Sonicly

Who We Are

Sonicly, Inc. (“Sonicly”), a Delaware corporation, is an online fan funding venue for people and entities seeking to raise funds for their own projects and to contribute to the projects of others.

Privacy Policy

Sonicly believes in being upfront about its Privacy Policy and how it treats the personal information of those that visit, use, and enjoy Sonicly’s websites and services (individually and collectively, "Services"). The following explains the privacy practices and policies for Sonicly’s Services accessible through sonicly.com or its subdomains (the “Site”) and other Services provided by Sonicly.

Sonicly processes information of those that visit the Site in order to effectively run our business and to administer and provide our Services and its content to our users. We refer to anyone using the Services as a “User.” In the Terms of Use and throughout the Services, we refer to those raising funds as "Creators" and to their fundraising projects as "Projects." We refer to those providing funds as "Supporters" and to the funds they provide as “Support." We refer to any reward (such as access to a digital download, a copy of a CD, or a production credit) proposed by a Creator to Users to encourage contributions as an “Offer.” Creators may present Offers in the form of tangible items or intangible services. Offers are not offered for sale.

By using the Services – even just by browsing the Site – you agree to be bound by Sonicly’s Terms of Use, our Privacy Policy, all applicable laws and all conditions or policies referenced here. Sonicly may amend the Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy at any time by posting a revised version(s) on our Site. Access to or continued use of the Services after the effective date of the revised Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy constitutes your acceptance of the revised Terms of Use and/or Privacy Policy.

What We Collect

In order for you to use our Services, we need to collect and process some information. Depending on your use of the Services, you may need to create a User Account with Sonicly. You may decline to create a User Account or to provide us with your information; however this will limit your ability to use our Services.

Depending on your use of the Services, the information we collect and process may include:

Information (such as your name, email and postal addresses, telephone number, and country of residence) that you provide by completing forms on the Site, including if you register a User Account on the Services, subscribe to our newsletters, upload or submit any material through the Site, or request any information.
Your login and password details, in connection with the User Account sign-in process.
Details of any requests or transactions you make through the Services.
Information about your activity on an interaction with Sonicly, such as your IP address and the type of device or browser you use.
Communications you send to us, for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem.
Information that you submit to Sonicly in the form of comments, contributions to discussions, or messages to other users.
Information you provide when you post reviews or ratings (likes and dislikes).
Your use of our Services, search history, playlist, and watchlist history.
All correspondence related to your communications with Sonicly.

Categories of Personal Information Collected

Your name, User Account name, email address, phone number and IP address.
Personal information such as banking and credit card information.
Transaction information and content streaming activity.
Location of your device.
Search history and preference information.
Activity information related to your use when you visit and use the site.

Sonicly collects information when you access the Site, log-in and register with Sonicly, participate on the Site; through cookies and other technology (refer to our Cookie Policy), third-party connection through social media sites, other third-party applications and platforms.

Sonicly may use this information for reasons such as, to communicate with Users about their User Account and transactions, to improve and promote Sonicly’s Services, marketing and promotion, to assist Sonicly improve its Services, and to allow for personalized content, security and compliance.

What's Private

This data will not be publicly displayed or revealed to other Users:

Any payment information you provide.
Your password details.
Your IP address.
Your phone number.
Communications you send to us, for example, when you ask for support, send us questions or comments, or report a problem.

We don't give your personal information to any third-party services, except when it's necessary to provide Sonicly's Services (like when we partner with payment processors). When we share data with third-party services that support our delivery of the Sonicly Services, we require that they protect your personal information to the same standards we do. We do reserve the right to disclose personal information when we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary to comply with the law or law enforcement, to prevent fraud or abuse, or to protect Sonicly's legal rights.

What's Shared With Creators

When you support a Project, the Project’s Creator will know your User Account name, the amount of Support you have provided, and the Offer you have selected. Creators do not receive Supporters' credit card details or other payment information.

If a Project you have supported is successfully funded, the Project’s Creator will receive the email address associated with your User Account along with other information required to provide your Offer (e.g., name and mailing address). They may also send you a survey requesting information needed to provide your Offer (for instance, they may need your T-shirt size). Any information you provide in such surveys will be received by the Creator. Creators may also receive anonymized information about the ways people visit and interact with their Project pages, in the form of routine traffic analytics. You can choose not to be included in Google Analytics here.

Creators are required to keep shared information confidential, except as necessary to communicate with Supporters and to fulfill Offers. Creators are prohibited from asking for personal or sensitive information such as social security numbers, or banking, debit card or credit card information. If you should receive a request for such information related to a Project from a Creator, or any third-party (such as a Project Manager, as identified in the following paragraph), contact us through our Contact Us form.

A Creator may appoint a third-party to assist in managing their Project (“Project Manager”.) Project Managers may have the same access to information as Creators and may communicate with a Supporter on behalf of a Creator. Project Managers are required to use the same care and are under the same obligation to treat Supporter information as are Creators.

Creator Responsibilities

When a Creator has run a successful Project, Creators will receive personal information from the Project Supporters as identified above. Creators and Project Managers are prohibited from using this personal information except as necessary to communicate with Supporters and to fulfill Offers. No information provided by or about Supporters may be used for any other purpose without first receiving consent from the Supporter as required by applicable data privacy laws. Creators and Project Managers are prohibited from asking Supporters for personal or sensitive information such as social security numbers, or banking, debit card or credit card information.

A Creator may request a Supporter’s consent if they would like to receive news and updates related to the Creator (and only the Creator) (“Off-Site Communication.”) So there is no misunderstanding, Creators must receive express consent from a Supporter to be included in such Off-Site Communications, and must provide Supporters with the opportunity to opt-out of Off-site Communications at any time.

In addition, as described below, the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) provides citizens or residents of the European Economic Area (EEA) with certain rights over their personal data, including a right to access, correct, delete, and restrict processing of their data and requires a “lawful basis” for collecting and retaining their personal information. Any successful Project on Sonicly may have Supporters that are EEA residents and handling of their information would be subject to GDPR.

We urge Creators to review GDPR rules, California Consumer Privacy Act rules, and to keep updated with the development of privacy laws in the U.S. (including federal and state laws and guidelines) and throughout the world. Creators may wish to consider consulting with a lawyer for guidance on how these rules and other applicable data privacy regulations could directly affect them.

All Creators should be prepared to respond to Supporter requests to provide or delete their personal information related to a Project.

What's Public

When you create a User Account, we may create a basic profile page for you on the Site, containing your User Account name, the date the User Account was created, and a list of Projects you have supported or launched. Whenever your User Account name appears on the Site (for instance, when you post comments, send messages, or support Projects), people can click your User Account name to see your profile. The profile is not searchable on the Site or via search engines like Google. Here are some of the things that will be publicly viewable on your profile, or elsewhere on the Site:

The User Account name, and the date it was created.
Any information you choose to add to your profile such as a picture, bio, or your location.
Projects you've supported (but not support amounts or offers chosen).
Projects you've launched.
Any comments you've posted on the Site.
If you have "Liked" a Project update.

Please note that each Project Page may list the community of users who have supported the Project. If you don't want others to see your name in a Project's supporters list, choose a User Account name that is not identifiable (e.g., SuperFan02). Creators are also asked to verify their identities before launching a Project. Once this has been done, the Creator's verified name will be publicly displayed on their User Account profile and on any Projects they launch.

Uses Of Your Personal Information

We will use the personal information you provide to:

Identify you when you sign in to your User Account.
Enable us to provide you with the Services, as well as to improve and promote the Services.
We will retain your usage history and use details of the pages you have previously visited to make suggestions which we believe you will also be interested in.
We will retain and evaluate information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can make it more intuitive.
We will keep a record of the articles and clips on our website that you have clicked on and use that information to target advertising on this website to you that is relevant to your interests, which we have identified based on what you have read and watched.
Send you marketing communications we think you may find useful, but only in accordance with your email preferences.
Present Projects to you when you use the Services which we believe will be of interest based on your geographic location and previous use of the Services.
Administer your User Account with us.
Use for other purposes that we may disclose to you when we request your information.
Sonicly will retain your information as necessary to provide you with the Services and for the purposes set out in our Terms of Use and Privacy Policy, or as may be necessary to comply with our legal obligations, to address and respond to disputes, and to otherwise enforce and protect Sonicly’s rights.

We take securing your data and preserving your privacy very seriously. We never post anything to your Facebook, Twitter, or other third-party accounts without your permission. Creators never receive supporters' credit card details or other payment information. We do not and will not sell your data.

Users Outside the United States

If you are visiting the Site from outside the United States, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored and processed in the United States where our servers are located and our central database is operated. By using Sonicly’s Services and visiting the Site, you consent to your information being transferred to the United States and as described in this Policy.

General Data Protection Program (GDPR)

This Section applies to individuals in the European Economic Area (EEA).

The basis for use and disclosure of personal data may include any of the reasons identified in Sonicly’s Privacy Policy. Users in the EEA have certain legal rights regarding their personal information.

Data Protection rights under the GDPR:

The right to be informed - You have the right to be informed about the collection and use of your personal data.
The right to access – You have the right to request Our Company for 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 Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability - You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain circumstances.
The right to avoid automated decision making- You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated processing, including profiling. ‘Profiling’ means any form of automated processing of personal data consisting of the use of personal data to evaluate certain personal aspects relating to a natural person, in particular to analyze or predict aspects concerning that natural person's performance at work, economic situation, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behavior, location or movements.

Sonicly is committed to protecting the privacy of your personal information. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please complete the Data Privacy Options Data Request Form and submit the completed form to us through our Contact Us form. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Legal Bases

When you visit the Site or use the Services, Sonicly collects, uses, share your personal information as described in this Policy. Sonicly relies on a number of legal bases to use your information in these ways. These legal bases include:

Consent, such as where the User has given permission for Sonicly to process their personal data for the purposes to carry out Sonicly’s Terms of Use and to effectively render and provide Sonicly’s Services. Said consent may be withdrawn by the User.
Performance of a contract, such as where necessary to perform the contractual obligations in our Terms of Use and in order to provide the Services to you.
A legitimate interest, such as fraud prevention, providing or improving our Services to Users, or customizing a User’s on-site experience. Another legitimate interest includes processing information to facilitate the Offer process between a Creator and Supporter.
A vital interest, such as a processing activity to save a person’s life or in an emergency medical care situation.
A legal requirement, such as for a legal obligation, such as a court order or to defend an asserted legal claim.
A public interest, such as where processing personal data is required “in the exercise of official duty” or to perform a specific task in the public interest that is set out in law.

California Consumer Privacy Act Notice

Effective January 1, 2020, these additional disclosures are required by the California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”) and applies to California residents or someone domiciled in California, but is out of the state for a temporary or transitory time.

Information Sonicly Collects falls into the following categories of the CCPA: (1) identifiers such as age and address, (2) personal information such as credit card number, (3) protected classification such as age and gender, (4) commercial information such as consuming tendencies, (5) internet activity such as interaction with the website, (6) geolocation data such as location of user’s device, (7) inference data such as preferences, and (8) professional and employment-related information.

Subject to certain exceptions, California residents have the following rights under the CCPA:

Right to Know: You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about the personal data we collected, used, disclosed, and sold about you in the past twelve months. This includes a request to know any or all of the following: the specific pieces of personal data Sonicly has collected about you; categories of personal data collected, sold and/or disclosed for business purposes; categories of sources from which we collected your personal data; Sonicly’s business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal data.
Right to Request: You have the right to request personal data that Sonicly has collected and maintained about you in the past twelve months.
Right to Opt-out: You have the right to “opt-out” at any time of the sale by Sonicly of personal information described above.
Right to Deletion: You have the right to request that Sonicly delete certain collected information, subject to certain exceptions, such as Sonicly’s right to investigate compliance with Sonicly’s Terms and Conditions.
Right to Non-discrimination: You have the right to non-discrimination for exercising rights under the CCPA. California residents may not be discriminated against in pricing and Services because they exercised any rights under the CCPA.

You may make a request for the disclosures, opt-out, or deletion described above by completing the Data Privacy Options Data Request Form and submitting it to us through our Contact Us form or:

Via mail:

Sonicly, Inc.
Attention: CCPA Request
16192 Coastal Highway
Lewes, DE 19958

Sonicly will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding to a request. Sonicly will not be able to comply with any request where we are unable to verify the identity of the user at issue.

Marketing Activities

We may use your information to offer you products and Services that we think may be of interest to you, unless you have opted out of marketing communications. If you are in the European Economic Area, where required by applicable law, we will obtain your consent before sending you any marketing communications. You may object to the use of your data for direct marketing purposes at any time, free of charge, when we collect your personal information and in every marketing communication. We will never provide your information to third parties for marketing purposes without your prior consent.

Security

The security of your personal information is important to us and we follow industry standards to protect it. Full credit card numbers are never accessed by our system, and the most sensitive data we store, such as tax forms, are encrypted to keep them secure. To further protect your information, we suggest using a strong and unique password for your User Account.

Exercising Your Data Rights

You can exercise rights over your data in the following ways: Modifying the Information in Your User Account. You can modify or delete certain information associated with your User Account on the settings page.

Disabling Your User Account

You can disable your User Account at any time by contacting us with your request. Please be aware that this is a final act, and you cannot log into your User Account again after it has been disabled. When you disable your User Account, we immediately remove your ability to log in. If you create a new User Account, you will be asked to use a different email address from the one you used previously. Even if a User Account is disabled, some information may be retained by our analytics providers on their own servers.

Removing Marketing Emails

You can stop receiving marketing emails by changing your email settings. While this removes your marketing emails, service-related emails are still sent, including how you can optimize your Sonicly experience and suggestions for which artists to follow.

Understanding Our Data Retention Periods

We retain your information for up to ten years, unless you contact us with a request for us to disable your User Account information from your User Account settings. Please note that once you disable your User Account, you will not be able to log in again. If you want to log into the Site again by creating a new User Account, you may be prompted to use a new email address from the one you previously used on your disabled User Account.

Additional Questions Related to Privacy

For additional privacy-related questions about your User Account, you may contact us.

Email

We want to communicate with you only if you want to hear from us. We try to keep emails to a minimum and give you the ability to opt out of any marketing communications we send.
We will send you email relating to your personal transactions. You will also receive certain marketing email communications, in accordance with your preferences, and from which you may opt out at any time.
We may send you service-related announcements on the rare occasions when it is necessary to do so.

Wrap-up

To modify or delete the personal information you have provided to us, please log in and update your User Account profile. We may retain certain information as required by law or for necessary business purposes.
On request, we will give you a copy of all the personal information about you that we hold. This information is subject to a fee not exceeding the prescribed fee permitted by law.
People under 18 (or the legal age in your jurisdiction) are not permitted to use the Services on their own, and so this Privacy Policy makes no provision for their use of the Services.
Information that you submit through the Services may be transferred to countries other than where you reside (for example, to our servers in the United States). We will protect all information we receive in accordance with this Privacy Policy.