New Music Engine Privacy Policy
Welcome to New Music Engine ("NewMusicEngine", "we", "our", "us").Your privacy is important to us. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, store, use and disclose your personal information when you use newmusicengine.com (together, the "Website"), and all related sites, players, widgets, tools, apps, data, software, APIs and other services provided by New Music Engine (the "Services").
By using the Website or any of the Services, and in particular by registering a New Music Engine account, you are consenting to the use of your personal information in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.
Please take some time to read this Privacy Policy and make sure you are happy with our use and disclosure of your personal information. If you do not agree to any of the provisions of this Privacy Policy, you should not use the Website, the Apps or any of the Services. If you have any questions or concerns, you can contact us at support@newmusicengine.org
Please note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the Website, the Apps and the Services (together, the "Platform"). When using the Platform, you may find links to other websites, apps and services, or tools that enable you to share information with other websites, apps and services. New Music Engine is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites, apps and services and we recommend that you review the privacy policies of each of these websites, apps or services before connecting your New Music Engine account or sharing any personal information.
Our Principles
We have a pretty simple approach to data protection and privacy, which can be summarized as follows:You should know exactly what we do with your data & you should have full control over your data
This Privacy Policy is designed to give you full transparency regarding our data protection practices. If there's anything that's not clear from this Privacy Policy, please feel free to email us at support@newmusicengine.org. We've designed the website to give you control over the information you publish and share using New Music Engine and other sites and services to which you connect your New Music Engine account. Please take full advantage of these tools and make sure you only share what you want to share.
Information we collect about you
We collect personal information about you from various sources:Information provided by you
Certain Services require that you register for a New Music Engine account and, by doing so, you will provide us with certain personal information:
- Essential Information: When you register at New Music Engine account, you will need to provide your email address, your month and year of birth, and choose a password.
- Profile Information: You may choose, at your discretion, to provide additional information for your public profile on New Music Engine • for example:
- Name
- Primary Email and Login:
- Password
- Performing Rights Organization:
- Address
- City
- State/Province:
- Zip Code:
- Country:
- Artist profile picture
- Information about how you categorize yourself with respect to your content (for example, whether you are a musician, a label or some other category of creator)
- Details of your other websites and social media profiles, including links to those websites and profiles
- Information from Correspondence: You may provide certain personal information if you contact us by email.
- Survey Information: If you participate in any survey, you may be asked to provide certain personal information as part of your response, unless you respond anonymously.
- Information that you post: You may provide personal information when you upload sounds to website, or when you post comments, or contribute to community discussions.
There is certain information that we collect automatically as the result of your use of the Platform, or through the use of web analytics services as described in our Cookies Policy. This information includes:
- the Internet Protocol (IP) address of the device from which you access the Platform (this can sometimes be used to derive the country or city from which you are accessing the Platform)
- the site that you visited immediately prior to visiting the Website
- any search terms that you may enter on the Website
- the time, frequency and duration of your visits to the Platform
- your browser type and operating system
- the nature of the device from which you are accessing the Platform, for example, whether you are accessing the Platform from a personal computer or from a mobile device
- information collected through cookies and similar technology, as described in our Cookies Policy
- information regarding your interaction with email messages, for example, whether you opened, clicked on, or forwarded the email message
How we use your personal information
We use the information that we collect about you for the following purposes:- Your email address and password are used to identify you when you log into the Platform.
- Your name and email address are associated with any submission you make on the Platform and used to contact you regarding your submissions.
- Any additional information that you provide as part of your public profile, such as your real name, and links to your website and other social media profiles (but not your email address), will be published on your profile page. This information will be publicly accessible and may be viewed by anyone accessing the Website, or using our API or other Services. Please bear this in mind when considering whether to provide any additional information about yourself.
- Your email address will be used to send you service updates and notifications regarding your account, and (if you have elected to receive them using your account preferences) newsletters, marketing messages and certain email notifications.
- Your email address will be used to send you status updates on opportunities hosted by New Music Engine.
- To operate and maintain your New Music Engine account, and to provide you with access to the Website and use of any Services that you may request from time to time.
- To identify you as the creator of the sounds that you upload, the comments that you post and/or the other contributions that you make to the Platform.
- To seek your participation in surveys, and to conduct and analyse the results of those surveys if you choose to participate.
- To provide you with technical support
- To analyse the use of the Platform, and the people visiting the Website and using the Apps and Services, in order to improve New Music Engine.
- To respond to you about any comment or inquiry you have submitted.
- To customize your use of the Platform and/or the content of any email newsletter or other material that we may send to you from time to time.
- To prevent or take action against activities that are, or may be, in breach of our security, abuse of our services, or applicable law.
- For other purposes, provided we disclose this to you at the relevant time, and provided that you agree to the proposed use of your personal information.
Sharing of your personal information
WE WILL NOT SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION WITH ANY THIRD PARTY, EXCEPT AS DESCRIBED IN THIS PRIVACY POLICY. There are circumstances where we may need to share some of the personal information we collect about you or which you provide to us - these circumstances are as follows:- Opportunity Organizers: When you submit your work on this platform, organizer(s) who host that opportunity will only have access to your name and email address if you provide it to them on their submission form.
- Other Users: Any information you place on your public profile will be accessible by other users of the Platform, who may view your profile information.
- With your consent: We will disclose your personal information if you have explicitly agreed that we may do so. We will make this clear to you at the point at which we collect your information.
- As aggregated data: We may aggregate your personal data with similar data relating to other users of the Platform in order to create statistical information regarding the Platform and its use, which we may then share with third parties or make publicly available. However, none of this information would include any email address or other contact information, or anything that could be used to identify you individually, either online or in real life.
- If required by law: We will disclose your personal information if we believe in good faith that we are permitted or required to do so by law, including in response to a court order, subpoena or other legal demand or request.
- To protect our interests: We may disclose your personal information if we feel this is necessary in order to protect or defend our legitimate rights and interests, or those of our users to ensure the safety and security of the Platform and/or the New Music Engine community.
- In the context of a business transfer: We may transfer your personal information to any person or company that acquires all or substantially all of the assets or business of New Music Engine, or on a merger of our business, or in the event of our insolvency.
Access to your Data
As described above, personal information you provide to us can be accessed and updated in the account area of New Music Engine. If you wish to access, amend or delete any other personal information we hold about you, or if you have any objection to the processing of any information that we hold about you, please contact us at support@newmusicengine.org.If you ask us to delete your account via email, we will do so within a reasonable period of time, but we may need to retain some of your personal information in order to satisfy our legal obligations or where we have a legitimate reason for doing so.
