Welcome to Soundboard Online ("we", "us", or "our"). This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our mobile application, Soundboard Online (the "App"), and our website at online-soundboard.com (the "Website"; see section 8 for what is specific to it).
By using the App or the Website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect the following information:
- Email Address and Username: Provided by users during registration and sign-in using Firebase Authentication.
- Profile Images/Avatars: Provided by users as part of their account profile.
- Audio and Video Content: Uploaded by users to share with the global community.
- Session Click Data: Tracked to identify trends and generate monthly, daily, and all-time trending content for the app’s home page and, when you are signed in, to show you the sounds you recently played (you can clear that list at any time from Settings).
- Device and Usage Information: Collected via Firebase Analytics for general app performance monitoring.
2. HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
The data collected is used for the following purposes:
- Account Management: To register and authenticate users.
- Content Sharing: To store and share user-generated audio and video content.
- Feature Enhancement: To analyze user interactions and enhance app features like trend pages.
- Security and Performance Monitoring: Using Firebase services to ensure app reliability and security.
3. DATA STORAGE AND RETENTION
- All collected data is stored securely using encryption and is saved to a relational database system (RDS).
- Data is retained until the user voluntarily deletes their account or the account is removed by moderation.
- We do not sell your data. The third parties that receive data are the service providers listed in sections 5 and 8 and, on the Website, the advertising partners described in section 8, which receive data from your browser directly when an ad is shown.
4. USER RIGHTS
Users have the right to:
- Access their personal data.
- Edit their information and uploaded content.
- Delete their data and account at any time from within the app.
- Withdraw their consent to personalised advertising on the Website at any time (see section 8).
5. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES
We use the following third-party services:
- Firebase (Authentication and Analytics)
- AdMob: For in-app advertising. However, no data is tracked or shared for marketing purposes.
- Umami: Website analytics (see section 8).
- Google AdSense: Advertising on the Website (see section 8).
These services may collect information in accordance with their own privacy policies.
6. DATA SECURITY
We use encryption and secure storage practices to protect your data from unauthorized access, disclosure, or destruction.
7. AGE RESTRICTION
The App and the Website are intended for users aged 16 and older. We do not knowingly collect information from anyone under the age of 16.
8. WEBSITE (ONLINE-SOUNDBOARD.COM)
Soundboard Online is also available in the browser at online-soundboard.com (the "Website"). Everything above applies to the Website as well: the same accounts, content, session click data and rights, held in the same systems. This section describes what is specific to the Website.
Website analytics
- We use Umami (umami.is), a privacy-focused analytics service, to understand how the Website is used in aggregate. For each visit it records: the pages viewed and the site the visit arrived from; your browser, operating system, device type and screen size; the country the visit comes from; and product events that say a feature was used and whether it worked, such as searching, opening sign-in, signing in, uploading (started, finished or failed), sharing, saving or liking a collection, creating one, adding a sound to one, following an account, reporting, binding a hotkey, pairing the remote session, and opening a link to the app stores.
- Events are counts, not records of you. They never carry which sound, collection or account was involved. The one exception is the search event, which carries the text you searched for (shortened to 50 characters) so we can see what people look for on the Website; it is not linked to you.
- We do not send analytics data that identifies you: no account, email address, username or user ID, and never the identity of specific sounds or collections.
- Analytics requests go from your browser to the Website itself, not to Umami directly, and the Website forwards them to Umami Cloud together with your IP address. Umami uses the IP address only to determine the country of the visit and to compute a short-lived, anonymised visitor hash that changes regularly; it does not store the address, so no persistent identifier is created and no profile of you is built.
- Umami sets no cookies and stores nothing on your device. We process this data on the basis of our legitimate interest in understanding how the Website is used.
- If your browser sends a "Do Not Track" signal, no analytics data is collected from it.
- Analytics data is processed by Umami Software (Umami Cloud) as our service provider, in accordance with Umami's own privacy policy at umami.is.
Advertising
- The Website shows ads served by Google AdSense (Google LLC; for users in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited). Ads are how the Website pays for itself. Advertising in the App is covered in section 5.
- Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on your prior visits to the Website or to other websites. Google's use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to you based on your visits to this Website and/or other sites on the Internet.
- To select, serve and measure ads, Google and its partners receive from your browser: your IP address, the address of the page you are viewing, your browser and device characteristics, and identifiers stored in cookies or similar technologies on your device. They receive nothing from your account: not your email address, username, user ID, uploads, collections or play history.
- Where the law requires your consent (for example in the EEA, the UK and Switzerland), the Website shows a consent dialog before any advertising cookie is set. You can accept, decline, or choose which purposes you allow; if you decline, you still see ads, but they are not based on your interests. You can review or change your choice at any time under "Ad Preferences" in the Website's Settings. Where consent is not required, personalised ads may be shown by default.
- You can opt out of personalised advertising by Google at https://www.google.com/settings/ads, and out of personalised advertising by other vendors at https://www.aboutads.info/choices (in Europe, https://www.youronlinechoices.eu). If you live in a US state whose privacy law gives you the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of your personal information for targeted advertising, Google shows a "Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information" link on the Website; use it to opt out.
- How Google uses the information it collects on sites that use its services is explained at https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites, and Google's privacy policy is at https://policies.google.com/privacy. Google processes this data as an independent controller under its own terms; we do not control, and cannot read, the cookies it sets.
- Your consent choice is kept in your browser (cookies and local storage) so that the dialog is not shown on every visit.
- Advertising and analytics are separate: Google receives nothing from Umami, and Umami receives nothing from Google.
Local storage
- The Website keeps a small amount of data in your browser's local storage so it can work: your sign-in session, your censored-mode setting, your hotkey bindings, your sound-effects settings, your recent searches (kept only on your device, to suggest them again), which one-time notices you have dismissed (the app banner and the first-upload notice), and, when you are not signed in, an anonymous device token used only to record session click data for trending content. None of this is sent to Umami or to advertising partners.
- Apart from the advertising cookies described above, the Website sets no third-party cookies.
9. CHANGES TO THIS POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Changes will be posted within the App and on the Website, and continued use constitutes acceptance of the revised policy.
10. CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
[email protected]
By using Soundboard Online, you consent to the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy.