Morgan Productions, LLC
Morgan Productions, LLC ("Morgan Productions," "we," "us") produces and licenses instrumental music as Morgan. This policy covers everything we do: morganbeats.com, the Morgan Members newsletter and membership, beat licenses and free downloads bought or claimed through third-party stores such as BeatStars, and commissioned custom and exclusive work.
Version 1.0, effective 3 August 2026.
| Item | Detail |
|---|---|
| Who we are | Morgan Productions, LLC, a Michigan Limited Liability Company |
| Contact for privacy | contact@morganbeats.com |
| What this covers | The site, the newsletter, the membership, beat licenses and free downloads bought through stores like BeatStars, and custom work |
| What we collect | Your email and name; how you interact with our emails; order and license records; and, where a store sends it with an order, contact details such as a mailing address. See Section 2 for the full list. |
| Do we profile you | Yes, in a limited way. We score engagement and group customers by what they buy, to decide what to send. We do not build advertising profiles and no decision with a legal effect is made automatically. See Section 4. |
| Do we sell your data | No. We do not sell or rent personal information, and we do not share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. |
| Who processes it for us | beehiiv (email and website), Stripe (payments), Dropbox (file delivery), Intuit QuickBooks (invoicing), Google Workspace (email) |
| Where we get it | From you, and from BeatStars, PayPal, Stripe, and Mailchimp when you buy or subscribe there. See Section 3. |
| Your rights | Access, correction, deletion, portability, objection, and withdrawal of consent. You can stop marketing without cancelling anything. See Section 8. |
| Retention | Set periods for most things. License records are kept for as long as the license lasts, which is currently for life. See Section 7. |
Everyone we deal with: visitors to morganbeats.com, free newsletter subscribers, people who download or buy a beat through a third-party store, custom and exclusive clients, paid Morgan Members, producers we collaborate with, and the estate or successors of a member where a license passes to them. Where something applies only to one group, it says so.
2.1 Everyone on our list.
2.2 If you buy a beat or claim a free download.
2.3 Custom and exclusive clients. Your name or business name, contact details, the brief and any reference material you send, the agreement itself, and invoicing records held in QuickBooks including any balance outstanding.
2.4 Paid members, additionally.
2.5 Producers and collaborators. Where a producer co-writes a beat with us, we record their legal name and their share of the publishing. This is necessary: it appears on the license documents we issue to members and on registrations with performing rights organizations, and without it their royalties cannot be paid. We confirm the spelling before we use it. If you are named as a collaborator and want to know what we hold, or want it corrected, write to contact@morganbeats.com.
2.6 Information we work out about you. We derive some information rather than collect it: totals such as how much you have spent and how many beats you have bought, an engagement rating, a customer group based on what you buy, and a record of which beats we have already sent or recommended to you so we do not repeat ourselves. Section 4 explains how we use these.
2.7 Do you have to give it to us? Providing information is not a statutory requirement, but some of it is a contractual requirement and we cannot do our part without it:
| If you do not provide | Then |
|---|---|
| Your email address | We cannot send you the newsletter or deliver any files |
| Your legal name (paid members) | We cannot issue your license agreement or register royalties, so we cannot grant you a license |
| Payment details (paid members) | The membership cannot start, and no license is granted |
| Optional details such as artist name or preferences | Nothing is withheld; we just tailor less |
2.8 What we do not collect. We do not ask you for a home address, a date of birth, or any government identifier, and our membership agreements have no address field. Where a third-party store passes a mailing address with an order, as described in 2.2, we hold what it sends. We do not seek special category data (health, race, religion, biometrics, political or religious views, sexual orientation) and ask that you do not send it to us; because email replies are kept as free text, anything you volunteer will be retained until deleted.
Directly from you in most cases. We also receive it from:
| Source | What we receive |
|---|---|
| BeatStars | Your name, email, order details, and depending on the sale a mailing address, username, or country |
| PayPal | Transaction records from older sales |
| Stripe | Payment confirmation, plan, and subscription status |
| Mailchimp | Email, name, engagement history, and interest tags for subscribers who joined before we moved to beehiiv |
| A collaborator or their representative | A co-producer's legal name and publishing share |
None of this comes from publicly accessible sources or from data brokers. Those platforms decide for themselves how they handle your data and have their own privacy policies; this policy governs what we do with the information once we hold it.
When we tell you. Where we obtain your information from one of these sources rather than from you, we will tell you within one month, or at our first communication with you if that is sooner. For most people that is the welcome email.
We want to be plain about this rather than bury it.
What we do. We attach an engagement rating to your record based on whether you open and click our emails. We group customers by what they have bought. We score our own beats by how well they sell and how much interest they attract, and we keep a record of what we have already sent you. We use these to choose which beats to recommend, who to email about what, and who to invite back if they have drifted away.
What we do not do. We do not build advertising profiles, we do not sell or share these scores, and we do not use them to set different prices for different people. No decision that produces a legal effect for you, or anything similarly significant, is made automatically. A person makes every decision that matters, and everything we score is either your own activity with us or our own catalog.
Your control. You can object to this at any time under Section 8, and we will stop using your data for it.
If you are in the UK or EEA, the GDPR requires us to identify a lawful basis for each use.
| What we do | Legal basis | Where we rely on legitimate interests, the interest is |
|---|---|---|
| Send the newsletter and drops you signed up for | Consent (free subscribers), or contract (paid members) | — |
| Run your membership: grant licenses, deliver files, issue your Schedule | Contract | — |
| Fulfill a beat license, free download, or custom commission | Contract | — |
| Take payment and manage billing | Contract | — |
| Credit and pay a collaborating producer their share | Contract with that producer, and legitimate interests | Paying people correctly, and issuing accurate license documents |
| Prove what you are licensed to do, and what splits are owed | Legitimate interests, and establishment or defense of legal claims | Defending title to our catalog and protecting your ability to prove your own rights |
| Score engagement and group customers to decide what to send (Section 4) | Legitimate interests | Sending relevant material rather than emailing everyone about everything |
| Understand which emails and beats perform | Legitimate interests | Running a viable business and making better music |
| Cookies and similar technologies that are strictly necessary to run the site | Legitimate interests | Making the site and your account work |
| Analytics cookies and email open tracking | Consent, where the law requires it | — |
| Prevent fraud, abuse, chargebacks, and unauthorized file sharing | Legitimate interests | Protecting our catalog and our paying customers from theft |
| Monitor for unlicensed use of our music, including through content identification systems | Legitimate interests | Enforcing copyright in our own recordings |
| Keep tax, accounting, and transaction records | Legal obligation | — |
| Tell existing customers about related products | Legitimate interests | Selling to people who have already chosen to buy from us |
We have weighed our interests against your rights in each case, and you may object at any time under Section 8. If you want to know more about how we weighed them, ask.
We do not sell, rent, or trade personal information.
6.1 Providers who process data on our instructions.
| Provider | Purpose |
|---|---|
| beehiiv | Email delivery, website hosting, subscriber management, analytics |
| Stripe | Payment processing and subscription billing |
| Dropbox | Delivery and storage of your audio files and license documents |
| Intuit QuickBooks | Invoicing and accounting |
| Google Workspace | Our email correspondence with you |
Stripe also acts independently. As well as processing payments for us, Stripe uses transaction data for its own fraud prevention and legal compliance, as its own privacy policy describes. We do not control that use.
6.2 Platforms we receive data from. These are not our processors. They decide for themselves how they handle your data, under their own privacy policies: BeatStars, PayPal, and Mailchimp. Section 3 sets out what each supplies.
6.3 Where collaborator and split information goes. If you are a collaborating producer, your legal name and publishing share appear on the license documents we issue to members who license that beat, and are registered with performing rights organizations and distributors so your royalties reach you. This is unavoidable: an unnamed writer does not get paid.
6.4 Our own records. We keep the master copy of our customer records on our own equipment, not only with the providers above.
6.5 Other disclosures. We may disclose information where the law requires it, to enforce our agreements, or as part of a sale or reorganization of the business, in which case any buyer takes it subject to this policy.
Your own registrations. If you release music using our beats, registering the composition with a performing rights organization is your own act, governed by that organization's rules rather than this policy.
| What | How long |
|---|---|
| Subscriber and engagement data | While you are subscribed, and 24 months afterwards |
| A record that you asked us not to contact you | Indefinitely, and deliberately. This is the only way we can be sure not to email you again, and we keep the minimum needed to do that: your email address and the fact you opted out |
| Order and free-download records | 7 years, alongside the accounting records they support |
| Billing, tax, and accounting records | 7 years, because the law requires it |
| Custom and exclusive project files and correspondence | 7 years from completion |
| License records | For as long as the license lasts, and afterwards for as long as a claim about it could still be brought |
About license records. The record of what you were granted, on what date, and on what terms is the proof that you are entitled to exploit those recordings, and the basis on which royalties are calculated and paid. If we erased it, neither of us could prove what you have the right to do, and a collaborator's royalties could not be traced. We retain it for the establishment and defense of legal claims, which the GDPR permits as an exception to erasure.
Because the licenses we grant are currently perpetual, in practice this means we keep those records indefinitely. If we ever grant a license for a fixed term, the record for that license is kept for the term and the limitation period that follows it, and no longer. Where a member dies, our royalty and publishing interests and any continuation license for already-released work survive, so the record is still needed.
What we will delete. On request we will delete everything outside the table above, and reduce the license record to the minimum that keeps it meaningful. Some license documents have already been issued to other people — a member's copy of their own agreement, a collaborator's name on a split registered with a PRO — and we cannot reach into those. We will tell you plainly what we could not remove and why.
Wherever you live, you can ask us to:
Your right to object
You can object at any time to our use of your information for direct marketing, including the profiling described in Section 4. This right is absolute: if you object to marketing, we will stop, and we do not need to weigh anything against it.
You do not have to cancel anything to exercise it. Email contact@morganbeats.com and say you want to stop marketing, and we will stop emailing you about products while leaving your membership and your licenses exactly as they are. If instead you use the unsubscribe link in an email, that opens your account page, where you can also cancel your membership — those are two different actions and you choose which one you take.
You may also object to any processing we base on legitimate interests, and we will stop unless we have compelling grounds that override your rights.
How to exercise any of these. Email contact@morganbeats.com. We will respond within one month and will tell you if we need longer because the request is complex. We do not charge for this. Exercising these rights will not affect the licenses you hold or the service you receive.
A second route for your newsletter data. Our email platform, beehiiv, also handles deletion and export requests for the subscriber data it holds, directly at privacy@beehiiv.com. You are welcome to use it. It reaches only the data held on that platform, so if you want everything we hold, write to us — we hold records beehiiv does not.
UK and EEA. You may lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. In the UK that is the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).
We have not appointed an EU representative. We are a small United States business, we do not market to the EU or price in euros, and we do not monitor anyone's behaviour there. If that changes we will appoint one and say so here. You can always reach us at the address above.
California. We do not meet the thresholds that make the CCPA apply to us, and we do not sell personal information or share it for cross-context behavioral advertising. We will nevertheless honor requests to know, delete, and correct, and we will not treat you differently for making one. We may need to verify your identity first.
Our site uses cookies that are strictly necessary to run it: keeping you signed in, remembering your preferences, and securing your account. These do not require your consent.
We also measure whether our emails are opened and which links are clicked, using a small image in the message. Where the law requires your consent for that or for analytics cookies, we ask for it and you can decline.
We do not run third-party advertising trackers, and we do not use your data to build advertising profiles. Section 4 describes the limited profiling we do carry out.
You can block cookies in your browser, and you can stop open-tracking by disabling images in your email client, though some features may not work.
Nothing we offer — the site, the newsletter, the membership, our beat stores, or custom work — is directed to children, and we do not knowingly collect their information. Depending on the country, the age at which a child can consent to online services is between 13 and 16. If you believe a child has given us personal information, write to contact@morganbeats.com and we will delete it.
We keep our master customer records on our own equipment, protected by full-disk encryption, a screen lock, and access limited to the owner of the business. Our providers hold the rest, and encrypt data in transit and at rest. Accounts use strong, unique credentials with two-factor authentication where the provider offers it.
No system is perfectly secure and we cannot guarantee absolute security. If a breach affects your rights we will notify you and the relevant authority as the law requires.
We operate in the United States and our providers store data there. If you are in the UK or EEA, your information is transferred to the US. We rely on the safeguards each provider offers for those transfers, which are the European Commission's Standard Contractual Clauses or, where the provider is certified, the EU-US Data Privacy Framework. Ask us and we will tell you which applies to a particular provider, and provide a copy of the safeguard.
We may update this policy. The version and effective date are at the top. Each version is published at its own permanent address and is not altered once published, so an earlier version stays available.
If a change is significant we will say so at the top of this page and, for people we are still able to email, tell them before it takes effect. If you have unsubscribed we have no way to reach you, so please check this page if it matters to you.
Morgan Productions, LLC A Michigan Limited Liability Company Privacy enquiries: contact@morganbeats.com Postal: 430 E 8th St PMB #299, Holland, MI 49423, United States
Morgan Productions, LLC · 430 E 8th St PMB #299, Holland, MI 49423 · contact@morganbeats.com