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PRIVACY
POLICY
March
20, 2006
QOPEL
RECORDS PRIVACY POLICY
Qopel Records and this site care about your privacy. This privacy
policy tells you what information we collect at our web sites and
how we use it. If you choose to visit any of the Qopel
Records
web sites, your visit is subject to this privacy policy, and you
agree to the terms of it.
WHAT
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
There are many places at our sites where you can share your personal
information with us, and where you can communicate with others.
Registration.
Some of our sites give you the opportunity to register with us,
and sometimes registration is required before certain site features
can be used. Our registration forms may request your contact information
(such as your name, email address, mailing address, etc.), demographic
information (such as your country, gender, etc.), and profile data
(such as your music preferences, entertainment practices, etc).
You may be assigned a site username and/or password. For our internal
purposes, we use this information to communicate with you and provide
the services you have requested, and to provide a more personalized
experience on our sites. For example, your registration may allow
you to use and post to site message boards, create site profiles,
etc. We use aggregate demographic and profile information about
our audience in order to improve our service, for research purposes,
marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting purposes,
among others. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to
our collection and use of your data.
Newsletters
and Other Communications from Us. Our registered users and customers
may receive newsletters, email communications, or communications
through other channels for, among other purposes, the promotion
and marketing of a product or service from our family of sites and
record labels, as well as other Qopel
Records
companies, and business partners, and we may also offer other visitors
to our sites the opportunity to sign up to receive such information.
When there is a separate sign-up for newsletters, we ask for contact
information such as name and email address, and, sometimes, demographic
and profile information. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively
consent to our collection and use of your data. We use this information
in the same manner as we use the contact information in the Registration
process described above. We may offer our users the choice whether
to receive mailings from others that we think will be of interest.
Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions
that may appear at the end of email communications. Note that in
order to keep our registered users informed about the operation
of our services, we may send emails and announcements that are needed
for the proper functioning and administration of our sites and service.
Communications
with Us. We have features where you can submit information to us
(such as when contacting us with a question or feedback). We may
retain your emails and other information you submit to us for our
internal purposes, and to help us to serve you better.
Communications
with Friends. We may offer features where you can send information
to others, such as e-cards or "Tell A Friend" features.
We will use the contact information you enter for your friends to
send the email or e-card.
Interactive
and Community Features. Our sites may offer interactive and community
features, such as message boards, chat, email accounts, short message
service (SMS), instant messaging, profiles, personal homepages,
etc. All information posted or sent through these features may be
publicly available, and you should be aware that when you voluntarily
disclose personal information (e.g., user name, email address, phone
number) through these features, that information can be collected
and used by others and may result in unsolicited communications
from other people. By accessing these features and disclosing personal
information, you affirmatively consent to the distribution of your
personal information as described above. Users' posts may be publicly
and/or internally associated with their profiles/screen-names. Users
are solely responsible for the content of messages they post or
send on public forums.
Contests,
Sweepstakes and Surveys. We may also have contests, sweepstakes
and surveys at our sites. When you enter or participate in them,
we request contact information from you (such as your full name,
email address, mailing address, and telephone number) and may also
request demographic or profile information. We will use the information
you provide for the purpose of conducting the promotion (for example,
to contact you if you have won). We may also use the information
to send you newsletters and other information we think may be of
interest. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following
instructions that may appear at the end of the email communication.
Any personal information we collect may be associated with registration
information. We may share aggregate information with others. We
may sometimes partner with sponsors in offering contests, sweepstakes
or surveys, and may share (provide and receive) information with
them. By entering or participating in such contests, sweepstakes,
and surveys, you affirmatively consent to our collection and use
of your data.
AUTOMATIC
DATA COLLECTION
Our web sites have features that automatically collect information
from users to assist us in creating sites that honor our users'
preferences and serve their interests and needs.
Some
of our sites use cookies, which are small data files containing
information about the user that are stored on the user's hard drive.
Some cookies are used to make login to our sites easier (such as
by remembering usernames and passwords). If users reject cookies,
they may be limited in using some areas of our sites. Cookies can
also enable us to track users' movements and target their interests
to enhance their experience at our sites. We may also collect clickstream
data and assign unique identifiers to our users for the same purposes.
Information obtained with these technologies may be associated with
your personal information.
We
or a third-party advertisement server may also use cookies in connection
with targeting advertisements or promotions to users. Our advertisers
and other third parties whose products or services are promoted
on our sites may also use cookies or other technology, and we advise
you to check their privacy policies for information about their
privacy practices.
We
may also gather information such as the date, time, browser type,
navigation history, and IP address of all visitors to our site(s).
We use this information for our internal security audit log, trend
analysis, and system administration, and to gather broad demographic
information about our user base. We may associate this information
with your personal information. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively
consent to our collection, use, and distribution of your data.
WITH
WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED
Information provided at Artist sites that we host or manage may
be shared with that Artist, including their management, representatives,
and any new label they may join. As with other third parties, we
are not responsible for how the Artists handle the data once they
receive it. When we have co-branded or sponsored services, when
we host a site, or when we join with other parties to provide specific
services, we may share (provide and receive) your personal information
with them. By visiting these sites, you affirmatively consent to
our collection, use and distribution of your data.
We may share your information with other third parties with whom
we have business relationships and, in some cases, we cannot control
or know their privacy practices. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively
consent to our collection, use, and distribution of your data.
Other
than as set forth in this policy, we do not share your personally
identifiable information with other companies, apart from those
acting as our agents in providing our service to you, and which
agree to use it only for that purpose and to keep the information
secure and confidential. We will also disclose information we maintain
when required to do so by law, for example, in response to a court
order or a subpoena or other legal obligation, in response to a
law enforcement agency's request, or in special cases when we have
reason to believe that disclosing this information is necessary
to identify, contact or bring legal action against someone who may
be causing injury to or interference with (either intentionally
or unintentionally) our rights or property. You should also be aware
that courts of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have
the authority under certain circumstances to permit your information
to be shared or transferred to third parties without your permission.
We
may share (provide and receive) aggregate information, which is
not personally identifiable, with others. This information may include
demographic data such as the gender and/or geographic location of
groups of users, but it will not include personal information (such
as your name or email address). We use aggregate demographic information
about our audience in order to improve our service, for research
purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting
purposes, among others.
CHOICE
By accepting this privacy policy, you expressly choose to receive
certain communications from us and third parties, and you expressly
agree to the privacy practices described herein. Our sites may also
provide you with additional specific opportunities to select communications
you wish to receive. You may change your privacy preferences, e.g.
choose to cease receiving certain communications, by informing us
of your new preferences. We will be able to honor your new preferences
most quickly if you inform us of them by following the appropriate
instructions in any communication you receive from us. Please be
aware that messages you receive from us through SMS and instant
messaging systems (and other systems apart from email) may not include
an option to cease receiving communications; to change your privacy
preferences with respect to those communications, please go to the
profile page at the site where you provided your personal information
or direct your instructions to the Contact identified at the end
of this policy.
ACCESS
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as
zip code), we endeavor to provide a way to correct or update that
user's personal data. Please feel free to contact us if you have
any questions regarding making changes to your data.
DATA
COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN
We strive to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from
U.S. children under 13 without appropriate parental notice and consent.
Sites that are directed to children where personal information is
collected should have a Children's Privacy Policy setting forth
our COPPA-compliant practices. At many sites, we actively screen-out
children from data collection and/or use of interactive or community
features. We are committed to protecting children's privacy.
NOTICE:
Visit www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy for information from the Federal Trade
Commission about protecting children's privacy online.
SECURITY
Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely
important to us. We store your personal information securely, and
use special procedures designed to protect the information we collect
from loss, misuse, unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration
or destruction.
MERCHANT/E-COMMERCE
AREAS
We do not generally make e-commerce offerings at our sites. Some
of our sites do have merchant/e-commerce areas, where users can
purchase merchandise. Universal Music Group does not run those areas
of our sites. Personal information collected at those areas is not
shared with Qopel
Records
without the purchasers' consent. At each of those areas, we endeavor
to provide a privacy policy link where users can review the privacy
policies that apply to data collection and use at those areas, and
we urge our users to review them. Please be aware that the site
at iClassics.com is an exception, where we do make e-commerce offerings,
and it is covered by a separate privacy policy. Please review it
if you use that site.
LINKS
We may provide links to non-Qopel
Records
sites. We are not responsible for those other sites, their privacy
policies or how they treat information about their users, and we
advise you to check their privacy policies.
PRIVACY
POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this Privacy
Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review this policy from
time to time. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the
time they are posted and your continued use of our sites after posting
will constitute acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those
changes.
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