At Base for Music, protecting your personal data is a priority. Base for Music allows you to stay informed about news related to your favorite artists. When you use our tool, we may collect personal data relating to you. The purpose of this policy is to inform you about how we process this data in compliance with Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of April 27, 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data (hereinafter the “GDPR”).
The data controller is the company Base for Music, a simplified joint-stock company (SAS), registered with the Paris Trade and Companies Register under number 851 675 173, with its registered office located at 17 rue Bouchardon, 75010 Paris (hereinafter “We”).
Personal data refers to any data that allows an individual to be identified, directly or indirectly, by cross-referencing with other data.
We collect the following data concerning you:
Data collected directly from you:
Data collected indirectly via your music platform:
Data collected indirectly via technologies:
We do not use cookies. However, we may store, access, or collect information using similar technologies that perform equivalent functions.
To provide you with our services available through our tool (keeping you informed about news related to your favorite artists);
To create a user database;
To send newsletters, solicitations, and promotional messages;
To comply with legal obligations applicable to our activity;
To produce statistics in order to improve the user experience;
To develop music consumption analyses in order to improve our service offerings for our business partners;
To respond to your information requests and manage the exercise of your rights.
Performance of the contract entered into with Us to provide our services;
Our legitimate interest in developing and promoting our business;
Our legitimate interest in retaining and informing our clients about our latest news;
Our legitimate interest in responding to your requests;
Compliance with our legal and regulatory obligations;
Your consent.
Your email address is retained until you unsubscribe from news related to your favorite artists.
Data collected via your music platform is retained until you remove our tool’s access to the platform.
Collected data may be aggregated and irreversibly anonymized. In such cases, we may retain this data beyond the above periods.
The following parties may have access to your personal data:
(i) Our company’s staff;
(ii) Our data processors, including hosting providers, newsletter distribution providers, e-commerce/CRM providers, data visualization tools, and audience measurement providers;
(iii) Our business partners, if you have given your consent to the transfer of your data. These partners include:
(iv) Where applicable, public or private bodies, exclusively to comply with our legal obligations.
Your data is stored and hosted throughout the duration of processing on the servers of IONOS by 1&1, located within the European Union.
As part of the tools we use (see the section on recipients regarding our data processors), your data may be transferred outside the European Union. Such transfers are secured through the following mechanisms:
Either the data is transferred to a country that is the subject of an adequacy decision by the European Commission pursuant to Article 45 of the GDPR, ensuring an adequate level of protection;
Or the data is transferred to a country whose level of data protection has not been recognized as adequate under the GDPR, in which case the transfer is based on appropriate safeguards referred to in Article 46 of the GDPR, including but not limited to standard contractual clauses approved by the European Commission, binding corporate rules, or an approved certification mechanism;
Or the data is transferred based on one of the appropriate safeguards described in Chapter V of the GDPR.
You have the following rights regarding your personal data:
Right to information (Articles 13 and 14 GDPR);
Right of access (Article 15 GDPR);
Right to rectification (Article 16 GDPR);
Right to restriction of processing (Article 18 GDPR);
Right to erasure (Article 17 GDPR);
Right to lodge a complaint with a competent supervisory authority (in France, the CNIL) if you consider that the processing of your personal data violates applicable laws (Article 77 GDPR);
Right to define instructions regarding the retention, erasure, and disclosure of your personal data after your death;
Right to withdraw your consent at any time for processing based on consent (Article 7 GDPR);
Right to data portability (Article 20 GDPR);
Right to object to the processing of your personal data (Article 21 GDPR), subject to legitimate grounds or legal defense needs.
You may exercise these rights by contacting us at the details below. We may ask you to provide additional information or documents to verify your identity.
Contact email: team@baseformusic.fr
Contact address: 17 rue Bouchardon, 75010 Paris, France
We may modify this policy at any time, particularly to comply with regulatory, case law, editorial, or technical developments. These changes will apply as of the effective date of the revised version. You are therefore encouraged to regularly review the latest version of this policy. However, we will inform you of any significant changes to this privacy policy.