Privacy Policy
Last updated: April 30, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how Unfound Sounds collects, uses, and protects information when you visit the website or submit music.
1. Information We Collect
When you submit a song or contact Unfound Sounds, we may collect information you provide directly, including:
- Your name
- Your email address
- Spotify or other music links
- Your submission preferences
- Artist names, song titles, biographies, images, or other materials you choose to submit
- Any other information you voluntarily provide
2. Information Collected Automatically
When you visit the website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, analytics tools, embedded players, browser data, server logs, or similar technologies.
This may include:
- Pages visited
- Time spent on pages
- Referring websites or links
- Device type
- Browser type
- Approximate geographic location
- IP address
- Interactions with embedded content or forms
3. How We Use Information
Unfound Sounds may use collected information to:
- Review artist submissions
- Contact artists about submissions, reviews, podcast opportunities, or related coverage
- Publish selected reviews, features, playlist references, or podcast-related content
- Operate, maintain, and improve the website
- Understand site traffic and visitor behavior
- Prevent spam, abuse, fraud, or misuse of the website
- Comply with legal obligations
4. Google Analytics
Unfound Sounds may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors use the website and to improve content, design, and user experience.
Google Analytics may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information such as pages visited, time on site, device and browser information, approximate location, referring pages, and interactions with the website.
Google Analytics provides reports about website usage and is designed to report site statistics without directly identifying individual visitors.
You can learn more about how Google uses cookies at:
https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
You can learn more about Google Analytics privacy and data practices at:
https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
You can opt out of Google Analytics tracking by using the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on:
https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
5. Cookies
This website may use cookies and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand traffic, analyze performance, and improve the visitor experience.
Cookies are small files stored on your device. You can control, block, or delete cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect how some parts of the website function.
6. Third-Party Services
Unfound Sounds may use third-party services to operate the website and related features, including form providers, analytics providers, streaming platforms, podcast platforms, embedded players, hosting providers, and email tools.
These third-party services may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies. Unfound Sounds does not control the privacy practices of third-party websites, platforms, or embedded services.
7. Music Platforms and Embedded Content
The website may include links or embedded content from platforms such as Spotify, YouTube, Apple Music, podcast platforms, or other music services. Interacting with embedded players or external links may allow those services to collect information about your activity.
Your use of those services is governed by their own terms and privacy policies.
8. How We Share Information
Unfound Sounds does not sell your personal information.
We may share information only when necessary to operate the website, process submissions, use service providers, comply with legal obligations, protect rights and safety, or with your consent.
9. Public Content
If your music or artist submission is selected for coverage, information such as artist name, song title, genre, public music links, artwork, submitted descriptions, review excerpts, podcast information, or related materials may be published publicly on the website, playlists, social media, podcast platforms, newsletters, or other Unfound Sounds channels.
10. Data Security
Unfound Sounds takes reasonable steps to protect submitted information. However, no website, form, email system, hosting provider, or internet transmission is completely secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
11. Data Retention
We may retain submissions, contact information, and related materials for as long as reasonably necessary to review submissions, maintain records, operate the website, preserve published content, resolve disputes, or comply with legal obligations.
12. Your Choices and Requests
You may request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information you have submitted by contacting Unfound Sounds.
Some information may be retained where necessary for legitimate business purposes, legal compliance, dispute resolution, archival records, or previously published editorial content.
13. Children’s Privacy
Unfound Sounds is not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child has submitted personal information, contact us so we can review and remove it where appropriate.
14. Links to Other Websites
This website may contain links to third-party websites. Unfound Sounds is not responsible for the content, privacy policies, security, or practices of third-party websites.
15. Changes to This Privacy Policy
Unfound Sounds may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last updated” date. Your continued use of the website after changes are posted means you accept the updated policy.
16. Contact
Questions or requests about this Privacy Policy can be sent to:
hello@unfoundsounds.com