Audrop Privacy Policy

Effective Date: September 28th, 2026

Last Updated: September 28th, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Audrop, doing business as Audrop ("Audrop," "we," "us," or "our"), collects, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you use the Audrop website, mobile application, services, and related products (collectively, the "Service").

By using Audrop, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

1. INFORMATION WE COLLECT

The information we collect depends on how you use Audrop.

A. Information You Provide

When you create or use an Audrop account, we may collect:

  • Name or display name
  • Username
  • Email address
  • Password or authentication information
  • Profile picture or other profile information
  • Account preferences
  • Interests selected during onboarding
  • Information you provide when contacting us
  • Information you provide through surveys, beta applications, or feedback forms

If you sign in using a third-party authentication provider such as Google, we may receive information made available to us by that provider, such as your name, email address, and profile information.

B. Content You Upload or Create

Audrop is an audio-first social platform. When you create or upload content, we may collect and store:

  • Audio recordings
  • Audrop titles and descriptions
  • Cover images or other associated media
  • Comments
  • Likes
  • Saves
  • Follows
  • Messages
  • Drafts
  • Reports
  • Other information you voluntarily include with your content

Your uploaded content may be processed and stored so that it can be delivered to other users according to the visibility settings you select.

C. Transcripts and AI-Generated Information

Audrop may automatically process uploaded audio to generate transcripts, summaries, classifications, topic tags, or other information used to organize, search, recommend, moderate, or improve the Service.

For example, an uploaded Audrop may be automatically transcribed and associated with AI-generated topic tags.

We may retain generated transcripts and classifications for as long as reasonably necessary to provide the Service, subject to your account settings and our retention practices.

We will not represent an automatically generated transcript as a perfect or guaranteed-accurate transcription.

D. Usage and Interaction Information

We may collect information about how you interact with Audrop, including:

  • Audrops listened to
  • Listening duration
  • Completion events
  • Playback position
  • Likes
  • Saves
  • Follows
  • Comments
  • Searches
  • Pages or profiles viewed
  • Features used
  • Notifications interacted with
  • General account activity

This information may be used to operate and improve Audrop and to personalize discovery and recommendations.

E. Device and Technical Information

Depending on how you access Audrop, we may collect:

  • IP address
  • Browser type
  • Operating system
  • Device type
  • Application version
  • Device identifiers
  • Network information
  • Crash and diagnostic information
  • Cookies and similar technologies
  • Push notification tokens

We may use this information for security, authentication, analytics, troubleshooting, fraud prevention, and service functionality.

F. Location Information

Audrop does not need precise GPS location information to provide its core audio-social features.

If we introduce location-based features in the future, we will update this Privacy Policy and request applicable permissions before collecting precise location information.

2. HOW WE USE INFORMATION

We may use information we collect to:

  • Create and manage accounts.
  • Provide the Audrop Service.
  • Store and deliver uploaded content.
  • Process audio and generate transcripts or topic classifications.
  • Personalize content discovery and recommendations.
  • Track listens, completions, likes, saves, and other interactions.
  • Enable comments, follows, notifications, and messaging.
  • Detect spam, abuse, fraud, and other prohibited activity.
  • Moderate user-generated content.
  • Investigate reports and violations of our Terms.
  • Maintain and improve Audrop.
  • Analyze product performance and usage.
  • Communicate with users about their accounts or the Service.
  • Respond to customer-support requests.
  • Protect the security and integrity of the Service.
  • Comply with legal obligations.
  • Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.
  • Enforce our Terms of Service and other policies.

3. HOW WE SHARE INFORMATION

We do not sell your personal information merely because you use Audrop.

We may share information in the following circumstances.

Service Providers

We may use third-party companies to help operate Audrop, including providers for:

  • Cloud hosting and storage
  • Authentication
  • Database services
  • Audio processing
  • AI transcription or classification
  • Analytics
  • Error monitoring
  • Email
  • Push notifications
  • Security
  • Customer support

These providers may process information on our behalf as necessary to provide their services.

Public Content

If you publish an Audrop or other content publicly, that content may be visible to other users and potentially accessible through the Internet.

Public content may include your:

  • Username
  • Display name
  • Profile information
  • Audio
  • Title
  • Description
  • Cover image
  • Public comments
  • Public engagement information

Do not publish information that you do not want others to see.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose information if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

  • Comply with applicable law or legal process
  • Respond to lawful requests from government authorities
  • Protect the rights, property, or safety of Audrop, our users, or others
  • Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms

Business Transfers

If Audrop is involved in a merger, acquisition, financing, restructuring, sale of assets, bankruptcy, or similar transaction, information may be transferred as part of that transaction, subject to applicable law.

4. USER-GENERATED CONTENT

Audrop is designed around user-generated audio and social interaction.

You are responsible for the information and content you choose to publish.

If you publish content publicly, you understand that other people may listen to, share, record, reproduce, or otherwise interact with that content.

Audrop cannot guarantee that content published publicly will remain private after publication.

5. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

Audrop may use cookies, local storage, pixels, SDKs, and similar technologies to:

  • Keep users signed in
  • Remember preferences
  • Maintain security
  • Understand how the Service is used
  • Diagnose technical problems
  • Improve functionality

You may be able to control certain cookies through your browser or device settings.

6. DATA SECURITY

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction.

However, no Internet transmission, storage system, or electronic service can be guaranteed to be completely secure.

You are responsible for maintaining the confidentiality of your account credentials.

7. DATA RETENTION

We retain information for as long as reasonably necessary to:

  • Provide the Service
  • Maintain account functionality
  • Meet legitimate business and security needs
  • Resolve disputes
  • Enforce agreements
  • Comply with legal obligations

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or otherwise dispose of it in accordance with our retention practices.

Some information may remain in backups or records for a limited period after deletion.

8. ACCOUNT DELETION

You may request deletion of your Audrop account and associated personal information through the methods provided within the Service or by contacting us at:

audrop@myaudrop.com

Certain information may be retained when necessary to comply with legal obligations, prevent fraud or abuse, resolve disputes, enforce agreements, or otherwise as permitted by law.

Deleting your account may also cause you to lose access to content, messages, followers, saved content, or other account-related information.

9. YOUR PRIVACY RIGHTS

Depending on where you live, you may have rights concerning your personal information. These rights may include:

  • The right to know what personal information we collect
  • The right to access personal information
  • The right to request deletion
  • The right to request correction
  • The right to obtain a copy of certain information
  • The right to opt out of certain forms of sale or sharing
  • The right to limit certain uses of sensitive personal information
  • The right to non-discrimination for exercising applicable privacy rights

California law, for example, provides qualifying consumers with rights concerning access, deletion, correction, and certain sharing or sale practices.

To submit a privacy request, contact:

audrop@myaudrop.com

We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.

10. CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

If the California Consumer Privacy Act ("CCPA"), as amended by the California Privacy Rights Act ("CPRA"), applies to Audrop, California residents may have additional rights regarding their personal information.

These may include rights to know, delete, correct, opt out of certain sales or sharing, limit certain uses of sensitive personal information, and receive equal treatment for exercising applicable rights.

Our privacy policy will be updated as necessary to provide the disclosures required by applicable California law.

California privacy requirements can include disclosures concerning categories of information collected, purposes of collection, categories of recipients, retention, and available consumer rights.

11. CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Audrop is not intended for children under the age of 13 unless we expressly state otherwise and implement the safeguards required by applicable law.

We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13 without legally required parental consent.

Because audio recordings can themselves constitute personal information under COPPA when they contain a child's voice, Audrop will take appropriate measures regarding children's use of the Service.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to Audrop without appropriate consent, contact us at:

audrop@myaudrop.com

12. THIRD-PARTY SERVICES

Audrop may integrate with third-party services, including authentication providers, cloud infrastructure providers, analytics providers, AI providers, and other technology providers.

Those third parties may have their own privacy policies and terms.

We encourage users to review the privacy practices of third-party services they choose to use.

13. THIRD-PARTY LINKS

Audrop may contain links to websites or services operated by third parties.

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of third-party services.

14. INTERNATIONAL USERS

Audrop may be operated from the United States and may use service providers located in the United States or other countries.

If you access Audrop from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and processed in jurisdictions with different privacy laws.

Where required, we will implement appropriate safeguards for international transfers.

15. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time.

When we make changes, we will update the "Last Updated" date.

If we make material changes, we may provide additional notice through the Service or other reasonable means.

16. CONTACT US

Questions, privacy requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Audrop

audrop@myaudrop.com