data lives

JamPlan is run from the United States, and your information is stored and processed there.

Changes to these terms

When these terms change, the revision at the top changes too. If you're signed in, you'll be asked to read and accept the new version before you continue. If you don't agree, you can delete your account.

Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of the State of New Jersey, USA.