Apple Music
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Your profile information and details about SharePlay sessions and collaborative playlists are visible to others by default. The service collects your activity data, including searches, browsing, purchases, listening activity, and approximate call/email numbers, to improve services, prevent fraud, personalize your experience, and compensate partners. Some of this data, including aggregated demographics, is shared with third parties. Importantly, Apple Music retains listening activity and other data for up to two years post-cancellation, and other data for even longer (up to 30 years) to meet legal and financial obligations.
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Profile information such as user handle, display name, photo, followers, and who you are following, are visible to everyone by default.
Why it matters: Your profile details are publicly accessible to everyone unless you change your settings.
However, your profile information, such as handle, display name, photo, your followers, and who you are following, are visible to everyone by default.
All participants in a collaborative playlist, and anyone with access to the playlist, can see and view the name and photo of other participants.
Why it matters: When you collaborate on a playlist, your name and photo will be visible to all other participants and anyone with access to the playlist.
All participants in the playlist, and anyone with access to the playlist, can see and view the name and photo of other participants.
How your data is collected, processed, and shared with others.
Apple collects information about your Apple Music and Apple Music Classical activity, such as songs played and how long they are played, to personalize services, send notifications, and compensate partners.
Why it matters: Your listening habits are collected and used to customize your experience, send you notifications, and fulfill payment obligations to partners.
Apple collects information about your Apple Music and Apple Music Classical activity, such as the songs you play and how long you play them, to personalize the services when you are subscribed, send you notifications, and compensate our partners.
To help identify and prevent fraud, a device trust score is computed using information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, when you attempt a purchase.
Why it matters: Your approximate call and email activity is used to generate a device trust score for fraud prevention when making a purchase.
To help identify and prevent fraud, information about how you use your device, including the approximate number of phone calls or emails you send and receive, will be used to compute a device trust score when you attempt a purchase.
If you allow Apple Music to access your location, your approximate location may be used to save a preferred city of interest to provide you locally relevant information, such as nearby concerts.
Why it matters: Granting location access allows Apple Music to use your approximate location to offer local information, such as nearby concerts.
If you allow Apple Music to access your location, your approximate location may be used to save a preferred city of interest to provide you locally relevant information such as nearby concerts.
Apple is obligated to provide aggregated non-personal data about Apple Music use, as well as aggregated user demographics like age group and gender, to record labels, publishers, and artists.
Why it matters: Aggregated data about your usage and demographics (which may be inferred) are shared with third parties such as record labels and artists.
We are obligated to provide some aggregated non-personal data about the use of Apple Music and Apple Music Classical, as well as aggregated user demographics such as age group and gender (which may be inferred from information such as your name and salutation in your Apple Account), to record labels, publishers, and artists so that they can measure the performance of their creative work and meet royalty and accounting requirements.
Terms related to how you can cancel your subscription, automatic renewals, and data retention after cancellation.
Information about your listening activity, library content, playlists, and searches is retained for as long as your subscription is active and for up to two years following account cancellation.
Why it matters: Your listening data, library content, playlists, and searches may be retained for up to two years after you cancel your subscription.
Information about your listening activity, library content, playlists, and your searches is retained for as long as your subscription is active and for up to two years following account cancellation to support reactivation and to communicate with you about music that may be of interest to you and offers for which you may be eligible.
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Apple Music is designed to enable you to choose what you share.
Why it helps: You have control over the information you share.
Apple Music is designed to protect your information and enable you to choose what you share.
You can make the contents of your profile, like listening activity and playlists, available only to those you choose. You can also block a user from seeing your profile.
Why it helps: You have the ability to control who sees your profile content and can prevent specific users from viewing your profile.
You can make the contents of your profile, like listening activity and playlists, available only to those you choose. However, your profile information, such as handle, display name, photo, your followers, and who you are following, are visible to everyone by default. To block a user from seeing your profile, go to the user’s profile, tap More, then tap Block. People you block won’t see your music or find your profile in Apple Music.
Information that you provide in your profile may be updated or removed by you at any time.
Why it helps: You can freely manage and change your personal information within your profile.
Information that you provide in your profile may be updated or removed by you at any time.
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