Privacy

Music Friends (musicfriends.app) is run by Happy Studios Pty Limited, Level 1, 325 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia (“we”, “us”). This policy explains what we collect when you use it and what we do with it. We handle personal information under the Australian Privacy Principles.

What we collect

• Your account: your email address and name, and your password if you sign up with email (stored scrambled, never readable). If you sign in with Google, Google tells us your name and email address.
• What you tell us: your answers when you start (like how much time you have), the releases you plan, and for a campaign, your artist and release details, your answers and the files you send us.
• Payments: you pay by card through Stripe. We see that you paid and how much, never your card number.
• Music Friends Charts: songs sent to Happy Mag through Submit, with the artist name, song title, link, country and Instagram handle given there. When you’re signed in and play a song for 20 seconds, we count it as a listen.
• Campaign results: the reach, times seen and clicks of a campaign’s parts, from the services we use to run it.
• How the site is used: Google Analytics counts our visits: the pages opened, roughly where from (to the city), the device and browser, and how people found us.
• Our ads: Meta’s pixel tells Meta (Facebook and Instagram) when our public pages are opened and when someone starts a checkout, and when a campaign is paid for we tell Meta the purchase, with the email address, name and country scrambled (hashed), so our ads reach people who’ll want them. It never runs inside your account or on a campaign’s page.
• The basics of every visit: our hosting keeps standard logs, and a bot check from Cloudflare protects sign up.

What we use it for

To run your account, plan your releases, run and report on your campaigns, keep the charts, email you about all of that, and keep Music Friends safe. We don’t sell your information.

Cookies

We set one cookie to keep you signed in, and Google Analytics sets its own to count visits, telling one visit from the next. Meta’s pixel sets its own advertising cookies on our public pages, so Meta can tell which of our ads brought you here. When you play a song, its own player (Spotify, YouTube or SoundCloud) loads and may set its own cookies under its own policy.

Who else handles it

The services that run Music Friends for us: Cloudflare (hosting and security), Neon (our database), Amazon Web Services and Google (sending email), Stripe (payments), Google (sign in, and Google Analytics for counting visits), and Meta (our ads on Facebook and Instagram). Some of them store information outside Australia.

Emails

We email you about your account and your campaigns. You can ask us to stop at any time and we will.

Your information, your call

You can ask to see, correct or delete what we hold about you. Reply to any email we’ve sent you, or write to us at Happy Studios Pty Limited, Level 1, 325 King St, Newtown NSW 2042, Australia.

Last updated 29 October 2026.