California Privacy Disclosures
Shazam & Privacy

www.shazam.com/privacy/summary

Category

Source

Purpose

Disclosures to Third-Party Businesses

Identifiers

Your Shazam account identifiers such as:

  • Your email address, Android Account ID, Google ID, and the Google Profile Picture URL
  • Correspondence email address when requesting to download your data or categories
  • Notification tokens
  • Shazam identifiers such as INID (Installation ID) and ACID (Account ID)
  • Network identifiers such as MCC (Mobile Country Code) and MNC (Mobile Network Code)
  • IP address from your device
  • To improve the quality of the product
  • To create your account
  • To save your Shazams and sync them between your devices
  • To derive the country your device is registered to and to provide content relevant to you
  • To compile lists of trending songs for Shazam charts
  • To send you the data you’ve requested via our privacy portal
  • Fraud and security

None

Protected classes

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Commercial information

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Biometric information

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Network activity information

Type of device, version of the operating system, songs identified using Shazam, analytics information such as the pages you view, buttons you click and streaming service you’re connected to

  • To improve the quality of the product
  • To compile lists of trending songs for Shazam charts
  • Fraud and security

None

Geolocation data

If you’ve granted Location Services for Shazam, your device location is sent when you identify songs

  • To show you where your Shazams were identified
  • To derive the city and country, in order to compile lists of trending songs for Shazam charts

We share deidentified, aggregate information about what songs are identified using Shazam with our partners, including music labels and artists, to allow them to understand which tracks are encountering success in the market

Sensory data

Digital features of Shazamed songs, when the song cannot be matched immediately

Temporarily stored to be matched against Shazam's database to give you the name of the song and artist

None

Employment information

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Education information

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable

Profile inferences

Not applicable

Not applicable

Not applicable