Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome to HotRamenAudios ("we," "our," or "us"). We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring you have a positive experience while using our service. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website and use our services.

Information We Collect

How We Use Your Information

• Provide and improve services
• Authenticate membership status
• Personalize user experience
• Analyze usage patterns
• Review refund requests, investigate misuse, and resolve disputes using human review

Playback Records & Retention

We record signed-in playback activity as supporting evidence for membership, refund, fraud-prevention, and dispute reviews. Playback records do not make automatic refund decisions and may be incomplete when browser requests are blocked or interrupted.

Identifiable page-view and playback records are normally retained for 180 days and then deleted. We may retain a limited record longer when required to establish, exercise, or defend a specific legal claim.

Pseudonymous recommendation and membership-attribution records are normally retained for 90 days. These records never contain your email address, your provider account, the raw cookie or session identifier, the full page address you visited, your IP address, or your browser's user-agent string.

Anti-piracy Enforcement & Access Restriction

To protect creator content and prevent unauthorized redistribution, we may apply access restrictions to users who have been identified as having shared protected materials. These measures are applied solely for content protection, platform security, and the prevention of repeated violations, and are limited to what is necessary and proportionate.

Access restriction decisions may rely on internal records maintained by our platform and, where applicable, trusted affiliated platforms operating under contractual safeguards. In such cases, only limited account status information (e.g., eligibility status) is used, and no unnecessary personal data is shared.

This processing is based on our legitimate interest in protecting intellectual property and maintaining a safe platform environment under Article 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation. Users have the right to object to this processing, request human review of decisions, and exercise their data protection rights as described in the “Your Rights” section.

Sharing & Disclosure

We respect your privacy and do not sell your personal information. We may share your information only with:

• Service Providers: Trusted third parties who assist in operating our website.
• Patreon Integration: To verify membership status in accordance with their API terms.

Cookies & Tracking

Essential cookies keep the site running. They maintain your session, remember that you confirmed your age, and store your cookie choice. These are always active, as the site cannot function without them.

If you accept, we also measure which recommendations are shown and which ones you select, so we can improve what we publish. This information is not linked to your name or email address, is never sold, and is deleted after 90 days.

You may decline, or change your choice at any time through the Cookie Settings link in the site footer, and we will stop measuring and delete the related cookie. We do not use advertising or third-party trackers.

Data Security

We implement appropriate security measures to protect your data. However, no method of transmission over the internet is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Your Rights

Depending on your location, you may have rights to access, rectify, or delete your personal data. Contact us to exercise these rights.

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