Privacy Policy

1. Who We Are

This website is operated by soundtura (soundtura LTD, soundtura.com). soundtura is the data controller for personal data collected via this platform.

For any privacy-related questions, please contact us at hello@soundtura.com.

2. What Data We Collect

When you visit or use Soundtura, we may collect the following categories of personal data:

• Usage data: pages visited, tracks played, time spent, referring source
• Device data: browser type, operating system, screen resolution
• Location data: approximate geographic location derived from IP address (country and city level)
• Account data: name, email address, and profile information provided during registration
• Content data: tracks, photos, and bio information uploaded to your profile

3. How We Use Your Data

We use your data for the following purposes:

• To operate and improve the Soundtura platform
• To provide musicians with a public profile and discovery tools
• To generate platform-wide insights in aggregated and anonymised form
• To communicate with you about your account
• To comply with legal obligations

4. Legal Basis for Processing

We process your personal data on the following legal bases under UK GDPR:

• Consent: for analytics and non-essential cookies, where you have given consent via the cookie banner
• Contract: to provide the Soundtura service you have signed up for
• Legitimate interests: to understand how visitors use the platform and to improve it
• Legal obligation: where required by law

5. Sharing Your Data

We do not sell your personal data. We may share your data with:

• Supabase, as our database and storage provider
• Clerk, as our authentication provider
• Vercel, as our hosting provider
• Third parties only in aggregated and fully anonymised form — from which no individual can be identified

6. Cookies

This website uses cookies. For full details of the cookies we use, please refer to our Cookie Policy.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, or as required by law. Analytics data is retained for a maximum of 24 months. Account data is retained until you delete your account.

8. Your Rights

Under UK GDPR, you have the right to:

• Access your personal data
• Rectify inaccurate data
• Request erasure of your data
• Object to processing
• Restrict processing
• Data portability
• Withdraw consent at any time

To exercise any of these rights, please contact hello@soundtura.com.

9. What Soundtura Will Never Do

Soundtura will never use tracks, photos, or any creative content uploaded to the platform to train artificial intelligence models. Soundtura will never sell individual user data to third parties. Your data is used exclusively to power your profile and improve the platform.

10. Contact and Complaints

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@soundtura.com.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO) at ico.org.uk or by telephone on 0303 123 1113.