Privacy Policy

This policy explains what Beatline (beatline.cloud) collects, why, and what we do with it. The short version: we collect the minimum needed to run a music app with accounts and payments, we don’t sell your data, and we don’t run ads.

1. What we collect

• Account data — your email address and optional name, managed by our sign-in provider Clerk. We never see your password.
• Your content — projects, samples, presets, and rendered songs you save to the cloud, stored so we can give them back to you (and, if you share them, to the people you share with).
• Payment data — handled entirely by Stripe. We receive your subscription status and a customer reference, never card numbers.
• Usage analytics — anonymous, aggregate page analytics via Vercel Analytics (no advertising cookies, no cross-site tracking).
• Hashed IP addresses — when you play or report a community song we store a salted one-way hash of your IP for the day, used only to count each listener once and to rate-limit abuse. The raw address is never stored.
• Error reports — if the app crashes in your browser we may receive the error message and stack trace so we can fix it.

2. What we use it for

Running the Service: signing you in, storing and syncing your projects, processing subscriptions, showing play counts, preventing abuse, and fixing bugs. That’s it. We don’t sell or rent personal data, and we don’t use your music to train anything.

3. Who processes it

Beatline runs on a small set of infrastructure providers, each processing data on our behalf: Vercel (hosting, file storage, analytics), Neon (database), Clerk (authentication), and Stripe (payments). Each has its own privacy policy and appropriate safeguards.

4. What's public

Nothing, unless you make it so. Share links are unlisted but playable by anyone with the URL. Songs you publish to the community feed are public, along with the title, artist name you chose, and play count. Collaborators on a shared project can see the project and the email/name on your account.

5. Retention & deletion

• Deleting a project, preset, or share removes the underlying files from storage.
• Play-dedup hashes are deleted within days; they are only meaningful for a day.
• To delete your entire account and its data, email support@beatline.cloud from your account address — we’ll remove your content, account, and billing customer within 30 days (except records we must keep for tax/accounting).

6. Cookies

Only the ones needed to keep you signed in (set by Clerk). No advertising or third-party tracking cookies.

7. Your rights

Depending on where you live (e.g. GDPR, CCPA) you may have rights to access, correct, export, or delete your personal data. Email us and we’ll honor them regardless of where you live.

8. Changes

If this policy changes meaningfully we’ll note it in the app. The “last updated” date above always reflects the current version.

9. Contact

support@beatline.cloud