Privacy Policy

Effective date: 06/10/2025

Introduction

Welcome to Sounds Debatable. Protecting your privacy and personal data is important to us. Sounds Debatable (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates https://Soundsdebatable.com (referred to as the “Service”).

Our Privacy Policy governs your visit to https://Soundsdebatable.com and explains how we collect, safeguard, and disclose information resulting from your use of our Service. This policy applies to all users of the Service.

Definitions

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • SERVICE: refers to the https://SoundsDebatable.com website operated by Sounds Debatable.
  • PERSONAL DATA: means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data.
  • USAGE DATA: refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself.
  • COOKIES: are small files stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
  • DATA CONTROLLER: refers to Sounds Debatable, a natural or legal person who determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal data are processed.
  • DATA PROCESSORS (OR SERVICE PROVIDERS): refers to any natural or legal person who processes data on behalf of the Data Controller.
  • DATA SUBJECT: refers to any living individual who is the subject of Personal Data.
  • THE USER: corresponds to the Data Subject, who is the subject of Personal Data.

Information Collection and Use

We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.

  • Personal Data: While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. This may include, but is not limited to, your email address.
  • Usage Data: We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device.
  • Tracking Cookies Data: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information.

We use your Personal Data for:

  • Providing and maintaining our Service.
  • Notifying you about changes to our Service.
  • Allowing you to participate in interactive features of our Service.
  • Providing customer support.
  • Gathering analysis or valuable information to improve our Service.
  • Monitoring the usage of our Service.
  • Detecting, preventing, and addressing technical issues.
  • Fulfilling any other purpose for which you provide it.
  • Carrying out our obligations and enforcing our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us.
  • Providing you with news, special offers, and general information about other goods, services, and events that we offer.

Retention of Data

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes.

Transfer of Data

Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to, and maintained on, computers located outside of your state, province, country, or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Disclosure of Data

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide under certain circumstances, including for law enforcement purposes or in business transactions.

Security of Data

The security of your data is important to us, and we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure.

Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR)

If you are a resident of the European Union (EU) and European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights, covered by GDPR. – See more at GDPR.

We aim to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.

If you wish to be informed what Personal Data we hold about you and if you want it to be removed from our systems, please email us at hello@podlabs.org.

In certain circumstances, you have the following data protection rights:

  • The right to access, update, or delete the information we have on you.
  • The right of rectification. You have the right to have your information rectified if that information is inaccurate or incomplete.
  • The right to object. You have the right to object to our processing of your Personal Data.
  • The right of restriction. You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information.
  • The right to data portability. You have the right to be provided with a copy of your Personal Data in a structured, machine-readable, and commonly used format.
  • The right to withdraw consent. You also have the right to withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on your consent to process your personal information.

Please note that we may ask you to verify your identity before responding to such requests. Please note, we may not be able to provide Service without some necessary data.

You have the right to complain to a Data Protection Authority about our collection and use of your Personal Data. For more information, please contact your local data protection authority in the European Economic Area (EEA).

California Privacy Rights

Your Data Protection Rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act (CCPA)

If you are a California resident, you are entitled to learn what data we collect about you, ask to delete your data, and not to sell (share) it. To exercise your data protection rights, you can make certain requests and ask us for:

  • What personal information we have about you. If you make this request, we will provide:
    • The categories of personal information we have collected about you.
    • The categories of sources from which we collect your personal information.
    • The business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information.
    • The categories of third parties with whom we share personal information.
    • The specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.
    • A list of categories of personal information that we have sold, along with the category of any other company we sold it to. If we have not sold your personal information, we will inform you of that fact.
    • A list of categories of personal information that we have disclosed for a business purpose, along with the category of any other company we shared it with.

Please note, you are entitled to ask us to provide you with this information up to two times in a rolling twelve-month period. When you make this request, the information provided may be limited to the personal information we collected about you in the previous 12 months.

  • To delete your personal information. If you make this request, we will delete the personal information we hold about you as of the date of your request from our records and direct any service providers to do the same. In some cases, deletion may be accomplished through de-identification of the information. If you choose to delete your personal information, you may not be able to use certain functions that require your personal information to operate.
  • To stop selling your personal information. We don’t sell or rent your personal information to any third parties for any purpose. You are the only owner of your Personal Data and can request disclosure or deletion at any time.

Please note, if you ask us to delete or stop selling your data, it may impact your experience with us, and you may not be able to participate in certain programs or membership services which require the usage of your personal information to function. But in no circumstances, we will discriminate against you for exercising your rights.

To exercise your California data protection rights described above, please send your request(s) by one of the following means:

  • By email: hello@podlabs.org

Your data protection rights, described above, are covered by the CCPA, short for the California Consumer Privacy Act. To find out more, visit the official California Legislative Information website. The CCPA took effect on 01/01/2020.

Service Providers

We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service. These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.

Analytics

We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.

Google Analytics

Google Analytics is 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. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: Google Privacy Terms. We also encourage you to review Google’s policy for safeguarding your data: Google Analytics Data Safeguarding.

Behavioral Remarketing

Sounds Debatable uses remarketing services to advertise on third-party websites to you after you visited our Service. We and our third-party vendors use cookies to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on your past visits to our Service.

  • Google Ads (AdWords): Google Ads (AdWords) remarketing service is provided by Google Inc. You can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize the Google Display Network ads by visiting the Google Ads Settings page: Google Ads Settings. Google also recommends installing the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on – for your web browser. Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on provides visitors with the ability to prevent their data from being collected and used by Google Analytics. For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy Terms web page: Google Privacy Terms.
  • Facebook: Facebook remarketing service is provided by Facebook Inc. You can learn more about interest-based advertising from Facebook by visiting this page: Facebook Interest-based Advertising. To opt-out from Facebook’s interest-based ads, follow these instructions from Facebook: Facebook Opt-out Instructions. Facebook adheres to the Self-Regulatory Principles for Online Behavioral Advertising established by the Digital Advertising Alliance. You can also opt-out from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the USA Digital Advertising Alliance, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada, or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance, or opt-out using your mobile device settings. For more information on the privacy practices of Facebook, please visit Facebook’s Data Policy: Facebook Data Policy.

Payments

We may provide paid products and/or services within the Service. In that case, we use third-party services for payment processing (e.g., payment processors).

We will not store or collect your payment card details. That information is provided directly to our third-party payment processors whose use of your personal information is governed by their Privacy Policy. These payment processors adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express, and Discover. PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of payment information. The payment processors we work with are:

Links to Other Sites

Our Service may contain links to other sites that are not operated by us. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

Children’s Privacy

Our Services are not intended for use by children under the age of 13 (“Children”). We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from Children under 13. If you become aware that a Child has provided us with Personal Data, please contact us.

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 effective date.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at hello@podlabs.org