Effective Date: March 16, 2026
Last Updated: May 7, 2026
ArtyShield LLC ("ArtyShield," "we," "us," or "our") respects your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, store, and protect personal information when you use ArtyShield services.
1. Scope of This Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information collected through ArtyShield products, services, websites, and related channels, including:
- ArtyShield websites and landing pages;
- user dashboards, accounts, and administrative features;
- products and services such as MusicShield, VoiceShield, VeriTune, and VeriVoice;
- APIs, webhooks, integrations, billing workflows, referral/reward programs, and related service features; and
- support, contact, feedback, research, and communication channels.
By using our services, you acknowledge this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the services.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect the following categories of information.
A. Information You Provide to Us
- Account information, such as your name, email address, username, organization name, and profile details.
- Billing and transaction information, such as subscription plan details, billing address, transaction history, and related payment information. Payment card information may be processed directly by third-party payment providers rather than by ArtyShield.
- Communications and support information, such as emails, support tickets, bug reports, survey responses, feedback submissions, and attachments you send to us.
- Uploaded content and related metadata, such as audio files, voice samples, music tracks, media files, prompts, labels, configuration settings, file metadata, and outputs associated with detection, protection, verification, analysis, or related workflows.
- Referral, reward, and community information, if you participate in those programs.
Some uploaded audio, voice, or media content may be considered sensitive personal information under certain laws. We process that content only as reasonably necessary to provide, secure, support, and improve the requested services, unless we separately obtain your permission for another use.
B. Information We Collect Automatically
- Device and browser information, such as browser type, operating system, device identifiers, language settings, and approximate location inferred from IP address.
- Network and log information, such as IP address, timestamps, request logs, API usage logs, error logs, authentication events, and system activity.
- Usage information, such as pages viewed, features used, interaction history, upload/download activity, model or API calls, and session activity.
- Cookie and similar technology information, used for authentication, session continuity, preferences, analytics, security, and service performance.
For VeriTune Lite browser-based scans, we may collect usage metadata such as model version, anonymous browser identifier or user account identifier, signed-in status, file size, estimated audio duration, inference time, AI/human probability scores, browser or device information, IP address, and approximate location derived from IP address. The selected MP3 file for VeriTune Lite is processed locally in your browser and is not intentionally uploaded to ArtyShield servers as part of the VeriTune Lite scan.
3. How We Use Information
We may use personal information for the following purposes:
- to provide, operate, maintain, and improve ArtyShield services;
- to create and manage accounts and authenticate users;
- to process uploads, detections, protections, verifications, analyses, downloads, API requests, and related workflows;
- to support billing, subscriptions, payment processing, fraud prevention, abuse prevention, and account administration;
- to monitor performance, troubleshoot issues, maintain service reliability, and improve product quality and safety;
- to respond to customer support requests, feedback, and communications;
- to send administrative, transactional, technical, and service-related notices;
- to investigate misuse, enforce our Terms or other policies, and protect our rights, users, platform, and infrastructure; and
- to comply with legal obligations and lawful requests.
Where applicable law requires a legal basis for processing, we process personal information based on one or more of the following legal bases: performance of a contract, our legitimate interests in operating and securing the services, compliance with legal obligations, protection of users and the platform, and your consent where consent is required.
Some service results are generated using automated processing, including AI or machine learning models. Unless we separately state otherwise, we do not use automated processing to make decisions about you that produce legal or similarly significant effects.
4. Uploaded Media, Files, and Generated Data
ArtyShield processes media, audio, voice, music, files, prompts, metadata, and related content you submit in order to provide requested service features.
For VeriTune Lite, audio selected through the browser-based tool is analyzed locally in your browser. ArtyShield may receive usage metadata about the scan, but the MP3 file itself is not intentionally uploaded to ArtyShield servers for the local VeriTune Lite scan.
Depending on the product or workflow, our systems may also generate related outputs, such as detection results, protection artifacts, verification records, audit logs, usage records, and analysis outputs.
Retention periods for uploaded content and generated data may vary depending on:
- the product workflow or account configuration;
- operational needs and service functionality;
- security, fraud-prevention, and abuse-monitoring needs;
- billing, recordkeeping, and audit needs; and
- legal and compliance obligations.
Some temporary files, intermediate processing artifacts, or cached operational data may be deleted automatically after short operational periods. Other records, such as usage logs, transaction records, support history, and security or audit records, may be retained for longer periods where reasonably necessary for service integrity, billing, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, enforcement, or compliance.
We do not use customer-uploaded media files to train generative models unless we separately obtain your permission.
5. How We Share Information
We may share information in the following circumstances:
- Service providers and vendors that support our business and services, such as providers of hosting, cloud infrastructure, storage, authentication, analytics, payment processing, communications, monitoring, and security services;
- Affiliates and corporate transaction parties, such as in connection with a merger, acquisition, financing, reorganization, sale of assets, or similar transaction; and
- Legal, regulatory, and safety-related disclosures, such as when required by law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other lawful process, or when we believe disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect rights, safety, security, or the integrity of our services.
We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration.
We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
6. Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar technologies to:
- keep users signed in and maintain session continuity;
- remember preferences and settings;
- support security, fraud prevention, and abuse detection; and
- understand service usage and performance.
You can manage cookies through your browser settings. Please note that disabling certain cookies may affect service functionality.
7. Data Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
8. Data Retention
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
- provide the services;
- maintain security and fraud-prevention controls;
- comply with legal, tax, accounting, and regulatory obligations;
- resolve disputes;
- enforce our agreements; and
- support legitimate business operations such as backups, audits, and recordkeeping.
Retention periods vary depending on the type of information, the context in which it was collected, the services involved, and applicable legal requirements.
9. Children
Our services are not directed to children under 16, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you believe a child under 16 has provided personal information to us, please contact us so that we can investigate and take appropriate action.
10. Regional Privacy Rights
Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information, subject to applicable law and verification requirements.
These rights may include the right to request access to, correction of, deletion of, or a copy of certain personal information, and to withdraw consent or opt out of certain processing activities where applicable law provides those rights.
United States Residents: If you are a resident of a U.S. state with applicable privacy rights, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, or obtain a copy of certain personal information, and to opt out of certain processing activities, subject to applicable exceptions.
We do not sell personal information for monetary consideration and do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. We will not discriminate against you for exercising privacy rights available under applicable law.
Singapore Residents: If you are located in Singapore, we process personal data in accordance with the Personal Data Protection Act 2012 ("PDPA"), including applicable rights relating to consent withdrawal, access, and correction, subject to legal and operational exceptions.
European Economic Area, United Kingdom, and Switzerland Residents: Where applicable, you may have rights to access, correct, delete, restrict, object to processing, request portability of your personal information, withdraw consent where processing is based on consent, and lodge a complaint with a data protection authority.
To exercise applicable privacy rights, please contact us using the information in the Contact Us section below and describe your request. We may take reasonable steps to verify your identity before responding, and authorized agents may be required to provide proof of authorization where permitted by law.
11. International Transfers
ArtyShield and its service providers may process and store information in the United States, Singapore, and other countries in which we or our service providers operate. Where required by applicable law, we implement appropriate safeguards for cross-border transfers of personal information, which may include contractual, technical, and organizational protections.
12. Third-Party Services
Our services may rely on third-party providers for infrastructure, hosting, payments, analytics, communications, support, authentication, and related functionality. Those providers may process personal information on our behalf subject to contractual or legal restrictions, or under their own privacy terms where they act independently.
Our websites or services may also contain links to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of third parties.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. When we do, we will post the revised version here and update the "Last Updated" date above. Your continued use of the services after an updated Privacy Policy becomes effective means you acknowledge the revised Privacy Policy.
14. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or if you would like to submit a privacy-related request, contact us at: contact@artyshield.ai