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This privacy policy only applies to transactions and activities in which you engage, and data gathered, on the Sound Barter Corporation (“SoundBarter”) web site, SoundBarter listings and messages between SoundBarter members (collectively, the “Web site”) but does not apply to any other web site or offline point of contact between SoundBarter, or any other company, or consumers. Please review this privacy policy periodically as we may modify it from time to time. Each time you visit the Web site or provide us with information, by doing so you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy at that time.
1. Your IP Address.
Like most e-commerce web sites, each time you visit the Web site, we automatically collect your IP address and the web page from which you came. In order to administer and optimize the Web site for you and to diagnose problems with our Web site, we use your IP address to help identify you and to gather broad demographic information about you.
2. Cookies.
Like most web sites, the Web site uses cookies to save your password, and if you choose, to save other personal and financial information so you do not have to re-enter it each time you visit the Web site. Third party advertisers on the Web site may also place cookies on your browser. If you wish to disable these cookies, the “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how. However, if you set your browser to disable cookies, you may not be able to access certain areas on the Web site.
3. Information We Collect From You.
In order to operate the Web site we may collect “personal information” (i.e. information that could be used to contact you directly (without using the Web site) such as full name, postal address, phone number or email address), “financial information” (i.e. credit card numbers or passwords), username, age/birth date, and the content of communications between you and other members using the Web site, subject to the rest of this paragraph.
4. Information Other Web Web sites Collect From You.
On the Web site, we place links to other web sites operated by other parties. Some of these other web sites contain our brand names and trademarks and other intellectual property that we own; others do not. When you click on these links and visit these other web sites, regardless of whether or not they contain our brand names, trademarks and other intellectual property, you need to be aware that we do not control these other web sites or these other web sites’ business practices, and that this privacy policy does not apply to these other web sites. Consequently, the operators of these other web sites may collect different kinds of information about you, and may use and disclose that information in different ways than we would if it were collected on the Web site. We encourage you to review their privacy policies and remind you that we will not be responsible for their actions.
5. How We Use Personal Information.
We use your email address and your other personal information to help us efficiently operate the Web site, to contact you in connection with your transactions and other activities on the Web site (including, but not limited to, confirmation emails or important news that could affect your relationship with SoundBarter), and to forward messages to you from other SoundBarter users. These types of communications, are known as “Operational Communications.” In some cases, Operational Communications may also contain commercial messages, such as banner ads and special offers.
We also use personal information to send you newsletters, information, offers and other promotional materials for SoundBarter’s or third parties’ goods or services. The Web site provides you with options to decline to receive communications from SoundBarter (other than those contained in Operational Communications). Some of these options may only be for a certain category of communications; others may be more general.
To operate the Web site, including processing your transactions and supporting your activities on the Web site, we may share your personal information with our agents, representatives, contractors and service providers so they can provide us with support services such as authorization of credit card transactions, email origination, receipt or support services and customer relationship management services. We require these entities not to use your information for any other purpose.
Any third party with whom we are allowed to share your personal information is authorized to use your personal information in accordance with our contractual arrangements with such third parties and in accordance with their own privacy policies, over which we have no control, and you agree that we are not responsible or liable for any of their actions or omissions. Those who contact you will need to be instructed directly by you regarding your preferences for the use of your personal information by them.
Please read the information below under the heading “Special Cases in which we Share Personal and Financial Information” to learn more ways in which we may share your personal information.
6. How We Use Financial Information.
We use your financial information to check your qualifications, to bill you for services and to enable you to participate in discount, rebate and similar programs in which you may elect to participate. By making a purchase, or engaging in any other kind of activity or transaction that uses financial information, on the Web site, you consent to our providing your financial information to our service providers and to such third parties as we determine are necessary to support and process your activities and transactions, as well as to your credit card issuer for their purposes. These third parties may include the credit card companies and banking institutions used to process and support the transaction or activity. By purchasing, or registering or making reservations for, products or services of third parties offered on the Web site, or by participating in programs offered on the Web site that are administered by third parties and that require you to submit financial information in order to use them, you also consent to our providing your financial information to those third parties.
7. Our Security Precautions.
The Web site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. Our secure server software (SSL) is the industry standard and among the best software available today for secure commerce transactions. We encrypt all of your personal and financial information as it travels over the Internet and we store your financial information on our servers in encrypted form. Your information may be transferred to and maintained on computer networks which may be located outside of the state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction in which you reside, and the country or jurisdiction in which these computer networks are located may not have privacy laws as protective as the laws in your country or jurisdiction.
8. Changing our Privacy Policy for Previously Gathered Information.
We will continue to have the right to change our privacy policy and practices, and how we use your personally identifiable information, without notice, as described in the first paragraph of this Privacy Policy, provided that such changes shall only apply to information gathered on or after the date of the change.
9. How You Can Access and Update
Your Email Preferences and Personal
Information.
We give you the opportunity to opt-out of certain communications and modify personal information you have provided to us, at anytime by going to the “My Information” section of the Web site or using the opt-out link provided on email communications. Please be aware that it may take several hours for the changes you make to take effect on the public areas of the Web site. We thank you for your patience. Please note that changing or deleting your information through the “My Information” section of the Web site, or otherwise opting-out of receipt of email communications from SoundBarter, will only change or delete the data in our database for purposes of future activities on the Web site and for managing future communications from SoundBarter. These changes and deletions will not change or delete emails or information that we may have already forwarded to other users or credit card companies or any other third parties, all as provided above in this privacy policy.
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If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy, the practices of the Web site, or your dealings with the Web site, you can contact us at info@soundbarter.com. You can also send us mail to: Sound Barter Corporation, 3100 NW 2nd Ave., Suite 404, Boca Raton, FL 33431, USA.
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