What we collect
- Account: email, display name, language, plan.
- Your audio: the takes you record, beats you upload, and the masters we produce — this is the product itself.
- Transactions: credit wallet history and receipts. Card details go directly to Stripe — we never see or store them.
- Support: messages you send us in the portal.
- Technical basics: approximate country (for the studio dashboard) and the minimum logs needed to run and secure the service. No advertising trackers.
Why (legal bases)
- To deliver the service you signed up for — record, mix, master, deliver (contract).
- To process payments and keep required accounting records (contract & legal obligation).
- To send transactional emails — sign-in links, master ready, credits added, support replies (contract). Marketing emails only with your consent, and you can unsubscribe anytime.
- To keep the platform safe — abuse prevention, rate limiting (legitimate interest).
Who processes it for us
- Supabase (EU region) — database, accounts, audio storage
- Stripe — payments and billing
- Brevo — transactional and (with consent) marketing email
- Zoho Mail (EU datacenter) — our mailboxes
- Cloudflare — hosting, DNS and delivery
We don't sell your data. Ever.
Your audio, specifically
- Recordings and masters are stored so you can access them in your portal, and are processed only to produce your track.
- Custom reference tracks (Pro) are used for your master only and deleted right after the job.
- We never use your music for anything else without asking you first.
Retention
Finished masters live as long as your account does. Raw session inputs — your uploaded beat, raw takes and the phone mixdown — are kept for 30 days after each master (so support can re-run it), then deleted automatically. Account and wallet live as long as your account does. If you delete your account, personal data is removed or anonymised, except records we must keep by law (e.g. invoicing). Support conversations are auto-deleted shortly after a ticket is resolved.
Your rights (GDPR)
Access, rectify, erase, restrict, object, and take your data with you (portability). Write to hello@fortes.studio and we'll act promptly. You can also complain to a supervisory authority — in Luxembourg, the CNPD (cnpd.lu).
Cookies & local storage
We use no advertising cookies. Your browser's local storage keeps app essentials only — your session, language and studio settings (like mic timing) — on your device.
Changes
If this policy changes materially, we'll tell you in the portal. Questions: hello@fortes.studio.
