PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated: 22-01-2025
Welcome to www.soundcake.io (the “Website”), which is provided by Soundcake Private Limited (“SoundCake”, “we” or “us”).
SoundCake owns and operates the Website to provide Services (as defined in the Terms) and host auditions (“Auditions”) and contests (“Contest”) for creative professionals.
SoundCake is concerned about the privacy of its users (hereinafter referred to as “you”, “your” “User”) accessing its Website and has provided this Privacy Policy (“Policy”) to familiarise you with the manner in which SoundCake collects, uses and discloses your information collected through the Website.
The Policy is subject to change without intimation and you shall be required to review the same regularly. The protection and security of your personal information is one of SoundCake’s top priorities. This Policy discloses SoundCake’s practice with respect to the information collected from you on this Website.
This Policy is a part of and is to be read with the Terms of Use (“Terms”). By using this Website, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Policy. You also consent to our use and disclosure of your personal information in the manner described in this Policy. The capitalized words used in this Policy but not defined herein, shall have the meaning given to such words in the Terms. If you do not agree with the terms and conditions of this Policy, please do not use this Website.
- WHAT KINDS OF INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?
- Your Personal Information: You may share information such as your name, date of birth, email address and/or telephone number, in order to avail the Services, including to participate in the Auditions and Contests and any other event organised by SoundCake.
- Purchase Information:SoundCake and its assignees and/or licensees, may collect certain information (including but not limited to personally identifiable information) from the Users and Participant(s) (as defined below) such as name, e-mail address or telephone number at the time of registration/payment. By agreeing to these Terms, the Participant(s) consent for SoundCake and/or its assignees and licensees to collect, receive, possess, store, deal and handle all information as provided herein for its own purposes in accordance with applicable laws.
- Information in correspondence you send to us, including when you contact us for support or feedback.
- Information through surveys, research, promotion, contests, marketing campaigns, challenges, competitions or events conducted or sponsored by us, in which you participate.
- Things others do and information they provide about you:We also receive and analyse content, communication, and information that other users provide when they use the Website. This can include information about you, such as when others share or comment on any content uploaded by you, send a message to you or upload, sync or import your contact information.
- Your Usage:We collect information about how you use the Website, such as the types of content that you view or engage with, the features you use, the actions you take, the people or accounts you interact with and the time, frequency and duration of your activities. For example, we log when you're using and have last used our Website, and what content, videos, sound recordings and other content you view on the Website.
- Messages:We collect information you provide when you compose, send, or receive messages through the Website’s messaging functionalities. They include messages you send or receive through our chat functionality when communicating with other Users who you are transacting with, when purchasing items through the Website. That information includes the content of the message and information about the message, such as when it was sent, received, or read, and message participants. Please be aware that messages you choose to send to other users of the Website will be accessible by those users and that we are not responsible for the manner in which those users use or share the messages. (Website is not responsible for the content shared in the messages)
- User Content: We process the content you generate and upload on the Website, including photographs, audios and videos you upload or create, comments, hashtags, feedback, reviews, and livestreams you make, and the associated metadata, such as when, where, and by whom the content was created (“User Content”). Even if you are not a user, information about you may appear in User Content created or published by users on the Website. We collect User Content through pre-loading at the time of creation, import, or upload, regardless of whether you choose to save or upload that User Content, in order to recommend audio options and provide other personalized recommendations. We may access content, including text, images, and video, found in your device’s clipboard, with your permission.
- AUTOMATICALLY COLLECTED INFORMATION
- Location Information:We collect information about your approximate location, including location information based on your SIM card and/or IP address. With your permission, we may also collect precise location data (such as GPS).
- Technical Information we collect about you:We collect certain information about the device you use to access the Website, such as your IP address, user agent, mobile carrier, time zone settings, identifiers for advertising purposes, model of your device, the device system, network type, device IDs, your screen resolution and operating system, app and file names and types, keystroke patterns or rhythms, battery state, audio settings and connected audio devices. Where you log-in from multiple devices, we will be able to use your profile information to identify your activity across devices.
- Inferred Information: We also infer your attributes, including your interests, gender and age range for the purpose of personalising advertisements.
- COOKIES
Our Website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of the Website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse the Website and when you use our app and allows us to improve our site. Cookies are small pieces of text used to store information in web browsers (if you consent). Cookies contain information that is transferred to the hard drive of your device.
- Advertising, Recommendations, Insights and Measurement
- We use Cookies to help us show advertisements and to make recommendations for businesses and other organisations to people who may be interested in the products, services or causes they promote.
- We also use Cookies to help measure the performance of advertisement campaigns for businesses that use the Website.
- Cookies help us serve and measure advertisements across different browsers and devices used by the same person.
- Cookies also allow us to provide insights about the people who use the Website, as well as the people who interact with the advertisements, websites and apps of our advertisers and the businesses that use the Website.
We use Cookies to provide you with the best experience possible.
We use Cookies to better understand how people use the Website so that we can improve them.
Please note that when you access or use our services through third-party websites, we may share some information with them when you perform certain actions in the purchase flow. We will not use any Cookies or pixels for these purposes. We may not be able to erase your data in new sessions if there is no way for us to identify you. They serve the same purposes as Cookies set in the Website, which are to personalise content (including advertisements), measure advertisements, produce analytics and provide a safer experience, as set out in this Policy.
- INFORMATION FROM OTHER SOURCES
- We may receive the information described in this Policy from other sources, such as:
- Advertisers, measurement and other partners share information with us about you and the actions you have taken outside of the Website, such as your activities on other websites and apps or in stores, including the products or services you purchased, online.
- Purchase Data:You give your Personal Information when you place an order on the Website (for example buying out beats from other users or licensing beats). This is generally information including the contents of your shopping cart, your name, email address, telephone number, shipping address, delivery preferences and payment details (e.g. credit/debit card/UPI).
- HOW WE USE THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT?
We use the information we collect from and about you for a variety of purposes, including to:
- Process and respond to your queries.
- Send you general, marketing communications that you have requested or that may be of interest to you by way of emails, or courier, or registered post, or telephone calls, or any other mode of communication.
- Enable us to show you ads that are relevant to you.
- Generate and review reports and data about, and to conduct research on, our user base and Service usage patterns.
- Provide you with customer support.
- Provide you with rules, updates and notices about the Service, Auditions and Contests.
- Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
- Notify you about changes to our Services, including the Auditions and Contests.
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
- For any other purpose, with your consent.
- Log Files: SoundCake follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services’ analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.
- HOW WE SHARE THIS INFORMATION
- Advertisers, Advertising Networks and Measurement Partners
We share information with advertisers and third-party measurement companies to show how users of the Website have viewed or clicked on an advertisement.
We use analytics providers to help us in the optimisation and improvement of the Website. Our third-party analytics providers also help us serve targeted advertisements.
We share your Personal Information, user activity, links you have interacted with and/or information of your participation and use of the Website with the sponsors and any other affiliates of the Website, including for the Auditions and Contests.
We will share your information with law enforcement agencies, public authorities or other organisations if legally required to do so, or if such use is reasonably necessary to:
- comply with legal obligation, process or request;
- enforce our Terms and other agreements, policies, and standards, including investigation of any potential violation thereof;
- detect, prevent or otherwise address security, fraud or technical issues; or
- protect the rights, property or safety of us, our users, a third party or the public as required or permitted by law (including exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction).
- Third Parties
- We may integrate with otherthird party products and services to enable certain features of the Website. We do not share your Personal Information with them except as is necessary in order to allow them to perform the features requiring their integration.
- if we sell, buy, merge, are acquired by, or partner with other companies or businesses, or sell some or all of our assets. In such transactions, user information, including your Personal Information, may be among the transferred assets.
- When you make a purchase through our Website, we share the information related to the transaction with the merchant, payment and transaction fulfilment providers, and other service providers.
- GDPR
- The collection and processing of your data is governed as outlined above. With that being said, Soundcake follows the GDPR where applicable. Data collection and processing under GDPR may be based on your consent, contractual purposes or, in exceptional cases, for legitimate purposes, which we weigh against your data protection interests. We may also use your personal data under GDPR if:
- Processing is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation to which the person responsible is subject;
- Processing is necessary to protect the vital interests of the data subject or another natural person; or
- Processing is necessary for the performance of a task that is in the public interest or takes place in the exercise of official authority that has been assigned to the person responsible.
- YOUR RIGHTS AND CHOICES
- You have rights and choices when it comes to your information. You can opt-out of receiving our communications at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link in any email we send, following the instructions in any SMS we send or by emailing us at [•].
- You may be able to refuse or disable Cookies by adjusting your device browser settings. Because each browser is different, please consult the instructions provided by your browser. Please note that you may need to take additional steps to refuse or disable certain types of Cookies. For example, due to differences in how browsers and mobile apps function, you may need to take different steps to opt out of Cookies used for targeted advertising in a browser and to opt out of targeted advertising for a mobile application, which you may control through your device settings or mobile app permissions. In addition, your opt-out selection is specific to the particular browser or device that you are using when you opt out, so you may need to opt-out separately for each of the browser or device.
- DATA RETENTION
- We may hold on to your Personal Information for as long as we need to for the purposes for which it is processed or as is otherwise required by applicable law.
- We calculate the appropriate retention period for your data by considering the nature and sensitivity of the data, the purposes for which we are processing the data, and any applicable statutory retention periods. Using these criteria, we regularly review the Personal Information that we hold and the purposes for which it is held and processed. Once processing has been completed, we may securely delete oranonymise your personal data.
- LINKS FROMOUR WEBSITE
We may have pages containing external links. You are advised to verify the privacy practices of such externally linked websites. SoundCake is not responsible for the manner of use or misuse of information made available by you at such other websites. We encourage you not to provide personal information, without assuring yourselves of the privacy policy of external linked websites.
- CONTACT AND COMPLAINTS
If you have any complaints about how we handle your personal information, please contact us at sneha@soundcake.io.