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Effective October 27, 2026 · Version 1.2
Privacy contact: contact@joyfl.music
JOYFL is designed to help people discover and create uplifting music without collecting more information than we need. This policy explains what information we handle, why we handle it, who may receive it, and what choices you have. We have written it to distinguish listening as a guest from using an artist account, entering a Challenge, or collaborating on music.
JOYFL is operated by GoForth Foundation, a Utah nonprofit corporation doing business as Saints and Neighbors (also branded as Saints & Neighbors). In this policy, “JOYFL,” “we,” “us,” and “our” refer to GoForth Foundation operating JOYFL.
Contact: contact@joyfl.music
Mailing address: 6 W Main St, American Fork, UT 84003
This policy covers the JOYFL website, currently available listening, artist-account and Challenge tools, and any related feature to which we link this policy. It should be read with our Terms of Use and, where relevant, the artist, music-license, and Challenge documents you separately accept. This policy describes personal-information practices; it does not grant or transfer copyright ownership or expand a music license.
JOYFL is not owned, operated, sponsored, or endorsed by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.
You can browse JOYFL's public catalog and listen without creating an account, paying, or giving us your name or email address. We do not currently create listener profiles, save individual listening histories, or record per-song plays tied to a listener. We do not maintain a per-play analytics system, including for artists or administrators who listen.
Technical information is still processed to deliver the website. JOYFL's hosting and content-delivery services may process information such as an IP address, request time, browser or device details, and technical or security logs. Some of this can be personal information under applicable laws. It is used for delivery, reliability, protection against abuse, and troubleshooting—not to build a music-listening profile of you.
We do not require a listener account, and simply listening does not make your identity or listening preferences public. See Sections 9 and 10 for information about cookies and infrastructure providers.
You may subscribe to updates about JOYFL, Challenges, finalists, winners, and related announcements without creating an artist account.
For an updates subscription, we collect your email address, the subjects you select, your 18-or-older confirmation and the version and time of that confirmation, and any campaign-source or marketing tag associated with the link through which you subscribed. We do not need your date of birth to record the current 18+ confirmation. Source tags tell us which invitation or outreach link brought someone to the signup form; they do not, by themselves, mean JOYFL runs a cross-site advertising tracker.
We use this information to send the updates you requested, manage preferences, maintain evidence of the signup, and understand which outreach efforts produced subscriptions. You can unsubscribe using the link in an updates email or by contacting us. We may keep a limited suppression record to honor an unsubscribe and avoid sending additional promotional messages.
JOYFL currently allows artist and authorized internal team accounts. Artist account creation requires an 18+ confirmation. Accounts use email magic links, not passwords.
Depending on your account and what you choose to supply, we handle:
An acceptance record's session reference is not itself an IP address. While the corresponding security session exists, the reference may connect to technical sign-in information held for that session. The reference can remain as evidence of acceptance after the session information is deleted.
JOYFL's sign-in links are designed so their secret values are not stored in a readable form. We do not maintain conventional passwords or collect dates of birth through the current artist-registration flow.
Your legal name is kept for internal records, not displayed as your public legal identity. If you independently use your legal name as a display or professional name, that name may appear publicly because you chose to publish it. See Section 11 for visibility choices.
When an artist uploads lyrics, melodies, demos, audio, artwork, or finished songs, JOYFL may hold the files and information needed to identify, store, review, display, and lawfully use the work. This can include the Work ID, title, authorship and ownership declarations, credits, collaborators, source works, version history, files, publication settings, selected upload license, rights approvals, acceptance records, and disclosed use of third-party material or AI.
We maintain these records to show who contributed what, what permissions were granted, and how a work developed over time. When a contribution is incorporated into another JOYFL project, the derivative project may link to the source Work ID and the credited contributors. Records about authorship and license acceptance may need to remain available internally even if a public profile or song is later hidden.
JOYFL may offer collaboration settings or tools that let an artist authorize another participating creator to build on specified lyrics, a melody, or another contribution. Merely making a work visible does not authorize other users to reuse it. If a work is enabled for collaboration, we may show the credits and source information necessary to support that authorized collaboration. Private contact details and underlying legal documentation should not be displayed just because a work is open for collaboration.
Creative uploads may include sensitive information, such as a personal testimony, voice recording, or story that reveals beliefs or life experiences. Consider carefully what you choose to submit or make public. How JOYFL may use the copyrighted work itself is determined by your accepted work-specific license or Challenge terms, not by this Privacy Policy.
If you enter a Challenge, we may collect your entry (including lyrics, recordings, or accompanying explanations), an authorship or rights statement, named contributors and their roles, permissions you represent that you have obtained, and records necessary to administer and judge the entry.
Challenge applications and internal judging notes are not automatically public. Under the current workflow, entries remain nonpublic unless you choose to publish them or applicable Challenge Rules authorize a finalist or winning entry to be made public. If selected as a finalist or winner, your professional artist name, song title, and the entry itself may be publicly announced or displayed as described in the relevant Challenge Rules. Internal notes, nonpublic contact details, legal names, and payment records do not become public merely because you are selected.
If JOYFL pays you for an award or services, GoForth Foundation may request the payee, tax, and payment information required to make and document that payment. Under the current arrangement, those payment records are maintained in organizational systems outside the JOYFL application. Financial or tax records may need to be retained for legal and accounting purposes after your public entry is removed.
The applicable Challenge agreements—not this policy—determine ownership, prizes, production arrangements, and any rights to publish or adapt an entry.
A songwriter, producer, performer, or other contributor may be named in someone else's JOYFL upload even if that person has never registered with JOYFL. We may then hold the contributor's name, credited role, associated Work IDs, rights information supplied by the uploader, and relevant correspondence or permissions.
The uploader must accurately identify contributors and have any authority required for the submission. We may contact a named contributor, where appropriate, to verify credits or permission. Listing someone in a credit does not prove that the uploader owns that person's copyright or can sign away their rights.
You do not need a JOYFL account to request information about a credit, correct an inaccurate attribution, or raise an applicable privacy concern. Contact contact@joyfl.music and provide the relevant song or profile link if available. We may need to retain a limited record of a disputed credit or copyright claim while resolving it.
The current JOYFL product is designed around data minimization. In particular:
These statements do not mean that ordinary technical logs, work-specific rights records, email signup information, or public information you choose to post are absent. If our data practices materially change, we will update this policy and provide any legally required choices or notices before the new processing begins.
For signed-in artist and team accounts, JOYFL uses a session cookie or comparable essential sign-in mechanism to maintain authenticated access. A guest listener does not receive a JOYFL account-session cookie because the guest does not sign in. Infrastructure security measures may separately use technical identifiers or cookies where required to deliver or protect the service; these should not be confused with a listener profile.
JOYFL does not currently run its own advertising pixels, cross-site behavioral advertising, or enabled audience-analytics tools on the website. Our content-delivery provider makes an optional page-view counter available, but JOYFL reports that it is currently turned off. If we enable analytics, add an advertising pixel, embed technology that tracks visitors, or materially change cookie use, we will update the disclosures and obtain consent or offer choices where required.
Messages sent through our email service may contain operational information needed to deliver messages.
JOYFL currently identifies the following vendors for its core service:
| Provider | Current role |
|---|---|
| Railway | Application hosting, database infrastructure, and file storage |
| Resend | Email delivery, including magic-link sign-in and updates |
| Cloudflare | Content delivery, website security and related technical infrastructure; optional analytics functionality, currently reported as disabled |
These providers process information needed to deliver their services, subject to applicable contracts, technical settings, and legal obligations. We do not presently use a payment processor, customer-relationship-management system, advertising network, or support-ticketing vendor inside the JOYFL application as identified in the current configuration. Organizational payment and tax processing outside the app is described in Section 6.
We may also disclose the information needed to make public artist profiles, permitted song credits, authorized collaborations, and finalist or winner announcements available; respond to lawful requests and copyright claims; protect people's safety and our systems; or carry out a lawful organizational transition subject to appropriate safeguards. We do not sell personal information. We will disclose any materially different third-party data sharing before implementing it as required by law.
An approved artist profile may publicly show the display name, biography, optional location, photo, links, and music or credits the artist chooses to publish. Unlisted content is not ordinarily presented in JOYFL's browse or search tools, but someone with its direct link may still reach it. Unlisted does not mean confidential or restricted to specific people. Other search engines, previews, or caches may also retain previously available information for a time.
A Challenge entry's visibility is governed by Section 6 and the accepted Challenge Rules. A person merely named as a contributor should not have their private email, address, tax information, or internal rights documents exposed by a credit.
We try to maintain useful links when songs or profiles are hidden or removed, including a helpful destination where possible, but cannot guarantee a link or service will function permanently. Requests to correct public artist information can be sent to contact@joyfl.music.
We do not treat all JOYFL information as having the same retention period. We keep information for as long as reasonably needed for the purpose for which it was obtained and any applicable legal, contractual, safety, financial, or copyright-recordkeeping obligations.
JOYFL uses a versioned history for important music and rights records so corrections can be documented rather than silently overwriting previous evidence. A versioned copyright record is not a blanket reason to retain every unrelated personal detail indefinitely. We will assess correction or deletion requests separately for visible material, account identifiers, technical data, legally required records, and backup copies.
Deleting or closing an account does not, by itself, cancel a validly executed music license or copyright assignment. Conversely, a valid music license does not automatically authorize JOYFL to keep unrelated personal information forever.
You can contact contact@joyfl.music to request access to information JOYFL holds about you; correction of inaccurate information; removal of public content; deletion of information where appropriate or legally required; a copy of relevant information; or other rights available to you under applicable law. You can also ask questions about named-contributor credits even without an account.
You can choose what optional artist-profile information to provide, manage available visibility settings, and unsubscribe from promotional emails. If JOYFL ever introduces processing that requires an opt-out or separate consent, we will provide the controls required by applicable law.
We may need to confirm your identity or authority before disclosing or changing protected records. Some requests may be limited by obligations to preserve signed agreements, tax records, safety evidence, copyright rights, or information concerning other people. We will explain an applicable limitation and respond within deadlines required by law. Where law provides an appeal or complaint process, we will honor it.
Anyone can currently browse and listen to public music without registering. Public listening may still involve the technical network information described in Section 2. Artist accounts, Challenge entries, and updates subscriptions currently require the user to confirm they are at least 18. The present system does not collect birthdates or independently verify age beyond the stated confirmation.
JOYFL does not currently offer a supervised 13–17 creator or Challenge account flow. If that changes, we will implement and disclose appropriate parent/guardian permissions, profile protections, contact restrictions, and child or teen privacy safeguards before making those features available.
If we learn that personal information has been collected from a child under 13 in circumstances requiring a response under applicable law, we will investigate and take the required steps, which may include deletion and contacting a parent or guardian. Parents and guardians may contact contact@joyfl.music with concerns. We also evaluate whether the service's audience and technical processing trigger additional child-privacy obligations; free, accountless listening is not itself an exemption from those laws.
We use technical and organizational safeguards appropriate to the information we hold. Current practices include passwordless sign-in, non-readable storage of sign-in link secrets, account access controls, and backups. Hosting, email, and content-delivery providers also process technical and account information as necessary for their services. No internet service can guarantee perfect security.
Personal information may be processed in the United States and in other places where our service providers operate, subject to their actual configurations and applicable law. If a cross-border transfer requires additional protections, we will apply the legally required safeguards. If we learn of an incident requiring notice under applicable law, we will provide that notice as required. Report suspected account compromise or privacy concerns to contact@joyfl.music.
We will post updates with a new version number and effective date. We will provide additional notice, obtain consent, or make rights choices available when required for a material change. We preserve records of accepted legal documents where applicable. A change to this Privacy Policy does not itself expand a previously granted music license or transfer a creator's copyright.
GoForth Foundation, doing business as Saints and Neighbors (JOYFL)
Mailing address: 6 W Main St, American Fork, UT 84003
Privacy and child-safety contact: contact@joyfl.music
Version history: Version 1.2; Version 1.1 (published October 20, 2026); Version 1.0.