Privacy Policy - The Sounds Portal

Last updated: 15 March 2022

Data controller:        Starmony AB

Registration number:         559224-8123

Address:                 Starmony AB

                c/o Space Mäster Samuelsgatan 45

         111 57 Stockholm

Contact email:         support@starmony.io

  1. How we respect your privacy

When you use our website and service, we work hard to protect your information. This Privacy Policy is meant to help you understand what information we collect, why we collect it, and how you can update, manage, export, and delete your information.

  1.  Cookies

Cookies are small pieces of text file data stored on your devices when you load a website in your browser. Starmony uses first- and third-party cookies for multiple reasons, but mainly, it allows us to “remember” you and your preferences, which ensures a consistent and efficient experience for you as a visitor on our website.

We collect the following information:

  • Log-in credentials
  • Remembering user settings
  • Measuring engagement
  • Facebook pixel cookies (keep track of unique users)
  • Google analytics cookies (distinguish unique users, sessions for a user, session state, campaign-related information, traffic source, session duration, throttle request rate, retrieve client ID) 
  • Tiktok pixel cookies (collects data about behavior on our website. This tracking is used to evaluate and measure how marketing campaigns are performing)

This website and our services are not directed towards children (as defined by local law), nor do we knowingly collect information from children (as defined by local law) without parental consent, except where in compliance with applicable laws.

  1. What personal data we collect and why

Types of personal data

  • Personal Name
  • Artist or producer name, aliases, usernames and other handles or IDs that you use on the service
  • Email address
  • Country
  • Image and other likenesses (as shared by you in the platform)
  • Voice and sounds
  • Forms filled out on the website
  • IPI number
  • Metadata provided within or in connection to recordings, including ISRC codes
  • Correspondence with you by phone or email
  • Your interaction on the website, such as participation in live chats or other social media functions, sending and receiving messages with others, and/or creating and sharing content
  • Problem reports
  • Support requests
  • Technical data, such as IP address, login information, browser type, and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system, and platform
  • Data about your visits on our website (clickstream, date, time etc.)
  • Data about page response times download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page
  • Information about your devices, device identifiers, and from which devices you visit our website and make use of the service. This may include mobile network information (including phone number), IP address, language and time zone, operating system, hardware version, device locations (including country-specific geographic locations)

Source, purpose, and legal basis

We collect information in different ways. Some information is collected directly from you, such as your name and contact information when you create an account with us. Other types of information, such as your voice, are collected when you choose to create a recording whilst using our services.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  1. Providing our services. We may use some, or all, of your personal data for the purpose of administering the platform and performing our services to you, (including, but not limited to, accounting and reporting payments to you pursuant to our Terms of Use) as well as enabling you to create and share content and to interact with other users on the service;
  2. Promoting our services. We may use your personal data, such as your name, email address, and country, for marketing purposes on the legal basis of our legitimate interest to promote our services;
  3. Developing our services. We may use your personal data for internal research and service development purposes, for historical reference on the legal basis of our legitimate interest to develop our services, as well as to keep historical references to see trends over time;
  4. Sharing data with our business partners for direct marketing purposes. We may share your personal data, such as your name and email address, with our business partners, on the legal basis of your consent; and
  5. Direct marketing by us. We may use your personal data, such as your name and email address, for direct marketing purposes in relation to our services as well as for the purpose of providing you with information about upcoming functionalities, on the legal basis of your consent.

About our balance of interest assessment

When we state above that we rely on our legitimate interests as a legal basis for our processing of personal data, we have made a so-called legitimate interest assessment. That is a balance of interest assessment through which we have determined that our legitimate interests for the processing outweigh your interests and rights not to have your personal data processed. Please contact us if you want more information on how we have made this assessment.

Transfers of your personal data outside the European Economic Area

Our sharing of your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it. As a safeguard, we use specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe. In addition to this, we will implement requirements and safeguards that may be required by law.

You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to request a copy of relevant safeguards implemented. Please contact us at support@starmony.io for any questions in this regard.

  1. Who we share your personal data with

We may share your personal data with our affiliates and with selected third parties:

Affiliates:

Our affiliates and group companies

Service providers:

Antares Audio Technologies LLC (Vocal Effects)

Doremir Music Research AB (Music Analytics)

Klevgränd Produkter AB (Vocal Effects)

Business partners:

Any business partners that we may enter co-operations with, and that we include here.

Third parties:

Any tentative third-party buyer of our business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets.

All, or substantially all, our assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us about our customers will be one of the transferred assets.

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data to comply with any legal obligation, or to enforce or apply our terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

To any other third party where lawful.

  1. How we keep your personal data safe

We protect your personal data from all kinds of threats: loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure, or access. We do this in a variety of ways depending on where we store and use it.

Occasionally, we might have to transfer your personal data to service providers and business partners located outside the European Economic Area. We do our best to keep your personal data safe in these cases. Please read section 2 in this Privacy Policy on how we may transfer data outside of the European Economic Area and the safeguards we apply.

  1. How long we keep your personal data

For as long as the personal data is relevant for use by us for the purposes as indicated in this Privacy Policy.

Please note that personal data that has been published online might be downloaded and shared by individuals. In such cases, we do not control the source and will be unable to delete the personal data. We might also store your personal data longer than stated above if it is necessary because of legal requirements that we are subject to.

  1. Your privacy rights

You have several rights in regards to your personal data, which you may read more about  below. If you would like to exercise- or learn more about them, feel free to contact us. You can find contact details at the top and end of this Privacy Policy. Please note that some of the rights may not be applicable to you.

Right of access

You have the right to obtain confirmation as to whether we process your personal data, and, if we do, request access to your personal data as well as information in relation to our processing. If you have any questions or would like to learn more about what personal data we process, you are always welcome to contact us, and we will provide you with further information

Right to rectification

If you believe we store incorrect personal data, such as misspelt- or previous name or address, you can ask us to correct this

Right to erasure/right to be forgotten

You have the right to request that we permanently erase your personal data from our records.

Right to restrict the processing activities

You have the right to restrict our processing activities in certain situations. This means we will continue to store your personal data, but we will temporarily stop any other processing. Why would you want to do this? For example, if you have asked us to amend incorrect personal data. In this situation, you may want us to stop the processing of your personal data until it is correct.

Right to data portability

In certain situations, you have the right to ask us to send your personal data in digital form to you or directly to another controller.

Right to object

You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data, even when we have a legitimate legal reason to process it. You can do this when we process your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest and you believe your personal interest outweighs ours. If you do not want us to use your personal data for direct marketing purposes, including profiling, we will comply in any case.

Right to withdraw consent

In case the processing of your personal data is based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before this withdrawal. Please note that all aspects of an initiated marketing campaign cannot be stopped once initiated upon a withdrawal of consent.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

If you are not satisfied with the way we treat your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint against us to the relevant supervisory authority.

  1. Links to third-party websites and social media services

Our communication may, from time to time, contain links to-and-from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers, and affiliates. We do not accept responsibility or liability for these third-party sites.

Some of the content and functionality on our website may be provided by social media services that are not affiliated with us. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal data with us, and depending on the service, you may be given the option to post to your social media profile page about your activities on our website to share with others within your social media presence.

  1. Changes to this Privacy Policy

Any material changes that we make to this Privacy Policy will be posted here prior to the changes coming into effect.

  1. Who to contact

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our processing of personal data, feel free to contact us at support@starmony.io.