Privacy Policy
Last updated: 8 July 2026
This policy explains what personal data is processed when you use
SHUFFLE DRUMMER (the "Service"), why, and what your rights are.
We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
1. Data controller
The data controller is SHUFFLE DRUMMER,
2 cour Saint-Pierre, 75017 Paris, France.
Contact: contact@shuffledrummer.com
2. Data we process
| Data | Purpose | Legal basis |
| Account email and (hashed) password | Account creation, login, cross-device sync | Performance of a contract |
| Your audio samples and saved projects | Provide the Service (store and reload your work across devices) | Performance of a contract |
| Usage analytics (Umami — cookieless), page views, approximate location | Understand our audience and improve the Service | Legitimate interest |
| Visit counter, anonymous visitor ID, time spent | Aggregated audience measurement | Legitimate interest |
| IP address logged only when a copy of the code runs outside our domain (anti-piracy safeguard) | Detect and evidence unauthorized copies, defend our rights | Legitimate interest |
| Name, email and message from contact / feedback forms | Respond to your requests | Legitimate interest |
3. Retention periods
- Account, samples and projects: kept while your account exists. Deleted when the account is closed or on request.
- Statistics and audience: kept in aggregated form.
- Anti-piracy logs (off-domain IPs): kept up to 12 months for evidence, then deleted.
- Contact / feedback: up to 12 months.
4. Cookies and local storage
The Service uses your browser's local storage for your session,
settings and creations. Our analytics tool (Umami) runs without cookies.
We use no advertising cookies and no third-party marketing trackers.
5. Recipients and processors
Your data is never sold or rented. It may be processed by our technical providers
acting on our behalf:
- Our hosting provider OVH (storage of accounts, samples and saves);
- Umami (privacy-friendly analytics).
6. Your rights
Under the GDPR you have the rights of access,
rectification, erasure, restriction,
portability and objection. To exercise them, email
contact@shuffledrummer.com.
You may also lodge a complaint with your national data protection authority
(in France, the CNIL — www.cnil.fr).
7. Security
Passwords are stored hashed, access to account data is session-protected, and the
site is served over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but we apply reasonable
measures to protect your data.
8. Children
The Service is not intended for children under 15 without the consent of a holder
of parental responsibility.
9. Changes
This policy may change. The last-updated date appears at the top. We will inform
users of any significant change.
User Agreement, Acceptable Use & Legal Terms
By creating an account, logging in, or otherwise using SHUFFLE DRUMMER (the "Service"), you agree to the terms set out below, in addition to the Privacy Policy above. These terms form a binding agreement between you ("you", "the user") and SHUFFLE DRUMMER ("we", "us"). They apply to every registered user. If you do not accept them in full, do not create an account and do not use the Service.
1. Eligibility & your account
- You confirm that you are at least 15 years old (or the minimum age required by the law of your country), or that you have the consent of a holder of parental responsibility.
- You agree to provide accurate, current and complete information when you register, and to keep it up to date.
- Your account is personal. You are responsible for keeping your password confidential and for all activity that occurs under your account. You will notify us promptly of any unauthorized use.
- You will not share, sell, rent, lend or transfer your account or access credentials, nor create an account on behalf of anyone else or using false identity.
2. Your content (uploaded samples, projects and creations)
- You keep ownership of the audio samples, loops, recordings, patterns and projects you upload or create ("Your Content").
- You represent and warrant that you own, or hold all necessary rights, licences and permissions to Your Content, and that Your Content does not infringe any copyright, trademark, privacy, publicity or other right of any third party, and does not violate any law.
- You grant us a limited, worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host, store, copy, transmit and process Your Content solely to operate and provide the Service to you (including storage, backup and cross-device synchronisation). We do not claim ownership of Your Content, we do not sell it, and we do not redistribute your individual files.
- You will not upload, store or share any content that is unlawful, infringing, stolen, malicious (malware, exploits), defamatory, harassing, hateful, sexually exploitative, or otherwise objectionable.
- You are solely responsible for Your Content and for keeping your own independent backups. The Service is not a backup or archival service. We are not liable for any loss, corruption or deletion of Your Content.
- You agree that we may remove or disable access to any content that we reasonably believe breaches these terms or the law, without prior notice.
3. Our intellectual property — you may not copy the Service
- The Service — including its source code, software, audio engine, user interface, design, graphics, mascots, factory sounds, drum kits, presets, patterns, text and all other content ("Our Materials") — is proprietary and protected by copyright and other intellectual-property laws. All rights are reserved. Nothing in these terms transfers any ownership to you.
- The factory sounds, kits, presets and patterns provided with the Service are licensed to you, not sold, for use within your own original musical productions only. You may not extract, isolate, redistribute, resell, sublicense, repackage or make them available as samples, sample packs, sound libraries, or as part of any competing or similar product or service.
- You will not, and will not permit or assist any third party to: copy, reproduce, mirror, republish, scrape, harvest, frame, decompile, disassemble, reverse-engineer, adapt, translate, or create derivative works of the Service or any part of Our Materials, in whole or in part, by any means.
- You will not remove, obscure, alter, or circumvent any copyright notice, licence text, ownership mark, domain lock, watermark, canary, access control or other technical protection measure contained in or applied to the Service.
- You will not use the Service, Our Materials, or any output, code or data derived from them to train, fine-tune, evaluate or build any machine-learning or artificial-intelligence model, dataset, or generative system.
- You will not use the Service, or knowledge gained from it, to design, develop or operate a product or service that competes with the Service.
4. Acceptable use
- You will use the Service only for lawful purposes and in compliance with all applicable laws and these terms.
- You will not attempt to gain unauthorized access to, probe, scan, overload, disrupt, damage or interfere with the Service, its servers, its security, or the accounts, data or experience of other users.
- You will not access or use the Service by automated means (bots, crawlers, scrapers) without our prior written permission, nor bypass any rate limit, quota or access restriction.
- You will not upload viruses or malicious code, nor use the Service to distribute unsolicited communications or to violate the rights of others.
- You acknowledge and agree that we may monitor use of the Service to detect fraud, abuse and unauthorized copying, including the logging described in the Privacy Policy (e.g. IP address recorded when a copy of the code is executed outside our domain).
5. Payments (where applicable)
- Any paid plans, subscriptions or purchases are billed through our third-party payment provider under its own terms. Fees are stated at the time of purchase.
- Except where a refund is required by mandatory law, all fees are non-refundable, including for partially used periods.
- Fraudulent, reversed or charged-back payments may result in immediate suspension or termination of your account and access.
6. Availability, "as is", and no warranty
- The Service is provided "as is" and "as available", without warranties of any kind, whether express or implied, including any implied warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose, accuracy, or non-infringement.
- We do not warrant that the Service will be uninterrupted, timely, secure, error-free, or that any data or content will be preserved, and we may modify, suspend or discontinue all or part of the Service at any time.
7. Limitation of liability
- To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, we shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential or punitive damages, nor for any loss of profits, revenue, goodwill, data, projects, samples or content, arising out of or relating to your use of (or inability to use) the Service.
- To the maximum extent permitted by law, our total aggregate liability arising out of or relating to the Service or these terms shall not exceed the greater of (a) the total amount you paid us for the Service in the twelve (12) months preceding the event giving rise to the claim, or (b) fifty euros (€50).
- Nothing in these terms excludes or limits any liability that cannot lawfully be excluded or limited, including your mandatory statutory consumer rights.
8. Indemnity
You agree to indemnify, defend and hold harmless SHUFFLE DRUMMER and its operators from and against any and all claims, demands, liabilities, damages, losses and expenses (including reasonable legal fees) arising out of or connected with: (a) Your Content; (b) your use or misuse of the Service; (c) your breach of these terms; or (d) your violation of any law or of any third-party right.
9. Suspension & termination
- We may suspend, restrict or terminate your account and access, and remove content, at any time — with or without notice — if you breach these terms or the law, if we reasonably suspect fraud or unauthorized copying, or where necessary to protect the Service, other users or our rights. No refund is due where an account is terminated for breach.
- You may stop using the Service and request deletion of your account at any time, as described in the Privacy Policy.
- Provisions that by their nature should survive termination (including sections 2–4 and 7–11) will continue to apply.
10. Changes to these terms
We may update these terms from time to time. The "Last updated" date at the top of this page reflects the latest version. Your continued use of the Service after changes take effect constitutes acceptance of the updated terms.
11. Governing law, jurisdiction & severability
- These terms and any dispute arising from them or from the Service are governed by French law. The competent courts of Paris, France shall have jurisdiction, without prejudice to any mandatory protection you may have under the consumer-protection laws of your country of residence.
- If any provision of these terms is held to be invalid or unenforceable, the remaining provisions will remain in full force and effect.
- These terms, together with the Privacy Policy above, constitute the entire agreement between you and us regarding the Service and supersede any prior agreement on the same subject.