AUDIOKITE.COM PRIVACY POLICY
Audiokite, L.L.C. (“Audiokite.com”, “we” or “us”) recognizes the importance of your personal privacy. Therefore, we have created this Privacy Policy so that
you know how we use and disclose your information when you make it available to
us. The Privacy Policy below discloses our practices
regarding information collection and usage solely for the web site located at
www.Audiokite.com (the “Service”).
By using or accessing the Service or participating in our
services, you signify your agreement to be bound by our Privacy Policy. IF YOU
DO NOT AGREE TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE OUR
SERVICE OR PARTICIPATE IN OUR SERVICES.
Key aspects of our privacy practices described in this
Privacy Policy include the following explanations:
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The information we
collect and why we collect it;
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How we use that
information;
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How we share
information; and
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The choices we
offer.
Personally Identifiable
Information That We Collect:
We do not collect personally identifiable information
from you unless you voluntarily provide it to us, such as your email address,
name, song name, artist/band name, and artist/band genre. You may be required
to submit certain personally identifiable information when you register on the
Service. The personally identifiable information which you
may provide to us could include your name, email address, physical
address, credit card number and other personal information.
Non-Personal Or Aggregate
Information That We Collect:
When you access our Service or use the Audiokite.com
services, we may automatically collect non-personally identifiable information
from you, such as IP host address, web pages viewed, browser type, operating
system, referring service, search information, device type, page views, usage
and browsing habits on the Service and similar data. We may also aggregate
demographic information collected from our users (such as the number of users
in a particular state) in a manner which does not
identify any one individual. We may also aggregate
information collected offline in connection with the Service or use of our
services, obtain non-personally identifiable information from third party
sources and develop aggregate information by anonymizing previously collected
personally identifiable information.
It is possible at times when
collecting non-personally identifiable information through automatic means that
we may unintentionally collect or receive personally identifiable information
that is mixed in with the non-personally identifiable information. While we will make reasonable efforts to prevent such
incidental data collection, the possibility still exists. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected your
personal information, please notify us at help@audiokite.com.
Information Usage:
We will only use your personally identifiable information
as described below, unless you have specifically consented to another type of
use, either at the time the personally identifiable information is collected
from you or through some other form of consent from you or notification to you:
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We may share your
personally identifiable information collected in connection with providing the
Service.
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We may use your
personally identifiable information to respond to your inquires or requests.
• We may use your personally identifiable information to send you emails from time to time about our services, such as future testing questions, but we will not provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for them to contact you directly unless otherwise permitted by this Privacy Policy or you provide your consent.
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We may permit our
vendors and subcontractors to access your personally identifiable information,
but they are only permitted to do so in connection with performing services for
us. They are not authorized by us to use the information for
their own benefit.
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We may share your personally identifiable
information with third parties to further the purpose for which you provided
such information to us; for example, we may share your information with PayPal,
as necessary for processing your purchases made online via the Service. We
urge you to read PayPal’s
privacy practices before submitting any personal credit card information
through the Service.
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We may disclose
personally identifiable information as required by law or legal process.
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We may share personally identifiable information, including email addresses, with members of the website in connection with our reviewer / fan opt-in program or any other relevant program.
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We may disclose
personally identifiable information to investigate suspected fraud, harassment
or other violations of any law, rule or regulation, or the terms or policies
for our services or our sponsors.
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We may transfer your
personally identifiable information in connection with the sale or merger or
change of control of Audiokite.com or the division responsible for the services
with which your personally identifiable information is associated.
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We may share your
personally identifiable information with an affiliate of Audiokite.com who is
in the same corporate family as us as long as their privacy practices are
substantially similar to ours.
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We may share your personally identifiable information with an approved third party if during the use of the service you become eligible for a promotion with that approved third party. Eligibility is generally limited to scores in reports. To opt out of these promotions, simply send an email to help@audiokite.com with the subject "Opt Out of Partnerships" and your information will never be shared. Approved third parties are limited to the following, and we urge you to review their privacy polices as well: Musicbox (http://mymusicbox.me/), Wespin (http://www.wespin12.com/)
Non- personally identifiable or
aggregate information may be used by us for any purposes permitted by law and
may be shared with any number of parties, provided that such information shall
not specifically identify you.
Cookies and Similar
Technologies:
“Cookies” are pieces of information that may be placed on your
computer by a service for the purpose of facilitating and enhancing your
communication and interaction with that service. Many services use cookies for
these purposes.
We may use cookies (and similar items such
as clear gifs, web beacons, tags, etc.) on our Service to customize your visit
and for other purposes to make your visit more convenient or to enable us to
enhance our Service. We may also use and
place cookies (and similar items) on your computer from our third party service
providers in connection with the Service, such as an analytics provider that
helps us manage and analyze Service usage, as described more fully below. In addition, our advertisers and business partners may
set cookies and similar items on your computer when you use our Service. You may stop or restrict the placement of cookies on your
computer or flush them from your browser by adjusting your web browser
preferences, in which case you may still use our Service, but it may interfere
with some of its functionality. Cookies and similar items are
not used by us to automatically retrieve personally identifiable information
from your computer without your knowledge.
If you delete your cookies, change browsers or use a
different cookie, our cookie (or an opt-out cookie) may no longer work and you
will have to reinput (or opt-out) again.
Analytics and Conversion
Tracking:
We use analytics services that use
cookies, javascript and similar technologies to help us analyze how users use
the Service. The information generated by these services about your use of the
Service (including your IP address or a truncated version of your IP address)
is transmitted to and stored by analytics service providers on their servers.
Those service providers will use this information for the purpose of evaluating
your, and other users’, use of the Service, compiling reports for us on website
activity and providing other services relating to website activity and Internet
usage.
We may collect information about
your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type,
for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical
data about our users’ browsing
actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
We use cookies on our site for Google Analytics.
Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand
how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a
variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they
can improve it.
Like many services, Google Analytics uses
first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they
are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use
the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site.
Cookies contain information that is transferred
to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store
information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the
visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the
web page.
Google Analytics collects information
anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out
of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics
across all websites you use, visit https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We also use Google conversion
tracking and/or similar services to help us understand your and other users’ use of the Service.
Please see https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/1722022?hl=en for more information
about conversion tracking provided by Google.
Security:
The security of your personally
identifiable information is very important to us. When we collect your
personally identifiable information online, we use reasonable efforts to
protect it from unauthorized access. However, due
to the inherent open nature of the Internet, we cannot guarantee that your
personally identifiable information will be completely free from unauthorized
access by third parties such as hackers and your use of our Service and
Audiokite.com services demonstrates your assumption of this risk. We have put in place reasonable physical, electronic, and
managerial procedures to safeguard the information we collect. Only those
employees who need access to your information in order to perform their duties
are authorized to have access to your personally identifiable information. For more information on protecting your privacy, please
visit www.ftc.gov/privacy.
Your Disclosures In Blogs And
Other Social Media:
You should be aware that personally identifiable
information which you voluntarily include and transmit online in a publicly
accessible blog, chat room, social media platform or otherwise online, or that
you share in an open forum such as an in-person panel or survey, may be viewed
and used by others without any restrictions. We are unable
to control such uses of your personally identifiable information, and by using
such services you assume the risk that the personally identifiable information
provided by you may be viewed and used by third parties for any number of
purposes.
Protection for Children:
We generally do not collect personally identifiable
information from children under the age of 18. If at any time
in the future we plan to collect personally identifiable information from
children under 18, such collection and use, to the extent applicable, shall,
when required, be done in compliance with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (“COPPA”) and appropriate consent
from the child’s
parent or guardian will be sought where required by COPPA. When we become aware that personally identifiable
information from a child under 18 has been collected without such child’s parent or guardian’s consent, we will use all reasonable
efforts to delete such information from our database.
Other Services:
As a convenience to you, we may provide links to
third-party Services from within our Service. We are not responsible for the
privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. When you link away from our Service, you do so at your
own risk.
Changes to this Privacy
Policy:
We reserve the right, at our discretion, to change,
modify, add, or remove portions from this Privacy Policy at any time. However, if at any time in the future we plan to use
personally identifiable information in a way that materially differs from this
Privacy Policy, including sharing such information with more third parties, we
will post such changes here and provide you the opportunity to opt-out of such
differing uses.
Your continued use of the Service and our
services following the posting of any changes to this Privacy Policy means you
accept such changes.
Opt-Out
Process:
All unsubscribe or opt-out requests should be sent to us
at help@audiokite.com and we will process your request within a reasonable time
after receipt. However, we are not responsible for, and in some cases we are
incapable of, removing your personally identifiable information from the lists
of any third party who has previously been provided your information in
accordance with this Privacy Policy or your consent. You should contact such third parties directly. If you
would like to update or correct any personally identifiable information that
you have provided to us, please email us at help@audiokite.com and once we
confirm your information, we will update such information within a reasonable
amount of time.
Communications with
Audiokite.com:
By providing your email address to us, you expressly
consent to receive emails from us. We may use
email to communicate with you, to send information that you have requested or
to send information about other products or services developed or provided by
us or our business partners, provided that, we will not give your email address
to another party to promote their products or services directly to you without
your consent or as set forth in this Privacy Policy.
Any communication or material you transmit to us by email
or otherwise, including any data, questions, comments, suggestions, or the like
is, and will be treated as, non-confidential and nonproprietary. Except to the extent expressly covered by this Privacy
Policy, anything you transmit or post may be used by us
for any purpose, including but not limited to, reproduction, disclosure,
transmission, publication, broadcast and posting. Furthermore, you expressly
agree that we are free to use any ideas, concepts, know-how, or techniques
contained in any communication you send to us, as well as any data developed
using the content of such communication, without compensation and for any purpose
whatsoever, including but not limited to, developing, manufacturing and
marketing products and services using such information.
No Rights of Third Parties:
This Privacy Policy does not create rights enforceable by
third parties, nor does it require disclosure of any personal information
relating to users of the Service.
Site Terms and Conditions:
Use of this Service is governed
by, and subject to, the Terms and Conditions located at
http://www.audiokite.com/terms This Privacy Policy is incorporated into such terms. Your use, or access, of the Service constitutes your
agreement to be bound by these provisions. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS YOU MAY NOT ACCESS OR OTHERWISE USE THE
SERVICE.
United States of America:
Our servers are maintained in the United States of
America.
By using the Service or participating in
Audiokite.com services, you freely and specifically give us your consent to
export your personally identifiable information to the USA and to store and use
it in the USA as specified in this Privacy Policy. You understand that data stored in the USA may be subject
to lawful requests by the courts or law enforcement authorities in the USA.
Governing Law:
This Privacy Policy and our legal obligations hereunder
are subject to the laws of New York, U.S.A., regardless of your location. You hereby consent to the exclusive jurisdiction of and
venue in the federal and state courts located in New York County, New York,
U.S.A. in all disputes arising out of or relating to the Services.
Contact:
For questions or concerns relating to privacy, we can be
contacted at: help@audiokite.com.
Effective Date:
This Privacy Policy was last updated on August 12, 2014.
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