Privacy Policy

COLLECTION OF INFORMATION

Information You Provide to Us

We collect information directly from you when you create an account, request customer support, or otherwise communicate with us. The categories of information we collect include:

• Identification and Contact Information: we collect your name, email address, and phone number.
• Communication Information: we collect information included in your communications with us, including monitoring and retaining web chats through Intercom, recording customer calls on Zoom, and other customer/user communications (e.g., texts, emails, etc.).

We may also collect any other information you choose to provide.

Information We Collect Automatically

We automatically collect the following categories of information:

• Internet Activity Information: we collect information about how you access our Services, including data about the device and network you use, such as your hardware model, operating system version, mobile network, IP address, unique device identifiers, and browser type. We also collect information about your activity on our Services and interaction with our communications, such as access times, pages viewed, links clicked, and the page you visited before navigating to our Services.
• Audio Information: If you call our customerservice team, we may monitor and retain those conversations. We also maymonitor and/or record audiogram information, noise exposure information, ornon-medical/miscellaneous records.
• Information Collected by Cookies and Similar Tracking Technologies: We use tracking technologies, such as cookies and pixels, to collect information about your interactions with our Services and communications. These technologies help us improve our Services and communications, see which areas and features of our Services are popular, count visits, and track clicks. You may be able to adjust your browser settings to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that removing or rejecting cookies could affect the availability and functionality of our Services.

Information We Collect from Other Sources

We obtain information from other sources. For example, we may collect information from advertising networks and lead generation providers. This information includes your name, contact information, and company name. We may also collect information you share when you interact with us on social media platforms like Facebook and LinkedIn.

Derived Information

We may derive information or draw inferences about you based on the information we collect. For example, we may make inferences about your approximate location based on your IP address.

USE OF INFORMATION

We use the categories of information we collect for the following business and commercial purposes:

• Service Delivery: we use information to provide and maintain our Services.
• Communication: we use information to communicate with you about Soundtrace and our Services, including to send you newsletters, respond to your questions, inform you of price or Services changes, and send you other transactional or relationship messages.
• Marketing and Advertising : we use information to send direct marketing messages (including via email) and target advertisements to you on third-party platforms and websites as described below. You can opt out of direct marketing messages we send by following the instructions in those communications (such as by clicking “unsubscribe” in the emails) or by contacting us.
• Research and Development: we use information to monitor and analyze Services trends, usage, and activities, improve our products and services, develop new products and services, and generate de-identified data.
• Protection and Compliance: we use information to detect, investigate, and help prevent security incidents and other malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, help protect the rights and property of Soundtrace and others, and comply with our legal and financial obligations.
• Notice/Consent: we may also use information in other circumstances after giving you notice and/or getting your consent.

TARGETED ADVERTISING AND ANALYTICS

We engage others to provide analytics services, serve advertisements, and perform related services across the web and in mobile applications. These entities may use cookies, web beacons, device identifiers, and other technologies to collect information about your use of our Services, including your IP address, web browser and mobile network information, pages viewed, time spent on pages, and links clicked. This information may be used to deliver advertising targeted to your interests on other companies’ websites or mobile apps and to analyze and track data, determine the popularity of certain content, and better understand your activity.

You can also learn more about interest-based ads, or opt out of having your web browsing information used for behavioral advertising purposes by companies that participate in the Digital Advertising Alliance, by visiting www.aboutads.info/choices.

DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION

We disclose the categories of information described above as follows:

• Vendors: we disclose information to vendors, service providers, contractors and consultants that need this information to provide services to us, such as companies that assist us with web hosting, payment processing, fraud prevention, customer service, data enrichment, analytics, and marketing and advertising.
• Advertising Partners: we disclose information to third parties for the Marketing and Advertising purposes described above.
• Professional Advisors: we disclose information to our lawyers and other professional advisors where necessary to obtain advice or otherwise protect and manage our business interests.
• Legal Authorities and Others Involved in Legal Proceedings: we may disclose information to legal authorities and others for the Protection and Compliance purposes described above, including if we believe that disclosure is in accordance with, or required by, any applicable law or legal process, including lawful requests by public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements and if we believe that your actions are inconsistent with our user agreements or policies, if we believe that you have violated the law, or if we believe it is necessary to protect the rights, property, and safety of Soundtrace, our users, the public, or others.
• Corporate Transactions: we reserve the right to disclose information in connection with, or during negotiations of certain corporate transactions, including the merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company
• Affiliates: we reserve the right to disclose information between and among Soundtrace and any current or future parents, affiliates, subsidiaries, and other companies under common control and ownership.
• Consent: we may disclose information when we have your consent or you direct us to do so.

We also disclose de-identified information that cannot reasonably be used to identify you.

TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

Soundtrace is headquartered in the United States and we have operations and vendors in the United States, where applicable law may not provide levels of data protection that are equivalent to those of your home jurisdiction.

CONTACT US

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at support@soundtrace.com.