SONYBMG MUSIC ENTERTAINMENT UK PRIVACY
POLICY
LEGAL NOTICE
This notice discloses the
online data collection and use practices of SONYBMG Music d/b/a SONYBMG Music
Entertainment UK ("SONYBMG" or "we") Ltd, Bedford House,
69-79 Fulham High Street, London SW6 3JW. This SONYBMG consumer privacy policy
is an agreement between you and SONYBMG. You will signify your acceptance of
this consumer privacy policy by purchasing rights to download and/or use our
digital music files and/or related content (our “content”). If you do not agree
to the terms of this policy, do not download and/or use our content.
SONYBMG may modify, alter or
otherwise update this policy at any time. We will indicate any changes by
updating the date at the top of the policy. We encourage you to review this
policy from time to time. Your continued use of our content following the
posting of changes to this policy will mean you accept those changes.
"Information" means all material delivered by SONYBMG Music
Entertainment UK through this or any other website owned by the company. (the
"Web Site"). "User" means you, the Web Site end-user.
"Contract" means this Web Site agreement.
A SPECIAL NOTE TO KIDS
YOU MUST BE 13 YEARS OF AGE OR
OLDER TO REGISTER WITH SONYBMG AND/OR ITS CLEARINGHOUSES. AT THE PRESENT TIME
WE MUST ASK YOU NOT TO REGISTER WITH SONYBMG AND/OR ITS CLEARINGHOUSES IF YOU
ARE UNDER 13 YEARS OF AGE.
A SPECIAL NOTE TO PARENTS
While SONYBMG prohibits
registration by children under the age of 13, parents should supervise their
children's online activities and consider using parental control tools
available from online services and software manufacturers that help provide a
kid-friendly online environment. These tools can also prevent children from
disclosing online their name, address, and other personal information without
parental permission. For additional information about parental control tools,
please consult the "Consumer Assistance" page of the Direct Marketing
Association home page (http://www.dma.org.uk).
PRIVACY PRACTICES AND
POLICIES & OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
Your e-mail address and other
personally identifying data will be known to SONYBMG only when you voluntarily
submit such information to our websites. We may use this personal information
to contact you if we change our services or terms or if we need to give you
notice under those terms.
The information about your
acquisition of our content and your musical preferences may be used to send you
information that we believe may be of interest to you, such as information
about music or products or services offered by SONYBMG, an affiliated company
or a SONYBMG artist. However, no one will send that information to you unless
you opt-in to receive it at the time you register.
If you decide at any time in
the future that you wish to begin receiving such information (if you previously
opted-out) or that you wish to cease receiving such information (if you
previously opted-in), you may change your preferences at any time by sending an
email to interact(at)bmg(dot).com
WITH WHOM WE SHARE YOUR
INFORMATION
As a general rule, we will not
disclose any personal information we collect from you without your consent.
However, we may disclose personal information 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. We may disclose user information when we believe in good faith that
the law requires it.
If you have opted-in to
receive marketing information from us, we may share your information with our
affiliated companies and/or with our artists. We will not share your personal
information with other third parties for marketing purposes without your
consent.
We may share with others, at
our discretion, certain aggregate statistical data about purchases and the use
of our content, which data may include demographic data such as the age range
and/or geographic location of groups of users. No personal information (such as
names or email addresses) will be identifiable from such statistics.
We may transfer, sell or
assign any of the information described above, including personally
identifiable information, to third parties, as a result of the sale, merger,
consolidation, change in control, transfer of substantial assets,
reorganization or liquidation of SONYBMG.
SECURITY
SONYBMG strictly protects the
security of your personal information and your choices for its intended use. We
use current industry standard technology to maintain the confidentiality and
accuracy of the information you provide to us. To protect your personal
information, we use “secure servers” with industry standard SSL 128 bit key
encryption. However, we cannot guarantee that any information you submit to us
will be free from unauthorized third party intrusion.
CHANGE/MODIFY
If you at any point you no
longer wish to receive communications from SONYBMG, please forward such
requests to us at interact(at)bmg(dot)com