Your
privacy is a top priority at Howzitsound.com (“Howzitsound”).
Please read our Privacy Policy details:
Howzitsound will use the information that we collect about
you to facilitate future downloads and personalize your
online experience.
Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy (“Policy”),
this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information
collected from you online. For some services, we either collect
and transfer personal information to a service provider you
have selected, or you may visit other merchants through links
on our site who may collect and use your personal information.
In that case the third-party service provider or merchant's
privacy policy will govern how your information is handled.
If you visit any other site available through a link on our
site, they may independently collect, use and share your
personal information in accordance with their privacy policies.
Please
carefully read their privacy policies before browsing their
site. Unless you are on Howzitsound's web site, any time
that you have moved to a window, you should assume that your
personal
information is being collected, used and disclosed in accordance
with the windowed site's privacy policy (if any).
This Policy may change from time to time, so please check
back periodically.
Questions regarding this Policy should
be directed
to info@howzitsound.com or you may also contact us directly
at the following address:
Attn: Privacy Compliance Officer Howzitsound Offices
7221 mill run circle Naples, Fl 34109
Howzitsound collects personal information and non-personal
information.
Personal information refers to information that lets
us know the specifics of who you are. Personal information
is requested
when you set up a customer account (“My Account”),
order a download and or send us feedback. This information
may include your name, billing address, telephone number,
e-mail address, credit card or other payment information
and download
details. Howzitsound uses this information to fill
your orders and better provide you with personalized
services.
Non-personal information refers to information that
does not by itself identify you. We may gather certain
information
about
you based upon where you shop on our site in several
ways. This information may be compiled and analyzed
on both a
personal and an aggregated basis. By way of example,
non-personal information may include the website's
Uniform Resource
Locator
("URL")
that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser
you are using, and your Internet Protocol ("IP")
address.
Howzitsound gathers information when you set up a
Customer Account. Before you may order Digital
Downloads or make
other purchases, you must first establish a customer
account. To
set up a Customer Account, we will collect your
name, and a password established by you and an e-mail
address.
We
may use
that information to set up a personal greeting
that you will see when you return to our site and to
contact
you.
We may
also track your traffic patterns throughout your
online session, including the pages, information
and advertisements
you view
while using the site and what music you download.
Your IP address may be used by us to diagnose problems
with
our servers, software,
administer our site and gather demographic information.
We will collect personal information from you when
you order a music download from us. We collect
and maintain
your name,
e-mail address, billing and shipping address,
shipping contact telephone numbers, music selections,
credit
card or other payment
information and a password. This information
is collected as disclosed in this Policy, in order
to download
the music to
you, to pay music royalties, and to administer
our site. We will not disclose your personal
information to any
intellectual property rights-holders without
your prior consent. We
may,
however, make our customer records available
to record
labels outside auditing agents on a confidential
basis as part of
periodic audits of our download sales.
We offer free promotional e-mails as a service
to our customers. We will send you e-mails periodically
listing
current specials
and deals if you have opted-in to receive promotional
emails at signup. We will not send you any e-mails
in the future,
unless you make another purchase.
If you contact Howzitsound or our customer service
representatives by telephone, e-mail or letter,
we may keep a record
of your correspondence or comments. If you
report a problem with our
site, we may collect such information in a
file specific to you. If you contact us by e-mailing
one of our
customer service
representatives, we may ask for your name,
and verifying order information in order to send
you a reply. If
other users or
third parties send us correspondence about
your activities or purchases on our site, we may keep
the information
in
a file specific to you.
We may display advertisements on our site.
By knowing a little about you, Howzitsound
will
be able to
deliver more
relevant
advertisements and content to you in the
form of targeted banners and promotions. We may
also have
third-party
advertising servers
display ads linked to certain search terms
that you have entered, artists, or to certain
pages
that you
are viewing.
Advertisers
never have access to individual account information.
When you use our site we will store cookies
on your computer in order to facilitate
and customize
your
use of our
site. A cookie is a small data text file,
which a Web site stores
on your computer's hard drive (if your
Web browser permits) that can later be retrieved
to identify
you to Howzitsound.
Our cookies store randomly assigned user
identification numbers, the country where
you are located,
and your first name to welcome
you back to our site. The cookies make
your use of the site easier, allow you to retrieve
an
earlier shopping
cart, make
the site run more smoothly and help us
to maintain a secure site. You will be unable
to shop on
our site without
your
browser set to accept cookies. We may use
an outside ad serving company
or content server to display banner advertisements
and other information on our site or to
serve promotional emails. As
part of their service, they place a separate
cookie on
your computer. Howzitsound does not provide
third-party ad servers
with any of your Personally Identifiable
information.
You may set your browser so that it will
not accept "cookies" to
prevent assignment from the ad server of a unique identifier;
however, you will be unable to shop on our site if
you do so.
We may use third party ad servers or
content servers to serve ads, product
information,
or other information
both
on and
off our site. Those third parties may
use "action tags" or
web beacons throughout the site to count the number of visitors
who click on a banner ad or other information and to track
the number of customers who continue on to make a purchase.
They may also place their own "cookie" on
your computer to help those ads to run and analyze
site usage.
We do not
provide them with any of your personal information.
When you download music, the information
collected by Howzitsound is used
for downloads, reporting
those downloads
to record
labels and aggregated basis for statistical
purposes, for improving our site
and its performance, to
serve ads, and
to notify you
of products or special offers that
may be of interest to you. We will
disclose
your
personal
information
to third
parties
to charge your credit card and deliver
promotional e-mails to you from Howzitsound.
Where you sign up for music or other
products offered through our site,
but sold directly
to you by a
third party, we
give your personal information
to that third party (e.g., a music
CD available on our site from a
sponsoring third party).
Occasionally Howzitsound may be
asked by law enforcement or judicial
authorities
to provide
personal information
to the
appropriate governmental authorities.
We
will disclose personal information
upon receipt of a court order,
subpoena, or to
cooperate with a law enforcement
investigation, without prior
notice to you. Howzitsound
fully
cooperates
with law enforcement
agencies in identifying those
who use our services for illegal activities.
We reserve
the right
to report to
law enforcement
agencies any activities that
we believe to be unlawful.
You may edit the personal information
that you provide to us. You can
review, change,
or delete
the information
that
you
have submitted. You may change
any of your personal information
in your
customer
account
online at
any time. We expect
you to promptly update your information
if it changes. You may
ask to have the information on
your account deleted or removed
but you
cannot delete
information associated with past
purchases. As a security measure,
the data stored
on our
systems is “backed
up,” and such prior information cannot effectively
be removed from our databases. Accordingly, you should
not expect
that all of your personal information will be completely
removed from our backed-up databases.
Established third party banking
and processing agents handle
all credit
card transactions.
They receive
the information
needed to verify and authorize
your credit card or other payment
information.
Your account information is
kept on a secure server. All
of the
customer data
we collect
when you place
an order
is protected
against unauthorized access
by advanced encryption and
firewall
technology.
To further ensure
your security, we use state-of-the-art
Secure Sockets Layer (“SSL”) encryption
to protect your personal information from unauthorized
use.
You must be at least 13 years
old to have our permission
to use this
site.
We do
not knowingly
collect,
use or disclose personal
information about visitors under
13
years of age.
If you are the parent or
guardian of a minor under 13 years of
age and believe
that we
have collected
the minor's
personal
information, please contact
us at info@howzitsound.com
so that
we may delete their information
from
our
current records.
Our third-party ad servers
may occasionally use outside
agents,
whose computers
will serve ads
on our site
in the same manner
and under the same conditions
as above. In addition, other
ad serving
companies
or advertisers
may
place banner ads
on our site in the same manner
as above, but we do not disclose
to them any personal information.
If you have any questions
about this Privacy Policy,
the practices
of
this site, or
your dealings with
this site,
please contact
Howzitsound.com by sending
a letter to:
Attn: Privacy Compliance
Officer
Howzitsound, Inc.
You may also contact us
by e-mail info@howzitsound.com
If Howzitsound makes changes
to any terms or conditions
of the
Privacy
Policy,
the changes
will be posted
in this document
so that you will always
know what information
we gather,
how we might
use that information
and to
whom we will
disclose it. We may change,
modify, add or remove
portions of this
Policy
at any time, and any
changes will become effective immediately
upon
being posted
unless we tell
you otherwise.
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