Privacy Policy

At SoundMadeSeen, accessible from https://soundmadeseen.com, one of our main priorities is the privacy of our visitors. This Privacy Policy document contains types of information that is collected and recorded by SoundMadeSeen and how we use it.

If you have additional questions or require more information about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us.

This Privacy Policy applies only to our online activities and is valid for visitors to our website with regards to the information that they shared and/or collect in SoundMadeSeen. This policy is not applicable to any information collected offline or via channels other than this website.

Consent

By using our website, you hereby consent to our Privacy Policy and agree to its terms.

Information we collect

The personal information that you are asked to provide, and the reasons why you are asked to provide it, will be made clear to you at the point we ask you to provide your personal information.

If you contact us directly, we may receive additional information about you such as your name, email address, phone number, the contents of the message and/or attachments you may send us, and any other information you may choose to provide.

When you register for an Account, we may ask for your contact information, including items such as name, company name, address, email address, and telephone number.

How we use your information

We use the information we collect in various ways, including to:

• Provide, operate, and maintain our website
• Improve, personalize, and expand our website
• Understand and analyze how you use our website
• Develop new products, services, features, and functionality
• Communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, including for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the website, and for marketing and promotional purposes
• Send you emails
• Find and prevent fraud

Data Sharing and Third-Party Services

Google User Data and API Access

SoundMadeSeen may access certain Google user data through Google Workspace APIs with your explicit consent. We want to be transparent about how this data is handled:

1. Data Sharing: We do not sell your Google user data. However, we may share your data with the following third-party service providers to deliver our core services:
   • Anthropic AI (for content generation)
   • OpenAI (for text-to-speech functionality and content moderation)
   • ElevenLabs (for text-to-speech functionality)
   • Assembly AI (for transcription services)
   • Stability AI (for image generation)
   • Replicate AI (for image generation)
   • Runway ML (for video generation)

1. Purpose Limitation: Your Google user data is only used for the specific purpose for which it was collected, to provide and improve SoundMadeSeen's services directly to you.
   
2. No Generalized AI/ML Training: SoundMadeSeen explicitly affirms that we do not use any data obtained through Google Workspace APIs to develop, improve, or train generalized AI and/or machine learning models. While we use AI services from third parties, we do not contribute your data to train their generalized models.
   
3. Service Provider Compliance: Our third-party service providers may process your data only for the purpose of providing their specific service to SoundMadeSeen. We have agreements in place requiring these providers to handle your data in compliance with applicable privacy laws and our privacy policy.
   

Data Protection for Sensitive Information

SoundMadeSeen implements the following data protection mechanisms to safeguard sensitive user information:

1. Encryption: We utilize industry-standard encryption protocols (TLS/SSL) for data in transit and encryption at rest for stored data.
   
2. Access Controls: We implement strict access controls, ensuring only authorized personnel can access personal data on a need-to-know basis.
   
3. Data Minimization: We collect only the information necessary to provide our services and limit retention to the period required for service delivery.
   
4. Secure Third-Party Transfers: When we share data with our third-party service providers, we ensure data is transferred securely using encrypted channels.
   
5. Regular Security Assessments: We conduct regular assessments of our security practices and those of our third-party service providers.
   
6. Data Processing Agreements: We maintain appropriate data processing agreements with all third-party services that process personal data on our behalf, ensuring they maintain comparable levels of data protection.
   

Data Retention and Deletion

SoundMadeSeen retains user data only as long as necessary to provide our services or as required by law. Upon receiving a deletion request, we will delete your personal information from our active systems within 30 days, except where retention is required by law or for legitimate business purposes.

For Google user data specifically, upon revocation of access or account deletion request, we will promptly cease use of and delete the relevant Google user data from our active systems.

Log Files

SoundMadeSeen follows a standard procedure of using log files. These files log visitors when they visit websites. All hosting companies do this and a part of hosting services' analytics. The information collected by log files include internet protocol (IP) addresses, browser type, Internet Service Provider (ISP), date and time stamp, referring/exit pages, and possibly the number of clicks. These are not linked to any information that is personally identifiable. The purpose of the information is for analyzing trends, administering the site, tracking users' movement on the website, and gathering demographic information.

Cookies and Web Beacons

Like any other website, SoundMadeSeen uses "cookies". These cookies are used to store information including visitors' preferences, and the pages on the website that the visitor accessed or visited. The information is used to optimize the users' experience by customizing our web page content based on visitors' browser type and/or other information.

Advertising Partners Privacy Policies

You may consult this list to find the Privacy Policy for each of the advertising partners of SoundMadeSeen.

Third-party ad servers or ad networks uses technologies like cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons that are used in their respective advertisements and links that appear on SoundMadeSeen, which are sent directly to users' browser. They automatically receive your IP address when this occurs. These technologies are used to measure the effectiveness of their advertising campaigns and/or to personalize the advertising content that you see on websites that you visit.

Note that SoundMadeSeen has no access to or control over these cookies that are used by third-party advertisers.

Third Party Privacy Policies

SoundMadeSeen's Privacy Policy does not apply to other advertisers or websites. Thus, we are advising you to consult the respective Privacy Policies of these third-party ad servers for more detailed information. It may include their practices and instructions about how to opt-out of certain options.

You can choose to disable cookies through your individual browser options. To know more detailed information about cookie management with specific web browsers, it can be found at the browsers' respective websites.

CCPA Privacy Rights (Do Not Sell My Personal Information)

Under the CCPA, among other rights, California consumers have the right to:

Request that a business that collects a consumer's personal data disclose the categories and specific pieces of personal data that a business has collected about consumers.

Request that a business delete any personal data about the consumer that a business has collected.

Request that a business that sells a consumer's personal data, not sell the consumer's personal data.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

GDPR Data Protection Rights

We would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request that we complete the information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us.

Children's Information

Another part of our priority is adding protection for children while using the internet. We encourage parents and guardians to observe, participate in, and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

SoundMadeSeen does not knowingly collect any Personal Identifiable Information from children under the age of 13. If you think that your child provided this kind of information on our website, we strongly encourage you to contact us immediately and we will do our best efforts to promptly remove such information from our records.

Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. Thus, we advise you to review this page periodically for any changes. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page.

Our Privacy Policy was created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or suggestions about our Privacy Policy, do not hesitate to contact us - you can email us at rane@soundmadeseen.com