Thank you for using Beatchain. This privacy notice explains how Beatchain collects, uses, processes, discloses, retains, and protects personal information
When this privacy notice refers to “Beatchain”, “us”, “we” or “our”, it refers to Beatchain Limited (a UK registered company).
Beatchain is committed to protecting the privacy of all individuals who:
We call the Website, the Applications, the Platforms together the "Services".
To make this notice easier to read, any applicable Beatchain terms of service are referred to as the “Terms”. If you see an undefined term in this Privacy Notice, it has the same definition as in our Terms.
Beatchain offers a suite of streaming, distribution, social media management and reporting tools. Our Services enable you to bring together your social media accounts for easy access and management through a single online portal. Beatchain helps its users manage social media campaigns, marketing and advertising, engaging audiences, scheduling and publishing messages, tracking streams and downloads, facilitating distribution of various digital and physical products and analyzing results and overall engagement.
When you link your existing social media accounts to your Beatchain account, you can choose to instantly collect, process, share and access Social Network content via your Beatchain account. Our Services also enable an ecosystem where you can choose to connect your Beatchain Account to a series of third-party services (a “Third-Party App”).
Personal information is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is an individual that can be identified, directly or indirectly, be referenced to an identifier such as:
a name, an identification number, specific location data, an online identifier, or other attributes specific to that natural person.
Personal information does not include information that has been anonymized or aggregated in such a way that it can no longer be used to identify a specific natural person, whether on its own or in combination with other information.
The personal information that we collect falls into two broad categories: Account Data and Content.
Account data (“Account Data”) is personal information you provide us, or that we collect from you and your devices in connection with your access to and use of our Services (such as when you provide us information to register for an account, or information we collect about your browser when you connect to one of our Services, etc.). In legal terms, we collect and use this Account Data as a data controller.
There are two general categories of Account Data we collect in order to provide you with the Services.
Account information. You may provide us with information in connection with the creation and management of your account for the Services, such as a name, email address and a password to create a Beatchain account.
Billing information. If you have purchased a paid version of the Services, or if you make another financial transaction using our Services (such as purchasing a Third-Party App), we (and our third party payment processors) will collect information about the purchase or transaction. This includes billing details and credit card information, other account and authentication information.
Other information. You may otherwise choose to provide us with information when you fill in a form, contact our customer support, respond to surveys or use other features of our Services. You may also provide us with other optional information as part of your account profile, including your usernames, avatars and links to the Social Network profiles you authenticate with your Beatchain Account.
Log data and usage information. Like most websites, when you view content on or otherwise interact with our Services our servers automatically record information, including information that your browser sends whenever you visit a Website or that your Application sends when you are using it. This log data may include your IP address, the address of the web page you visited before using the Services, your browser type and settings, your device information, the date and time of your use of the Services, information about your browser configuration and plug-ins, language preferences, unique identifiers and cookie data. Location information. When you use our Services, we may collect information about your geographic location.
Cookies and similar technologies. We use cookies and similar technologies to provide and support our websites and Services, as more fully explained in our Cookie Policy.
The content which you upload, download, or view on our Services (defined as “Content” in our Terms) may, but not necessarily, contain personal information. When we refer to “Content” in this notice, we mean the personal information in Content that we process. We only process Content at your direction. In legal terms, we act as data processors for the personal information included in the Content. Our obligations and commitments as it relates to our processing of Content on behalf of our users is outlined in the section below called Content - Beatchain as a Data Processor.
We use, store, and process Account Data as a data controller to provide, understand, improve and develop our Services, keep our Services safe and to comply with our legal obligations. More particularly, we use it to:
Our legal basis for collecting and using Account Data as a data controller will depend on the the specific context in which we collect it. However, as a data controller, we will collect personal information from you where:
In some cases, we may also have a legal obligation to collect personal information from you, or may otherwise need the personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Where we rely on your consent to process Account Data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time. Please note that this does not affect the lawfulness of the processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
If we ask you to provide Account Data to comply with a legal requirement we will make this clear at the relevant time and advise you whether the provision of your personal information is mandatory or not (as well as of the possible consequences if you do not provide your personal information). Similarly, if we collect and use your personal information in reliance on our legitimate interest which are not already described in this notice, we will make clear to you at the relevant time what those legitimate interests are.
As a user, you may update or correct most of your Account Data by logging in to your account to edit your profile or artist record. To make a request to have Account Data returned to you, removed, or to make additional corrections, please email our privacy team. Requests to access, correct, or remove your information will be handled within thirty (30) days and may be subject to a fee as permitted by applicable law.
Depending on where you reside, you may have the right to exercise additional rights available to you under applicable laws with regards to the personal information Beatchain holds about you as a data controller, including:
If you would like to exercise such rights, please contact us. We will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws. To protect your privacy and security, we may take steps to verify your identity before complying with the request.
You also have the right to complain to a data protection authority about our collection and use of your personal information. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority.
You, as a Beatchain user, control how Content is generated, requested, submitted or published and processed on our Services. When you use our Services, you may view, create, and analyse Content which will ultimately be published on the various Social Networks or distribution platforms. The Content that flows through our Services may include personal information of all types, including but not limited to the following categories:
As the user, you are the data controller of your Content and we are the data processor for such Content. Where we process Content, we do so at your direction and on your behalf in accordance with the instructions you give us through the Services. When you connect your social media accounts through our Services, we only access, process, and use the Content to provide our Services subject to the Terms and the various terms and conditions imposed by the Social Networks. We may, in limited circumstances process Content for the purposes of improving the Services and functionalities users ask for as part of their Beatchain experience.
If you are using the Services by invitation of a Beatchain customer, whether that customer is your employer, another organization, or an individual, that customer determines its own policies regarding storage, access, modification, deletion, sharing, and retention of Content, which may apply to your use of the Services. Please check with the customer about the policies and settings it has in place.
The Beatchain Services enable an ecosystem where you can choose to connect your Beatchain account with Social Networks and Distribution Platforms. If you choose to send your Content to a Social Network and/or a Distribution Platform, Beatchain is no longer responsible for that Content from the point in time that it leaves Beatchain’s Services. Instead, the Content will be in the control of the third party, and the relevant third party’s terms and privacy policy will apply. For example, if you use Beatchain to post a message on Twitter, Twitter’s privacy policy and terms of service will apply to that message on Twitter's server, or if you export Content from Beatchain to a third party service like Spotify, Spotify’s terms and privacy policy will apply to that exported content. While we attempt to facilitate access only to those Social Networks and Third-Party Apps that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility for the Content or privacy policies of any Social Networks or Third-Party Apps. We encourage you to carefully review the privacy policies of any Social Networks or Third-Party Apps you access via the Services.
You should be aware that Beatchain acts as a conduit between you and the various Social Networks and Third-Party Apps. In several instances, the Content published via Beatchain will not be in Beatchain’s custody, and any Content that has been shared by you through any Social Networks or Third-Party Apps via the Services may continue to be available to third parties and the public at large, as this Content is now under the control of the operators of the Social Networks and/or the Third-Party Apps.
An individual who seeks access to, or who seeks to correct or, amend inaccuracies in, or delete Content stored or processed by us on behalf of a user should direct his/her query to the Beatchain user (the data controller) or to the Social Networks or Third-Party App developer. Upon receipt of a request from one of our users for us to remove the data, we will respond to their request within thirty (30) days. Please note however that we may need to retain certain information on our systems for as long as you maintain an account for our Services, for record keeping purposes, to comply with our legal obligations, to resolve disputes, enforce our Terms, orr as required or authorized by applicable law. Please refer How Long We Keep Personal Information section below for further detail.
For our users with a principal location in the EEA or otherwise subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)
Under EU law, Beatchain is a data processor of Content generated, requested or published via Social Networks. We process this Content in accordance with the instructions of our users. Because our users control how their Content is collected and used by them, our users are, in legal terms, the controllers of the Content that they process through our Services and are responsible for complying with applicable data protection laws, including the GDPR.
To facilitate the lawful processing of your Content through the Services, Beatchain makes available to its users a data processing agreement as an addendum to their existing Beatchain agreement (“Data Processing Addendum”). This Data Processing Addendum implements the GDPR’s Article 28 terms for processors and also incorporates the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses (processors) of 2010 (also known as “model processor clauses” or "SCC 2010”) to facilitate the lawful transfer of Content that contains personal information from the EU to outside of the EU, where necessary and as required. More information regarding International Transfers is set out below.
The Data Processing Addendum is available for all of our users here. If you would like to incorporate the Data Processing Addendum into your existing agreement with Beatchain, please sign Beatchain’s Data Processing Addendum and return it to us via email. If you have any questions, please feel free to contact our privacy team.
Privacy Information that applies to both Account Data and Content: When we may share personal information
Except as provided in this privacy notice, Beatchain does not share any personal information gathered via the Services with third parties. We may however share Account Data or Content under the following circumstances:
We retain your Account Data for as long as necessary to provide the Services you have requested, or for other essential purposes such as complying with our legal obligations, resolving disputes, or enforcing our Terms.
We retain Content for as long as needed to provide the Services, or until you ask us to delete it pursuant to the Terms. We retain and use this Content as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce the Terms.
Please note that certain personal information may need to be retained by Beatchain for a period of time following the cancellation of your account where this is necessary for our legitimate business purposes or required or authorized by applicable law. Our specific retention periods for personal information are documented in our internal retention policies and any applicable retention schedules that we maintain as required by applicable law.
After it is no longer necessary for us to retain your personal information, we will dispose of it in a secure manner, according to our data retention and deletion policies.
Beatchain follows industry best practices to protect personal information from loss, misuse, and unauthorised access or disclosure. These steps take into account the sensitivity of the Account Data and Content we collect, use, process and store, and the current state of technology.
To learn more about our current practices and policies regarding security and confidentiality of personal information please see our Security Practices page.
When you visit or interact with our Services, we, Third-Party Apps or our authorized third party services providers may use cookies and other similar technologies to help us provide you with a better, faster, and safer experience, and for advertising and marketing purposes. We may collect some personal information via these Cookies. You can get more details on our use of cookies and similar technologies in our full Cookie Notice.
When we receive or access data from our various Social Networks, we do so at your request and within each Social Network’s terms and conditions. As our user, you ultimately decide which Social Networks or Third-Party Apps you want our Services to connect with and which Social Networks and/or Third-Party Apps you want to share your data with. We process your Content, at your instruction, acting as a conduit between you and the Social Networks that you connect to our Services.
You may opt out of marketing communications sent by Beatchain by following the unsubscribe instructions included in each marketing email.
We may use Account Data to customise advertising that we direct to you, utilising third parties. The Network Advertising Initiative has developed a tool that may help you understand which third parties have currently enabled cookies for your browser and opt-out of those cookies. For more information and to opt-out of customised advertising, please contact enquiries@beatchain.com
Our Services are not intended for use by children and should only be accessed by individuals of at least 18 years old.
Beatchain reserves the right to make changes to its privacy notice at any time. Innovation in software happens quickly and laws, regulations and industry standards evolve, which may make those changes necessary, or we may make changes to our business. If we do make changes to the privacy notice, we will post them to this page, so we encourage you to stay informed by checking back here periodically.
Enquiries should be directed to enquiries@beatchain.com
Last Updated: 30th August 2023