Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us at Rythmeet. We respect your privacy regarding information we may collect from you across our website.

Privacy Policy

Last Updated: March 7, 2025

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to describe how Rythmeet, Inc. (“we”, “us”) collects, uses, stores and shares information about you through our online interfaces owned and controlled by us, including https://www.Rythmeet.com/ (referred to as the "Website"). Please read this notice carefully. If you do not understand any aspects of our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at compliance@rythmeet.com. Your use of the Website is also governed by Terms of use.

Note that we may change the privacy policy occasionally as we improve our services. The most current version of the Privacy Policy is always available on our Website.

Contact information

Rythmeet, Inc
4545 Center Boulevard, Apartment 3905
11109, Long Island City, NY, USA
Compliance@rythmeet.com
GDPR representative:
Van Diepen Van der Kroef Advocaten
Mr. Stephan Mulders
Dijsselhofplantsoen 16-18
1077 BL Amsterdam, the Netherlands
s.mulders@vandiepen.com


  1. Information We Collect

When you sign up or create a profile: We require some information to provide you with an account.

When, why and how we process data: 

  • Account management
  • Customer support
  • Communication
  • Profile visibility
  • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations
  • To operate the website and services
  • To create usage statistics

What data is processed: 

Sign up

  • First and last name*
  • Birthdate*
  • Country of residence*
  • E-mail*
  • Password*
  • Code from referral

*=required

Personal information

  • Gender
  • Profile picture

Musician profile

  • Artist name*
  • Overall level*
  • Location*
  • Music genres played
  • Instrument played and level
  • Type and level of vocalist
  • Live performances
  • Artist activities and rates
  • Languages
  • Recordings
  • Gender*
  • Experience and description*
  • Pictures*, video- and music links

*=required

Band profile

  • Band name*
  • Location*
  • Number of members*
  • Instruments played in the band
  • Music genres
  • Overall level of the band*
  • Languages spoken
  • Band activities
  • Live performances
  • Rates
  • Vacancies
  • Experience and description*
  • Pictures*, video- and music links

*=required

Teacher profile

  • Teacher name*
  • Location*
  • Gender
  • Music genres taught
  • Instruments taught & level
  • Vocalism taught & level
  • Individual / group class
  • Rates*
  • Languages spoken
  • Time availability
  • Availability for in-home lessons
  • Experience and description*
  • Pictures*, video- and music links
  • URL of other websites

*=required

Listing for a place**

  • Place type*
  • Area
  • Key features
  • Amenities
  • Price*
  • For rent/hiring
  • Address*
  • Owner type*
  • Max nbr of guests*
  • Max nbr of artists*
  • Dates and time of availability
  • Name of the place*
  • URL of other websites
  • Description*
  • Pictures*

*=required

** this data is only personal data if it relates to an identifiable natural person

Listing for marketplace

  • Marketplace category*
  • Instrument/Equipment title*
  • Type*
  • Brand
  • Model
  • Number of strings
  • Handcrafted by luthier
  • Color
  • Price*
  • Seller type*
  • Available for sale or for rent*
  • Address*
  • State of instrument/equipment*
  • Possibility to ship
  • Special price for Rythmeet
  • Description*
  • URL of other websites
  • Description
  • Pictures* and videos

*=required

** this data is only personal data if it relates to an identifiable natural person

Legal grounds:

  • Performance of a contract: This information is necessary for us to provide the Services or take steps at your request to provide the services.
  • Consent: If you provide more information than required in your profile you give consent for processing this data.
  • In so far as we process data to comply with legal rights and obligations, we do that to comply with said legal obligation
  • Legitimate interest: We have a commercial interest in providing a well-functioning platform and our services including generate usage statistics. Our other users have an interest in seeing other users and the general health of our platform. Given that you provide the information voluntarily and that the information is not sensitive, we believe that your interests do not override our interests

Retention period:

We save the data:

  • Until you delete the information in your account
  • Until you delete the account / profile
  • Until Rythmeet deletes the account or information
  • Five years after the last sign in

(whichever moment comes earlier)

When you use the website: Some information may be generated during the use of the website.

When, why and how we process data:

  • Customer support
  • Communication
  • Profile Visibility
  • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations
  • To operate the website and services
  • To create usage statistics

What data is processed:

Profile information: Information you post such as messages, likes, posts and reactions

Legal grounds:

  • Performance of a contract. This information is necessary for us to provide the Services or take steps at your request to provide the services.
  • In so far as we process data to comply with legal rights and obligations, we do that to comply with said legal obligation
  • Legitimate interest: We have a commercial interest in providing a well-functioning platform and our services including generate usage statistics. Our other users have an interest in seeing other users and the general health of our platform. Given that you provide the information voluntarily and that the information is not sensitive, we believe that your interests do not override our interests

Retention period:

  • Public information is stored until it is deleted.
  • Private messages are stored until deleted by all recipients or until all recipients’ accounts are deleted

When you contact us: When you ask us for support or contact us.

When, why and how we process data:

  • To process your request
  • To train our staff
  • To generate usage statistics
  • To demonstrate compliance

What data is processed:

  • Name
  • Email address
  • Reason for contacting
  • Message

Legal grounds:

  • Performance of a contract. This information is necessary for us to answer your questions or provide further services.
  • In so far as we process data to comply with legal rights and obligations, we do that to comply with said legal obligation
  • Legitimate interest: We have a commercial interest in communicating, to train our staff, generate usage statistics to properly allocate our resources, and to save information to demonstrate compliance Given that you provide the information voluntarily and that the information is not sensitive, we believe that your interests do not override our interests

Retention period:

  • Five years after the latest communication with a person

When you subscribe to our newsletter: We use some personal data if you subscribe to our newsletter.

When, why and how we process data:

  • To send you the newsletter with offers, services, and other commercial messages that may be of your interest

What data is processed:

  • e-mail address
  • Usage information (whether the email is opened and read)

Legal grounds:

  • Consent: By registering for the newsletter, you give us consent to use your email address

Retention period:

  • Until you unsubscribe
  • Until we clarify the situation and/or delete your account for security purposes or because you did not respect the terms and conditions of our website

When you report someone or someone reports you

When, why and how we process data:

  • In case you report someone or someone reports you
  • To process the report and act on it
  • To demonstrate compliance

What data is processed:

  • Your listings
  • Your profile information
  • Messages in your chats

Legal grounds:

  • Legitimate interest: Rythmeet as a platform has a legitimate interest to ensure compliance with our terms and to create a culture of respect on the platform. Also, we may be under legal obligation to investigate community reports. Furthermore, we also protect the interests of the people who are affected by your posts or behavior on the platform.
  • Legal obligation: we may be under a legal obligation to act on the report.

  1. How We Use Your Information

We may use your information for the following purposes, as specified in the text above:

  • Account Management: For you to create and manage your user account, profiles and listings.
  • Communication: To communicate with you about your account, giveaways results, newsletters, platform updates or answer your questions.
  • Profile Visibility: To enable other users to find your profiles or listings, book a place and contact you through the chat feature.
  • Customer Support: To provide customer support and respond to your inquiries.
  • Analytics: To analyze usage and improve our services.
  • Exercise, enforce, and comply with legal rights and obligations: This includes responding to subpoenas, court orders, or other legal process; and investigating, preventing, or taking action regarding illegal activities, suspected fraud, security or technical issues, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Rythmeet, or others, and as otherwise required by applicable law.
  • Operate the website and services: This includes allowing you to search for profiles or listings in your area according to various criteria, communicate with other users
  • To train our staff: Providing expert-level customer support requires expert-level training. Therefore, we may use real world cases to provide feedback for our staff
  • To send the newsletter: If you subscribe to our newsletter, we will use your e-mail address to send the letter

  1. Data Retention

We will retain your personal information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which we collected it, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal or reporting requirements. You can find more information about specific retention periods in the text above.


  1. Data Sharing and Disclosure

We will never sell your personal data. We may share your information with third parties in the following situations:

  • With Other Users: If you create a profile or a listing or use the platform, your provided information may be visible to other users of the platform.
  • With our processors: We need several parties to provide our services. We require third parties to: (i) enter into contractual agreements to abide by this Privacy Policy and applicable law; (ii) handle Personal Information in a confidential manner and maintain adequate security; and (iii) use Personal Information only as needed to fulfill the relevant purpose(s). These processors are:
  • Legal Compliance: We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency). We will inform you of such disclosure, unless that is forbidden.
  • Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or system transfer from Bubble.io to another system, your personal data may be transferred.
  • With other Website users in order to create an interactive environment and support the development of music-based communities: We may share your publicly visible account information with other Website users in our newsletters and in our giveaway section of the website.

  1. How to manage your personal information

You can manage your Personal Information through the Website or by request to Us. We will provide support to the extent required by applicable law (for example, users in the EU) and more broadly when possible, as a courtesy in our sole discretion.

Access and correct your Personal Information

Much of your Personal Information is available in your account on the Website. Your email address, name, musical interests, images, links to videos and soundtracks, and other identifiable profile information are editable through the profile settings in your account except as noted below. Please contact Us for support accessing and updating this or other information.

Exceptions:

We do not track or index every time or every place on the Website where or when a user may voluntarily share Personal Information, so We may not be able to help you locate or manage all such instances. We encourage you to use discretion before volunteering Personal Information on the Website.

Delete account and Personal Information

You can delete part or totally your Website account and Personal Information, through your profile on the website, or by sending us an email requesting deletion or cancellation.

With respect to your Website account, We will permanently:

  • deactivate your account,
  • remove the active profiles,
  • remove you from Our email lists.

Note that usage information, such as public reactions and public and private messages, are not permanently deleted if you delete your account. Such information is needed to maintain the integrity of online discussions and the platform. You may manually delete your own private reactions and public messages. However, private messages are not deleted unless all recipients delete them.

We will retain and use Personal Information to comply with its legal obligations, resolve disputes, enforce its agreements, and as otherwise permitted by applicable law.


  1. Your Rights

You have certain rights in relation to your Personal Information. You can access your Personal Information provided in your profile and confirm that it remains correct and up-to-date or choose whether or not you wish to receive material from us by visiting the Website and logging into your user account. We strongly encourage you to do this, as it is the fastest way to enforce your rights.

When our data processing is based on consent, you can always withdraw consent. The withdrawal process depends on the way the consent was given:

  • If you provided non-required information on your profile, you may always delete this information in your profile
  • If you subscribe to our newsletter, you can unsubscribe
  • If you posted public information, you may delete this information

If you would like further information in relation to your rights or would like to exercise any of them, you may also contact us via support@Rythmeet.com. If you reside or are located in the European Union ("EU"), you also have the right to request that we:

  • Provide access to any Personal Information we hold about you
  • Prevent the processing of your Personal Information for direct-marketing purposes
  • Update any Personal Information which is out of date or incorrect
  • Delete any Personal Information which we are holding about you
  • Restrict the way that we process your Personal Information
  • Provide your Personal Information to a third-party provider of services
  • Provide you with a copy of any Personal Information which we hold about you

We try to answer every email promptly where possible and provide our response within the time period stated by applicable law. Keep in mind, however, that there will be residual information that will remain within our databases, access logs and other records, which may or may not contain your Personal Information. Please also note that certain Personal Information or requests may be exempt from such requests in certain circumstances, which may include if we need to keep processing your Personal Information to comply with a legal obligation.

When you contact us with a request, we may ask that you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity.

You have the right to file a complaint with your local data protection authority. Contact details may be found here: https://www.edpb.europa.eu/about-edpb/about-edpb/members_en


  1. Data Transfers

If you are located in the EU, We transfer your data outside the EEA, more specifically, to the USA. These transfers are based on the adequacy decision for organizations participating in the EU-US Data Privacy Framework


  1. Automated decision making

We do not use automated decision-making


  1. Cookies

We do not use cookies or similar techniques


  1. Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

STORAGE & SECURITY

We utilize reasonable administrative, physical, and technical safeguards that attempt to reasonably and appropriately protect the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of the information that it collects, receives, stores, or transmits. However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or electronic storage is 100% secure; and therefore, We cannot guarantee its absolute security. While We work hard to ensure the integrity and security of its network and systems, We cannot guarantee that its security measures will prevent "hackers" or other unauthorized people from illegally accessing or obtaining information.

SECURITY BREACH NOTIFICATIONS

If We learn of a security breach affecting your Personal Information, We may attempt to notify you electronically so that you may take appropriate protective steps. By using the Website or providing Personal Information to Us, you agree that We can communicate with you electronically regarding security, privacy, and administrative issues relating to your use of the Website. If a security system breach occurs, We may post a notice on the Website's homepage (www.Rythmeet.com) or elsewhere on the Website and may send an email to you at the email address associated with your account.

Depending on where you are located, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach, involving your Personal Information, in writing.

CALIFORNIA RESIDENTS

Right to Request your Personal Information

If you reside or are located in the state of California, you have the right to request that Rythmeet discloses certain information to you about our collection and use of your Personal Information over the past 12 months for no charge. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request, we will disclose to you:

  • Categories of Personal Information we collected about you
  • Categories of sources of Personal Information we collected about you
  • Business purpose for collecting your Personal Information
  • Third parties with whom we share that Personal Information
  • Specific pieces of Personal Information we collected about you

Right to Non-Discrimination

If you choose to exercise any of your data rights, we will not discriminate against you or your use of our services in any of the following ways:

  • Denying services to you
  • Charging different prices or rates for goods or services, including through the use of discounts or other benefits or imposing penalties
  • Providing a different level or quality of services to you
  • Suggesting that you will receive a different level or quality of services

How to Request your Personal Information

If you would like to exercise your access, data portability, or deletion rights, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by either:

  • Emailing us at [support@Rythmeet.com]
  • Using the “Contact us” form on the website

Only you, or a person registered with the California Secretary of State that you authorize to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your Personal Information. You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. When you contact us with a request, we may ask that you provide us with information necessary to confirm your identity.

Rythmeet does not sell your Personal Information to any third party for monetary value.

Rythmeet does not use Cookies or other Tracking Technologies.


  1. Third-Party Links

Our platform may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.


  1. Changes to This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy will be reviewed and updated from time to time. When changes are made, the Privacy Policy will be labeled as "Revised (date)," indicating that you should review the new terms, which will be effective immediately upon posting on this page, with an updated effective date. By accessing the Website after any changes have been made, you accept the modified Privacy Policy and any changes contained therein. In case you miss the notification referenced above, be sure to return to this page periodically to ensure familiarity with the most current version of this Privacy Policy.


  1. International privacy practices

The Website is primarily operated and managed on servers located and operated within the United States. In order to provide our services to you, we send and store your Personal Information outside of the country where you reside or are located, including to the United States. Accordingly, if you reside or are located outside of the United States, your Personal Information may be transferred outside of the country where you reside or are located, including to countries that may not or do not provide the same level of protection for your Personal Information. We are committed to taking reasonable steps to protect the privacy and confidentiality of Personal Information when it is transferred. If you reside or are located within the EU and such transfers occur, we strive to take appropriate steps to provide the same level of protection for the processing carried out in any such countries as you would have within the EU to the extent feasible under applicable law.


  1. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:

Email: [support@rythmeet.com]

Mail: Alan Hegron, 4545 Center boulevard, Apartment 3905, 11109, Long Island City, USA

DSA point of contact

Any complaint concerning the Digital Service Act (DSA) or illegal content on Our website can be sent to compliance@rythmeet.com. We will investigate such matters diligently and take appropriate action based on the information we have. We may take the following circumstances into consideration in our decision :

  • Whether the content likely violates an intellectual property right
  • Whether the content is harassing, contains disinformation, is likely to be false or is a form of bullying
  • Whether the content regards a newsworthy topic or person
  • Whether our visitors have an interest in viewing the content
  • Other relevant factors

To process your request we ask you to include the following information in your request:

  • That the request concerns illegal content or the DSA
  • A sufficiently substantiated explanation of the reasons why the individual or entity alleges the information in question to be illegal content
  • A clear indication of the exact electronic location of that information, such as the exact URL or URLs, and, where necessary, additional information enabling the identification of the illegal content adapted to the type of content and to the specific type of hosting service
  • The name and email address of the individual or entity submitting the notice, except in the case of information considered to involve one of the offences referred to in Articles 3 to 7 of Directive 2011/93/EU
  • A statement confirming the bona fide belief of the individual or entity submitting the notice that the information and allegations contained therein are accurate and complete