Cookie Policy for BeatStars

Effective date: 03/13/2023

This is the Cookie Policy for BeatStars, accessible from https://www.beatstars.com/cookie-policy. The information provided in this Cookie Policy (the “Policy”) provides additional transparency to Our Privacy Policy and practices. This Policy applies to the cookies, SDKs and advertising on Our websites, https://www.beatstars.com , https://www.beatstars.world and applications (collectively, the “Service”).

We encourage you to review the entire Privacy Policy.

What Are Cookies and SDKs

As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience. This page describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or 'break' certain elements of the site's functionality. SDK stands for “Software Development Kit”. These are collections of software development tools that we use to provide products and services to the User. Some SDKs are required for App software development. For example, the iOS SDK is required for any iOS Application. One SDK that our Android and iOS Applications both use is the Firebase Analytics SDK. This allows for Us to track App performance metrics and usage. This data is anonymized and provides guidance on what to improve in future App Versions.

How We Use Cookies and SDKs

We use cookies and SDKs for a variety of reasons detailed below. We use our domain specific persistent cookies and mobile app specific SDKs to uniquely identify You after You access Our Service. Upon successfully logging in, Our cookies and SDKs are required to enable certain features that relate to Your personal account. These include:

• Buying & Selling

• Adding items to a Wantlist or Collection

• Making Lists

• Saving preferences

• Submitting to the Database

• Messaging other users

We also use Our own domain specific cookies and SDKs to assist with:

• Login information (note: the cookie stores a unique value that identifies You after You log in, but does not store your actual login information such as username and password)

• Buying and selling preferences

• General site setting preferences, such as language, login status and shopping cart details

• User interaction and behavior analytics

• Service security

Third-party Cookies and SDKs: Our sites also uses third-party cookies and SDKs to anonymously track web and mobile usage and analytics, such as: Google ( Privacy Policy ).

Many third-party cookies and SDKs are not essential to user experience on Our Service other than collecting data on how We can improve Our Service based on anonymous browsing behaviors and for third-party advertisers to show You relevant ads.

We also partner with others, who may use various tracking technologies to provide certain services or features, including targeted online marketing techniques such as attribution tracking, remarketing, and cross-device tracking.

Disabling Cookies and SDKs

You can disable all non-necessary cookies by visiting the following link. You can also disable SDKs by visiting the preference center in the BeatStars Mobile Applications. You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of this site.

You can learn how to manage cookies on your web browser by following the Browser Cookies Guide.

You can control and/or delete cookies as You wish – for details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on Your computer and You can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If You do this, however, You may have to manually adjust some preferences every time You visit a website and some services and functionalities may not work.

Below are some relevant cookie information and opt out options for websites in general. You can use these resources or other plugins to opt out of cookies through Your browser:

• Your Online Choices
• The Self-Regulatory Program for Online Behavioral Advertising
• Network Advertising Initiative Consumer Opt-Out

• Common browser settings:

  • Chrome
  • Safari (instructions for Mac)
  • Internet Explorer
  • Opera
  • Firefox

The Cookies and SDKs We Set

• Account related cookies and SDKs
  If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration.

• Log in related cookies and SDKs
  We use cookies when you are logged in so that we can remember this fact. This prevents you from having to log in every single time you visit a new page. Email newsletters related cookies
  This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.

• Site preferences cookies and SDKs
  In order to provide you with a great experience on this site and our mobile apps, we provide the functionality to set your preferences for how this site runs when you use it. In order to remember your preferences we need to set cookies and SDKs so that this information can be called whenever you interact with a page is affected by your preferences.

Strictly Necessary cookies and SDKs are required for basic access to Our Service. Other cookies and SDKs are used for analytics, marketing, site functionality, etc. as noted in our preferences center.

Users in certain locations must opt in to cookies and SDKs. Those users will be provided with an opt in banner on the Service and a link to adjust cookie and SDK settings in the future. California-based users can opt out of performance, targeting, and social media cookies and SDKs by selecting the “Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information” link in their cookie or SDK settings. Virginia-based users can opt out of performance, targeting, and social media cookies and SDKs by selecting the “Opt out of sale of personal data and Targeted Advertising” link in their cookie or SDK settings.

In addition, third parties not associated with us may also place cookies on Your browser from time to time.

Third Party Cookies and SDKs

In some special cases we also use cookies and SDKs provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies and SDKs you might encounter through this site.

• This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies and SDKs may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.
  For more information on Google Analytics cookies and SDKs, see the official Google Analytics page.

• Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies and SDKs may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.

• We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including: Twitter, Facebook, SoundCloud, Google+, YouTube, will set cookies and SDKs through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.

Internet Advertising

On Our Service and unaffiliated websites, We display interest-based advertising using information you make available to us when you interact with our Service. Interest-based ads (i.e., personalized or targeted ads) are displayed to you based on information from activities such as interacting with our Service, use of devices, apps or software, or visiting websites that contain our content or ads. See our Privacy Policy for more information about the types of information that We gather and how it is used.

Like other websites, We use tracking technologies (collectively, "cookies"). Cookies enable Us to learn about what ads You see, what ads You click, and other actions You take on Our Service and other websites. This allows Us to provide You with more useful and relevant ads and avoid showing You the same ads repeatedly.

Advertisers and other third-parties (including the ad networks, ad-serving companies, and other service providers they may use) may assume that users who interact with or click on a personalized ad or content are part of the group that the ad or content is directed towards (for example, users in a particular geographical area or users who bought or browsed for specific categories of goods). We do not have access to or control over cookies or other features that advertisers and third-party sites may use, and the information practices of these advertisers and third-party websites are not covered by Our Privacy Policy or this Policy. Please contact them directly for more information about their privacy practices.

Advertising Preferences

You may modify the settings in most browsers to notify You when You receive a new cookie and disable cookies altogether. You can learn more about managing Your preferences for ads online, particularly for many third-party advertising networks, through the following resources:

• Digital Advertising Alliance
• Network Advertising Initiative

More Information

Hopefully that has clarified things for you and as was previously mentioned if there is something that you aren't sure whether you need or not it's usually safer to leave cookies and SDKs enabled in case it does interact with one of the features you use on our site.

However if you are still looking for more information then you can contact us through one of our preferred contact methods:

• By email: support@beatstars.com or privacy@beatstars.com

• By visiting this page on our website: Contact Us