Privacy Notice

BeatON lets people watch and listen together, exchange messages, and share with others. This notice describes the personal information we handle when you use our apps, website, and associated services, our uses of that information, and the choices open to you.

1. Responsible operator

BeatON is operated by Klimenko Vadim Dmitrievich, an individual developer located in the Russian Federation who uses the developer name MONOGON. The operator is responsible for the processing set out in this notice and is called “BeatON,” “we,” “us,” or “our.”

Send privacy inquiries or requests to privacy@beatonapp.com. Use of the Service is governed by our Terms of Service.

This notice addresses how we handle information. Services you elect to use through BeatON—including media sites, sign-in providers, and app stores—maintain their own privacy policies. Where relevant, their information practices are discussed below.

2. Information collected

The features you use determine which information we handle.

Account and profile details. We collect your email address, sign-in details, username, display name, and account settings. We also collect profile images, a biography, and interests if you add them. When you sign in using Apple or Google, the provider gives us the account information it makes available, which may include an identifier, email address, and name. Passwords are kept in a protected form that cannot be read.

Content and communications. Messages, posts, comments, reactions, images, videos, voice notes, room details, and media links that you create or share are processed by us. We also process information required to organize and deliver that content, including participants, timestamps, replies, and read status. Information sent in support requests, reports, appeals, and other correspondence reaches us as well.

Connections and activity. We collect details about friends, requests, blocks, room participation, shared queues, playback progress, saved media, and your interactions with content and other people. We record which posts, rooms, and people appear to you in feeds, suggestions, and room search; where they appeared and in what order; how long each remained on your screen; whether you opened it, visited its author’s profile, or chose to share it; and your room-search queries. As explained in How we use information, some of these signals help us infer interests, languages, and connections relevant to recommendations.

Device and connection details. Connecting to BeatON gives us information such as your IP address, device and app characteristics, language, time zone, and technical logs. We deliver notifications using device notification identifiers. Your IP address may indicate an approximate location. BeatON does not ask for access to your device’s precise location.

Contacts selected for matching. When you use contact discovery, we receive transformed email addresses from your address book to match against accounts. See Contact discovery for an explanation of the feature and its controls.

Information supplied by others. Users may give us information about you by messaging or mentioning you, inviting you to a room, syncing contact information, or submitting a report. As described in Advertising, advertising services may collect information directly from your device.

Sign-in information is required for an account. Whether to provide profile details or uploads, use contact discovery, grant microphone access, or use other optional features is up to you. A feature may not work if you decline information or permission it requires. Content you provide may contain sensitive information; we handle it as part of that content and share it with the content’s audience.

3. Uses of information

We use information to:

Provide BeatON: create and secure accounts, maintain profiles and settings, deliver communications, operate rooms and shared playback, save progress, and answer requests.
Make recommendations: rank posts, rooms, and suggested connections using interests, language and topic signals, friendships, and interactions—including likes, comments, messaging activity, invitations, and time spent together in rooms. We examine post text and media descriptions to identify topics and languages. For connection ranking, messaging activity means who interacts with whom, rather than the content used to deliver messages. To measure and improve recommendation ranking, we keep records of what we recommend to you, your responses, and the ranking signals used at the time. This includes training ranking models using records from many accounts. Recommendations of your profile, post, or room to others, and their responses, are recorded in the same way.
Maintain safety and reliability: identify abuse and security issues, investigate reports, enforce our Terms, resolve faults, and protect users and the Service.
Understand and improve the Service: prepare product statistics and assess which features and media sources people use. Account-linked statistics are explained below.
Support advertising: show and measure ads, prevent advertising fraud, and support personalization when your choices and applicable law permit it.
Communicate about the Service and meet legal obligations: send account and service notices, answer inquiries, respond to lawful requests, and establish or defend legal claims.

When data-protection law calls for a legal basis, we rely on performance of our agreement for information needed to provide features you request; legitimate interests in securing, maintaining, improving, and making the Service relevant for recommendations and limited product statistics; and compliance with applicable legal obligations. Optional contact uploads, and advertising or tracking where consent is required, rely on consent. Processing based on legitimate interests remains subject to your rights and reasonable expectations. See Your rights for how to object.

Device permissions govern access to features including the microphone, contacts, and notifications. They do not replace any separate consent required by law. You may withdraw consent, without affecting the lawfulness of processing before withdrawal.

Product statistics

By default, we collect our own product statistics. These contain an account identifier, approximate country inferred from the connection, dates of service and room activity, room identifiers, and website domains of shared media. The records are linked to your account and kept as historical activity while the account remains open, allowing us to understand Service use over time. They do not automatically expire after a fixed period. Neither message content nor complete media URLs are included.

To object to this collection, email privacy@beatonapp.com. Once we process your objection, we stop collecting these statistics for your account and delete its existing product-statistics records. The same objection also stops the recommendation records described above and deletes those already retained. We keep the preference necessary to honor your choice. Recommendations themselves, processing needed to operate your account, and separate advertising services are not turned off by this choice.

4. Information visible to others

Other people can see your username and public profile information. Other users can discover public posts, comments, and public rooms. Room participants can see information needed to participate, including messages, the shared queue, and participation or playback activity.

Participants can access their direct messages. Entry to restricted rooms depends on their controls and invitations; a person with a valid invitation link may be able to join. Your privacy settings govern features such as who can contact or invite you and whether activity or friends are visible. Check these settings before sharing information whose audience you want to limit.

Restricting an audience does not make content end-to-end encrypted. Our servers process messages and uploaded content. Authorized access may be necessary to run the Service, investigate reports, offer support, or comply with law.

People who can access information may save, record, or reshare it. Deleting it from BeatON cannot remove an independent copy someone else has made.

5. Contact discovery

You do not have to use contact discovery. If you choose it and grant access to contacts, BeatON reads contact email addresses on your device and transforms them into hashes to match with accounts. This feature does not upload contact names or the original email addresses from your address book. Because hashes can be matched to known addresses, they remain personal information.

Submitted hashes, including those without a match, and information about the sync are stored until you replace them through a new sync, select Forget contacts, or delete your account. We use these for contact matching, not advertising.

A person who has your email address in their contacts may be shown your profile as a suggestion, even if you have never uploaded contacts. The match does not display your email address to that person. Matching is controlled by Find me by email under Settings → Privacy, which is enabled by default. Disabling it prevents matching in both directions. Revoking contacts permission on your device stops further access; to remove information already synced, use Forget contacts.

6. Voice, uploads, and media browsing

Live voice. To relay room voice to participants, BeatON uses LiveKit technology. We neither record nor retain live room audio. While you are unmuted, participants can hear you and may make their own recordings of what they hear. Voice notes recorded and sent in chat are stored as messages. Your device settings control microphone permission.

Uploads. Files you choose or create to share are stored and delivered as part of the applicable profile, message, or post. A file may contain embedded information, including metadata added by the device that created it. Choosing a file does not give BeatON general access to the rest of your photo library.

Media sources and browsing. Websites opened in BeatON’s browser, embedded players, and media hosts receive the requests necessary to supply their content, including connection information such as your IP address. They may employ their own cookies or similar technologies, and their policies govern that activity.

Browser session information and browsing history are stored on your device; browsing history is not uploaded to our servers. If you add media to a room, BeatON processes information about the chosen item, such as its URL, source page, title, and thumbnail, and shares it as needed for playback and the room queue. The app’s controls let you remove browsing history and clear browser data.

7. Advertising

To show ads in the app, BeatON uses Appodeal. Appodeal and participating advertising partners may process advertising or device identifiers, IP addresses, approximate location, device and app information, ad views and interactions, and technical performance information. These activities support ad delivery and measurement, fraud prevention, and personalized advertising where permitted. For these purposes, BeatON does not send advertising partners your account email, messages, contact hashes, or room content.

Networks taking part may include AppLovin, BidMachine, InMobi, Meta Audience Network, Mintegral, VK’s myTarget, and Yandex. Which networks actually participate depends on configuration, region, availability, and privacy choices. They may process information under their own policies. For their practices, consult Appodeal’s privacy policy and partner policy directory.

Where required, the advertising service presents privacy choices; applicable options are available through Settings → Privacy. Advertising controls are also available in device settings. On iOS, Apple’s tracking prompt and system settings manage permission to track. You can refuse personalized advertising without losing access to BeatON’s core features. You may still receive contextual ads and have information processed as needed to deliver and measure them and prevent fraud.

We do not sell personal information for money. Even so, sharing device and advertising information with advertising partners may be considered a “sale,” “sharing,” or processing for targeted advertising under certain privacy laws. If those laws apply, you can request the applicable opt-out using available ad privacy controls or by contacting privacy@beatonapp.com. A browser setting does not necessarily alter advertising choices in a separately installed app.

We share information:

With other users, based on the features you use, your content’s audience, and applicable settings.
With providers supporting BeatON, including for hosting, storage, email, notifications, security, and technical support. They receive information relevant to their functions. When processing on our behalf, their use is restricted to supplying the agreed services and meeting applicable obligations.
With services involved in a feature you select, including Apple or Google sign-in, Google and Apple notification delivery, and GIF search or media providers. They receive information required for the interaction and may have separate responsibilities under their own policies. Notification delivery may expose content included in a notification to the delivery service and anyone able to see notifications on your device.
With advertising services, as explained in Advertising.
For legal and safety purposes, when law requires it or it is reasonably necessary to investigate unlawful activity, protect rights or safety, enforce our Terms, or establish or defend a legal claim. We evaluate requests against applicable law and the information necessary for the purpose.
In relation to a transfer of the Service, for example a sale or reorganization, subject to appropriate safeguards for personal information and any legally required notice.
At your direction or with your consent, when a feature or disclosure calls for it.

We may also use or disclose aggregated or de-identified information that no longer identifies you. The absence of a readable name does not, by itself, make account-linked records or contact hashes anonymous.

9. Processing locations

BeatON operates from the Russian Federation, where our service data is hosted. Providers handling sign-in, notifications, advertising, and other external features may process information in other countries. Their data-protection rules may differ from those in your country of residence.

Cross-border handling must satisfy the requirements applicable to that processing. Agreeing to our Terms or this notice does not itself waive your data-protection rights or provide consent for every international transfer. For details of locations and protections relevant to your data, contact privacy@beatonapp.com.

10. Retention periods

We keep information for the purpose for which it is used, considering the feature, your choices, security needs, legal requirements, and relevant claims. In particular:

Account details, settings, saved media, and associated preferences generally remain for as long as your account is active.
Messages, posts, comments, and uploaded media remain as needed for the relevant feature, unless you remove them, your account is deleted, or they are removed under our moderation rules. Room chat history may be limited to a recent window.
Synced contact information stays until replaced or removed, as described in Contact discovery.
Product statistics linked to an account are kept as historical activity while the account remains open, with no fixed age-based expiry. We remove them when processing an objection or deleting the account, as described in Product statistics.
Records of recommendations shown to you and your responses are deleted 180 days after the recommendation was shown, or earlier if we process an objection or delete your account.
Resolved moderation reports are normally removed two years after resolution. Records needed for an outstanding investigation, legal obligation, or claim may remain for the period relevant to that matter.
Technical and security records are kept according to what is necessary to diagnose faults, detect abuse, and investigate incidents. Those preserved for a particular investigation may be retained longer than routine operational records.

Removal from active systems may happen at a different time from removal from backups or temporary caches. Applicable retention and cleanup processes remove residual copies. Information kept for a limited legal, security, or recovery purpose is not retained for ordinary account use. Advertising providers and other independent providers follow their own retention policies for information they collect.

11. Account deletion

To delete your account in BeatON, open Settings → Delete account and confirm your request. Alternatively, email privacy@beatonapp.com from your registered address with Delete my account as the subject. We may have to verify that the account holder made the request.

Deleting an account removes your profile and sign-in information from the active service, direct and room messages you authored, the content of your posts and comments, saved media and playback history, synced contacts, social connections, recommendation records, and account-linked product statistics. Associated uploads are scheduled for removal.

Deleting your account does not by itself delete other people’s messages, comments, reactions, or independently saved copies. Limited records may remain to preserve the structure of their conversations or comments, without retaining your former profile or authored content for ordinary display. Removal from device caches and backups may also take time. For the limited legal, safety, and operational purposes described in Retention, we may retain information, including what is needed to complete deletion and disconnect sign-in providers.

You may remove individual content or change settings without deleting your account. Signing out of BeatON or uninstalling it does not delete your account or its stored information.

12. Your rights and choices

BeatON’s controls allow you to edit your profile, adjust privacy and notification settings, manage contacts, block accounts, and delete content. Through device settings, you can manage permissions including contacts, microphone access, and notifications.

Depending on applicable law, your rights may include:

accessing your personal information and obtaining a copy;
correcting inaccurate information or requesting deletion;
restricting processing or objecting to processing based on legitimate interests, including related profiling;
receiving certain information in a portable form;
withdrawing consent when processing depends on it;
opting out of applicable advertising-related sale, sharing, or targeted advertising; and
challenging a decision on your request or complaining to a competent data-protection authority.

To exercise a right, object to product statistics or recommendation processing, or inquire about information another person supplied concerning you, contact privacy@beatonapp.com. Explain your request and provide enough information for us to identify the relevant account or data. We may ask for proportionate verification and, where applicable, proof that an agent is authorized.

We respond within the time required by applicable law and explain any permitted extension or refusal. Where the GDPR applies, the usual response period is one month, subject to its permitted extensions. You may ask us to reconsider a refusal, and any statutory appeal or complaint rights remain available. We do not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising a privacy right.

For users covered by Russian personal-data law, requests may also address information about processing, correction, blocking, destruction, or withdrawal of consent, subject to other lawful grounds for continued processing. You may complain to Roskomnadzor or seek a judicial remedy. Users elsewhere may contact their competent privacy regulator without first exhausting our contact process.

13. Children and younger users

BeatON is intended for people 13 and older, subject to any higher applicable minimum age and required parental authorization described in our Terms. It is not intended for children under 13.

If you believe a person who does not meet these requirements has supplied personal information, contact privacy@beatonapp.com. We will investigate and take appropriate steps to restrict or close the account and remove information collected contrary to applicable requirements, subject to limited retention required by law.

14. Security and automated systems

Our technical and organizational measures are designed to protect information and include protected connections, access controls, and safeguards for sign-in credentials. Absolute security cannot be guaranteed by any online service.

Automated systems assist with ranking recommendations, detecting abuse, limiting suspicious activity, and supporting moderation. Their use does not mean all content is reviewed or all harmful activity detected. If your account or content is affected by a restriction, you can request review through the reporting and appeal process in our Terms. Applicable legal rights concerning automated decisions remain available.

15. Website and local storage

The BeatON website does not use analytics or advertising cookies. Hosting and security infrastructure nevertheless processes ordinary connection information, including requests and IP addresses, to serve and protect the site.

For operation and efficient content loading, the apps store sign-in information, settings, and cached content on your device. Third-party websites opened within the app may use their own cookies and storage, as explained in Voice, uploads, and media browsing. Clearing local data alone does not delete information held with your BeatON account.

16. Changes and contact

We may revise this notice when our practices or applicable requirements change. The date at the top shows the latest revision. Where appropriate or required, we will give additional notice of material changes through the Service or your account contact details, and obtain consent when law requires it.

For questions, privacy requests, or complaints, contact privacy@beatonapp.com.