IOUmusic.com Privacy Policy
What information do we collect?
We collect information from you when you register on our site, make a donation or subscribe to our newsletter.
When donating or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing/billing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.
What do we use your information for?
Any of the information we collect from you may be used in one of the following ways:
To improve our website: We continually strive to improve our website offerings based on the information and feedback we receive from you
To improve customer service: Your information helps us to more effectively respond to your customer service requests and support needs
To process transactions
To send periodic emails, if you have signed up for our newsletter or as pertinent to our existing business dealings Note: For our newsletter, if at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email.
Your email address, zip/postal code and name will be provided to artists you make donations to if you request we do so.
Your information, whether public or private, will not be sold, exchanged, transferred, or given to any other company for any reason whatsoever, without your consent, other than for the express purpose of delivering the purchased product or service requested.
How do we protect your information?
We implement a variety of security measures to maintain the safety of your personal information when you place an order
We offer the use of a secure server. All supplied sensitive/credit information is transmitted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and then encrypted into our payment gateway providers database only to be accessible by those authorized with special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential.
After a transaction, your private information (credit cards, social security numbers, financials, etc.) will not be stored on our servers.
Do we use cookies?
Yes (Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computers hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the sites or service providers systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information
We use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
Do we disclose any information to outside parties?
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information. This does not include trusted third parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or servicing you, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential [for example our payment gateway provider]. We may also release your information when we believe release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others rights, property, or safety.
Through the use of web logs or log files, 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. Such non- personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.
Third party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
Because we value your privacy we have taken the necessary precautions to be in compliance with the California Online Privacy Protection Act. We therefore will not distribute your personal information to outside parties without your consent.
Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance
We are in compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Childrens Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our website, products and services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
Interactive and Community Features
Our site may offer interactive and community features, such as message boards, chat, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, profiles, personal pages, 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.
Your Consent
By using our site, you consent to our privacy policy, terms and our collection, use, and distribution of your data.
Changes to our Privacy Policy
If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page, post notice of the changes on our blog and Twitter account and update the Privacy Policy modification date below.
This policy was last modified on Nov. 1, 2009
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy you may contact us using the information below.
IOUmusic
PO Box 36085 Spring Garden RPO
Halifax, Nova Scotia B3J 3S9
Canada
Email: customerservice@ioumusic.com
Phone: 902-404-7007
Skype: ioumusic