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SoundCloud may terminate your account without prior notice if designated activities occur on your account. The platform uses your information to deliver personalized advertisements and content recommendations.
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SoundCloud can terminate your account without prior notice for certain actions.
SoundCloud reserves the right to suspend or terminate your account, with or without prior notice, if activities on your account violate their Terms of Use or Community Guidelines, infringe on third-party rights, or breach applicable laws and regulations.
Why it matters: Your account can be suspended or terminated by SoundCloud, potentially without any prior warning, if they determine that your account's activities violate their policies, infringe on rights, or break laws, which could lead to loss of access to your content and the platform.
We reserve the right to disallow, cancel, remove or reassign certain usernames and permalinks in appropriate circumstances, as determined by us in our sole discretion, and may, with or without prior notice, suspend or terminate your account if activities occur on that account which, in our sole discretion, would or might constitute a violation of these Terms of Use or our [Community Guidelines](https://soundcloud.com/community-guidelines), or an infringement or violation of the rights of any third party, or of any applicable laws or regulations.
How the service collects, processes, and shares personal data, including implications for privacy and data security.
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SoundCloud provides personalized ads using your information.
SoundCloud uses information you provide by interacting with the Platform to inform the nature of the tailored ads it shows you, in order to provide a customized experience.
Why it matters: Your interactions and information on the platform will be used to show you personalized advertisements, potentially influencing the content you see and your overall experience.
In order to make the Platform available for free and provide you with personally relevant features, we serve tailored ads on the Platform on behalf of third party advertisers. To that end, we use information that you make available to us when you interact with the Platform to inform the nature of the ads we show you and provide you with a customized experience. More information on how we use data to show you personalized ads is described in our [Privacy Policy](https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy).
**Description of the Platform**, paragraph 4 · Citation strength: strong
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Personalized account recommendations are generated based on user activity and interactions.
SoundCloud provides auto-generated personalized recommendations for registered users, tailored to their interests, based on how they use and interact with the Platform, how other users interact with the Platform, and the similarity of content engaged with.
Why it matters: The platform creates an individualized experience by recommending content based on your activity, interactions with others, and content similarities, which helps you navigate and discover content.
In an effort to help you navigate and discover content on our Platform, we provide auto-generated personalized recommendations for registered users. These recommendations, tailored to your interests, are based on numerous parameters, including how you use and interact with the Platform (for example, your likes, comments and play durations); how other users (such as people you follow or who follow you) use and interact with the Platform; and the similarity in the type of content that you or other users engage with (for example, the tempo or genre of a track).
SoundCloud collects and processes personal information according to its Privacy Policy.
All information collected, stored, and used by SoundCloud, including personal information, is handled in accordance with their Privacy Policy.
Why it matters: Your personal data is collected, stored, and used according to SoundCloud's Privacy Policy, which you should read to understand how your information is managed.
All information is collected, stored and used in accordance with our [Privacy Policy](https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy), so please make sure that you read and understand that policy.
Title: Terms of Use on SoundCloud, paragraph 6 · Citation strength: strong
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Users are given a 2-week notice period for significant changes to the Terms of Use.
When SoundCloud makes significant changes to the Terms of Use, they will provide prominent notice, such as an in-Platform notice or email, and the revised terms become effective two weeks after notification.
Why it helps: This allows users a two-week period to review and understand significant changes to the terms before they take effect. If they disagree, they can choose to terminate their account.
When we make any significant changes to these Terms of Use, we will provide you with prominent notice under the circumstances, including for example displaying a notice within the Platform and/or by sending you an email to the email address that you have provided us or a message to your SoundCloud account, and the revised Terms of Use will become effective two (2) weeks after such notification.
**Changes to Terms of Use**, paragraph 2 · Citation strength: strong
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