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Privacy Policy

Lyrics.ws (“Lyrics.ws,” “us,” or “we”) is committed to providing you with the best possible user experience. Maintaining your privacy is a large part of this commitment. When you use the Lyrics.ws Platform, you’ll share some information with us, so we want to be upfront about the information we collect, how we use it, whom we share it with, and the choices we give you to control, access, and update your information. As such, this Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is a binding legal agreement between you and Lyrics.ws. All Registered Users of the Lyrics.ws Platform are required to review and be bound by this Privacy Policy. You agree to this Privacy Policy by installing, accessing, or in any way using the Lyrics.ws Platform. IF YOU DISAGREE WITH ANY PORTION OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY, YOUR SOLE REMEDY IS TO IMMEDIATELY DISCONTINUE YOUR ACCESS TO OR USE OF THE Lyrics.ws PLATFORM. Further, all capitalized terms herein, unless otherwise noted, have the same definition ascribed to them in our Terms of Service.

I. INFORMATION WE COLLECT OR RECEIVE. In the course of operating the Lyrics.ws Platform, we will collect and/or receive the following types of information (collectively, “User Information”) and retain it indefinitely. You authorize us to collect and/or receive such information.

a. Personal Information. We only receive or collect information that identifies you personally if you choose to provide such personally identifiable information to us via email or other means. When you sign up to become a Registered User or contact us, you will be required to provide us with personal information about yourself (collectively, the “Personal Information”). Such Personal Information may include your name and e-mail address. We do not collect any Personal Information from you when you use the Lyrics.ws Platform unless you provide us with the Personal Information voluntarily.

b. Personal Preferences. In order to use the Lyrics.ws Platform, you may be required to provide us with information about your personal preferences or interests on audio/visual styles and categories (collectively, the “Personal Preferences”). These Personal Preferences will assist us in providing you with the most relevant and up-to-date Services.

c. Third-Party Analytics. We and the third-party technology providers, ad exchanges, ad networks, advertisers, agencies, and ad servers with which we work use third- party analytics services to evaluate your use of the Lyrics.ws Platform, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyze performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to the Lyrics.ws Platform and mobile and Internet usage. These include Google Analytics, Cloudflare. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyze and provide us the data. You consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. If you are located within the European Union (EU) and your location is flagged as being in such location, the analytics services will not be initiated unless consented too, or when data collected is anonymized and not personally identifiable. Please be advised that if you opt out of any such service, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Lyrics.ws Platform.

d. Other Information. In addition to the Personal Information, Personal Preferences, Geolocational Information, and Payment Information, we may automatically collect or receive additional information regarding you and your use of the Lyrics.ws Platform; your interactions with us and our advertising; your interactions with other Registered Users; and information regarding your computer and mobile devices used to access the Lyrics.ws Platform (collectively, the “Other Information”). Such Other Information may include:

I. From Your Activity. We may collect or receive information regarding: 1. IP address, which may consist of a static or dynamic IP address and will sometimes point to a specific identifiable computer or mobile device; 2. browser type and language; 3. referring and exit pages and URLs; 4. date and time; 5. details regarding your activity on the Lyrics.ws Platform, such as search queries and other performance and usage data; 6. Whatever information you send through the Lyrics.ws Platform of our Services, such as messages and chats to other Registered Users.

II. From Cookies. We may use both session cookies, which expire once you close the Lyrics.ws Platform, and persistent cookies, which stay on your mobile device until you delete them and other technologies to help us collect data and to enhance your experience with the Lyrics.ws Platform. Cookies are small text files we can use to recognize a repeat visitor to the Lyrics.ws Platform. If you do not want us to deploy cookies in the Lyrics.ws Platform, you can opt out by setting your device to reject cookies. You can still use the Lyrics.ws Platform if you choose to disable cookies, although your ability to use some of the features may be affected. We may use cookies for various purposes, including to: 1. recognize the type of mobile device; 2. personalize your experience; 3. analyze which portions of the Lyrics.ws Platform are visited and used most frequently; 4. measure and optimize advertising and promotional effectiveness.

II. INFORMATION COLLECTED BY OR THROUGH THIRD-PARTY ADVERTISING COMPANIES. a.We may share User Information with third parties for ad distribution and ad optimization (defined as the tailoring, targeting of ads). These third parties may use cookies, pixel tags (also called web beacons or clear gifs), and/or other technologies to collect Other Information for such purposes. Pixel tags enable us and these third-party advertising companies to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits the site on which the pixel tag is located in order to learn which advertisement brings a user to a given site. In addition, we may receive Other Information from advertisers and/or their service providers such as advertising identifiers, IP addresses, and post-conversion data.

III. HOW WE PROTECT YOUR INFORMATION. We take commercially reasonable steps to protect the Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases or the databases of the third parties with which we may share such Information, nor can we guarantee that the Information you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted over the Internet. In particular, e-mail sent to us may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via e-mail.

IV. EXTERNAL WEBSITES. The Lyrics.ws Platform may contain links to third-party websites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of these websites. As such, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those third-party websites. You should check the applicable third-party privacy policy and terms of use when visiting any other websites.

V. CHILDREN. The Lyrics.ws Platform is not directed to children under the age of 13. We adhere to the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) and will not knowingly collect User Information from any child under the age of 13. We ask that minors (under the age of 13) not use the Lyrics.ws Platform. If a child under the age of 13 has provided us with User Information, a parent or guardian of that child may contact us and request that such information be deleted from our records.

VI. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY. This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on the Lyrics.ws Platform and we will notify you of such changes within a reasonable time prior to their effectiveness. By accessing, installing, or in any way using the Lyrics.ws Platform after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of the Information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collect the Information. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.

VII. HOW TO CONTACT US. If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please Contact Us.