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December 1, 2004
UNIVERSAL MUSIC GROUP PRIVACY POLICY
Universal
Music Group and this site care about your privacy. Universal Music
Group consists of: Interscope
Records, A&M Records, Geffen
Records, Dreamworks
Records, Island
Def Jam Music Group,
Lost Highway Records,
MCA Nashville, Mercury
Records, Motown Records,
Universal Records,
Verve Music Group,
Universal Classics and
Universal Music Enterprises as well as a multitude of record labels
owned or distributed by its record company subsidiaries around the world. This
privacy policy tells you what information we collect at our web sites and how
we use it. If you choose to visit any of the Universal Music Group web sites,
your visit is subject to this privacy policy, and you agree to the terms of it.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
There are many places at our sites where you can share your
personal information with us, and where you can communicate with others.
Registration. Some of our sites give you the opportunity to
register with us, and sometimes registration is required before certain site
features can be used. Our registration forms may request your contact
information (such as your name, email address, mailing address, etc.),
demographic information (such as your country, gender, etc.), and profile data
(such as your music preferences, entertainment practices, etc). You may be
assigned a site username and/or password. For our internal purposes, we use
this information to communicate with you and provide the services you have
requested, and to provide a more personalized experience on our sites. For
example, your registration may allow you to use and post to site message
boards, create site profiles, etc. We use aggregate demographic and profile
information about our audience in order to improve our service, for research
purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting
purposes, among others. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our
collection and use of your data.
Newsletters and Other Communications from Us. Our
registered users and customers may receive newsletters, email communications,
or communications through other channels for, among other purposes, the
promotion and marketing of a product or service from our family of sites and
record labels, as well as other Vivendi Universal companies, and business
partners, and we may also offer other visitors to our sites the opportunity to
sign up to receive such information. When there is a separate sign-up for
newsletters, we ask for contact information such as name and email address,
and, sometimes, demographic and profile information. By visiting our sites, you
affirmatively consent to our collection and use of your data. We use this
information in the same manner as we use the contact information in the
Registration process described above. We may offer our users the choice whether
to receive mailings from others that we think will be of interest. Recipients
of our mailings can unsubscribe by following instructions that may appear at
the end of email communications. Note that in order to keep our registered
users informed about the operation of our services, we may send emails and
announcements that are needed for the proper functioning and administration of
our sites and service.
Communications with Us. We have features where you can submit
information to us (such as when contacting us with a question or feedback). We
may retain your emails and other information you submit to us for our internal
purposes, and to help us to serve you better.
Communications with Friends. We may offer features
where you can send information to others, such as e-cards or "Tell A Friend"
features. We will use the contact information you enter for your friends to
send the email or e-card.
Interactive and Community Features. Our sites may offer
interactive and community features, such as message boards, chat, email
accounts, short message service (SMS), instant messaging, profiles, personal
homepages, 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.
Contests, Sweepstakes and Surveys. We may also have contests,
sweepstakes and surveys at our sites. When you enter or participate in them, we
request contact information from you (such as your full name, email address,
mailing address, and telephone number) and may also request demographic or
profile information. We will use the information you provide for the purpose of
conducting the promotion (for example, to contact you if you have won). We may
also use the information to send you newsletters and other information we think
may be of interest. Recipients of our mailings can unsubscribe by following
instructions that may appear at the end of the email communication. Any
personal information we collect may be associated with registration
information. We may share aggregate information with others. We may sometimes
partner with sponsors in offering contests, sweepstakes or surveys, and may
share (provide and receive) information with them. By entering or participating
in such contests, sweepstakes, and surveys, you affirmatively consent to our
collection and use of your data.
AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION
Our web sites have features that automatically collect information
from users to assist us in creating sites that honor our users' preferences and
serve their interests and needs.
Some of our sites use cookies, which are small data files
containing information about the user that are stored on the user's hard drive.
Some cookies are used to make login to our sites easier (such as by remembering
usernames and passwords). If users reject cookies, they may be limited in using
some areas of our sites. Cookies can also enable us to track users' movements
and target their interests to enhance their experience at our sites. We may
also collect clickstream data and assign unique identifiers to our users for
the same purposes. Information obtained with these technologies may be
associated with your personal information.
We or a third-party advertisement server may also use cookies in
connection with targeting advertisements or promotions to users. Our
advertisers and other third parties whose products or services are promoted on
our sites may also use cookies or other technology, and we advise you to check
their privacy policies for information about their privacy practices.
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. We may associate this information with your personal information. By
visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our collection, use, and
distribution of your data.
WITH WHOM YOUR INFORMATION IS SHARED
Information provided at Artist sites that we host or manage may be shared with
that Artist, including their management, representatives, and any new label
they may join. As with other third parties, we are not responsible for how the
Artists handle the data once they receive it. When we have co-branded or
sponsored services, when we host a site, or when we join with other parties to
provide specific services, we may share (provide and receive) your personal
information with them. By visiting these sites, you affirmatively consent to
our collection, use and distribution of your data.
We may share your information with other third parties with whom we have
business relationships and, in some cases, we cannot control or know their
privacy practices. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our
collection, use, and distribution of your data.
Other than as set forth in this policy, we do not share your personally
identifiable information with other companies, apart from those acting as our
agents in providing our service to you, and which agree to use it only for that
purpose and to keep the information secure and confidential. Also, please be
aware that our parent company, Vivendi Universal, including all its business
units, subsidiaries, affiliates and sites, Universal Music Group's subsidiary
and affiliated companies and sites, entities into which our companies may be
merged, or entities to which any of our assets, products, sites or operations
may be transferred, may obtain from us and be able to use your personal
information. We will also disclose information we maintain when required to do
so by law, for example, in response to a court order or a subpoena or other
legal obligation, in response to a law enforcement agency's request, or 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. You should also be aware that courts
of equity, such as U.S. Bankruptcy Courts, may have the authority under certain
circumstances to permit your information to be shared or transferred to third
parties without your permission.
We may share (provide and receive) aggregate information, which is not
personally identifiable, with others. This information may include demographic
data such as the gender and/or geographic location of groups of users, but it
will not include personal information (such as your name or email address). We
use aggregate demographic information about our audience in order to improve
our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for
industry reporting purposes, among others.
CHOICE
By accepting this privacy policy, you expressly choose to receive
certain communications from us and third parties, and you expressly agree to
the privacy practices described herein. Our sites may also provide you with
additional specific opportunities to select communications you wish to receive.
You may change your privacy preferences, e.g. choose to cease receiving certain
communications, by informing us of your new preferences. We will be able to
honor your new preferences most quickly if you inform us of them by following
the appropriate instructions in any communication you receive from us. Please
be aware that messages you receive from us through SMS and instant messaging
systems (and other systems apart from email) may not include an option to cease
receiving communications; to change your privacy preferences with respect to
those communications, please go to the profile page at the site where you
provided your personal information or direct your instructions to the Contact
identified at the end of this policy.
ACCESS
If a user's personally identifiable information changes (such as
zip code), we endeavor to provide a way to correct or update that user's
personal data. Please feel free to contact us if you have any questions
regarding making changes to your data.
DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN
We strive to comply with the Children's Online Privacy Protection
Act (COPPA). We do not knowingly collect personal information from U.S.
children under 13 without appropriate parental notice and consent. Sites that
are directed to children where personal information is collected should have a
Children's Privacy Policy setting forth our COPPA-compliant practices. At many
sites, we actively screen-out children from data collection and/or use of
interactive or community features. We are committed to protecting children's
privacy.
NOTICE: Visit
www.ftc.gov/kidzprivacy for information from the Federal Trade
Commission about protecting children's privacy online.
SECURITY
Security for all personally identifiable information is extremely
important to us. We store your personal information securely, and use special
procedures designed to protect the information we collect from loss, misuse,
unauthorized access or disclosure, alteration or destruction.
MERCHANT/E-COMMERCE AREAS
We do not generally make e-commerce offerings at our sites. Some of
our sites do have merchant/e-commerce areas, where users can purchase
merchandise. Universal Music Group does not run those areas of our sites.
Personal information collected at those areas is not shared with Universal
Music Group without the purchasers' consent. At each of those areas, we
endeavor to provide a privacy policy link where users can review the privacy
policies that apply to data collection and use at those areas, and we urge our
users to review them. Please be aware that the site at iClassics.com is an
exception, where we do make e-commerce offerings, and it is covered by a
separate privacy policy. Please review it if you use that site.
LINKS
We may provide links to non-Universal Music Group sites. We are not
responsible for those other sites, their privacy policies or how they treat
information about their users, and we advise you to check their privacy
policies.
PRIVACY POLICY CHANGES
We reserve the right to modify, alter or otherwise update this
Privacy Policy at any time, so we encourage you to review this policy from time
to time. Changes to this privacy policy are effective at the time they are
posted and your continued use of our sites after posting will constitute
acceptance of, and agreement to be bound by, those changes.
CONTACT
If you have any questions about our privacy practices, please feel
free to contact us at:
UMG Privacy Officer
2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica , CA 90404
(310) 865-5000 or email us by
clicking here.
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