Privacy Policy

Learn how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our service.

Last updated: April 20, 2025

1. Introduction

SoundWave ("we", "our", or "us") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our SoundCloud downloader service.

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully. By accessing or using our service, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all the terms outlined in this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide when you:

  • Contact us through our website
  • Submit SoundCloud URLs for downloading
  • Participate in surveys or promotions
  • Subscribe to newsletters or other communications

This information may include:

  • Email address (if you contact us or subscribe to our newsletter)
  • SoundCloud URLs you submit for downloading
  • Any other information you choose to provide

2.2 Information Automatically Collected

When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage of our service. This information may include:

  • IP address
  • Browser type and version
  • Operating system
  • Referring website
  • Pages of our website that you visit
  • Time spent on those pages
  • Access times and dates

2.3 Cookies and Similar Technologies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our website and hold certain information. Cookies are files with a small amount of data that may include an anonymous unique identifier.

You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our service.

3. How We Use Your Information

We may use the information we collect for various purposes, including to:

  • Provide, maintain, and improve our service
  • Process and fulfill your download requests
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and requests
  • Monitor and analyze trends, usage, and activities in connection with our service
  • Detect, prevent, and address technical issues
  • Send you technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support messages
  • Provide you with news, special offers, and general information about other services and events which we offer, unless you have opted not to receive such information

4. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose your information in the following situations:

4.1 Legal Requirements

We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or a government agency).

4.2 Business Transfers

We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.

4.3 With Your Consent

We may disclose your information for any other purpose with your consent.

4.4 Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service ("Service Providers"), to provide the service on our behalf, to perform service-related services, or to assist us in analyzing how our service is used. These third parties have access to your information only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

5. Data Security

The security of your data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as:

  • The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you
  • The right of rectification - the right to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate
  • The right to object to our processing of your personal information
  • The right of restriction - the right to request that we restrict the processing of your information
  • The right to data portability - the right to be provided with a copy of your information in a structured, machine-readable format
  • The right to withdraw consent at any time where we relied on your consent to process your information

If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at privacy@soundwave.fyi.

7. Children's Privacy

Our service is not intended for use by children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from children without verification of parental consent, we take steps to remove that information from our servers.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Third-Party Links

Our service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit.

We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

10. Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service. These services may include:

  • Google Analytics: A web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

11. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacy@soundwave.fyi.