Privacy Policy

Effective Date: April 20, 2025

MusicBoost Grants ("we," "us," or "our") 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 grant application services (collectively, the "Service"). Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site or use our services.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect via the Service includes:

  • Personal Data: Personally identifiable information, such as your name, email address, band name, and any other contact information you voluntarily give to us when you apply for a grant or contact us.
  • Application Data: Information submitted as part of your grant application, including music files, links to music, project descriptions, funding purposes, biographical information, genre, song names, and any other details provided.
  • Payment Data: For Platinum Grant applications requiring a fee, payment is processed by our third-party payment processor (Stripe). We do not collect or store your full credit card information. We may store transaction details provided by the processor, such as transaction ID, amount paid, currency, and payment status, linked to your application. Please review Stripe's privacy policy for their data handling practices.
  • Derivative Data: Information our servers automatically collect when you access the Website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, access times, and the pages you have viewed directly before and after accessing the Website.
  • Data From Contests, Giveaways, and Surveys: Personal and other information you may provide when entering contests or giveaways and/or responding to surveys.

2. Use of Your Information

Having accurate information about you permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Service to:

  • Process your grant application and assess your eligibility.
  • Communicate with you regarding your application status and other inquiries.
  • Facilitate payment processing for application fees via our third-party processor.
  • Administer the grant program.
  • Notify you of updates to the program or Website.
  • Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Service.
  • Perform promotional activities as described in our Terms of Service (e.g., showcase winners).
  • Prevent fraudulent transactions, monitor against theft, and protect against criminal activity.
  • Comply with legal and regulatory requirements.
  • Respond to your comments, questions, and provide customer support.

3. Disclosure of Your Information

We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations. Your information may be disclosed as follows:

  • By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.
  • Third-Party Service Providers: We may share your information with third parties that perform services for us or on our behalf, including payment processing (Stripe), data storage (e.g., AWS S3 for music files), email delivery, hosting services, customer service, and application review assistance. Our service providers are obligated to protect your information.
  • Grant Review Panel: Application data will be shared with our internal or external grant review panel members for the sole purpose of evaluating applications. Reviewers are bound by confidentiality obligations.
  • Promotional Use: As outlined in the Terms of Service, limited information (e.g., winner names, project descriptions, approved media) may be used for promotional purposes if you are awarded a grant.
  • 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.

We do not sell your personal information to third parties.

4. Security of Your Information

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the personal information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

5. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information and application data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. Unsuccessful application data may be archived or deleted after a reasonable period.

6. Policy for Children

We do not knowingly solicit information from or market to children under the age of 18. If you become aware of any data we have collected from children under age 18, please contact us using the contact information provided below.

7. Controls for Do-Not-Track Features

Most web browsers and some mobile operating systems include a Do-Not-Track ("DNT") feature or setting you can activate to signal your privacy preference not to have data about your online browsing activities monitored and collected. No uniform technology standard for recognizing and implementing DNT signals has been finalized. As such, we do not currently respond to DNT browser signals or any other mechanism that automatically communicates your choice not to be tracked online.

8. Your Privacy Rights (Example - Needs Legal Review)

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, such as the right to access, correct, or delete your data. To make such requests, please contact us using the details below. We will respond to your request consistent with applicable law.

9. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this 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 "Effective Date" at the top. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

10. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: anthony@musicboostgrants.org