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SoundCloud

SoundCloud is a music listening website that allows you to listen to music for free. You can also sign up to get more benefits by paying for their subscription plans.

Personal data collected

When you register with SoundCloud, you need to provide your email address (unless you sign up via Facebook and don’t give SoundCloud access to it), age, password, payment information and billing address (if you decide to pay for their subscription service), and your real name. You can set up a profile, which allows you to share your username, city, country, profile picture, profile header image, avatar, information on whether you are a musician, label, or some other category, information about other websites and your social media profiles (including links to them), and gender. All of this information shared on your profile will be publicly available.

They also collect information about your email communications to them, information from any surveys you take (if you provide it), and anything you post (by uploading sounds, posting comments, and contributing to community discussions). SoundCloud also collects data automatically from you when you use their platform, or through the use of cookies and other web analytics. This information includes pages that you visit, links you click on, streaming, offline listening, or downloading tracks, connecting your Facebook account, sharing a sound with another user, following or unfollowing another user, joining or leaving a group, posting a comment, performing a search, the time, frequency, and duration of your visits, and if you opened an email, clicked on it, or forwarded it to someone.

Other information that is automatically collected, regardless of whether or not you sign up or are logged in, includes your device data, such as IP address, browser type, operating system, hardware model, cookie information, device settings, mobile device and advertising identifiers, apps installed, language, battery level, time zone, device information, crashes, referring URL, details about how you use their platform, links to third-party websites, access times, and optionally your location information.

If you decide to sign up to SoundCloud with your Facebook account, they collect the following information from you, such as Facebook user ID, name, email address, gender, locale, time zone, birthday, and profile picture. You can adjust your privacy and data settings within Facebook to allow or disallow certain information being shared. If you decide to purchase a subscription, your name, payment verification, and billing address will be collected.

Personal data usage

SoundCloud uses data to:

Cookies and similar tech

SoundCloud uses cookies, pixel tags, SDKs, local storage, mobile device identifiers, and other similar technologies, which allows them to track your usage of their website and allows their business partners to track your movements as well.

SoundCloud account

Children under the age of 16 (EEA) or 13 (USA) are not permitted to sign up for an account or share their personal information with SoundCloud. If a child has done this contact them to have the child’s information removed.

Data shared with SoundCloud

NAME
CATEGORY
MANDATORY
User ID
App Information
YES
Username
App Information
YES
Types of content you view
App Information
YES
Types of content you engage with
App Information
YES
People you are connected to
App Information
YES
IP address
Device
YES
Language and time zone
Device
YES
Browser type
Device
YES
Name of your mobile operator or ISP
Device
YES
Device locations
Device
YES
Device identifiers
Device
YES
Device settings
Device
YES
Hardware version
Device
YES
Signal strength
Device
Operating system
Device
YES
Battery strength
Device
YES
Billing details
Payment
OPTIONAL
Shipping and contact details
Payment
OPTIONAL
Credit or debit card number
Payment
OPTIONAL
Gender
Personal Information
OPTIONAL
Name
Personal Information
OPTIONAL
Information provided by third-party entity
Third-party
YES
Message sent to you
Third-party
YES
Login time
Time
YES
Sign-up time
Time
YES
Duration of your activities
Time
YES
Frequency of your activities
Time
YES

How to protect your privacy

You can protect your privacy on SoundCloud by:

How to contact SoundCloud about your privacy

You can contact SoundCloud online or via email.

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