PRIVACY POLICY MUSICSEND.COM
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“Where
all your dreams come true”
Effective January 1, 2007
About MusicSend.com
MusicSend.com is an online service that allows artistic
members to set unique profiles that can be linked together through networks of
fans. It allows artistic members to create and distribute the music that they
both own and control in an effort to both share their music with the world and
to create, generate and grow a fan base. It allows fans of an artist’s music to
similarly create websites to promote themselves and share their favorite
artists music.
Like other social networking sites, MusicSend.com members
can view each others’ profiles, communicate with old friends and meet new
friends on the service, share photos, post journals and comments, and describe
their interests. To enrich the experience of all members of the MusicSend.com
experience we might request and display some personal information to other
members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and expand
other members and visitors, which allows our users to identify each other and
expand their network of friends. MusicSend.com members can change their profile
information at any time and can also control how other members and the
MusicSend.com service communicates with them.
MusicSend.com cares deeply about the personal privacy of all
of our members. If you have any questions concerning this privacy policy,
please email us at privacy@MusicSend.com.
Information Collection and Use by MusicSend.com
MusicSend.com collects user submitted information such as
name, email address and age to authenticate users and to send notification to
those users relating to the MuesicSend.com service. MusicSend.com also collects
other profile data, including but not limited to, personal interests, gender,
age, education and occupation in order to assist users in finding and
communicating with each other.
MusicSend.com also logs non-personally-identifiable
information including IP address, profile information, aggregate user data, and
browser type, from users and visitors to the site. This date is used to manage
the website, track usage and improve the website services. This
non-personally-identifable information can be shared with third-parties to
provide more relevant services and advertisements to members. User IP addresses
are recorded for security and monitoring purposes.
User Profile Information including members’ pictures and
first names are displayed to people in order to facilitate user interaction in
the MusicSend.com music networking community. Email addresses are used for the
purposes of inviting new friends to join MusicSend.com, to add users to
members’ friends’ networks to send music from the MusicSend.com website to
another and to send notification related to the service. With the exception of
inviting friends, transmitting music via email or adding friend and
notifications, a user’s email address is not shared by MusicSend.com or
displayed to people within a user’s personal network users within a personal
network communicate on MusicSend.com with each other through MusicSend.com
service, without disclosing their email addresses. Users full names are never
fully revealed to other members. To facilitate search in and finding artists,
bands, fans, friends and music on the service, MuisicSend.com allows users to
search for other members. To facilitate searching and finding friends and
acquaintances on the service, MusicSend.com allows users to search for other members
using first and last name, email address, and schools and/or companies where
users may have attended or worked.
We may also use a user’s email address to send updates, a
newsletter or news regarding the service.
From time to time, MusicSend.com, or a partner, may sponsor
a promotion, sweepstake or contest on MusicSend.com. Users may be asked to
provide personal information including name, email address, or home address or
to answer questions in order to participate. We may transfer personal information
to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to receive
information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is collecting
him personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
We may also use a user’s email address to send updates, a
newsletter or news regarding the service. Users may choose not to receive email
of this type by changing their “notification” setting to “Do not send me
notification emails” in the user “Account Settings.”
From time to time, MusicSend.com, or a partner, may sponsor
a promotion, sweepstake or contest on MusicSend.com. Users may be asked to
provide personal information including name, email address or home address, or
to answer questions, in order to participate. We may transfer personal
information to certain ad partners that you have explicitly requested to
receive information from. It will be clear at the point of collection who is
collecting the personal information and whose privacy statement will apply.
Invitations and Other Communications to Non-members
MusicSend.com members can invite friend to join the service
by sending invitation emails via our automated invitation system. A member may
also use MusicSend.com’s unique feature to send a particular piece of music to
a non-member, via email, with a personal voice message attached. MusicSend.com
stores the email addresses that members provide so that the respondents may be
added to the friend’s list of the member sending the invitations, and also to
send reminders of the invitations. MusicSend.com does not sell these email
addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations or
invitation reminders. Recipients of invitations from MusicSend.com may contact
MusicSend.com to request their removal of their information from our database.
MusicSend.com members may also store email addresses of
people they know in their internal MusicSend.com address book and may also
choose to send invitations and other communications to those addresses.
Use of Cookies
MusicSend.com uses cookies to store visitor’s preferences
and to record session information, for purposes including ensuring that
visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisement and to customize
newsletter, advertising, and Web page content based on browser type and user
profile information. We do not link the information stored in cookies to any
personally identifiable information you submit while on our site. You may be
able configure your browser to accept or reject all or some cookies, or notify
you when a cookies is set --- we don’t know your browser and all are different
– so check the “help” menu of your browser to learn how to change your cookie
preferences – however, you must enable cookies from MusicSend.com in order to
use our function on the site. Please note that MusicSend.com allows 3rd
party advertisers that are presenting advertisements on some of our pages to
set and access their cookies on your computer. Most, if not all, similar sites
do this. Advertisers’ use of cookies is subject to their own privacy policies
not the MusicSend.com Privacy Policy.
Links
MusicSend.com is not responsible for the privacy policies
and/or practices to other sites. When linking to another site a user should
read the privacy policy statement contained on that site. Our privacy policy
only governs information collected on MusicSend.com.
Chat Rooms, Journals, and WebLogs, Message Boards,
Classified and Public Forums
Please be advised that whenever you voluntarily post public
information to Journals, WebLogs, Message Boards, Classified or any other
Public Forums that information can be accessed by the public and can in turn be
used by those people to send you unsolicited communications.
Correcting/ Updating or Removing Information
MusicSend.com users may modify or remove any of their
personal information at any time by login into their account and accessing
features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.
Third Party Advertising
Ads appearing on this Web site may be delivered to users by
MusicSend.com or one of our Web advertising partners. Our Web advertising
partners may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your
computer each time they send you an online advertisement. In this way, ad
servers may compile information about where you, or others who are using your
computer, saw their advertisement and determine which ads are clicked on. This
information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisement that they
believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy statement covers the use
of coiokies by MusicSend.com and does not cover the use of cookies by any
advertiser.
Security
MusicSend.com member accounts are secured by member-created
passwords. MusicSend.com takes precautions to insure that member account
information is kept private. We think that we use reasonable measures to
protect member information that is stored within our database and we restrict
access to member information to those employees who need access to perform
their job functions, such as our customer service personnel and technical
staff. Please note that we cannot guarantee the security of member account
information. Unauthorized entry or use, hardware of software failure and other
factors may comprise the security of member information at any time. We therefore
cannot assume the risk for you that this information will not be compromised.
As a practical matter this is a risk in any type of social networking site. You
are now aware of this and should limit the amount of personal information that
you will release on the web in all situations. For any additional information
about the security measure we use on MusicSend.com, please contact us as privacy@MusicSend.com.com.
Sharing and Disclosure of Information MusicSend.com Collects
Except as otherwise described in this privacy statement,
MusicSend.com will not disclose personal information to any third party unless
we believe that disclosure is necessary: (1) to conform to legal requirement or
to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other legal process received by
MusicSend.com, whether or not a response is required by applicable law; (2) to
enforce the MusicSend.com Terms of Use Agreement or to protect our
rights; or (3) to protect the safety of members of the public and users of the
service. MusicSend.com reserves the right to transfer personal information to a
successor in interest that acquires rights to that information as a result of
the sale of MusicSend.com or substantially all of its assets to that successor
interest. For more information see the “Changes in Our Privacy Policy” section,
below.
Changes in Our Privacy Policy
From time to time we may make changes to our privacy policy.
Please come to this section and check it routinely for such changes. If we make
changes we will post them on our site to make users aware of what the changes
are so users will always be aware of what information we collect, how we use it
and when we may disclose it. Any and all users of MusicSend.com are bound by
any change to the policy when they use the site after those changes have been
made. However, if we are going to use users’ personally identifiable
information in a manner materially different from that stated at the time of
collection, we will notify all members by posting a notice on our Web site for
30 days.
Contacting the Web Site
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the
practices of this site, or your dealing with this Web site, please contact us
at: privacy@MusicSend.com (or: Attn:
Privacy, MusicSend.com, 16133 Ventura Blvd, #1200, Encino, CA 91436).