Privacy Policy

Welcome to Audiory (“Audiory”, “we”, “us”, “our”). We respect your privacy and are committed to protecting your personal data. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, share, and protect your information when you use our web platform, mobile system features, and multi-vendor distribution tools (collectively, the “Services”).

By using Audiory, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, please do not use the Services.

1. Information We Collect

We collect information across the following structural categories to maintain a functional beat marketplace:

A) Information you provide

• Account details: Legal name, username, email address, profile biographical data, and salted/encrypted login credentials.
• Producer Content & Audio Assets: Uploaded audio file formats (.MP3, .WAV, zip archives, component stems), track titles, custom tags, bpm parameters, root musical keys, pricing tiers, and custom license templates.
• Customer Support Logs: Text communications, error screenshots, and contact data shared when logging platform assistance tickets.

B) Information collected automatically

• Ecosystem Interaction Analytics: Stream counts, preview playback duration, search engine queries within the beat directories, download triggers, and shopping cart abandonments.
• System Log Data: Local IP addresses, desktop/mobile browser versions, hardware operating systems, device screen aspect ratios, and access timestamps.
• Functional Tracking: Cookies and local browser data blocks utilized for operational state stability (see Section 6).

C) Payment and transactional channel details

• For Licensing Buyers: Purchase order logs, currency parameters, localized sales tax estimations, and invoice codes.
• For Uploading Producers: Financial payout address configurations (such as verified PayPal or cross-border payment merchant routing IDs) to process split revenues.
• Important Credit Card Processing Note: Audiory does not collect or store full credit card numbers on our servers. All transaction channels are securely offloaded to certified compliance payment providers.

2. How We Use Your Information

We leverage your collected data paths for these foundational service processes:

• Core Marketplace Operations: Setting up catalog structures, rendering public seller pages, and facilitating real-time media player streams.
• Instant Digital Delivery: Generating authenticated, time-restricted download tokens for purchased zip files and high-resolution stem packages.
• Revenue Split Tracking: Maintaining accurate order records to verify developer commission models and calculate exact producer payout allocations.
• Security Monitoring: Analyzing connection spikes to block automated rip-bots, track piracy behaviors, prevent credential cracking, and check for fraudulent chargebacks.

3. Legal Bases (Where Applicable)

Under global compliance structures, we process data under: Contractual Necessity (to deliver beat delivery contracts and license activations), Legitimate Interests (for server speed optimizations and security checks), Consent (for preference configurations), and Legal Obligations (for statutory accounting, tax documentation, and DMCA request histories).

4. How We Share Your Information

We only share data blocks with verified integrations under these rigid criteria:

• Infrastructure Partners: Cloud file storage systems, network delivery layers, and platform monitoring microservices.
• Transactional Networks: Passing required checkout data strings to authorized banking gateways to authorize purchases.
• Legal Mandates: Disclosing details to authority bodies only if legally required by valid subpoenas or to verify intellectual property ownership claims.

Audiory does not sell, trade, or lease personal user contact lists to third-party ad networks for marketing purposes.

5. Producer Content & Public Profiles

By structural design, Audiory is a public marketplace directory. A producer's storefront display name, uploaded beat previews, artwork grids, and license prices are visible to any browser visitor. Please ensure you do not embed private personal phone details or sensitive texts into public audio descriptions or track metadata fields.

6. Cookies & Tracking Technologies

We deploy minimal browser cookies to ensure account persistence, keep audio player states constant, and analyze layout usage. You can custom configure your analytics and performance cookie permissions at any time via our dedicated panel link: Cookie Settings.

7. Data Protection, Licensing & Content Rights

The processing of media assets is governed by specific parameters:

• Preview Compression: Uploaded preview files may be downsampled or embedded with protection watermarks dynamically to secure content before purchase.
• Fulfillment Logs: We maintain a persistent record of license purchases to ensure buyers can re-verify their legal usage privileges if a copyright dispute arises.
• Metadata Integrity: Audio file metadata fields are parsed purely to organize search indexing filters (such as grouping beats by Genre or Scale).

8. Data Retention

We retain account details as long as a profile remains active. Transaction histories, generated invoices, and licensing records are archived for extended durations to fulfill local financial auditing regulations and ensure continuous legal proof of beat lease ownership.

9. Infrastructure Security

Audiory applies modern encryption standards to shield data in transit and at rest. We protect sensitive backend nodes behind secure network firewalls. However, because no online connection layer is completely impenetrable, we advise using unique passwords for your Audiory profile.

10. International Data Transfers

Because our cloud database clusters and content delivery networks are distributed internationally, user information may be processed across various server locations globally. We apply standardized data protection frameworks to ensure all data remains protected regardless of the processing location.

11. Your Choices & Legal Rights

Depending on your regional residency, you hold the following data options:

• The right to inspect the exact profile data entries we maintain.
• The right to modify outdated or wrong account settings.
• The right to request absolute account termination and data deletion (barring transactional data kept for legal tax records).

To file an official request, issue a formal query to our specialized privacy desk.

12. Children’s Privacy

Audiory is structured for creators who are at least 13 years old (or the legal threshold age of your territory). We do not knowingly compile tracking metrics from children. If we identify an account created by a minor, the profile data will be deleted immediately from our active databases.

13. Third-Party Web Links

Our marketplace contains link pathways leading to exterior domains, such as social link arrays or producer external websites. We do not control the privacy logic of external software setups. Please review their tracking policies independently.

14. Contact Channels

For data tracking questions or formal information requests, please contact our teams directly:

• Privacy Operations: [email protected]
• Marketplace Support: [email protected]
• Legal Department: [email protected]
• Billing Operations: [email protected]
• General Inquiry: [email protected]

15. Revisions to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When updates occur, we will refresh the chronological tracking timestamp at the top of this document. Continued engagement with our services after updates go live means you accept the revised guidelines.