Privacy Policy
Last Updated: April 2007
How to Form a Band strives to offer its visitors the many advantages of
Internet technology and to provide an interactive and personalized
experience.
We may use Personally Identifiable Information
(your name, e-mail address, street address, telephone number) subject
to the terms of this privacy policy. We will never sell, barter, or
rent your email address to any unauthorized third party outside our group of companies. Period.
How we gather information from users
How
we collect and store information depends on the page you are visiting,
the activities in which you elect to participate and the services
provided. For example, you may be asked to provide information when you
register for access to certain portions of our site or request certain
features, such as newsletters or when you make a purchase.
You
may provide information when you participate in sweepstakes and
contests, message boards and chat rooms, and other interactive areas of
our site. Like most Web sites, How to Form a Band also collects
information automatically and through the use of electronic tools that
may be transparent to our visitors.
For example, we may log
the name of your Internet Service Provider or use cookie technology to
recognize you and hold information from your visit. Among other things,
the cookie may store your user name and password, sparing you from
having to re-enter that information each time you visit, or may control
the number of times you encounter a particular advertisement while
visiting our site.
As we adopt additional technology, we may
also gather information through other means. In certain cases, you can
choose not to provide us with information, for example by setting your
browser to refuse to accept cookies, but if you do you may be unable to
access certain portions of the site or may be asked to re-enter your
user name and password, and we may not be able to customize the site’s
features according to your preferences.
What we do with the information we collect
Like
other Web publishers, we collect information to enhance your visit and
deliver more individualized content and advertising. We respect your
privacy and do not share your information with anyone.
Aggregated
Information (information that does not personally identify you) may be
used in many ways. For example, we may combine information about your
usage patterns with similar information obtained from other users to
help enhance our site and services (e.g., to learn which pages are
visited most or what features are most attractive).
Aggregated
Information may occasionally be shared with our advertisers and
business partners. Again, this information does not include any
Personally Identifiable Information about you or allow anyone to
identify you individually.
We
may use Personally Identifiable Information collected on How to Form a Band to communicate with you about your registration and
customization preferences; our Terms of Service and privacy policy;
services and products offered by How to Form a Band and other
topics
we think you might find of interest.
Personally Identifiable
Information collected by How to Form a Band may also be used for other
purposes, including but not limited to site administration,
troubleshooting, processing of e-commerce transactions, administration
of sweepstakes and contests, and other communications with you.
Certain
third parties who provide technical support for the operation of our
site (our Web hosting service for example) may access such information.
We will use your information only as permitted by law.
In
addition, from time to time as we continue to develop our business, we
may sell, buy, merge or partner with other companies or businesses. In
such transactions, user information may be among the transferred
assets.
We may also disclose your information in response to a
court order, at other times when we believe we are reasonably required
to do so by law, in connection with the collection of amounts you may
owe to us, and/or to law enforcement authorities whenever we deem it
appropriate or necessary. Please note we may not provide you with
notice prior to disclosure in such cases.
Affiliated sites, linked sites and advertisements
How to Form a Band expects its partners, advertisers and affiliates to
respect the privacy of our users. Be aware, however, that third
parties, including our partners, advertisers, affiliates and other
content providers accessible through our site, may have their own
privacy and data collection policies and practices.
For
example, during your visit to our site you may link to, or view as part
of a frame on a How to Form a Band page, certain content that is
actually created or hosted by a third party. Also, through How to Form a Band you may be introduced to, or be able to access, information,
Web sites, features, contests or sweepstakes offered by other parties. How to Form a Band is not responsible for the actions or policies
of
such third parties.
You should check the applicable privacy
policies of those third parties when providing information on a feature
or page operated by a third party.
While
on our site, our advertisers, promotional partners or other third
parties may use cookies or other technology to attempt to identify some
of your preferences or retrieve information about you. For example,
some of our advertising is served by third parties and may include
cookies that enable the advertiser to determine whether you have seen a
particular advertisement before.
Other features available on
our site may offer services operated by third parties and may use
cookies or other technology to gather information. How to Form a Band
does not control the use of this technology by third parties or the
resulting information, and is not responsible for any actions or
policies of such third parties.
You should also be aware that if
you voluntarily disclose Personally Identifiable Information on message
boards or in chat areas, that information can be viewed publicly and
can be collected and used by third parties without our knowledge and
may result in unsolicited messages from other individuals or third
parties. Such activities are beyond the control of How to Form a Band
and this policy.
Children
How to Form a Band does not
knowingly collect or solicit Personally Identifiable Information from
or about children under 13 except as permitted by law. If we discover
we have received any information from a child under 13 in violation of
this policy, we will delete that information immediately. If you
believe How to Form a Band has any information from or about anyone
under 13, please contact us at the address listed below.
Contacting Us
We can be reached by contacting:
How to Form a Band
Email: netsales@clivesmusic.com
Changes to this Policy
How to Form a Band reserves the right to change this policy at any time.
Please check this page periodically for changes. Your continued use of
our site following the posting of changes to these terms will mean you
accept those changes.
Information collected prior to the time
any change is posted will be used according to the rules and laws that
applied at the time the information was collected.
Governing Law
This
policy and the use of this Site are governed by UK law. If a dispute
arises under this Policy we agree to first try to resolve it with the
help of a mutually agreed-upon mediator in the following location:
United Kingdom. Any costs and fees other than attorney fees associated
with the mediation will be shared equally by each of us.
If it
proves impossible to arrive at a mutually satisfactory solution through
mediation, we agree to submit the dispute to binding arbitration at the
following location: United Kingdom. Judgment upon the award rendered by
the arbitration may be entered in any court with jurisdiction to do so.
How to Form a Band is controlled, operated and administered entirely within
the UK. This statement and the policies outlined herein are not
intended to and do not create any contractual or other legal rights in
or on behalf of any party.
