Privacy Policy
Updated on 22 May 2025
This Privacy Policy (the “Privacy Policy”) discloses the online data collection and use practices of Myndstream in connection with your use of our website (https://myndstream.com/) and our streaming platform (https://play.myndstream.com/) and any other related platforms or services we may provide from time to time (together the “Website”) (“Mynd Group”, “company”, “our”, “we”, or “us”). Company has created the Privacy Policy in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to the privacy of our Website’s visitors/end users (“you”, “yourself”, or “User”). We recommend that you read the Privacy Policy before providing any information about yourself.
We keep the Privacy Policy under regular review and may modify, alter or otherwise update the Privacy Policy at any time. We will notify you of any changes by updating the date at the top of the Privacy Policy. We encourage you to review the Privacy Policy from time to time. Your continued use of our Website or licensing of our music following the posting of changes to the Privacy Policy means you accept those changes as enacted from time to time.
- Who We Are
The Website is owned and operated by Mynd Group Limited, a company registered in England and Wales with company registration number 13419314. Our address is Unit 9 Westworks, White City Place, 195 Wood Lane, London, London, United Kingdom, W12 7FQ and its subsidiaries and affiliates. Mynd Group may be the controller or the processor depending on the purpose of the personal data being processed. Where we are the Controller, Mynd Group is responsible for your personal information. You can contact us at our address listed above or please email us at [email protected].
- How We Collect information
The information you voluntarily provide:
When using the Website, you may be asked to provide certain personal information about you and/or your company, such as name, company name and type, address, phone number, fax number, email address, social media links, financial information, which may include payment details, along with certain demographic information, such as your position with a company, facility type, and buying preferences. This information may be requested when you sign up for an account, request a licence agreement or report music usage. Please be aware that we do not store your payment information and this will be done via a third-party payment company and processed in accordance with that third party’s privacy policy. You will also have to create a password to be able to access your information on the Website.
We collect and record direct marketing data when we add you to our marketing database (e.g., when you subscribe to our newsletter and/or when you sign up to use our platform on a free-trial basis or as a paid subscriber).
We do not intentionally collect any special categories of personal information about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health, and genetic and biometric data).
We do not intentionally collect criminal offence data about you. However, we may process data relating to criminal offences in monitoring the use of our Website for security purposes, where we suspect you may have committed a crime, such as attempting to make a fraudulent purchase or claim or circumvent the security of the Website (including in our platform). In such circumstances we may provide that information to law enforcement and/or use it to establish, exercise or defend a legal claim. In those circumstances, according to the type of activity and purpose, we may process such data on the basis of our legitimate interests (protecting our business, employees and other users) and our legal obligations (where required by legal, judicial or law enforcement to disclose or process that information).
The information we collect automatically:
When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect the following information: your IP address, log-in information, location information, browser type and version, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, information about your visit including the URL clickstream to, through and from our Website, products you viewed or searched for, download errors, length of visits to certain pages and page interaction. We collect information automatically though the use of various technologies, including through cookies (outlined in the Cookies section below). To ensure the optimal functioning of our site we use some third party tools which may store and track personal information to ensure the optimum running of our site, including Google Analytics.
- Cookies
The Website also uses “cookies,” or text files sent from our server to your web browser. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. Each device that accesses our Website will be assigned a different cookie. We use cookies to recognise your device and provide you with a personalised experience of the Website systems. They also enable us to measure website traffic information, such as the number of visits a page receives. You can delete or disable cookies using your browser’s menu but be aware that some functionality may be limited if cookies are disabled.
We use the following cookies:
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- Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our Website. These essential cookies are always enabled because our Website will not work properly without them. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our Website. You can switch off these cookies in your browser settings but you may not then be able to access all or parts of our Website.
- Analytical or performance cookies. These allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our Website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our Website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
- Advertising/Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our Website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our Website and any advertising we display (if applicable) more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose so that they can serve you with relevant advertising on their websites.
You can find more information about the individual cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them at: [https://myndstream.com/cookie-details/]
Please note that the following third parties may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These named third parties may include, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services. These third party cookies are likely to be analytical cookies or performance cookies or targeting cookies:
Google Analytics
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Choices about cookies
You can choose which analytical, functionality and targeting cookies we can set by accessing the cookie consent banner on our Website. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our Website.
If you have any questions or concerns about our use of cookies, please send us an email at [email protected].
- The Data We Collect About You
We collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal information about you, for example when you sign up for a free trial or subscribe to our services, and through your transactions and interactions with us. The Website also uses common automatic information collection and tracking technologies, such as cookies and beacons, to collect information about you.
The types of information we collect are:
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- Identity Data – includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
- Contact Data – includes billing address, email address and telephone numbers.
- Profile Data – includes your username and password (but your passwords will be encrypted), purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.
- Transaction Data – includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us.
- Device Data – includes the type of device you use, your unique device identifier, network information, your operating system, the type of browser you use, IP address, time zone setting, and other applicable information.
- Usage Data – includes information about how you interact with and use our Website, products and services.
- Security Data – includes information we collect about your use of the Website in order to ensure your and our other users’ safety and security, being Usage Data, Cookies Data and the information provided to us by our payment processing provider.
- Cookies Data – includes the information collected through the cookies and similar technologies listed in our Cookies section.
- Marketing and Communications Data – includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.
- Location Data – includes your current location as disclosed by Wi-Fi connections, your IP address for the time period where you have permitted us to collect it.
- How We Use and Share the Information We Collect
We will only use your personal information when we have a lawful basis to do so. Our lawful basis for each use of your personal information is specified below. Most commonly we will use your personal information in the following circumstances:
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- Consent: Where you have freely consented before the processing in a specific, informed and unambiguous indication of what you want. You can withdraw your consent at any time by accessing the Account Details section in your account, emailing us at [email protected] (see details of your legal rights below) or using our cookie banner.
- Performance of a contract: Where we need to process your personal information to perform a contract with you or where you ask us to take steps before we enter into a contract with you. Where we rely on performance of a contract and you do not provide the necessary information, we will be unable to perform your contract.
- Legitimate interests: Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests. We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal information for our legitimate interests. You can obtain further information about how we assess our legitimate interests against any potential impact on you in respect of specific activities by contacting us.
- Legal obligation: Where we need to use your personal information to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation. Where you do not provide the necessary information, we may be unable to fulfil a right you have or comply with our obligations to you, or we may need to take additional steps, such as informing law enforcement or a public authority or applying for a court order.
We may use your personal information: (a) to provide you with the information and services you require, (b) to ensure that the content for our Website is presented in an optimal manner for you, (c) to administer our Website and for our internal business administration and operations generally, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, and statistics, (d) to notify you about changes to our services and or policies, (e) as part of our efforts to keep our Website safe and secure, (f) to comply with legal requirements, such as tax and other governmental regulations, and (g) for fraud protection. We may also use your personal information in order to send you our newsletter and other marketing emails to keep you informed of our content and services.
As a general rule, and unless otherwise stated, we will not disclose any personal information we collect from you to third-party advertisers or marketing companies without your consent. We may share any personal information with other companies in our group of companies (acting as joint controllers or processors). In rare cases, we may share your personal information for administration and troubleshooting purposes with integration partners (such as Stripe for billing purposes). We may disclose personal information in special cases when we have reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally or unintentionally) our rights or property. We may disclose User information with our subsidiaries and/or affiliates and when we believe in good faith that the law requires it.
We may share with others, at our discretion, certain aggregate statistical data about licensing and the use of our music. No personal information (such as names or email addresses) will be identifiable from such statistics. We may transfer, sell or assign any of the information described above, including personally identifiable information, to third parties, as a result of the sale, merger, consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets, reorganisation or liquidation of Mynd Group Limited and/or its subsidiaries.
- Profiling and Automated Decision-Making
We may make decisions based solely on automated processing that have legal or similar significant effects on you in order to improve our services. Automated decision-making means making a decision about you based solely on automated means without any human involvement.
Profiling is the automated processing of personal data to evaluate certain things about you, in particular to analyse or predict certain things concerning your personal preferences, interests and behaviour.
You have the right:
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- Not to be subject to a decision that is based solely on automated processing if the decision affects your legal rights.
- To understand the reasons behind decisions made about you by automated processing and the possible consequences of such decisions.
- To object to profiling in certain situations, including for direct marketing.
You cannot object to automated decision-making, including profiling, if:
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- It is required for a contract you have entered into.
- It is required by law.
- You have given your explicit consent.
We may use profiling and automated decision-making to make recommendations (e.g., artists, songs or playlists), improve our user experience, provide more responsive customer service and for direct marketing purposes.
We have put in place appropriate safeguards and procedures to ensure that our use of such profiling and automated decision-making is proportionate to the pursuit of our legitimate commercial interests.
By using our services, you will be taken to have agreed to such automated processing unless you inform us otherwise in writing. If you would like to enforce your right to object to automated decision-making and profiling please contact us at [email protected].
- Keeping Your Information Safe
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. All personal information is stored on secure and encrypted database systems and we limit access to those personnel, agents, contractors and other qualified third parties who have a business need to know. All passwords are stored in oneway hashes and cannot be read by company or any of its employees. The Website is run over a secure connection using https. However, we cannot guarantee that any information you submit to us will be free from unauthorized third party intrusion. We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.
- Third Party Links
This Website may, from time to time, include links to third party websites, plug-ins and applications (for example, the ability to follow us on Facebook). Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our Website, you should read the privacy policy of every website you visit.
- Data Retention
We will retain the personal information as long as you use our Website or as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes described in the Privacy Policy and in accordance with law, for example, to comply with our legal obligations and to prevent fraud. By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including Contact, Identity, Security and Transaction Data) for six years after they cease being customers for tax or other purposes. We reserve the right to continue to hold personal information where it is needed to fulfil our contractual arrangement with you, if applicable, or where we may have a legitimate interest in doing so.
Be aware that we may continue to store anonymous information such as page visits without any identifiers in order to improve our services. We may use this anonymous information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Once we no longer have a legal right to hold your personal information, we will delete or, in some circumstances, anonymise your personal information so that it can no longer be associated with you, but can be used for research or statistical purposes, in which case we may use this anonymised information indefinitely without further notice to you.
Please contact [email protected] for any help with the above.
- Your Legal Rights
You have the right under data protection laws to access, update, change, object, restrict and delete the personal information held about you on the Myndstream platform by contacting us at [email protected]. We will endeavour to respond to your deletion request within an appropriate timeframe including those enforced by law.
If you wish to obtain a copy of your own personal information (i.e., your right to data portability), please email us at [email protected]. We may ask for verification of your identity before providing further details. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.
You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal information. However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.
You can exercise any of your Legal Rights at any time by contacting us at [email protected].
- Access and Corrections
It is important that the data we hold about you is accurate and current. It is your responsibility to ensure that all data held by us is true and accurate and you can update your Account information at any point on your User page or by contacting us at [email protected] (at which point we may ask you to verify your identity before proceeding). We take no responsibility for any inaccuracy in information supplied to us by you.
- Transfers Outside the UK or EEA
We may transfer your information outside the UK or the EEA. The EEA comprises certain countries within Europe (including the EU) which have similar laws on data protection. Whenever we transfer your personal information out of the UK or the EEA, we will comply with applicable data protection law and ensure that, so far as possible, an adequate degree of protection is afforded to it.
- Complaints
You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (“ICO”), the UK regular for data protection issues and, where relevant, any other supervisory authority where you are located. We ask that you contact us first using our contact details so that we have a chance to put it right.
- Children
Mynd Group’s Website is not intended for those under the age of 13 (in some countries, stricter age limits may apply). We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 or under the applicable age limit (the “Age Limit”), If you are under the Age Limit, do not use the Website and do not provide any personal information to us. If you are a parent of a child under the Age Limit and become aware that your child has provided personal information to us, please contact us at [email protected] and you may request to remove such information from our Website.