Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 4, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Thousand Beats ("Thousand Beats", "Tau Play Music", "Tau Play", "Tau", "we", "us", or "our") collects, accesses, uses, stores, shares, and protects information when you use the Thousand Beats website, Tau Play Music mobile application, Tau Messaging system, Tau Creator services, and other services operated as part of the Thousand Universal System (collectively, the "Services").

By using our Services, you acknowledge that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy.

If you do not agree with this Privacy Policy, please do not use the Services.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you use the Services, we may collect or receive different categories of information.

1.1 Account and Identification Information

When you create or manage an account, we may collect information such as:

• Email address
• Phone number
• Username
• Display name
• Account or profile identifiers
• Profile type
• Profile photograph or account image
• Country, city, or other profile information you choose to provide
• Login and authentication information
• Account preferences and settings
• Information necessary to maintain your account and sessions

A single Thousand Universal account may support multiple profiles or profile types. These profiles may share certain account-level information, including your account identification, username, email address, phone number, wallet and payment relationship, as applicable.

We use this information to create and manage your account, authenticate you, provide the Services, synchronize your account across supported devices, and maintain account security.

2. Music, Audio, Media and Device Storage

Tau Play Music provides music streaming, playback, downloads, playlists and offline listening functionality.

Depending on the features you use and the permissions granted on your device, the application may access:

• Audio files
• Music files
• Media library information
• Files selected for upload or download
• Locally stored downloaded music
• Device storage required for application functionality

We may use technologies and libraries such as Expo Audio, Expo File System, and Expo Media Library, or equivalent technologies, to provide audio playback, downloads, offline playback and media-related functionality.

Local-only processing

Some audio or media information may be accessed and processed directly on your device without being transmitted to our servers.

For example, a downloaded song stored on your device may be accessed by the application for offline playback.

Where information remains entirely on your device and is not transmitted to us or a third party, we do not treat that information as information collected by our servers.

You control the permissions granted to the application through your device settings.

3. Music Downloads and Copyrighted Content

Some music may be available for streaming or offline playback only after you create an account or obtain an appropriate subscription or entitlement.

Free downloadable content may be limited to content for which downloading is permitted, including content made available without applicable copyright or digital-rights restrictions.

Artist and creator content may be subject to copyright, licensing, ownership and distribution restrictions.

Users must not upload, distribute, or make available music or other media that they do not have the legal right or authorization to publish.

We may remove content, restrict access, suspend accounts, or terminate accounts where we reasonably believe that content violates copyright, applicable law, our Terms of Service, community standards, or the rights of another person.

4. Advertising and Advertising-Related Data

Thousand Beats may display advertisements to users of free or eligible account tiers.

We may use third-party advertising providers, including Google AdMob, to display advertisements within the application.

Although Thousand Beats does not sell your personal information to advertisers, third-party advertising providers may independently collect or receive certain information through their SDKs and advertising technologies.

Depending on the device, operating system, advertising configuration, consent status, and applicable law, advertising technologies may process information such as:

• Advertising ID or other device identifiers
• IP address
• Device information
• Application information
• Advertising interaction information
• Approximate geographic information derived from technical information
• Diagnostic or performance information
• Information relating to advertisements displayed or interacted with

These technologies may be used for purposes including:

• Serving advertisements
• Measuring advertising performance
• Limiting or controlling advertising frequency
• Fraud prevention and security
• Detecting invalid advertising activity
• Improving advertising services
• Personalizing advertising where permitted and applicable

The collection and use of information by third-party advertising providers is also governed by their respective privacy policies and practices.

Where required, we or our advertising partners will provide applicable consent or privacy controls.

Premium and higher-tier accounts

Certain paid tiers may provide an advertising-free experience or additional features.

The availability of advertising-free functionality depends on the subscription or account tier applicable to your account.

5. We Do Not Sell Your Personal Information

We do not sell, rent, or trade your personal information as a standalone commercial product.

However, certain third-party service providers may process information on our behalf or independently as part of providing services such as:

• Advertising
• Payment processing
• Authentication
• Cloud infrastructure
• Analytics
• Application performance monitoring
• Security and fraud prevention
• Messaging
• Media and file storage
• Notifications

Some of these providers may qualify as recipients or third parties under applicable privacy and data-protection laws.

Where required, our Data Safety disclosures and privacy controls identify applicable data practices.

6. Messaging, Comments and Social Interactions

Tau Play Music may provide messaging, commenting and social-interaction functionality through the Tau Messaging system.

Depending on the features you use, we may process:

• Direct messages
• Message content
• Comments
• Replies
• Reactions
• Likes
• Profile interactions
• Social connections
• Artist and creator interactions
• Information associated with conversations
• User-generated content

This information is used to deliver messaging and social features, maintain conversations, provide notifications, enforce community standards, prevent abuse, and protect users.

Privacy of communications

Users must not attempt to access another person's account, private messages, private profile information, or communications without authorization.

We may access or process communications and related information where reasonably necessary to:

• Operate the messaging service
• Investigate abuse or reported violations
• Enforce our Terms of Service and Community Standards
• Protect users and the platform
• Prevent fraud, harassment, exploitation, or other prohibited activity
• Comply with applicable legal obligations

7. User Profiles and Public Information

Users may create different types of profiles within the Thousand Universal System.

Depending on the profile and features selected, users may provide information such as:

• Username
• Display name
• Profile photograph
• Biography
• Artist information
• Creator information
• Music-related information
• Social posts
• Comments
• Public profile information
• Other information voluntarily published by the user

Information that you intentionally publish publicly may be visible to other users or visitors.

You should not publish information that you do not want other people to see.

8. Artist and Creator Accounts

Artist and Creator profiles may allow users to upload music, media, social content or other materials.

Before an Artist profile can upload certain content, the profile may be subject to manual approval or moderation.

We may process information associated with Artist and Creator accounts, including:

• Artist or creator profile information
• Uploaded music and media
• Metadata associated with uploaded content
• Copyright or ownership information
• Content moderation information
• Streaming and engagement information
• Earnings and royalty-related information
• Withdrawal information

We may review uploaded content for compliance with our policies, copyright requirements, community standards, security requirements, and applicable law.

9. Recommendations and Personalization

Tau Play Music may recommend songs, artists, creators, news, posts or other content based on your interactions with the Services.

Depending on the features available, personalization may use information such as:

• Songs you listen to
• Artists you follow
• Favorites
• Playlists
• Likes
• Comments
• Searches
• Content interactions
• Profile interactions
• Subscription or account tier
• Other interactions with the Services

This information may be used to improve recommendations and personalize your experience.

10. Notifications and Communications

We may send service-related communications through email, push notifications, in-app notifications, or other supported communication methods.

These may include:

• Account and security notifications
• Password or authentication communications
• Transaction notifications
• Wallet notifications
• Subscription notifications
• Important service announcements
• Messages and social notifications
• Artist or creator notifications

Optional artist-release notifications

If you voluntarily enable a notification preference such as receiving notifications when a favorite artist releases new music, we may use your registered contact information or supported notification channel to send those communications.

You may disable optional promotional or artist-release notifications through the applicable account settings where available.

11. Wallet, Tau Coins and Financial Information

Tau Play Music may provide a wallet system using Tau Coins or other in-platform credits.

Depending on your activities, we may process information relating to:

• Wallet balance
• Coin purchases
• Coin deposits
• Coin usage
• Subscription payments
• Purchase history
• Referral rewards
• Likes or engagement rewards
• Creator or Artist earnings
• Transaction records
• Withdrawal requests
• Payout status
• Currency and transaction amounts
• Bank or payout information supplied for withdrawals

Wallet information may be used to:

• Process transactions
• Credit or debit your wallet
• Maintain transaction records
• Calculate rewards
• Process subscriptions
• Process eligible creator or Artist earnings
• Process withdrawals
• Detect fraud
• Resolve payment disputes
• Maintain financial records

12. Payment Processing

When you purchase Tau Coins, subscriptions, premium features, or other paid services, payment processing may be performed by third-party payment providers.

Depending on the payment method and provider, the payment provider may process information such as:

• Name
• Email address
• Payment information
• Card or payment-token information
• Transaction amount
• Currency
• Payment reference
• Transaction status
• Fraud-prevention information

Where payment information is processed directly by a third-party payment provider, we may not receive or store your complete card number or other sensitive payment credentials.

Payment providers process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

13. Artist and Creator Withdrawals

Verified Artists and Creators may be eligible to withdraw qualifying earnings.

To process a withdrawal, we may require information such as:

• Account identification
• Legal or account name
• Bank or payout information
• Payment destination
• Withdrawal amount
• Currency
• Transaction reference
• Verification information where required

The name associated with your payout account may need to correspond with the identity or account information required for verification.

We may place a withdrawal on hold where necessary for security, fraud prevention, verification, compliance, payment-provider requirements, or investigation of suspicious activity.

Withdrawal processing times may vary depending on the payment method, destination country, banking institution, payment provider, verification requirements, weekends, holidays, and other circumstances.

We do not currently represent that cryptocurrency withdrawals are supported.

14. Referral and Reward Programs

Tau Play Music may provide referral or reward programs.

Where you participate, we may process information necessary to:

• Identify the referring account
• Identify the referred account
• Attribute eligible referrals
• Calculate rewards
• Detect fraudulent or duplicate referrals
• Maintain reward records
• Credit eligible rewards to your wallet

We may refuse, reverse, suspend, or investigate rewards where we reasonably believe that a referral or reward activity is fraudulent, abusive, manipulated, duplicated, or otherwise violates our rules.

15. Advertising ID and Device Identifiers

The Android version of the application may use the Android Advertising ID or other permitted device/app identifiers through advertising or other third-party SDKs.

Google Play classifies an Advertising ID as a Device or other ID data type.

These identifiers may be used by applicable SDK providers for purposes such as:

• Advertising
• Advertising measurement
• Fraud prevention
• Security
• Frequency management
• Service functionality
• Diagnostics or performance, where applicable

We do not intentionally use persistent device identifiers for purposes prohibited by applicable Google Play policies.

Device and advertising identifiers may be reset or restricted through Android or device-level controls, subject to the capabilities provided by the operating system.

16. Application Diagnostics and Performance Information

We may collect or receive technical information necessary to maintain and improve the Services.

Depending on the technologies installed in the application, this may include:

• Crash logs
• Error reports
• Diagnostic information
• Device model
• Operating-system version
• Application version
• Performance information
• Network-related technical information
• IP address
• Installation or application identifiers
• Other technical information necessary for security and troubleshooting

We may use this information to:

• Diagnose crashes
• Improve application performance
• Detect technical problems
• Maintain reliability
• Protect the Services
• Detect abuse or fraudulent activity
• Improve security

17. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website and supported services may use cookies, local storage, SDKs, pixels, or similar technologies.

These technologies may be used for:

• Authentication
• Session management
• Preferences
• Security
• Analytics
• Performance
• Advertising
• Personalization
• Fraud prevention

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

Disabling certain cookies may affect the functionality of portions of the website.

18. Information We Receive From Third Parties

We may receive information from third-party services that you use to access or interact with Thousand Beats.

These services may include:

• Authentication providers
• Payment providers
• Advertising providers
• Analytics providers
• Cloud infrastructure providers
• Messaging providers
• App stores
• Security and fraud-prevention services

The information received depends on the service and the permissions or choices applicable to your interaction with that service.

19. How We Use Information

We may use information we collect or receive for the following purposes:

Providing the Services

• Create and manage accounts
• Authenticate users
• Provide music streaming
• Provide downloads and offline playback
• Provide playlists and favorites
• Provide messaging
• Provide profiles
• Provide social functionality
• Provide Artist and Creator services

Personalization

• Recommend music
• Recommend artists and creators
• Personalize content
• Remember preferences
• Improve your experience

Payments and Wallets

• Process purchases
• Process subscriptions
• Manage Tau Coins
• Manage rewards
• Process withdrawals
• Maintain transaction records

Security

• Prevent fraud
• Detect abuse
• Protect accounts
• Investigate suspicious activity
• Enforce platform rules
• Protect users and the Services

Communications

• Send important service notifications
• Send transaction notifications
• Send security communications
• Send optional notifications you have requested

Advertising

• Display advertisements
• Measure advertising performance
• Prevent advertising fraud
• Manage advertising frequency
• Provide personalized advertising where permitted

Legal and Compliance

We may process information where necessary to comply with applicable laws, regulations, lawful requests, legal proceedings, or legitimate legal obligations.

20. How We Share Information

We may share or disclose information in limited circumstances.

Service Providers

We may use third-party service providers to operate our Services, including providers for:

• Cloud hosting
• Database services
• Authentication
• Payment processing
• Advertising
• Analytics
• Messaging
• Media storage
• Security
• Notifications
• Application performance monitoring

These providers may process information necessary to perform the services they provide.

Legal Requirements

We may disclose information where reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law
• Respond to lawful governmental requests
• Respond to court orders or legal proceedings
• Protect our rights
• Protect users
• Investigate fraud
• Prevent security threats
• Enforce our Terms of Service

Business Transactions

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

21. Publicly Shared Information

Information you intentionally make public may be accessible to other users and potentially to visitors outside your account.

Examples may include:

• Public username
• Artist profile
• Creator profile
• Public biography
• Public posts
• Public comments
• Public music
• Public playlists
• Public profile image
• Public interactions

Do not publish passwords, payment credentials, private banking information, government identification numbers, or other sensitive information in public areas.

22. User-Generated Content and Community Safety

Users may upload or create music, comments, posts, profiles, messages and other content.

We may moderate user-generated content to protect users and maintain the integrity of the Services.

Prohibited content may include, among other things:

• Adult or sexually explicit content
• Nudity where prohibited by our rules
• Copyright-infringing content
• Fraudulent content
• Harassment
• Threats
• Abuse
• Illegal content
• Malicious content
• Content that violates another person's privacy
• Content that violates applicable law

We may remove content or restrict accounts when necessary.

Where the Services support reporting and blocking functionality, users should use those tools to report prohibited content or unwanted interactions.

23. Account Security

You are responsible for maintaining the security of your account credentials and devices.

We recommend that you:

• Use a strong password
• Do not share authentication credentials
• Do not allow unauthorized people to access your account
• Keep your device and application updated
• Report suspicious activity promptly

We take reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect information against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, loss, or destruction.

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

24. Data Retention

We retain information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing the Services, maintaining account records, preventing fraud, resolving disputes, enforcing agreements, complying with legal obligations, and maintaining financial or transaction records where required.

Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information.

For example:

• Account information may be retained while your account remains active.
• Transaction and payment records may be retained for accounting, fraud prevention, dispute resolution, tax, regulatory, or legal purposes.
• Security and diagnostic records may be retained for a reasonable period necessary to protect and maintain the Services.
• User-generated content may be retained according to its purpose and account status.
• Certain information may remain in secure backups for a limited period after deletion while backups expire or are securely overwritten.

Where applicable law requires certain information to be retained, we may retain that information for the required period even after an account deletion request.

25. Account Deletion and Data Deletion

You may request deletion of your Thousand Beats account and associated personal data.

In-app deletion

The application should provide an account deletion option within the account or privacy settings.

Follow the account deletion instructions available inside the application.

Web deletion request

You may also request account and data deletion through our external deletion page:

https://thousandbeats.com/delete-account

The deletion page should identify the Thousand Beats/Tau Play Music service and provide instructions for submitting a deletion request.

You may also contact our Privacy Team:

privacy@thousandbeats.com

When we receive a valid deletion request, we will process the request in accordance with applicable law and our retention obligations.

Account deletion may result in the loss of:

• Profile information
• Favorites
• Playlists
• Messages
• Social interactions
• User-generated content
• Account history
• Subscription access
• Wallet access
• Rewards
• Other account-associated information

Information that may be retained

Certain information may need to be retained where required or permitted by law, including information necessary for:

• Fraud prevention
• Security
• Financial/accounting obligations
• Tax requirements
• Legal claims
• Dispute resolution
• Compliance with legal obligations

Where retention is required, the retained information will be limited to the applicable purpose and retained only for the required period.

Google Play requires account-creation apps to provide both an in-app account deletion path and an external web resource for deletion requests.

26. Children's Privacy

Tau Play Music is intended for users who meet the minimum age requirements applicable to the Services and the laws of their jurisdiction.

The application is currently configured in Google Play as targeting users 13 years of age and older.

We do not knowingly request or intentionally collect personal information from children where doing so would violate applicable law.

If you believe that a child has provided personal information to us in circumstances where such collection is not permitted, please contact our Privacy Team.

27. International Data Processing

Depending on the location of our users and our service providers, information may be processed or stored in countries other than the country in which you live.

Where required by applicable law, we will use appropriate safeguards for international transfers and processing of personal information.

28. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on your country or jurisdiction, you may have rights concerning your personal information, including the right to:

• Request access to personal information
• Request correction of inaccurate information
• Request deletion
• Request restriction of processing
• Object to certain processing
• Request portability of certain information
• Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
• Request information about how your information is processed

Some rights are subject to legal exceptions and limitations.

To exercise applicable rights, contact:

privacy@thousandbeats.com

We may need to verify your identity before processing certain requests in order to protect your account and information.

29. Advertising and Privacy Choices

Advertising practices may vary depending on your country, device, operating system, advertising settings, consent status, and the advertising providers used by the application.

You may have controls through:

• Your Android device settings
• Google advertising/privacy settings
• Applicable consent mechanisms
• In-app privacy settings, where available
• Your browser settings for web services

Changing advertising preferences may not remove all advertisements from the free version of Tau Play Music.

30. Third-Party Services and Links

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

We are not responsible for the privacy practices, security, content, or policies of third-party services that we do not control.

We encourage you to review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing information to that service.

Third-party SDKs integrated into the application may also independently process information according to their own terms and privacy policies.

31. 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 at the top of this policy.

Where required by law, we may provide additional notice or request consent before implementing material changes.

We encourage you to periodically review this Privacy Policy.

32. Contact Our Privacy Team

If you have questions, concerns, requests, or complaints regarding this Privacy Policy or the handling of your personal information, contact us at:

Privacy Support Email:
privacy@thousandbeats.com

Account and Data Deletion

You may request account and associated data deletion through:

https://thousandbeats.com/delete-account

Please ensure that the deletion page remains publicly accessible and does not require the user to reinstall the application.

33. Summary of Our Privacy Practices

For convenience, the principal categories of information that may be processed through Tau Play Music include:

This table is a summary and does not replace the detailed provisions of this Privacy Policy.

Effective Date: October 4, 2026
Service: Tau Play Music / Thousand Beats
Privacy Contact: privacy@thousandbeats.com
Account Deletion: https://thousandbeats.com/delete-account