Soundza Privacy Policy

We collect information in the following categories:

We use the information we collect to:

• Provide, operate, improve and maintain the Service, including hosting, streaming, and enabling browsing, download or licensing of content.
• Create and manage your account, and facilitate transactions between buyers, licensors, and creators.
• Process payments, payouts, refunds, and related accounting/tax obligations.
• Communicate with you, including transactional notices, customer support, and (with your consent or as permitted by law) marketing communications.
• Personalize your experience, such as recommending content, sounds, or creators.
• Monitor, analyze, and improve the Service, including troubleshooting and analytics.
• Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, unauthorized use, copyright/intellectual property infringement, and violations of our Terms of Service.
• Enforce content licensing terms attached to loops, beats, samples, and other uploaded content.
• Comply with legal obligations and respond to lawful requests from public authorities.

We do not sell your personal information for money. We may share information as follows:

• With other users: profile information, uploaded content, and associated metadata (such as artist name and licensing terms) are visible to other users as part of the core functionality of a content-sharing marketplace.
• Service providers: vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as cloud hosting, content delivery, payment processing, payout processing, analytics, customer support, and email delivery, under contractual confidentiality and data protection obligations.
• Business transfers: in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, or sale of all or part of our business, subject to standard confidentiality protections.
• Legal and safety reasons: to comply with applicable law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to enforce our Terms of Service and this Privacy Policy; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company, our users, or others, including responding to copyright/DMCA claims.
• With your consent: for any other purpose disclosed to you and to which you consent.
• Aggregated or de-identified data: we may share information that has been aggregated or de-identified such that it no longer identifies you.

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, which may include the right to:

• Access, correct, or update your personal information (many fields can be updated directly in your account settings).
• Request deletion of your account and associated personal information, subject to legal, tax, and legitimate business retention requirements.
• Object to or restrict certain processing, or withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
• Request a copy of your personal information in a portable format.
• Opt out of marketing communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails or adjusting your account notification settings.
• Opt out of certain cookies and tracking technologies, as described in Section 6.
• Exercise rights specific to your jurisdiction, such as rights under the EU/UK GDPR or U.S. state privacy laws, including the right to non-discrimination for exercising your rights.

To exercise these rights, contact us using the information in Section 12. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling certain requests.

Soundza is a platform for sharing and licensing audio and other content. When you upload content, certain information — including your artist/username, content titles, descriptions, and applicable licensing terms — is intended to be visible to other users or the public, as controlled by the visibility and licensing settings you select. You are responsible for ensuring you have the necessary rights to upload and share any content, and for understanding that content shared publicly may be accessed, downloaded, or used by others in accordance with the license terms you select.

We and our service providers use cookies, local storage, and similar technologies to:

• Keep you logged in and remember your preferences.
• Understand how users interact with the Service (analytics).
• Support core functionality such as the audio player and shopping cart/checkout.
• Possibly support advertising or retargeting.

You can control cookies through your browser settings and, where required by law, through a cookie consent banner or preference center on the Service. Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of the Service.

We retain personal information for as long as necessary to provide the Service, comply with our legal obligations (including tax, accounting, and licensing-dispute recordkeeping), resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements. Uploaded content and associated licensing records may be retained even after account deletion to the extent necessary to honor licenses already granted to other users, unless otherwise required by law.

We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, or disclosure. No method of transmission or storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

We may store and process information in countries other than the one in which you reside. Where required by law, we implement appropriate safeguards for such transfers (such as standard contractual clauses).

The Service is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or the applicable minimum age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under that age. If we learn that we have collected personal information from a child without appropriate consent, we will take steps to delete it.

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make material changes, we will notify you by posting the updated policy on the Service, updating the “Effective Date” above, and, where required by law, providing additional notice (such as email notification). Your continued use of the Service after changes become effective constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.

If you have questions or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us at: