Last Updated: July 16, 2026
SoundDeal ("we," "us," or "our") operates the SoundDeal platform. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information.
Account Information: When you create an account, we collect your email address and password (stored in hashed form).
Payment Information: When you purchase a plan, payment is processed by Stripe. We do not store your credit card number, expiration date, or CVC.
Uploaded Contracts: When you submit a contract for analysis, the document text is processed by our AI analysis engine. The original uploaded file is deleted from our file storage after processing. The extracted text is used to generate analysis output, structured deal terms (when applicable), and embeddings used to improve future analyses; these derived items are stored in your account so you can revisit your results.
Analysis Results: Your analysis reports (deal health scores, red flags, benchmarks, negotiation briefs) are stored in our database so you can access your analysis history.
Structured Deal Terms: For supported deal types, we extract structured fields from your contract (such as advance amounts, royalty rates, term lengths, territory, and similar financial terms) and store them in your account. These fields may also be included in our anonymized benchmark dataset if you have opted in (see Section 4A).
Usage Data: We collect basic usage data including pages visited, features used, analysis count, and timestamps.
Cookies: We use essential cookies for authentication and session management. We do not use advertising or third-party tracking cookies.
We use your information to:
We do NOT:
We use the following third-party services:
SoundDeal maintains an industry benchmark dataset built from anonymized deal terms (such as advance amounts, royalty rates, points, term lengths, territory scope, and similar non-identifying financial fields) extracted from contracts analyzed through the Service. This dataset powers the market comparisons and negotiation guidance shown to all users.
User-contributed data: When you upload a contract, you may opt in to including anonymized deal terms in our benchmark dataset by checking the consent box on the analysis page. Opting in is voluntary and not required to use the Service. If you do not opt in, your deal terms will not be included in benchmark calculations.
Pre-cleared sources: A portion of the benchmark dataset originates from pre-cleared sources, including management company databases where the rights holders have authorized anonymized aggregation through their representation, distribution, or licensing agreements. Where SoundDeal relies on legitimate interest as a basis for processing such data, we have determined that our interest in producing accurate industry benchmarks does not override the rights and freedoms of data subjects, given the anonymized and aggregated nature of the data.
What is included: Only specific structured fields are included — for example, deal type, advance amount, royalty rate, term length, territory, and similar non-identifying terms. Personally identifying information such as party names, signatures, and the original contract text are NOT included in the benchmark dataset.
How it is used: Benchmark statistics are computed from groups of records and never reveal the terms of any single contract or party. Aggregated statistics may be displayed to other users, included in product features, used to improve our analysis models, referenced in SoundDeal marketing, and licensed or made available as anonymized industry statistics.
Withdrawing consent: You may withdraw consent for your data to be included in the benchmark dataset at any time by contacting support@sounddeal.com. We will exclude your data from future benchmark calculations within a reasonable timeframe. Already-computed benchmark statistics that incorporated your data prior to withdrawal cannot be retroactively recalculated.
SoundDeal offers a connector based on the Model Context Protocol ("MCP") that allows AI assistants you use — such as Anthropic's Claude — to access SoundDeal on your behalf.
Authorization and consent. Connector access to your account is only possible after you sign in to SoundDeal and explicitly approve the connection on our consent screen. The consent screen identifies the application requesting access and the specific permissions requested. Permissions are scoped: read access to market benchmarks, read access to your analyses, and (only if separately granted) the ability to run new analyses on your behalf. You can revoke a connected application's access at any time from your account settings, which immediately invalidates its credentials.
What data is accessed. Depending on the permissions you grant, a connected AI assistant may: retrieve aggregate market benchmark statistics (which contain no individual contract data); retrieve the results of contract analyses stored in your account; submit contract text or files for analysis, which are processed and stored in the same way as contracts you upload through our website; and generate negotiation briefs from your stored analyses.
What the AI assistant provider sees. When you use SoundDeal through an AI assistant, the content of your requests and our responses passes through that assistant's platform (for example, Anthropic's systems when using Claude). That data is handled under the AI assistant provider's own privacy policy and terms, which are separate from ours. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of any AI assistant you connect to SoundDeal.
Aggregate data protections. Benchmark statistics returned through the connector are computed from multiple contracts and are never returned for samples small enough to identify an individual deal. The connector does not provide access to any other user's contracts, analyses, or account data.
Security. Connector access uses the OAuth 2.1 authorization standard. We store only cryptographic hashes of access credentials, never the credentials themselves. Access tokens are short-lived and automatically rotated.
Audit and retention. Requests made through the connector are logged (including IP address, the tool invoked, and timestamps) for security, abuse prevention, and service improvement, consistent with the logging described elsewhere in this policy. Analyses created through the connector are retained under the same retention terms as analyses created on our website.
Your controls. You may disconnect any AI assistant at any time from your account settings or from the assistant's own connector settings. Disconnecting stops all future access; data already shared with the AI assistant provider remains subject to that provider's policies.
We use industry-standard security measures including encrypted connections (HTTPS), hashed passwords, and secure API key management. However, no method of transmission or storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.
You have the right to:
To exercise any of these rights, contact us at support@sounddeal.com.
California Residents (CCPA): You have additional rights under the California Consumer Privacy Act, including the right to know what personal information is collected, the right to delete, and the right to opt out of the sale of personal information. We do not sell personal information.
UK and EU Residents (UK GDPR / EU GDPR): If you are a resident of the United Kingdom or the European Economic Area, you have additional rights including the right to data portability and the right to lodge a complaint with your local data protection authority. The legal basis for processing your account data and contract analyses is the performance of our contract with you. The legal basis for including pre-cleared deal data in our benchmark dataset is legitimate interest, balanced against your rights as described in Section 4A. The legal basis for including your contributed deal data is your explicit consent.
The Service is not intended for users under 18 years of age. We do not knowingly collect information from minors.
The Service is operated from the United States. If you access the Service from outside the US, your information may be transferred to and processed in the US.
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of material changes via email or a notice on the Service.
Privacy questions? Contact us at support@sounddeal.com.