Legal
Privacy Policy.
Amerge Music Cooperative Co.
Effective Date: July 19, 2026 Last Updated: July 19, 2026
1. Who We Are
Amerge Music Cooperative Co. ("Amerge," "we," "us," or "our") is a California cooperative corporation. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect personal information when you visit or use our websites and applications, including app.amerge.xyz and amerge.xyz (the "Services").
Contact: Amerge Music Cooperative Co. Email: hello@amerge.xyz
If you do not agree with this Policy, please do not use the Services.
2. Scope
This Policy covers the Services. It does not cover:
- Third-party websites, wallets, marketplaces, or blockchain networks you access through or in connection with the Services.
- Separate signed agreements between you and Amerge, including the Amerge Residency Intellectual Property Rights Assignment Agreement, any Revenue Split Agreement, and the Amerge Disclosure Statement and Maker-Member Agreement. Those agreements govern their own subject matter and control over this Policy where they conflict as to that subject matter.
3. Information We Collect
3.1 Information you provide
| Category | Examples |
|---|---|
| Account and identity | Name, professional or artist name, username, email address, and authentication status |
| Profile | Biography, profile image, social media handles, links, role or craft |
| Workshop and session participation | Workshop or session attended, date, contributor tier or role, contribution description, agreed contribution percentage |
| Wallet | Blockchain wallet address (embedded wallet created for you through our provider, or a wallet you connect) |
| Licensing and business inquiries | Company, project details, budget, message content, contact information |
| Communications | Emails, support requests, form submissions, and their content |
| Revenue administration | Revenue allocations, claim history, and related transaction records. Amerge does not currently collect tax identification or payment-account information through the Services. |
3.2 Information collected automatically
- Technical and session data: IP address, browser type, device type, operating system, referring page, pages viewed, timestamps, and general location inferred from IP address.
- Authentication and session storage: cookies, local storage, and similar technologies used to keep you signed in and to secure your session.
- We do not currently use third-party advertising, analytics, or session-replay tracking. Our hosting and security providers may create ordinary request and diagnostic logs when they deliver or protect the Services.
3.3 Information from third parties
- Authentication providers, such as Google, which may share your name, email address, and profile image when you sign in.
- Our wallet infrastructure provider, which provides your wallet address and authentication status.
- Publicly available blockchain data associated with a wallet address linked to your account.
3.4 Sensitive information and minors
We do not intentionally collect government identification numbers, precise geolocation, biometric data, or payment-account information through the Services. The Services are not directed to individuals under 18 years old, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. If we learn we have collected such information, we will delete it where legally permitted. See the Terms of Service for age eligibility.
4. Information That Becomes Public
Please read this section carefully. Some information you provide is intentionally published.
4.1 Participant name and percentage. After a workshop's contribution split is finalized, the participant names (or professional names) and their corresponding contribution percentages for that work may be displayed publicly within the Services and used in credits, metadata, registrations, promotional materials, and licensing documentation.
4.2 Blockchain records. Revenue participation for a work may later be recorded through Splits contracts on the Base network or another public blockchain. Public blockchains are permanent, public, and outside our control. Once a wallet address and an allocation are written to a public blockchain:
- The record is visible to anyone in the world.
- The record generally cannot be altered, deleted, or made private by Amerge or by you.
- A wallet address may be linked by third parties to your identity, to other transactions, and to other wallets.
Do not participate in on-chain settlement if you are not comfortable with permanent public disclosure of your wallet address and allocation. Contact us before settlement if you have concerns.
4.3 Profile and credits. Information you choose to add to a public profile, and name/likeness usage permitted under a separate signed agreement, may be publicly visible.
5. How and Why We Use Information
| Purpose | Examples |
|---|---|
| Provide the Services | Create and authenticate accounts, provision wallets, display your dashboard |
| Administer workshops and sessions | Track participation, record contributions, calculate and confirm splits |
| Administer rights and revenue | Register works, document chain of title, configure revenue splits, distribute revenue |
| Licensing | Respond to and administer sync and licensing inquiries |
| Communicate | Send transactional email, session logistics, agreement notices, and, where permitted, updates about Amerge |
| Cooperative governance | Evaluate Maker-Member eligibility and administer membership records |
| Safety, security, and integrity | Prevent fraud and abuse, secure accounts, debug and monitor |
| Legal and compliance | Comply with law, tax obligations, and lawful requests; establish, exercise, or defend legal claims |
We do not sell personal information, and we do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.
6. Legal Bases (where applicable)
Where the EU/UK GDPR or a similar law applies, we rely on: performance of a contract (providing the Services and administering agreements); legitimate interests (security, service improvement, business communications); consent (where required, such as certain marketing or non-essential cookies); and legal obligation (tax, accounting, and lawful requests).
7. Service Providers and Disclosures
We share personal information with:
| Provider | Function |
|---|---|
| Supabase | Database, storage, and backend hosting |
| Privy | Authentication and embedded wallet infrastructure |
| Vercel | Application hosting and delivery |
| Resend | Transactional email delivery |
| Optional sign-in authentication | |
| Splits and the Base network | Public recording and administration of a finalized revenue split, when Amerge records one |
We may also disclose information:
- To professional advisers such as counsel and accountants, under confidentiality.
- To licensees, distributors, performing rights organizations, and rights administrators, as necessary to register, license, administer, or account for a work.
- To comply with law, legal process, or a lawful government request, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Amerge, our members, or others.
- In connection with a merger, reorganization, dissolution, or transfer of assets, subject to our Charter Documents.
We select service providers under terms intended to limit their processing to providing their services and other permitted purposes.
8. Retention
We retain personal information for as long as needed for the purposes described above. Because Amerge documents ownership and revenue rights that exist for the full term of copyright, some records, including contributor identity, contribution records, split documentation, and agreement records, are retained indefinitely as business and legal records. Blockchain records cannot be deleted.
Account and profile information is generally retained while the account remains active and until a verified deletion request is completed. Authentication, security, and diagnostic records are retained according to operational and provider retention settings and then deleted or de-identified when they are no longer reasonably needed. Backups are removed through their normal lifecycle. We may retain limited records longer when reasonably necessary for security, fraud prevention, legal compliance, rights administration, accounting, or disputes.
9. Your Choices and Rights
Depending on where you live, you may have the right to know what personal information we hold, to access or receive a copy, to correct inaccuracies, to request deletion, to opt out of sale or sharing (we do neither), to limit use of sensitive information, and to be free from discrimination for exercising these rights.
What you can do today in the Services: You can view and edit your profile and privacy settings. The Services do not currently provide self-service tools to change an account email or authentication method, export account data, delete an account, or export an embedded wallet key.
To request access, correction, a portable copy, or deletion, or to ask about an account or embedded wallet, email hello@amerge.xyz. We will verify your identity before acting, typically by confirming control of the account email. We will respond within the period required by applicable law. Privy may provide separate wallet-access or key-export capabilities under its own service and terms; Amerge does not currently expose a key-export control in the Services.
Limits. We cannot delete information we are required to keep for legal, tax, accounting, rights-administration, or dispute purposes, and we cannot delete or alter information already recorded on a public blockchain. We can remove or de-link a wallet address from your account record within our own systems.
You may authorize an agent to make a request on your behalf with proof of authorization.
10. Cookies and Tracking
We and our authentication and wallet providers use cookies, browser storage, and similar technology that is necessary to authenticate you, keep you signed in, remember interface preferences, provision an embedded wallet, prevent abuse, and secure your session. We do not currently use advertising cookies, third-party analytics, or session replay.
Browsers may offer Do Not Track or Global Privacy Control signals. Because Amerge does not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising, there is no sale or targeted-advertising sharing to opt out of. We do not otherwise respond to Do Not Track signals in a uniform way.
11. Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards, including encrypted transport, access controls, and managed infrastructure providers. No system is completely secure. You are responsible for maintaining the security of your login credentials and any wallet credentials in your control.
12. International Transfers
We are based in the United States and process information in the United States and in other locations where our service providers operate. If you access the Services from outside the United States, your information may be transferred to and processed in countries with different data-protection laws. Where required, we use legally recognized transfer safeguards.
13. Changes to This Policy
We may update this Policy. We will revise the "Last Updated" date and, for material changes, provide notice through the Services or by email to the address on your account before the change takes effect. Continued use after the effective date means you accept the updated Policy.
14. Contact
Questions, requests, or complaints: hello@amerge.xyz.
California residents may also contact the California Attorney General. EU/UK residents may lodge a complaint with their supervisory authority.