Who operates this website
Folk Music Studio is operated by Vistle Studios Motion Pictures Private Limited for artist enquiries, catalogue preparation and studio review. Use the contact form on our website to send a privacy request or contact the team.
Information you choose to provide
Enquiry forms collect your name, email, topic and message. Artist profiles collect the artist or label name, contact email, city, role, biography, main language/genre and official artist profile links you provide. Release preparation stores release and track metadata, version, dates, existing identifiers, featured artists, explicit/instrumental labels, contributor credits, audio, artwork, Content ID eligibility declarations and your upload-permission declaration.
Signing in provides a verified account identifier, email and, when available, a display name. We use the account identifier to associate records with your signed-in workspace. The studio email login uses Google Firebase Authentication to handle password hashing, email confirmation and account recovery; passwords are not stored in the music catalogue database. Older workspaces can be connected only after both the existing account and the new email account are authenticated. Matching email addresses alone do not transfer files or grant management access.
Private drafts and studio submissions
Draft releases and their files are available in your own workspace. When you explicitly submit a release, you permit the authorised studio team to access that release, its attached audio and artwork, and the contact details needed for review. Withdrawing returns it to a private draft and removes it from the studio review queue. Review history is retained as an operational record.
Enquiries go to the studio inbox so the team can process them and contact you. If you are signed in when you enquire, you can also see the request in your workspace. Internal team notes are not displayed in the artist workspace.
Music smart links
You can create a draft listening page from your own saved release. Publishing requires your explicit confirmation to make the selected title, artist name, cover artwork, description and official listening links public. Audio masters are not published. Cover artwork is saved as a snapshot for that listening page. Unpublishing makes the public page and its artwork endpoint unavailable; it does not remove copies previously saved by visitors or other services. No visitor analytics, pre-save account access or marketing signup is collected by these listening pages.
Support conversations
Signed-in artists and the authorised studio team can exchange follow-up messages on an enquiry. Messages are stored with the conversation and appear in the private workspace; they do not send an email automatically. Guest enquiries are followed up using the contact email supplied. Private team notes remain separate from artist-visible replies.
BUJJI website assistant
BUJJI provides general help from this website’s published guidance. It cannot access your account, release files, support conversations or earnings, and it does not submit forms or take actions for you. Chat messages stay in the open page’s memory and are cleared by New chat or a page reload; the website does not save a chat transcript to your artist account or studio inbox.
If AI replies are available and you explicitly enable them in the chat, your question and a short recent chat history are sent to OpenAI to generate a response. No profile or uploaded files are attached. The API request disables stored response retrieval, but the provider may process technical or safety records under its own policies. Without that choice, the website’s help guide answers your question without calling the AI provider. Please avoid personal or confidential information. Choosing “Ask the studio” opens a separate enquiry form; chat text is not sent to the team automatically.
Artist planning and promotion downloads
The release calendar displays preferred dates saved on your releases. Exporting it creates a file for your own calendar and does not schedule a store delivery or send invitations. Promotion kits are prepared in your browser from the release, cover artwork, optional biography and published listening page you select. Your audio master, private notes and contact email are excluded. Check the preview before downloading and sharing. Downloaded files are under your control; the website does not publish or send them automatically.
Why information is processed
We use this information to operate the workspace, respond to enquiries, review catalogues, provide feedback, establish rights and service requirements, prevent abuse, and maintain necessary operational records. Enquiries and submissions do not subscribe you to a marketing newsletter.
Hosting and access
We use hosting, database, file-storage and authentication providers to operate the website. Firebase Authentication processes account information through Google’s infrastructure; it is separate from the music catalogue and file storage and does not provide a choice of Mumbai-only or Hyderabad-only authentication processing. The email login uses secure session cookies; these are separate from your music files. Data may be processed where the providers operate; this website does not promise storage exclusively in India. Operational access is restricted to authorised studio accounts. Management permissions are assigned by the studio and cannot be selected during artist signup.
Technical information
We use temporary, salted hashes of network/account identifiers and time-window counters to limit abusive requests. The site stores your language preference in your browser. Hosting and authentication providers may process their own technical information under their policies.
Retention and your choices
You can edit profiles, delete private drafts and delete unused uploads in your workspace. Files attached to a saved release must be detached before deletion. The studio retains enquiry, submission and review information while needed for its purpose and applicable record obligations. To request access, correction or deletion beyond these controls, use the website contact form with the topic “Privacy request” and your reference number. We may need to verify that the request relates to you.
Information this workspace does not need
The Account & KYC and Bank Details sections explain what to prepare for verification. Use the contracted provider’s secure onboarding process for identity, tax and banking information once it is available. Keep government IDs, bank details, tax documents and payment-card information out of release uploads, BUJJI and support messages. Do not upload content without the required permissions.
AI commercial licence documents
Licence PDFs and app track references stay in your private workspace. The studio can review them after you submit the release. Withdrawal, or saving new changes to a returned release, ends the studio’s access to its current licence files until you submit it again. Upload app-issued rights evidence and keep payment, banking and unrelated identity records out of the file.
After AI licence review, an authorised studio reviewer may prepare a certificate with your consented Aadhaar and PAN endings. Only the final four characters of each reference can appear on the certificate. The studio and the release owner can access the signed certificate through their private workspace.
Future distribution services
Delivery to streaming platforms, Content ID, paid service plans and royalty services require separate activation, terms and agreements. Submitting for review does not send music to streaming stores or transfer ownership.