Who we are
We’re talking specifically about this website, http://cargo.band, representing Randy McCargo and his band “Cargo & Co.” and no other websites now or used in the past. Just to be clear, we are not the heavy metal band from Timisoara, Romania [cargorock.ro] or the progressive rock group from Netherlands who had one album in 1972.
Along with a billion other websites, cargo.band is built on a WordPress engine, the most reliable CMS in the universe. We throw no curveballs. We’re not out to steal your lunch money.
If you buy something on this website, you’ll be using a third-party link or an embedded app from an well-established e-commerce company that handles these types of transactions ethically. That’s how we can sleep at night.
Comments you make
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/ [FYI: Automattic is the company behind WordPress]. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media you upload
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you enjoy Chips Ahoy cookies enough to ignore their ingredients, you may wish to ignore the following:
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies may last for one year. Or not. There’s no guarantee on our end.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
If you made it this far, go have a Chips Ahoy cookie as your reward. BTW, Chips Ahoy is a registered trademark, and is baked and owned by Nabisco, a subsidiary of Mondelez International. We are mentioning their trademark as an editorial parody under fair use guidance.
Why did Chips Ahoy change their recipe?
Chips Ahoy [b. 1963, named after a Charles Dickens story] changed its recipe in 2024 to create a better cookie with richer flavor, creamier chocolate, and improved texture, using new chocolate chips with more cacao and Madagascar vanilla, a revised mixing process, and a redesigned bag to highlight the “MMMproved” version, aiming to stay competitive and meet consumer demand for higher quality.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites (especially Meta, YouTube, Google, TikTok, Apple, Tesla, Forever 21), behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website. Cargo.band has nothing to do with any of that.
Who we share your data with (hint: you)
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email. That’s supposed to let you know we’re legit, but honestly, we don’t know how all that stuff works anyway.
How long we retain your data (hint: forever)
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data (hint: none)
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can “request to receive” an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also “request to erase” any personal data this website may hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
But listen here, this is important: When you use cargo.band, you hold us [Randy McCargo, guys in the band, webmaster, club owners] harmless against everything and anything that can possibly happen in this universe to you or your data through the course of you using this website.
Where your data is sent (hint: we don’t know)
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. We don’t know where it is, or how it works. You know, sometimes a 12-bar blues has 13 bars. Not our fault.