To access the SoundCloud API, you must register your app through the SoundCloud API registration process. After registration we'll issue you with a client ID and Security Code (defined below). Your client ID is required for all calls to the SoundCloud API.
If we have reason to believe that you are acting in breach of these API Terms of Use or the User Terms, or if we object to your use of the SoundCloud API for any other reason, we will revoke your access to the SoundCloud API by invalidating your client ID and Security Code. Any attempt to circumvent this and obtain a new client ID and Security Code is strictly prohibited.
We may modify or update the SoundCloud API from time to time, at our absolute and sole discretion. We will make reasonable efforts to ensure that future version(s) of the SoundCloud API are backward compatible with the most recent previous version, but cannot guarantee backward compatibility. You should adapt your app to use the most up-to-date version of the SoundCloud API promptly following release by SoundCloud.
We may also change and update these API Terms of Use from time to time, and will publish any changes on this developer page. You must check this page for any updates. If you are unable to comply with any amended version of these API Terms of Use, you must stop using the SoundCloud API right away.
All content accessed through the API is owned by third parties. All audio, text, images, comments and other data or information associated with user accounts on the SoundCloud platform ("User Content") is owned and/or controlled by the SoundCloud user that created and/or uploaded and/or distributed it (the "Uploader"), and you must respect their rights at all times.
You must not use the SoundCloud API to rip, capture, or copy any User Content from any part of the SoundCloud platform, or use the SoundCloud API to circumvent any usage restrictions or content protection measures imposed by any Uploader with respect to User Content on the SoundCloud platform.
Please also bear in mind that all User Content available over the SoundCloud API has been uploaded by users. We expect all of our users only to upload content to which they own or control the relevant rights, but we cannot give you any guarantee that this will always be the case. This is explained further in the Liability for User Content section below. Regardless of any permissions set by any Uploader with respect to any User Content, you must not use the SoundCloud API, or any User Content accessible via the SoundCloud API, for any of the following purposes:
You must not use the SoundCloud API to access or attempt to access any content that is available only to SoundCloud Go subscribers. Any app intended for use specifically by SoundCloud Go subscribers will require robust authentication, and a separate written agreement with SoundCloud including additional terms, obligations, conditions and restrictions regarding the use of SoundCloud Go content.
You shall implement and maintain all appropriate technical, administrative and organizational measures required to ensure a level of confidentiality and security appropriate to the risks represented by the processing and the nature of SoundCloud Personal Data, and to prevent unauthorized or unlawful processing of SoundCloud Personal Data, including measures against unauthorized or unlawful processing of SoundCloud Personal Data and against accidental loss, corruption, disclosure or destruction of, or damage to, SoundCloud Personal Data. You must provide reasonable resources to your employees to enable processing of SoundCloud Personal Data in compliance with these API Terms of Use.
If requested by SoundCloud, you will keep SoundCloud informed of the contact details of your data protection representative. You shall provide SoundCloud with any information that SoundCloud reasonably requires in order for SoundCloud to comply with its obligations under applicable laws including to inform individuals about your data processing activities and any data transfer solutions utilized by you. You shall notify SoundCloud Party if you become aware of, or suspect, a Personal Data breach immediately (or in any case no later than 24 after becoming aware of, or suspect, such a breach). You shall document all Personal Data breaches in accordance with applicable laws and fully cooperate with SoundCloud to ensure compliance with applicable laws. You shall use reasonable endeavors to mitigate any damage suffered by any individual in connection with such Personal Data breach.
The account linking and / or integration request to users shall include all information required to ensure it is compliant with applicable laws, including sufficient notice: (i) of which SoundCloud Personal Data you will access and the purpose of such processing; and (ii) that you will be responsible for your processing of such data in accordance with your privacy policy.
You shall allow users to disconnect their SoundCloud-provided account by providing an easily accessible and usable mechanism to disconnect their SoundCloud-provided account from your app at any time, including clear instructions on how to do so.
If a user disconnects accounts as described above, or if SoundCloud or a user requests such disconnection, you shall discontinue accessing the applicable SoundCloud Personal Data and delete the applicable SoundCloud Personal Data in your possession or control without undue delay, but in any case within 7 days.
To the extent you are receiving Personal Data from SoundCloud as a data importer, you represent and warrant that with respect to such data, you: (i) shall ensure that an equivalent level of protection as offered by EU law will be provided to EU/EEA individuals in the country you are processing Personal Data, and (ii) shall implement supplemental measures consistent with regulatory guidance (and remain consistent as further regulatory guidance is issued).
You represent and warrant that you can comply with the SCCs and accept the transfer of SoundCloud Personal Data. To the extent you become unable to comply with the SCCs, you shall promptly notify SoundCloud and SoundCloud may terminate your use of the API in its sole discretion.
Data importer shall undertake appropriate technical and organizational security measures to protect personal data against unauthorized or unlawful processing and against accidental loss or destruction or damage.These measures should take into account available encryption technology and the costs of implementing the specific measures and must ensure a level of security appropriate to the harm that might result from a breach of security and the nature of the data to be protected.
All requests for authenticated access to a user's SoundCloud account (other than your own account) must be made via the "Connect with SoundCloud" webview OAuth process, unless we've made a separate arrangement with you. Documentation for the webview OAuth process is available here.
You must not use the SoundCloud API to upload User Content, create accounts, play sounds, add followers, like sounds or make comments on behalf of a user, unless those actions are specifically and deliberately initiated by the user via an authenticated use of your app.
You must not use the SoundCloud API to impersonate any SoundCloud user, or to misrepresent your relationship with any user, or use the SoundCloud API in any other way that is contrary to the User Terms.
Your app must not include file-save functionality, or otherwise designed to cache, download or persistently store any User Content. Your app may employ session-based caching, but only to the extent reasonably necessary for the operation of your app during that session, and any cached content must cease to be available, accessible or playable within your app at the end of that session. If any Uploader changes their settings with respect to any item of User Content (for example, by removing that item of User Content from the platform, or by disabling API access), you must ensure that your app reflects and respects such changes as soon as reasonably possible. Except for session-based caching referred to above, your app must not offer offline access to any User Content including, in the case of audio User Content, as permanent downloads or temporary downloads for offline listening, regardless of whether Uploaders have set that User Content as allowed to be downloaded on the SoundCloud platform.
Unless otherwise permitted by applicable law and/or agreed with the relevant user, when a user revokes access to their SoundCloud account, you must ensure that all Personal Data and User Content pertaining to that user is deleted from your app, networks, systems and servers as soon as reasonably possible. If you stop using the SoundCloud API altogether or if your API access is revoked, you'll need to delete all User Content and Personal Data in the same way.
Notwithstanding the above, SoundCloud shall have the sole right to determine whether or not an app is acceptable, and we reserve the right to revoke API access for any app that we determine is not providing added benefit to SoundCloud users and/or is not in the best interests of SoundCloud or our users.
Access to the SoundCloud API is currently provided free of charge, but SoundCloud reserves the right to charge at some point in the future. We'll use commercially reasonable efforts to let you know in advance if we intend to start charging.
We may, at our absolute and sole discretion, impose restrictions and limitations on the number and frequency of calls made by your app to the SoundCloud API. You must not attempt to circumvent any restrictions or limitations that we impose. API calls are limited as per the documentation here.
The rights granted by these API Terms of Use do not include any general right to use the SoundCloud name or any SoundCloud logo or trademark (collectively, the "SoundCloud Marks") with respect to your app. Provided you comply with these API Terms of Use and the User Terms, you are permitted to use SoundCloud Marks only as described in the following paragraphs for limited purposes related to your app. These rights apply on a non-exclusive, non-transferable, worldwide, royalty-free basis, without any right to sub-license, and may be revoked by SoundCloud at any time.
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