Effective Date: February 12, 2026
Last Updated: February 12, 2026
This Privacy Policy explains how SongFromShorts.com ("we," "us," or "our") handles your personal data when you use our song identification service at songfromshorts.com. SongFromShorts.com is an informational and analytical service that identifies songs from YouTube Shorts and videos using audio fingerprinting technology.
- Account Information: Name, email address, and password when you register an account.
- Payment Information: Billing details required to process per-use song identification charges. Payment is handled by Stripe. We do not store your full credit card number, CVV, or other sensitive payment credentials on our servers.
- URLs You Submit: YouTube Short and video URLs that you paste into SongFromShorts.com for song identification.
- Device and Access Data: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, screen resolution, referring URL, and the date and time of each page request.
- Usage Data: Pages visited, features used, number of song identifications performed, and general interaction patterns with our service.
- Cookies: We use essential cookies for authentication, session management, and user preferences. See Section 8 for details.
When you submit a YouTube URL for song identification, SongFromShorts.com extracts a brief audio segment from the publicly accessible YouTube content. This audio segment is:
- Processed temporarily — used solely for the purpose of identifying the song via audio fingerprinting technology.
- Not stored permanently — the audio segment is discarded after the identification process is complete.
- Not published or redistributed — we do not make the extracted audio available to any third party or for any purpose other than returning your identification result.
- Not used for training — the audio is not used to train any machine learning model or algorithm.
We do not download, store, or redistribute the video content itself. Only a short audio sample is temporarily processed for recognition purposes.
We use the information collected for the following purposes:
- Service delivery: To operate the song identification service, return results, and display streaming platform links.
- Payment processing: To charge for per-use identifications and manage your credit balance.
- Account management: To authenticate your sessions, manage your account settings, and provide account-related notifications.
- Service improvement: To analyze aggregate usage patterns, identify technical issues, and improve service reliability and accuracy.
- Transactional communications: To send account verification emails, password reset links, and payment receipts.
- Security and fraud prevention: To detect automated misuse, prevent unauthorized access, and enforce our Terms of Service.
We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA), United Kingdom, or Switzerland, we process your personal data based on the following legal grounds:
- Contract performance (Art. 6(1)(b) GDPR): Processing necessary to provide the song identification service you requested when creating an account.
- Legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR): Processing necessary for service security, fraud prevention, and service improvement, where our interests do not override your rights.
- Consent (Art. 6(1)(a) GDPR): Where you have given explicit consent, such as for newsletter subscriptions or optional analytics cookies. You may withdraw consent at any time.
- Legal obligation (Art. 6(1)(c) GDPR): Processing necessary to comply with applicable laws, such as tax and accounting requirements.
Regardless of where you are located, you have the following rights regarding your personal data:
- Right to access: Request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
- Right to rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data.
- Right to erasure: Request deletion of your personal data, subject to legal retention obligations.
- Right to restriction: Request that we limit the processing of your personal data under certain circumstances.
- Right to data portability: Request a copy of your data in a structured, machine-readable format.
- Right to object: Object to the processing of your personal data based on legitimate interests.
- Right to withdraw consent: Where processing is based on consent, withdraw that consent at any time without affecting the lawfulness of prior processing.
- Right to lodge a complaint: File a complaint with a data protection supervisory authority in your jurisdiction.
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email protected]. We will respond within 30 days.
We rely on the following third-party service providers to operate SongFromShorts.com:
| Provider | Purpose | Data Shared |
|---|
| Stripe | Payment processing | Payment method details, billing address, transaction amounts |
| Vercel | Website hosting and CDN | IP address, request data, access logs |
| Cloudflare | CDN and DDoS protection | IP address, request headers |
| Resend | Transactional email delivery | Email address, email content |
Each provider operates under its own privacy policy and data processing agreements. We select providers that maintain appropriate data protection standards.
We do not share your submitted YouTube URLs, identification results, or audio data with any third party for marketing, advertising, or profiling purposes.
- Account data: Retained for as long as your account is active. Upon account deletion, personal data is removed within 30 days, except where retention is required by law.
- Payment records: Retained for the period required by applicable tax and accounting regulations (typically 7 years).
- Usage logs: Aggregated and anonymized usage statistics may be retained indefinitely. Personally identifiable logs are deleted after 90 days.
- Audio data: Not retained. Temporary audio segments are discarded immediately after the identification process completes.
- Identification results: Your song identification history is retained for as long as your account is active and deleted upon account deletion.
SongFromShorts.com uses the following categories of cookies:
- Essential cookies: Required for authentication, session management, and security. These cannot be disabled.
- Preference cookies: Store your language and theme preferences.
- Analytics cookies (optional): Used to collect anonymized usage statistics for service improvement. You may opt out of analytics cookies through your browser settings or our cookie consent mechanism.
We do not use advertising or tracking cookies. No personal data is shared with advertising networks.
See our Cookie Policy for a full list of cookies used.
We implement the following measures to protect your data:
- Encryption of data in transit (TLS/HTTPS) and at rest.
- Secure authentication with encrypted session tokens.
- Access controls limiting employee access to personal data to those who require it for their role.
- Regular security reviews of our infrastructure and third-party integrations.
While we take reasonable measures to protect your data, no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure. We cannot guarantee absolute security.
If you access SongFromShorts.com from outside the country where our servers are located, your data may be transferred internationally. Where such transfers occur, we ensure appropriate safeguards are in place, including Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs) approved by the European Commission where applicable.
SongFromShorts.com is not intended for individuals under the age of 16. We do not knowingly collect personal data from children under 16. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal data, we will delete that data promptly.
We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other factors. When we make material changes, we will:
- Update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this page.
- Notify registered users via email for significant changes.
- Provide a summary of changes on this page.
Continued use of SongFromShorts.com after changes are posted constitutes acceptance of the updated policy.
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, want to exercise your data protection rights, or have concerns about how your data is handled, contact us:
We aim to respond to all inquiries within 30 days.