Inaugural year: 2026Program status: Finalists announced
Country Music Awards

Privacy Policy

Last updated: August 2026

What this site currently collects

This website does not require an account and does not currently operate live voting, so it does not collect ballot, receipt, or vote-verification data yet. This site uses Google Analytics, which sets first-party cookies in your browser; see Analytics below.

Third-party services

Page fonts are loaded from Google Fonts (fonts.googleapis.com), a third-party service. Loading a font file may expose your IP address to Google under its own privacy practices. Artist pages also embed official Instagram posts (Meta) and official Spotify album players. Those embeds load directly from Instagram and Spotify, which may set their own cookies and receive your IP address under their own privacy practices. Blocking third-party content in your browser prevents them loading without affecting the rest of the page.

Analytics

This site uses Google Analytics 4 (measurement ID G-RLKM9GN56P) to measure how many people visit and which pages they read. It sets first-party cookies in your browser and sends usage data, including a truncated IP address, to Google under its own privacy practices. It is not used to identify individual visitors. You can prevent it loading with any browser setting or extension that blocks Google Analytics.

When voting opens

When a category enters the voting_open state, ballot submission will require collecting a minimal record needed to issue and verify a receipt code, as described on the How It Works page. This policy will be updated with specifics before voting opens, not after.

Hosting

This site is served as static pages via Cloudflare Pages. Cloudflare processes standard request logs (IP address, user agent, request path) as part of delivering the site; see Cloudflare privacy documentation for details of that processing.

Changes to this policy

This policy may be updated as the site adds functionality, particularly before voting opens. Material changes will be reflected in the Last updated date above.