PRIVACY POLICY

Last updated May 4, 2026

This Privacy Notice for BeatGangsta ("we," "us," or "our"), describes how and why we might access, collect, store, use, and/or share ("process") your personal information when you use our services ("Services"), including when you:

Questions or concerns? Reading this Privacy Notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. We are responsible for making decisions about how your personal information is processed. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at [email protected].

SUMMARY OF KEY POINTS

What personal information do we process? When you visit, use, or navigate our Services, we may process personal information depending on how you interact with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use.

Do we process any sensitive personal information? We do not process sensitive personal information.

Do we collect any information from third parties? We do not collect any information from third parties.

How do we process your information? We process your information to provide, improve, and administer our Services, communicate with you, for security and fraud prevention, and to comply with law. We may also process your information for other purposes with your consent. We process your information only when we have a valid legal reason to do so.

In what situations and with which types of parties do we share personal information? We may share information in specific situations and with specific categories of third parties.

How do we keep your information safe? We have adequate organizational and technical processes and procedures in place to protect your personal information. However, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot promise or guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals, or other unauthorized third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal, or modify your information.

What are your rights? Depending on where you are located geographically, the applicable privacy law may mean you have certain rights regarding your personal information.

How do you exercise your rights? The easiest way to exercise your rights is by visiting https://www.beatgangsta.com, or by contacting us. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.

1. WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT?

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you register on the Services, express an interest in obtaining information about us or our products and Services, when you participate in activities on the Services, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal Information Provided by You. The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make, and the products and features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

Infrastructure Providers. Our website is hosted on Vercel and our primary database is managed by Turso. These providers process data on our behalf to ensure high availability and performance.

Sensitive Information. We do not process sensitive information.

Social Media Login Data. We may provide you with the option to register with us using your existing social media account details, like your Facebook, X, or other social media account. If you choose to register in this way, we will collect certain profile information about you from the social media provider.

Information automatically collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use, or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you use our Services, and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our Services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.

Like many businesses, we also collect information through cookies and similar technologies. You can find out more about this in our Cookie Notice.

2. HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

3. GOOGLE API SERVICES USER DATA POLICY

BeatGangsta's use and transfer to any other app of information received from Google APIs will adhere to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements. To comply with the Google API Services User Data Policy, and Google APIs Terms of Service, our privacy policy thoroughly and clearly discloses how our application accesses, uses, stores, or shares Google user data:

Data Accessed

When you choose to sign in using Google, our application requests access to the following specific types of Google user data through standard non-sensitive scopes:

Data Usage

We process and handle this Google user data solely for the following purposes:

Data Storage & Sharing

Your Google user data (Email, Name, Profile Picture) is securely stored encrypted at rest within our Firebase Authentication and isolated Turso cloud databases.

We do not share, sell, or transfer your Google user data to any third parties whatsoever, except where strictly necessary to provide the service infrastructure itself (i.e., data stored on our secure Firebase and Turso servers) or as required by law.

No data retrieved from Google is used for AI/ML model training or secondary marketing/advertising purposes.

Google Drive: If authorized by you, we use the drive.file scope to allow you to backup and restore your music plugin configurations and beat recipes. We only access files created or opened by BeatGangsta. We do not scan or access your other private files on Google Drive.

4. WHAT LEGAL BASES DO WE RELY ON TO PROCESS YOUR INFORMATION?

We only process your personal information when we believe it is necessary and we have a valid legal reason (i.e., legal basis) to do so under applicable law, like with your consent, to comply with laws, to provide you with services to enter into or fulfill our contractual obligations, to protect your rights, or to fulfill our legitimate business interests.

5. WHEN AND WITH WHOM DO WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION?

We share and/or sell your personal information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, research partners, or agents ("third parties") who perform services for us or who purchase data from us for the purpose of research, marketing, and commercial analysis.

Commercial Sale of Data: You explicitly acknowledge and agree that BeatGangsta may sell your name, email address, and music plugin information to third parties for commercial purposes.

The categories of third parties we may share or sell personal information with are as follows:

6. WHAT IS OUR STANCE ON THIRD-PARTY WEBSITES AND SOCIAL MEDIA?

The Services may link to third-party websites, online services, or mobile applications and/or contain advertisements from third parties that are not affiliated with us and which may link to other websites, services, or applications. We are not responsible for the content or privacy and security practices and policies of any third parties.

Social Media Interactions: When you interact with our official pages on TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, or X (formerly Twitter), the respective platform's privacy policy applies to your interaction. These platforms may collect data about your visit even if you do not click the links, especially if you are logged into their services. We do not control the data collection or processing practices of these third-party platforms.

7. ADVERTISING AND COOKIES

We use third-party advertising companies to serve ads when you visit our website. These companies may use information (not including your name, address, email address, or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you.

8. BOT PROTECTION AND SECURITY

We use Cloudflare Turnstile, a bot protection service, to protect our Services from spam and abuse. Turnstile works by collecting certain information from your browser and device to determine if you are a human or a bot. This processing is necessary for our legitimate interest in maintaining the security of our Services.

By using our Services, you acknowledge that your data may be processed by Cloudflare in accordance with their Privacy Policy.

9. DO WE USE COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES?

We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies (like web beacons and pixels) to gather information when you interact with our Services. Specific information about how we use such technologies and how you can refuse certain cookies is set out in our Cookie Notice.

10. DO WE OFFER ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE-BASED PRODUCTS?

As part of our Services, we offer products, features, or tools powered by artificial intelligence, machine learning, or similar technologies ("AI Products").

Use of AI Technologies: We provide the AI Products through third-party service providers, including Google Gemini API. Your input, output, and personal information will be shared with and processed by these AI Service Providers (Google) to provide the service. This application is hosted on Google Cloud Run.

Mandatory Authentication: To ensure security, rate limiting, and personalized guidance, use of AI Products (including 'Generate Recipe', 'Deep Dive', and 'AI Architect' features) requires a mandatory Google Sign-In. There is no unauthenticated or completely local storage mode for these features.

How to Opt Out: Users can opt out of AI-based processing by choosing not to use the AI-powered features. Users may also request the deletion of their account and all associated data by contacting us at [email protected].

11. HOW DO WE HANDLE YOUR SOCIAL LOGINS AND INTERACTIONS?

If you choose to register or log in to our Services using a social media account (currently Google Sign-In is the primary method), we may have access to certain information about you, such as your name, email address, and profile picture. We also interact with users via TikTok, LinkedIn, Facebook, Instagram, and X (formerly Twitter).

Data Collection by Social Platforms: By clicking on social media icons or links on our site, you may be sharing information with those platforms. These platforms may use cookies, web beacons, and other storage technologies to collect or receive information from our Services and elsewhere on the internet and use that information to provide measurement services and target ads. You can opt-out of the collection and use of information for ad targeting through your platform settings.

12. IS YOUR INFORMATION TRANSFERRED INTERNATIONALLY?

Our servers are located in the United States. Regardless of your location, please be aware that your information may be transferred to, stored by, and processed by us in our facilities and in the facilities of the third parties with whom we may share your personal information.

We use the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses for transfers of personal information. Our Data Processing Agreements are available here: https://cloud.google.com/terms/data-processing-addendum.

13. HOW LONG DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

14. HOW DO WE KEEP YOUR INFORMATION SAFE?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process.

15. DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM MINORS?

We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 18 years of age.

16. WHAT ARE YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS?

In some regions (like the EEA, UK, Switzerland, and Canada), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws, including the right to request access, rectification, or erasure of your personal information.

17. CONTROLS FOR DO-NOT-TRACK FEATURES

Most web browsers include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature. We do not currently respond to DNT browser signals. However, we recognize and honor Global Privacy Control (GPC) signals.

18. DO UNITED STATES RESIDENTS HAVE SPECIFIC PRIVACY RIGHTS?

If you are a resident of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Florida, Indiana, Iowa, Kentucky, Maryland, Minnesota, Montana, Nebraska, New Hampshire, New Jersey, Oregon, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, or Virginia, you may have specific rights regarding your personal information.

19. API KEY RESPONSIBILITY & LIABILITY

BeatGangsta uses a token-based credit system to manage access to AI-powered features. Credits can be purchased through our payment providers, Lemon Squeezy and NOWPayments.

User Responsibility: You are solely responsible for the security, confidentiality, and usage of your account and any credits purchased.

Payments: Payments are processed securely through Lemon Squeezy (Card) and NOWPayments (Crypto). We do not store your credit card or crypto wallet private keys on our servers.

Transaction Processing: By making a purchase, you agree to the terms and privacy policies of Lemon Squeezy and/or NOWPayments.

No Liability for Costs: You are solely responsible for any costs, fees, or charges incurred on your account resulting from the use of your credits within this application.

20. DO WE MAKE UPDATES TO THIS NOTICE?

Yes, we will update this notice as necessary to stay compliant with relevant laws.

21. HOW CAN YOU CONTACT US ABOUT THIS NOTICE?

If you have questions or comments about this notice, you may email us at [email protected].

22. HOW CAN YOU REVIEW, UPDATE, OR DELETE THE DATA WE COLLECT FROM YOU?

To request to review, update, or delete your personal information, please email us at [email protected] or visit: https://www.beatgangsta.com.