Privacy Policy
Last updated: 24 January, 2020
This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website https://musicconfessions.com/ (the “Website”, “Service”), as well as how we may use, share, and disclose that information.
This policy applies to information we collect:
* On the Website and through services and software provided on the Website.
* In e-mail, text, and other electronic messages between you and the Website.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use the Website. By accessing or using the Website, you agree to this privacy policy.
Who we are
We are MusicConfessions.com (“we”, “us” or “our”) , our website address is https://musicconfessions.com/ (the “Website”, “Service”).
What Information We Collect About You
We collect several types of information from and about users of the Website, including information:
* by which you may be personally identified, such as name or e-mail address (“Personal Information”);
* about any requests you submit to us through the Website;
* that is about you but individually does not identify you, such as internet protocol address and your geographic location;
* about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access the Website, and usage details.
How we collect this information
* Directly from you when you provide it to us.
* Automatically as you navigate through the Website. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
Information You Provide to Us
The information we collect on or through our Website may include:
* Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided when contacting us, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you report a problem with our Website or when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us.
* Information that you provide by using services are software provided by us on the Website.
* Records and copies of your correspondence (including e-mail addresses), if you contact us.
Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies
As you navigate through and interact with the Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:
* Details of your visits to the Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
* Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking). If you do not wish for us to collect information about you through automatic data collection technologies, you may set the browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Some parts of the Website, however, may not be accessible or may not function as a result. Also, if you use a different browser or computer, you will have to make this same selection again.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
* Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
* Click Tracking. Click tracking is a tool used to determine and record what a user clicks on while browsing through the Website. Our Website may use click tracking to conduct market research and software testing.
* Web Beacons. Pages of our the Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Why we collect this data
This information we gather though automatic data collection technologies helps us to improve the Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
* Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
* Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.
* Speed up your searches.
* Recognize you when you return to the Website.
How We Use Your Information
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us:
* To present the Website and its services and contents to you.
* To provide you with information that you request from us.
* To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
* To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
* In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
* For any other purpose with your consent.
Communications with You
From time to time, we may use your personal information that you have provided to us to send email messages to respond to any emails or other communications you send to us or to advise you of any problems with our Website.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture, along with the username you provided when submitting the comment, will be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
To find out more about cookies, please visit the Cookie Policy page.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Google Analytics
This Website uses cookies from Google to deliver its services and to analyse traffic. Your IP address and user agent are shared with Google, together with performance and security metrics, to ensure quality of service, generate usage statistics and to detect and address abuse.
We use Google analytics to record information about the pages a user has seen, for example the URL of the page, time of day, device used, etc. The information that we collect is sent to Google Analytics for analysis. More info: https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Google Analytics mainly uses first-party cookies to report on visitor interactions on this website. Users may disable cookies or delete any individual cookie. More information: https://policies.google.com/technologies/cookies
In addition, Google Analytics supports an optional browser add-on that – once installed and enabled – disables measurement by Google Analytics for any site a user visits. Note that this add-on only disables Google Analytics measurement. https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout/
Google Analytics also collects Internet Protocol (IP) addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to give website owners a sense of which country, state, or city in the world their users come from (also known as “IP geolocation”).
See this page for Google Analytics security and usage of data.
link: –> https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245
Controlling Cookies / your data
Visitors may wish to restrict the use of cookies or completely prevent them from being set. Most browsers provide for ways to control cookie behavior such as the length of time they are stored – either through built-in functionality or by utilizing third party plugins. If you disable cookies, please be aware that some of the features of our service may not function correctly.
If you do not wish for us to collect information about you through automatic data collection technologies, you may set the browser to refuse cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. Also, if you use a different browser or computer, you will have to make this same selection again.
To find out more on how to manage and delete cookies, or for more details on your choices regarding use of your web browsing activity for interest-based advertising you may visit the following sites:
* https://www.youronlinechoices.com/
* https://optout.aboutads.info/
* https://www.networkadvertising.org/
* On a mobile device, you may also be able to adjust your settings to limit tracking. For example, you can opt out of Google Analytics by installing Google’s opt-out browser add-on, or from Hotjar by using the Do Not Track header.
> https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
> https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out
Most advertising networks offer you a way to opt out of Interest Based Advertising. If you would like to find out more information, please visit:
> https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out
> https://www.youronlinechoices.com/
Data Security
We and our partners have implemented measures designed to secure your information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure (such as SSL encryption).
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your information, we cannot guarantee the security of your information transmitted to our Website, submitted by you, information gathered about you, or information stored by us. Any transmission of information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.
In the unlikely event that we believe that the security of your personal information in our possession or control may have been compromised, we may seek to notify you of that development. If a notification is appropriate, we will endeavor to do so as promptly as possible under the circumstances, and, if we have your email address, we may notify you by email. You consent to our use of email as a means of such notification.
Sharing Your Data with Third Parties
Third parties that we share data with may include:
* Service Providers and others who help with our business operations and assist in the delivery of our products and services including, but not limited to, application development, site hosting, maintenance, data analysis, infrastructure provision, IT services, customer service, email delivery services, marketing, analytics, and enforcement of our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
* Other users of the site to identify you to anyone to whom you send messages or make comments through our Service; When you post a comment on our Website, the username you provide, comment and profile image you provide (if any) will be public and visible to all users that visit and view the pages on which you post your comments;
* Third parties as we believe necessary or appropriate, in any manner permitted under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence to:
– comply with legal process;
– respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence;
– enforce our Terms of Service Agreement and other agreements;
– protect our operations;
– protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others;
– allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service. Third parties have access to your data as noted within this agreement.
We will never sell, rent, or lease your Personal Data to a third party.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
First of all, you have the full right to be informed about how your personal data is being collected, stored and used.
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Users under 13 years of age
Our Service is not directed to and we do not knowingly collect Personal Data from children under the age of 13. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or post any information on the Website. If you are under 13, do not (i) use or provide any information on the Website or on or through any of its features, (ii) register on the Website, (iii) make any purchases through the Website, (iv) use any of the interactive or public comment features of the Website, or (v) provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us at: contact@musicconfessions.com
By using our Service, you are representing to us that you are not under the age of 13.
Changes
MusicConfessions.com may change this Privacy Policy at any time. The most recent version of the Privacy Policy is indicated by the “Last Updated” date at the top of the Privacy Policy. All changes are effective immediately upon posting. Please review this Privacy Policy frequently to stay updated on changes that may affect you. Your continued use of this website signifies your continuing consent to be bound by this Privacy Policy.