Sage Audio Privacy Policy

Introduction
The Information We Collect
How We Collect Information
How We Use Information
Ways We Share or Disclose Your Information
Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information
Accessing, Correcting, or Deleting Your Information
Children Under 13
Links
Data Security
Contact Information

1. Introduction

Welcome to www.sageaudio.com, Sage Audio LLC’s website for editing your audio files (the “website”). We respect your privacy and understand the importance of protecting the information you entrust to us. By providing this Privacy Policy, we hope to make it easy for you to understand the information we collect, how we store it, how we use it, and the choices you have about our use of your information.

Before we get started, if you do not agree with the practices described in this Privacy Policy, it is your choice whether or not to use our Website or our services. By using the Website, you tell us you agree to any actions we take in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Over time, as our Website and services evolve and as laws change, we may need to change our practices related to your information. If we do, those changes will be posted here for you to see. If you continue to use the Website after such changes are posted, you agree to the new Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy applies to all Sage Audio services provided or initiated through the Website (the “Services”) and the information we collect while providing the Services. The terms governing your use of the Services are defined in the Sage Audio, LLC Website Terms and Conditions.

2. The Information We Collect

To help you understand what information we collect, we use the following definitions:

“Personal Information” is any data by which you may be personally identified, such as name, user name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, password, and other security credentials, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted or identified online or offline.
“Non-Personal Information” is data that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as demographic or profile information not specific to you, or de-identified or aggregated (with other users data) your purchase history, information about your subscription, how long you view a page within the Website, your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and details about how you use the Website.
“Content” has the same meaning as in the Terms and includes any information or materials you upload to the Website, which may include audio files, production preferences, photos, comments, text, or other forms of information.

Your Personal Information, Non-Personal Information, and Content are together “Information.”

When you SIGN UP for an Account with Sage Audio, we collect:

Type of Information	Description
User Data	Personal Information that may include your name, username, password, email address, phone number, street address, or other data that help us identify you as the Account Owner. This is the Information that allows us to identify you as the Account holder and provide the services to you. This Information is required to set up an Account (Free or Paid) and subscribe to the services. You may have the option to provide additional Personal Information to allow us to better personalize your Account. If you subscribe to a paid Account, we will request additional Personal Information from you to provide the additional services associated with a paid Account. If you sign up for an Account using a third-party service (such as a social media account), we will receive Personal Information about you from that third party and will use it to set up your Account.
Payment and Purchase Data	If you subscribe to a paid Account, our third-party payment processor will collect Information necessary to collect your payment. In addition to the Personal Information included in the User Data, this may include your credit or debit card type, account number, expiration date, security code, zip code, or your mobile phone number, if you pay by credit card, and similar account information if you pay by PayPal or other third-party service, Our payment processor will also retain Information about your purchases (your purchase history) and payment history. We do not have access to Information about your payment method, but we can access your purchase history.

When you USE the Website and services, we collect:

Type of Data	Description
Usage Data	Usage Data includes: Personal Information, Non-Personal Information, and Content, which may include: The type of Account you have (Free or Paid). The Content you upload to the Website. The permissions you grant other users who access your Content. The services that you use on the Website. The individuals, including other users and non-users, with whom you share your Content. The date and times that you access the Website. How long you spend on the Website at a time. Your streaming history, playlists, library, and the playlists and libraries of other users that you access. URL information Online identifiers, including IP addresses Information about the device, browser, and operating system you are using to access the Website
Voluntarily Submitted Data	When you complete any voluntary forms, surveys, questionnaires or participate in a contest, we collect the data that you provide during that process.

There may be times when we collect Information FROM THIRD PARTY SERVICES:

Type of Third Party	Description
Payment processor	Our payment processor(s) may provide us with Information confirming whether or not your payment has been processed or the type of Account to which you subscribed or the services for which you paid.
Technical Service Partners	At times we work with various technical partners to help us maintain the Website and offer the services. They may provide us with certain services that provide Information about you, such as mapping IP addresses to general locations to help us determine the geographic distribution of our users.
Authentication Partners	If you register for a Sage Audio Account or access our Website using third-party credentials (such as a social media account), we will import your Information from that third party to create your account and validate your log-in.

3. How We Collect Information

Most Personal Information is collected when you provide it to us, either to register for an Account or to use the services. We collect certain other Information automatically when you navigate through and interact with the Website. We may automatically collect:

Details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

We do not collect Personal Information automatically, but we may maintain it or associate it with Personal Information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties.

The technologies we use for this AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION may include:

Technology	Description
Cookies or Browser Cookies	A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting, you may be unable to access certain parts of the Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to the Website.
Flash Cookies	Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store Information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons	Pages of our Website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit Sage Audio, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).

4. How We Use Information

When you access the Website and use our services, we process your Information in a variety of ways for a variety of purposes. This table identifies the reasons we process different categories of your Information, our basis for processing Information for each purpose, and the categories of Personal Information that are used in each category. For the purpose of this table, “Legitimate Interest” means that the processing is of the type that you would normally expect from a business that provides you with audio processing and editing capabilities and the ability to share your audio files with third parties. We have a Legitimate Interest in providing you with the service you have requested, engaging in certain marketing and fraud prevention activities, and working with certain partners to provide you with services.

Purpose for Processing	Basis for the Purpose	Categories of Personal Information
To provide the Website and personalize your experience with the Website	Performance of a Contract Legitimate Interest Consent	User Data Usage Data Payment and Purchase Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
To diagnose and troubleshoot the Website and/or our services	Performance of a Contract Legitimate Interest	User Data Usage Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
To improve upon our Website and services, including offering new features or services	Legitimate Interest Consent	User Data Usage Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
Marketing and Advertising	Legitimate Interest Consent	User Data Usage Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
Legal Obligations / Law Enforcement	Compliance with legal obligations Legitimate Interest	User Data Usage Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
To fulfill contractual obligations to third parties, such as responding to allegations of intellectual property infringement or inappropriate content	Legitimate Interest Consent	User Data Usage Data Payment and Purchase Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
To assert or defend our legal rights	Legitimate Interest	User Data Usage Data Payment and Purchase Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
Business / Strategic Planning	Legitimate Interest	User Data Usage Data Payment and Purchase Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
Detecting misuse of the Website or services, including fraud	Compliance with legal obligations Performance of a Contract Legitimate Interest	User Data Usage Data Payment and Purchase Data Voluntarily Submitted Data
Research, contests, surveys	Performance of a Contract Legitimate Interest Consent	User Data Usage Data Voluntarily Submitted Data

If you have questions or desire further information about Sage Audios’ determination of these basis, please email us at admin@sageaudio.com..

5. Ways We Share or Disclose Your Information

We may disclose aggregated Information about our users and Information that does not identify any individual without restriction.

While the majority of Personal Information we collect about you will not be publicly available through the Website, your User Contributions, which includes your Content (as defined in the Terms), notes, comments, messages, images, videos, and other user generated content, are by their nature posted on the Website, accessible by other users and transmitted to others at your request. You should assume that your User Contributions will be viewed by the general public.

In addition, the following Personal Information will be publicly available on the Website: your name, user name, profile picture, who you follow, who follows you, your recently played artists, and your public playlists.

Your Personal Information also may be available in the following situations:

Recipients	Reason for Sharing
Third-party applications connected to your Sage Audio Account	If you connect your Sage Audio Account to a third party social media, audio, television, or other applications or devices, we will share technical data with the operator of that third party application or device in order to facilitate the connectivity you request.
Support	If you request a support account, we will ask you to select a specific Sage Audio Support Community username that will be visible to anyone using the Sage Audio Support Community, along with any questions you post.
Your Followers	If you choose to share information about your use of the Services with other Sage Audio users (your “Sage Audio Followers”), such as a public or private playlist. If you share your private playlists, keep in mind that those who receive your playlists have the ability to reshare them without your permission.
Artists/Record Labels	You may choose to share your Personal Information with artists, record labels, or others who may want to send you news or promotional offers. You will always have the option to change your mind and withdraw your consent to that sharing as provided for in this Privacy Policy.

Please keep in mind that when you upload Content to the Website: (a) if you share a public link to your Content, the recipient of that public link can share it with others, and (b) if you grant other users the ability to download your Content, that user may use the Content for purposes that you do not intend.

We may disclose Personal Information:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates;
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Sage Audio's assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Information held by Sage Audio about our Website users is among the assets transferred;
To third parties to market their products or services to you if you have not opted out of these disclosures. We contractually require these third parties to keep Personal Information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them;
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide the Personal Information. For example, if you give us an email address to use the "Share a Song" feature of the Website, we will transmit the contents of that email and your email address to the recipients you designate;
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the Information;
For any legally permissible purpose; and
With your consent.

We may also disclose your Personal Information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request;
To enforce or apply our Terms and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes; and
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Sage Audio, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging Information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.
Service Partners. If you sign up for Sage Audio Services through a third-party service such as a social media platform, we will share your Sage Audio username or other Personal Information as necessary to enable your account through the Service Partner. We may also share data with that Service Partner about your use of the Sage Audio Services. We also may share Personal Information in an anonymous format with our music industry partners to help them understand how the content they provide is performing.

6. Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal Information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your Information:

Use	Your Choice
Promotional Offers from Sage Audio	You may opt-out of these offers. Opting out of these promotional offers will not stop emails that Sage Audio sends to you related to your Account, including but not limited to emails from other users containing links to Content, emails related to your subscriptions, emails related to the services available on the Website, or other business-related emails.
Tracking Technologies (cookies, beacons, etc.)	You may set your browser to refuse some or all browser cookies or to alert you when cookies are being sent. If you disable or refuse cookies, some features of the Website may not operate properly.
Third-Party Advertising	You may opt-out of third-party advertising, and we will not share your Personal Information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes.
Targeted Advertising	You may opt-out of us using your Information to deliver advertisements to you according to our advertisers’ target-audience preferences.

To opt-out of any of these uses of your Personal Information, you may:

Check the appropriate box on the form where the Personal Information is collected;
Access your Account, and from your Account preferences page, select the appropriate options;
Email us your request at admin@sageaudio.com.
Selecting the Opt-Out Link in any promotional emails you receive.
Having your authorized agent contact us on your behalf provided you or the authorized agent provides us with documentation of the authorization.

We do not currently sell Information we collect to any third parties.

We will not take any action to limit or restrict your ability to access the Website or use the Services if you choose to access any of these rights.

7. Accessing, Correcting, or Deleting Your Information

We retain Personal Information as long as necessary to provide you the services to which you have subscribed, and for legitimate and essential business purposes, such as making data-driven decisions about new features and offerings, complying with legal obligations for Sage Audio, and resolving disputes. We retain some of your Personal Information for as long as you subscribe to Sage Audio’s services, and we cannot delete that Personal Information without also deactivating your Account and deleting your Content.

You have the following rights with respect to your Information:

Right	Details
Access	You can review the Personal Information we have collected about you at any time by logging into the Website and visiting your Account profile page. If you prefer, you may email use at admin@sageaudio.com and request a copy of the Personal Information we have collected about you. Before we will provide you that Personal information, we will attempt to verify the identity of the person requesting the Personal Information. If we are able to verify your identity, we will send the Personal Information to the email address that we have on file in your Account.
Correction / Rectification	If you believe any of the Personal Information we have on file is incorrect or needs to be updated, you may request it be corrected. You may correct any of your Personal Information except for your name and user name by accessing your Account details on the Website. Alternatively, you may email use at admin@sageaudio.com and request that we make the change. Before we will make the change, we will attempt to verify the identity of the person sending the request. If we are able to verify your identity, we will change the Personal Information as you requested.
Deletion / Erasure	If you request, we will delete or anonymize your Personal Information so that it no longer identifies you, as long as you consent to us deleting your Account and User Contributions. We may not accommodate a request to delete information if we believe the deletion would violate any law or legal requirement, cause the information to be incorrect, or if we have a legal basis to retain the Personal Information. To request your Personal Information be deleted, please email use at admin@sageaudio.com..
Restriction	You may request that we temporarily or permanently stop processing your personal data, except to the extent we require the data in order to provide a service for which you have contracted, or we are required or permitted by law to process the data. To make such a request, please email use at admin@sageaudio.com.
Objection	You may object at any time to us processing your personal data as a result of your particular situation or object to your personal data being processed for direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please email use at admin@sageaudio.com.
Data Portability	You may request a copy of your personal data in electronic format. We will provide you with an electronic copy of your data, and you have the right to transmit that personal data for use in another service. To make such a request, please email use at admin@sageaudio.com.
No Automated Decision Making	You have the right not to be subject to a decision based solely on automated decision making, including profiling, where the decision has a legal effect on you or produces a similarly significant effect.
Household Requests	Sage Audio does not currently collect any household data. You may submit individual requests for each member of the household.
Requests we cannot fulfill	Be aware that if you do not have a Sage Audio account, we cannot verify your Right to Know or Right to Delete requests because we do not retain sufficient information to verify the identity of users who do not have accounts.
Requests through Agents	You may designate an agent to make requests to act on your behalf by providing us with written notice of this appointment or a power of attorney confirming this appointment.

We will not take any action to limit or restrict your ability to access the Website or use the Services if you choose to make any of these requests.

User Contributions are retained by us as long as your Account is active. You may delete your own User Contributions at any time, but copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or might have been copied or stored by other users. We cannot be and are not responsible for retrieving or securing such copies. Proper access and use of Information provided on the Website, including User Contributions, is governed by our Terms. Please note that any Content shared via links on third-party websites, including Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, Twitter, TikTok, SoundCloud, etc., are governed by those third-parties’ privacy policies. Sage Audio is not responsible for how third parties with whom you have shared your Content care for your Information.

8. Children Under 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age or children whose age makes it illegal to process their Personal Information (the “Age Limit”) as described in this Privacy Policy. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the Age Limit. If you are under the Age Limit, do not use or provide any Information on this Website, through any of its features, register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website, or provide any Information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received Personal Information from a child under the Age Limit without verification of parental consent, we will delete that Personal Information. If you believe we might have any Personal Information from or about a child under the Age Limit, please email us at admin@sageaudio.com.

9. Links

We may display advertisements from third parties and other content that links to third-party websites. We cannot and do not control the privacy practices of those third parties or the content on their site, and we are not responsible for their practices. If you click on a third-party link, be aware that you are leaving the Website, and your Personal Data will not be covered by this Privacy Policy.

10. Data Security

Sage Audio may store and process Personal Information outside of the United States where our third-party service providers operate. By using the Website, you consent to the transfer of Information to a country outside of the United States. Therefore, your Personal Information may be subject to data protection and privacy laws outside of the United States.

We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. However, the safety and security of your Information also depends on you. You are responsible for keeping your Credentials (as defined in the Terms) confidential. We ask you not to share your Credentials with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of Information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, Sage Audio cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to the Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

11. Contact Information

You can ask questions about our Privacy Policy at admin@sageaudio.com.

We hope you enjoy Sage Audio!