ROYALTY RISING
PRIVACY POLICY
Effective date: 29 August 2026
Last updated: 30 August 2026
1. WHO WE ARE
Royalty Rising is operated by:
R-RISING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Company number:
17176393
Registered in England and Wales
Registered office:
Cheth House
Valley Lane
Thorney Hill
Bransgore
Dorset
BH23 8DX
United Kingdom
Website:
Privacy and data-protection contact:
R-RISING TECHNOLOGIES LTD is the data controller responsible for personal information processed through Royalty Rising where we determine why and how that information is processed.
2. OUR APPROACH TO YOUR INFORMATION
Royalty Rising is designed to create value from music knowledge, analysis and useful intelligence, not from selling people's private information.
We do not sell identifiable personal information to advertisers or data brokers.
Where Royalty Rising develops research, statistics, industry intelligence, trends or commercial insights from use of our services, our intention is to use aggregated or anonymised information wherever appropriate so that individual users cannot reasonably be identified.
Protecting creators includes protecting information about creators.
3. WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information processed through:
The Royalty Rising website.
Royalty Rising applications.
Royalty Rising accounts.
Royalty Rising Song Objects.
Royalty and rights tools.
Track analysis and integrity tools.
Royalty Health Check services.
Distributor and release tools.
AI-assisted services.
Educational resources.
Music metadata tools.
Customer support.
Payment and subscription services where offered.
Referral and agent systems.
Other Royalty Rising digital services introduced from time to time.
4. INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT
The information we process depends on how you use Royalty Rising.
It may include:
Your name.
Artist name or professional name.
Email address.
Contact information.
Country or territory.
Age range.
Account details.
Login and authentication information.
Profile information.
Music-industry role.
Artist, songwriter, producer or professional information.
Song titles.
Composition information.
Sound recording information.
Writer and contributor information.
Performer information.
Producer information.
Publisher information.
Label information.
Ownership and rights information.
Royalty-related information you choose to provide.
Release dates.
Distributor information.
Platform information.
ISRC numbers.
ISWC numbers.
Other music identifiers.
Streaming or platform links.
Artwork.
Audio files.
Lyrics or other material you choose to upload.
Information stored within a Royalty Rising Song Object.
Answers given to Royalty Rising questionnaires and assessments.
Track analysis information.
Recommendations and reports generated for you.
Communications with Royalty Rising.
Support enquiries.
Feedback.
Purchase information where paid services are offered.
Subscription information where applicable.
Transaction references.
Referral or agent codes.
Information about who referred you to Royalty Rising where applicable.
Cookie and privacy preferences.
IP address.
Browser and device information.
Security information.
Website and application usage information.
Technical logs.
Other information you voluntarily provide when using Royalty Rising.
5. MUSIC INFORMATION CAN ALSO BE PERSONAL INFORMATION
Some music information is publicly available.
For example, an artist name, songwriter credit, performer credit, producer name or professional information may appear in public music databases.
Publicly available information can still constitute personal data where it relates to an identifiable living person.
We therefore handle relevant music-industry information appropriately even where it is available from public sources.
6. SPECIAL CATEGORY INFORMATION
Royalty Rising does not generally require users to provide sensitive personal information about matters such as health, racial or ethnic origin, religion, political opinions, sexual orientation or other special category information in order to use the main Royalty Rising services.
Users should avoid including unnecessary sensitive personal information in song information, files, support messages or other material they submit.
If Royalty Rising needs to process special category personal information for a particular legitimate purpose, we will identify an appropriate lawful basis and an additional condition for processing where required by data-protection law.
We will apply additional safeguards where appropriate.
7. WHY WE PROCESS PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use personal information to:
Create and maintain your Royalty Rising account.
Identify you when you sign in.
Apply appropriate age-related account protections.
Provide services you request.
Create and maintain Song Objects.
Store and organise music information.
Analyse information you provide.
Identify possible gaps in music metadata.
Identify possible royalty pathways.
Generate reports.
Generate recommendations.
Provide track analysis.
Operate music-rights tools.
Provide AI-assisted services.
Provide educational information.
Process purchases where paid services are available.
Manage subscriptions where applicable.
Process referral and agent attribution.
Calculate legitimate referral or commission entitlements where applicable.
Provide customer support.
Respond to enquiries.
Communicate important service information.
Verify information where reasonably necessary.
Prevent fraud.
Protect accounts and users.
Protect younger users.
Maintain platform security.
Investigate misuse.
Improve Royalty Rising services.
Understand how our services are being used.
Develop and test service improvements.
Maintain appropriate business records.
Maintain financial and accounting records.
Meet legal and regulatory obligations.
Resolve disputes.
Handle data-protection complaints.
Protect Royalty Rising's legal rights.
8. OUR LAWFUL BASES FOR PROCESSING
UK data-protection law requires us to have an appropriate lawful basis for processing personal information.
The lawful basis depends on why the information is being used.
CONTRACT
We may rely on contract where processing is necessary to provide a Royalty Rising service you have requested or to take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
This may include:
Creating and operating your account.
Providing Song Object functionality.
Providing tools or reports you request.
Providing purchased services.
Managing subscriptions.
Providing customer support relating to your service.
LEGAL OBLIGATION
We may process information where necessary to comply with a legal obligation.
This may include:
Accounting requirements.
Tax requirements.
Regulatory obligations.
Data-protection obligations.
Fraud-prevention obligations where legally required.
Responding to lawful requests from courts, regulators or public authorities.
LEGITIMATE INTERESTS
We may rely on legitimate interests where processing is reasonably necessary for the legitimate operation, security, improvement or protection of Royalty Rising and those interests are not overridden by your rights and freedoms.
This may include:
Maintaining platform security.
Preventing fraud.
Investigating misuse.
Protecting users.
Protecting intellectual property.
Improving services.
Understanding service performance.
Maintaining ordinary business administration.
Maintaining appropriate records.
Developing Royalty Rising services.
Protecting or establishing legal rights.
Where legitimate interests are relied upon, we consider the purpose of the processing, whether the processing is necessary and the impact on the people whose information is involved.
CONSENT
We may rely on consent where you have been given a genuine choice and consent is the appropriate lawful basis.
This may include:
Certain marketing communications.
Optional cookies or storage technologies.
Certain optional features.
Where we rely on consent, you may withdraw it.
Withdrawal does not make earlier lawful processing unlawful.
9. INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER PEOPLE
Music is collaborative.
You may sometimes provide information relating to another songwriter, performer, producer, publisher, manager, label representative, rights holder or other person.
You should only provide information that is reasonably necessary and that you are entitled to provide.
Where appropriate, Royalty Rising may take reasonable steps to provide privacy information to people whose personal information we receive indirectly.
10. INFORMATION FROM PUBLIC AND THIRD-PARTY SOURCES
Royalty Rising may supplement information provided by users with information from legitimate external sources.
These may include:
Public music databases.
Streaming platforms.
Music rights organisations.
Collecting societies.
Official registers.
Publicly available professional information.
Licensed data sources.
Other legitimate music-industry sources.
We may use this information to verify, organise or improve music information and provide relevant Royalty Rising services.
We will only process personal information from these sources where we have an appropriate lawful basis.
11. ROYALTY RISING SONG OBJECTS
A Royalty Rising Song Object may contain information about a song, recording, release, contributors, rights, registrations, platforms, royalties and related information.
Some of that information may constitute personal data.
Information entered into a Song Object is used to provide Royalty Rising services and help users understand and organise their music assets.
Creating a Song Object does not transfer ownership of the underlying music or associated intellectual property to Royalty Rising.
12. AUDIO AND OTHER FILE UPLOADS
Some Royalty Rising services may allow you to upload audio files, artwork, documents or other material.
Uploaded material may be stored and processed where reasonably necessary to provide the service you requested.
Access should be limited to authorised systems, service providers and people where reasonably necessary.
You should not upload information that is unnecessary for the service or that you do not have the right to provide.
Private uploaded works are not made public merely because they have been uploaded to Royalty Rising.
Royalty Rising does not have a general policy of using private uploaded music to train external general-purpose artificial intelligence models.
13. AI AND AUTOMATED PROCESSING
Some Royalty Rising services may use artificial intelligence, algorithms or other automated technology.
These technologies may be used to:
Analyse information.
Identify patterns.
Organise data.
Generate recommendations.
Identify possible gaps.
Generate explanations.
Assist users in understanding music-industry information.
Support development and improvement of Royalty Rising services.
AI-generated information may contain errors and should be checked where accuracy is important.
Where third-party AI technology is used to provide a Royalty Rising function, relevant information may be processed by that technology where reasonably necessary to provide the requested service and subject to appropriate data-protection arrangements.
We seek to minimise personal information sent to AI providers where it is not necessary for the relevant function.
Royalty Rising does not send a user's age category to an AI provider merely because the user is under 18.
Where Royalty Rising uses solely automated processing to make a decision that produces a legal or similarly significant effect on an individual, we will apply the safeguards required by applicable data-protection law.
Where required, these safeguards may include:
Providing information about the decision.
Allowing the person to make representations.
Providing meaningful human intervention.
Allowing the person to contest the decision.
Additional restrictions apply to the use of special category personal information in significant automated decision-making.
14. WE DO NOT SELL YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Royalty Rising does not operate by selling identifiable customer information or individual user behaviour to advertisers or data brokers.
We believe commercial value can be created from knowledge, analysis and aggregated intelligence without selling people's identities.
We may develop aggregated or anonymised information about matters such as:
Music-industry patterns.
Common rights gaps.
Royalty pathways.
Metadata quality.
Creator needs.
Distribution patterns.
Service usage.
Industry trends.
Where information has genuinely been anonymised so that an individual is no longer identifiable, it is no longer personal data.
15. PAYMENTS
The main Royalty Rising application does not currently operate its own payment system.
Royalty Rising may offer paid services elsewhere within the wider Royalty Rising ecosystem or introduce paid services in future.
Where payments are offered, they may be handled by independent payment providers.
Depending on the payment system used, Royalty Rising may receive information such as:
Your name.
Payment status.
Amount paid.
Date of payment.
Transaction reference.
Subscription status.
Limited billing information.
Royalty Rising does not necessarily receive or store your full payment card details.
Payment providers may process information as separate controllers or processors depending on the service concerned and their own privacy terms.
16. REFERRALS AND ROYALTY RISING AGENTS
Royalty Rising may operate referral, representative, affiliate or agent systems.
Where you enter a referral or agent code, we may record information necessary to:
Identify the referral.
Attribute the customer correctly.
Calculate legitimate commissions or rewards.
Prevent fraud.
Maintain financial records.
Resolve disputes.
Referral information does not give a Royalty Rising agent unrestricted access to your account or personal information.
17. CUSTOMER COMMUNICATIONS
If you contact Royalty Rising, we may retain the communication and relevant account information so that we can:
Respond to you.
Provide support.
Investigate a problem.
Maintain an appropriate record of our dealings.
Improve our services.
Resolve a complaint or dispute.
18. MARKETING
Where permitted by law, Royalty Rising may send information about products, services, developments, educational resources or opportunities.
Where consent is required, we will obtain it.
You can unsubscribe from electronic promotional marketing at any time using an unsubscribe facility provided or by contacting:
Opting out of marketing does not prevent us from sending necessary communications about:
Your account.
Account verification.
Password resets.
Transactions.
Security.
Services you use.
Important changes affecting your account.
Direct promotional marketing is not enabled by default for users aged 13 to 17.
19. COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
Royalty Rising may use cookies, local storage and similar technologies.
Some technologies may be necessary to operate or secure a service.
Other technologies may be used for analytics, functionality or other optional purposes.
Where consent is legally required, the relevant technology will not be activated until appropriate consent has been obtained.
Some storage technologies may be permitted without consent where an applicable legal exemption applies.
More information is available in our Cookie and Storage Technologies Policy.
20. WHO WE MAY SHARE INFORMATION WITH
Where reasonably necessary, personal information may be shared with organisations or people that help us operate Royalty Rising.
These may include:
Website and application hosting providers.
Cloud infrastructure providers.
Database providers.
Storage providers.
Payment processors.
Email and communications providers.
Security providers.
Analytics providers where lawful.
AI and technology providers.
Contractors working on Royalty Rising.
Professional advisers.
Accountants.
Legal advisers.
Regulators.
Courts.
Law enforcement agencies where disclosure is legally required or otherwise lawful.
Parties involved in a legitimate investment, merger, acquisition, restructuring or sale of a business where appropriate safeguards apply.
We do not give service providers permission to use personal information for unrelated purposes merely because they provide technology to us.
21. INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Royalty Rising is intended to operate internationally.
Some users, team members, contractors or technology providers may be located outside the United Kingdom.
Where personal information is transferred outside the UK and the restricted international-transfer rules apply, Royalty Rising will use an appropriate lawful transfer mechanism.
Depending on the circumstances this may include:
UK adequacy regulations.
An applicable adequacy arrangement.
The UK International Data Transfer Agreement.
The UK Addendum to approved EU Standard Contractual Clauses.
Other approved contractual safeguards.
Binding corporate rules where applicable.
Another lawful transfer mechanism.
Where required, an appropriate transfer risk assessment or equivalent data-protection test will be carried out and additional safeguards will be applied where necessary.
22. HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION
We do not intend to keep identifiable personal information indefinitely merely because we can.
How long information is retained depends on:
Why it was collected.
Whether your account remains active.
Whether the information is needed to provide a service.
Legal requirements.
Accounting requirements.
Tax requirements.
Potential disputes or legal claims.
Fraud and security requirements.
Contractual requirements.
Technical backup cycles.
Where an account remains active, relevant account and music information may be retained for the duration of the account.
Financial and contractual records may need to be retained for several years in accordance with legal and accounting obligations.
Security records may be retained for a period reasonably necessary to investigate fraud, abuse or security incidents.
Marketing information may be retained until consent is withdrawn or you object, subject to retaining limited suppression information where necessary to ensure we continue to respect your choice.
Deleted information may remain temporarily within secure backup systems until those backups are overwritten through ordinary technical processes.
Where continued identification is unnecessary, information may instead be anonymised.
23. SECURITY
Royalty Rising takes reasonable technical and organisational measures intended to protect personal information.
These may include measures designed to protect against:
Unauthorised access.
Accidental loss.
Unauthorised disclosure.
Alteration.
Misuse.
Destruction.
Fraud.
Security threats.
Access to personal information should be limited according to legitimate business need.
No internet or computer system can guarantee absolute security.
Users are also responsible for protecting their passwords, devices and login information.
24. PERSONAL-DATA BREACHES
If a personal-data breach occurs, Royalty Rising will assess the risk to affected individuals.
Where the law requires notification to the Information Commissioner's Office or affected individuals, we will take the appropriate steps within the legally required timeframe.
We will maintain appropriate records of relevant personal-data breaches where required.
25. YOUR DATA-PROTECTION RIGHTS
Depending on the circumstances, UK data-protection law may give you the right to:
Ask what personal information we hold about you.
Receive a copy of personal information you are entitled to access.
Ask us to correct inaccurate information.
Ask us to complete incomplete information.
Ask for personal information to be deleted in certain circumstances.
Ask us to restrict processing in certain circumstances.
Object to certain processing.
Receive certain personal information in a portable form where the right applies.
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent.
Raise concerns about qualifying automated decision-making.
Make a data-protection complaint.
These rights are not absolute and legal exceptions can apply.
To exercise a data-protection right, contact:
We may need to verify your identity before providing certain information or acting on a request.
26. CHILDREN AND YOUNGER CREATORS
Royalty Rising recognises that younger musicians, songwriters, producers and creators may use music-industry services.
Royalty Rising accounts are currently available from age 13.
Users under 13 may not create an independent Royalty Rising account at this time.
AGE INFORMATION
We ask users to identify their age range so that we can apply appropriate privacy protections and account functionality.
The age ranges currently used are:
Under 13.
13 to 15.
16 to 17.
18 or over.
We do not collect a full date of birth merely for age classification where an age range is sufficient.
Where a higher level of age assurance becomes necessary because of the nature or risk of a particular service, Royalty Rising may introduce additional proportionate measures.
USERS AGED 13 TO 17
Users aged 13 to 17 may use eligible Royalty Rising services.
Royalty Rising takes their age and best interests into account when deciding how their personal information is used.
Protections for younger users include, where appropriate:
High privacy protections by default.
Collecting only information reasonably necessary for the service.
Clear and accessible privacy information.
No behavioural advertising directed at younger users.
No unnecessary profiling.
No unnecessary precise geolocation.
No unnecessary sharing of personal information.
No direct promotional marketing by default.
No interface design intended to pressure younger users into providing more personal information than is necessary.
Royalty Rising does not sell the personal information of younger users.
AGE INFORMATION AND AI
Royalty Rising does not send a user's age category to an artificial intelligence provider merely because the user is under 18.
Age information will only be disclosed to another service where doing so is reasonably necessary, lawful and appropriately protected.
PAID SERVICES
Royalty Rising does not currently operate a payment system within its main application.
If paid services are introduced, users under 18 will not be permitted to complete paid transactions unless an appropriate parent or legal guardian authorisation process is available.
Until such a process is available, Royalty Rising may prevent users under 18 from completing paid transactions.
Information relating to a parent or guardian will only be collected where reasonably necessary for an appropriate authorisation or contractual purpose.
MARKETING
Royalty Rising does not currently use the personal information of users under 18 for behavioural advertising.
Direct promotional marketing is not enabled by default for younger-user accounts.
Necessary service communications may still be sent, including:
Account verification.
Password reset messages.
Security messages.
Service notifications.
Important account information.
AGE ASSURANCE
Royalty Rising takes a risk-based and proportionate approach to age assurance.
Users are currently asked to identify their age range.
Where an age-range declaration provides an appropriate level of certainty for the risks associated with the service, we may use that approach.
Where stronger age assurance becomes reasonably necessary, we may introduce an additional method designed to minimise the amount of personal information collected.
We will periodically review whether our age-assurance measures remain appropriate as Royalty Rising develops.
CHILDREN'S CODE
Where a Royalty Rising online service is likely to be accessed by children, we will take account of applicable UK data-protection law and the Children's Code when designing and operating the service.
This includes consideration of:
The best interests of younger users.
Privacy by default.
Data minimisation.
Transparency.
Profiling.
Data sharing.
Age-appropriate design.
Security.
Appropriate data-protection impact assessments.
CONTACT ABOUT A YOUNGER USER
If you are a younger user, parent or guardian and have a privacy question or believe an account is being used inappropriately, contact:
27. INFORMATION WE MAY NEED FROM YOU
Where you make a data-protection request, complaint or security report, we may ask for information reasonably necessary to:
Identify you.
Locate the relevant account or information.
Understand your request.
Confirm your authority where you are acting for another person.
Protect personal information from being disclosed to the wrong person.
We will not request more identity information than is reasonably necessary for the circumstances.
If we genuinely need additional information before we can act on a request, we will explain what is required where appropriate.
28. YOUR RIGHT TO OBJECT
You may have a right to object to processing carried out on the basis of legitimate interests.
Whether we must stop the processing depends on the circumstances and the applicable law.
You have the right to object to processing of your personal information for direct marketing purposes.
If you object to direct marketing, we will stop using your personal information for that purpose.
We may retain limited information necessary to record and respect your objection.
29. DATA-PROTECTION COMPLAINTS
If you believe Royalty Rising has handled your personal information incorrectly, you can make a data-protection complaint directly to us.
Email:
Where possible, please put:
DATA PROTECTION COMPLAINT
in the subject line.
Please provide enough information for us to understand and investigate your concern.
Royalty Rising will acknowledge receipt of a data-protection complaint within 30 days.
We will take appropriate steps to investigate and respond to the complaint without undue delay.
Where an investigation continues, we will keep the complainant appropriately informed of its progress.
When the investigation is complete, we will communicate the outcome.
30. COMPLAINING TO THE INFORMATION COMMISSIONER'S OFFICE
You have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office, the UK's independent data-protection regulator.
Information about making a complaint is available at:
We would appreciate the opportunity to investigate and resolve your concern directly.
However, your right to contact the ICO is not dependent upon contacting Royalty Rising first where the law does not require it.
31. LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
Royalty Rising may link to third-party websites, platforms, distributors, collecting societies, streaming services or other organisations.
Those organisations are responsible for their own privacy practices.
You should review their privacy information where appropriate.
Royalty Rising's Privacy Policy does not govern an independent third party merely because we provide a link to it.
32. CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY AND CONTACT US
Royalty Rising will evolve and data-protection law may also change.
We may update this Privacy Policy where necessary.
The current version will be published on the Royalty Rising website together with the date it was last updated.
Where a significant change materially affects how we use existing personal information, we will take appropriate steps to bring the change to affected users' attention where required.
For privacy enquiries, data-protection rights or complaints, contact:
Royalty Rising
R-RISING TECHNOLOGIES LTD
Company number:
17176393
Registered in England and Wales
Registered office:
Cheth House
Valley Lane
Thorney Hill
Bransgore
Dorset
BH23 8DX
United Kingdom
Website:
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