Introduction
This Privacy Policy applies to your use of the vinylreviews.com website (our “Website”) and all the services it provides. It explains what information we (Vinyl Reviews or the Company) collect, how we use that information, how we protect your privacy and the confidentiality of the collected information, and what you can do to opt-out of the information we’ve collected. If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact us using the following email, privacy@vinylreviews.com. This privacy policy, however, does not apply to the practices of third parties that are not affiliated with the Company, but whose website, application or content can be accessed through this site. The privacy practices of those third parties are governed by their respective privacy policies. We do not knowingly attempt to solicit or receive information from children.
We understand that you are aware of and care about your own personal privacy interests, and we take that seriously. This Privacy Policy describes Vinyl Reviews’ policies and practices regarding its collection and use of your personal data, and sets forth your privacy rights. We recognize that information privacy is an ongoing responsibility, and so we will from time to time update this Privacy Policy as we undertake new personal data practices or adopt new privacy policies.
Collection of Personal Information
Information You Voluntarily Provide Us: When you visit our Website and use any services, we may collect certain types of information that you submit voluntarily. This information is “Personal Information” since it identifies you. To log in to protected areas of the Website, we are using social logins from Facebook, Google and Twitter. Consult their privacy policies to see how your information is used: https://termsfeed.com/blog/privacy-policy-login-facebook/; https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us; and https://twitter.com/en/privacy.
Vinyl Reviews has partnered with several ecommerce platforms to enable you to safely and securely make payments for products and services purchased through those sites. When you pay for a service, these e-commerce platforms require that you provide them with personally identifiable information (PII), which may include your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address. This information is not shared with Vinyl Reviews. Consult the privacy policies of these platforms to see how your information is used.
Information We Collect From Third Parties:
This Website uses Google Analytics, which means that every time you view a page on the site, your browsers also send a request to Google, allowing Google to also collect cookies, pages viewed and computer information independent of our collection. Google’s use of this information is governed by its own privacy policy, https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/. We may also acquire information about you from third parties. This information includes the same types of Personal Information described above that you may voluntarily provide to us. Those third parties have privacy policies that may differ from this Privacy Policy. We do not control the data privacy or protection policies of third parties, and we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Our legal basis for processing this information is our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our website and services, and the legitimate interests of our Customers (data controller).
Automatically-Collected Information: When you use the Website, we automatically collect certain information that your browser sends when visiting websites in general. This information, often referred to as “Log File Information”, may include the URLs you visited; your IP address; date and time when visiting our Website and time spent on pages visited; and information about your browser and platform. In addition, when you use the protected areas of the Website, certain Log File Information about your use is automatically recorded and retained, such as account activity (e.g. number of log-ins), and data displayed or clicked on (e.g. user interface elements, links). This information may also include Cookies, web bugs, device information, and navigational data like Uniform Resource Locators (URLs), which we may use to gather information regarding the date and time of your visit, as well as your geo-location (from your IP address). In circumstances where this information can be used to identify you, this information is “Personal Information” for purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless it is anonymized as described below under “Use of Information We Collect”.
“Cookies” are small pieces of information that a website sends to your browser. Session Cookies do not track where you have been on the internet and do not gather information about you that could be used for marketing purposes. Session Cookies are only stored for the duration of your visit to the Website and are deleted from your device when you close your browser, and therefore are not “Personal Information” for purposes of this Privacy Policy. Persistent Cookies are saved on your device for a fixed period of time after you close your browser and are activated each time you visit our Website. Accordingly, persistent Cookies are “Personal Information” for purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless they are anonymized as described below under “Use of Information We Collect”. Persistent Cookies can be removed by following your Internet browser help file directions. If you choose to disable persistent Cookies, you may experience session errors and may need to log-in again each time you use the Service. Our legal basis for processing this information is your consent and our legitimate interests, namely monitoring and improving our Website and Service.
Use of Information We Collect
We use the information we collect to respond to your requests, resolve problems, to maintain your account and provide the Website and services to you, to improve our offerings and to create new services, and to market our products or services and those of third parties to you. We may also use information collected above to comply with our legal and regulatory obligations, policies and procedures, and for internal administrative purposes.
From time-to-time, we may use your information to market to you our services and those of our affiliates, partners and third parties. We may also send you certain Service and administrative notices, which are not subject to opt out.
Transferring personal data from the European Union to the United States
Vinyl Reviews has its headquarters in the United States. Information we collect from you will be processed in the United States. The United States has not sought nor received a finding of “adequacy” from the European Union under Article 45 of the GDPR. The Company relies on derogations for specific situations as set forth in Article 49 of the GDPR. In particular, the Company collects and transfers to the U.S. personal data only: with your consent; to perform a contract with you; or to fulfill a compelling legitimate interest of the Company in a manner that does not outweigh your rights and freedoms. The Company endeavors to apply suitable safeguards to protect the privacy and security of your personal data and to use it only consistent with your relationship with Vinyl Reviews and the practices described in this Privacy Policy. The Company also enters into data processing agreements and model clauses with its vendors whenever feasible and appropriate.
DATA INTEGRITY AND PURPOSE LIMITATION
We endeavor to use Personal Information only in ways that are compatible with the purposes for which it was collected or subsequently authorized by the user. We will take reasonable steps designed to ensure that only Personal Information that is relevant to its intended use, accurate, complete, current, and otherwise reliable in relation to the purposes for which the information was obtained is used by us for as long as we retain possession of such information. Our personnel have a responsibility to assist us in maintaining accurate, complete and current Personal Information. When acting as a provider of services to our users, we endeavor only to process Personal Information that is relevant to our Website and related services, and for purposes compatible with those for which the Personal Information was collected; wherever possible, such Personal Information is non-identified.
ACCESSING AND CONTROLLING YOUR INFORMATION
Under the laws in certain countries in which we operate, Customers and other Visitors to our Website from those countries have a right to access Personal Information about themselves, and to amend, correct or delete Personal Information that is inaccurate, incomplete or outdated. We will, upon request, provide you with confirmation regarding whether we are processing Personal Information about you, consistent with applicable law. In addition, upon your request, we will take reasonable steps to correct, amend, or delete your Personal Information that is found to be inaccurate, incomplete or processed in a manner non-compliant with this Privacy Policy or applicable law, except where the burden or expense of providing access would be disproportionate to the risks to your privacy, where the rights of persons other than you would be violated or where doing so is otherwise consistent with applicable law. Unless prohibited by applicable law, we reserve the right to charge a reasonable fee to cover costs for providing copies of Personal Information that you request.
Please note that while any amendments, corrections or deletions will be reflected in active user databases (as updated within a reasonable period of time), we may retain all Personal Information for backups, archiving, prevention of fraud and abuse, analytics, and satisfaction of other legal obligations we reasonably believe applicable.
You authorize us to use and disclose any new or modified information that you provide in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and you agree that we are under no obligation to delete or modify information that you have previously chosen to provide us as to which you have not instructed us to take such action. Please remember, however, that if we have already disclosed some of your Personal Information to third parties, we cannot access that Personal Information any longer and cannot force the deletion or modification of any such information by the parties to whom we have made those disclosures.
We may retain your Personal Information to comply with laws, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with any investigations, enforce our Terms of Use, and take other actions otherwise permitted by law.
RECOURSE, ENFORCEMENT AND LIABILITY
We encourage you to raise questions about our processing or disclosure of your Personal Information by contacting us, as set forth in the “Contact Us” section below.
We will undertake reasonable efforts to investigate and attempt to resolve complaints and disputes regarding use and disclosure of Personal Information in accordance with the principles contained in this Privacy Policy.
Any of our personnel that we determine are in violation of this Privacy Policy will be subject to disciplinary action up to and including termination of employment, where applicable.
USE OF THIRD PARTY COOKIES
We may use third party tracking services to track and analyze information that is collected automatically from use of the Website and related services, such as Internet protocol address, domain names, browser, device type, access times, the web pages you view, and other tracked user actions. Such third parties may use Cookies to help track visitor behavior. We will not use or associate such Cookies with other information of individual visitors to our Website that we collect.
FEEDBACK
If you provide feedback to us, we may use and disclose such feedback for any purpose, provided we do not associate such feedback with your information. We will collect any information contained in such feedback and will treat information therein in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
THIRD PARTIES NOT GOVERNED BY THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy addresses only our use and disclosure of information we collect from or about you. The use and disclosure restrictions contained in this Privacy Policy do not apply to any third party and we do not control the privacy policies of third parties. The Website and related services and content on them may contain links to other sites and resources controlled by third parties. In addition, if you disclose information to others, including to other uses, you are subject to the privacy policies or privacy statements of those third parties where applicable. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these other sites or resources, and you should consult the privacy policies or privacy statements of such other sites and resources.
DATA SECURITY
We follow generally accepted industry standard data security practices to protect the information submitted to us, both during transmission and once we receive it. Taking into account the risks involved in the processing and the nature of the information we process, We maintain appropriate administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect information in our possession against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse, and any other unlawful form of processing. This includes, for example, firewalls, password protection and other access and authentication controls. We use SSL technology to encrypt data during transmission through public internet, and we also employ application-layer security features to further anonymize Information.
However, no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. We cannot ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or store on the Website or in any of the related services, and you do so at your own risk. We also cannot guarantee that such information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards. If you believe your information has been compromised, please contact us as set forth in the “Contact Us” section below.
We have a security incident response program designed to promptly respond to and escalate any potential privacy or security incident. If we learn of a security incident, we will inform you and the authorities of the occurrence of the breach in accordance with applicable law.
CHILDREN’S ONLINE PRIVACY PROTECTION ACT COMPLIANCE
In compliance with the requirements of COPPA (Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act), we do not collect any information from anyone under 13 years of age. Our Website and related services are all directed to people who are at least 13 years old or older.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
In order to serve you better, we may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we change the policy, we will post the new policy at this same page address, with a prominent notification near the Privacy Policy link at the footer of each page. Your use of the site after a change in the Privacy Policy constitutes an acceptance of the revised policy.
CONTACT US
If, for whatever reason, you have any questions, comments, complaints or compliments about the privacy of the Service or this Website, please contact our email support. Please also use this email address if you believe you have received a marketing communication from us that you feel makes use of your information in an unauthorized or unwelcome way. Please contact us using the information below:
privacy@vinylreviews.com
Vinyl Reviews
2405 55th St. Ct. NW
Gig Harbor, Washington 98335
This Privacy Policy was last revised: July, 2018.