PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy sets out the basis on which any information (which may include personal data, as defined in data protection law) we collect from you, or that you provide to us, through this website, application or service (the “Site”) will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.

WHO WE ARE

This site is operated by Drum Sound Studios, LLC, in the United States (“we”), who is a data controller responsible for the processing of personal data under applicable data protection law.

In Short

We do not share any personal information you explicitly share with us with any third party.  We take your privacy seriously.  Methods you may use to explicitly share personal information with us include our contact form, an email, social media, or the shopping cart and checkout process. 

CONTACT

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed by clicking here, or by e-mail at privacy@drumsoundstudios.com.

INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

When you use the Site or contact us by e-mail, social media, or other methods, we may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information you give us, including:

    • Forms filled out by you on the Site;

    • Content of correspondence with us by e-mail or otherwise;

    • Site registration;

    • Orders placed on the Site

The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, payment information, or comments.

  • Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our Site we may automatically collect the following information:

    • Technical information, including IP address, login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform;

    • Information about your visit, including the full URL clickstream to, through and from our Site (including date and time);

    • Pages you viewed or searched for; page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page.

  • We may also collect information our about your devices (including phones, computers or other devices) where you access and visit our Site. Such information may include unique device identifiers and mobile network information, IP address, language and time zone, operating system, hardware version.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM OTHER SOURCES

We also work with third parties (including, for example, payment services, advertising networks, analytics providers, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, and search information providers, and may receive information about you from them.

HOW YOUR INFORMATION MAY BE USED

We may use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To help us respond to your queries;

  • To make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our Site about goods or services that may interest you or them;

  • To allow you to interact with our Site, for example using your account to purchase items

  • To comply with legal and regulatory requirements;

  • To administer our Site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;

  • To improve our Site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;

  • As part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure;

We may combine information we receive from other sources with information you give to us and information we collect about you (including information in relation to your devices). We may use this combined information for the purposes set out above.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

We may share your personal tracking data, excluding any data you explicitly provide us through our contact form, an email correspondence, or during the checkout process, with the following:

  • Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our Site;

  • Any other third party where lawful.

COOKIES

Our Site uses cookies and other tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site and also allows us to improve our Site. The main types of cookies used, include:

  • Functional cookies – used for account login, shopping cart contents, and checkout functionality

  • Analytics and performance cookies – used to determine howe visitors, in aggregate, interact with our Site

For more details on cookies, see the “Cookies” section below.

SOCIAL MEDIA AND OTHER THIRD PARTIES THAT PROVIDE CONTENT, ADVERTISING OR FUNCTIONALITY ON OUR SERVICES

Some of the content, advertising and functionality on our Site may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with us.

Third-party advertisers also may have a presence on our Sites. These and other third parties may collect or receive certain information about your use of our Sites, including through the use of cookies and other Internet technologies, and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected across different websites and online services.

CHILDREN

This Site is not directed toward children (as defined by local law) nor do We knowingly collect information from children (as defined by local law) without parental consent except where in compliance with applicable laws.

YOUR RIGHTS

You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal data, and to request access to, rectification, erasure, and portability of your own personal data by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section. We may require you to prove your identity with approved identification if you request this information.

You may also be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that our processing of your personal data infringes applicable law.

You are responsible for keeping your information current and up-to-date. You may update your information by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section.

We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS

California residents have certain rights regarding the collection, use, disclosure, and sale of their personal data. As defined in the California Consumer Privacy Act, we engage in industry-standard advertising business practices that may be considered a sale by displaying third-party ads on our Site.

California residents have the right to request:

  • Disclosure of personal data we collect, use, disclose, and sell about you;

  • Deletion of your personal data that we maintain;

To make a request, contact us as described in the “Contact” section. We may require you to prove your identity with approved identification if you request this information.  In most cases, We will verify your request by confirming that you control the email address associated with your personal data.

You have the right not to receive discriminatory treatment for exercising your privacy rights.

LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES

Our Site, our newsletters and other communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

Any material changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page prior to the change becoming effective and/or we will notify you through the Site or, where appropriate, by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.

USERS OF SITES IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA

This section of this Privacy Policy applies only if you use the Site from a country that is a Member State of the European Economic Area, and supplements the information in this Privacy Policy.

LEGAL BASIS FOR DATA PROCESSING

We process personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, as described above. Our legal basis to process personal data includes processing that is: necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us (for example, to provide you with the services you request and to identify and authenticate you so you may use the Site); necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement); necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to manage our relationship with you and to improve the Site); and based on consent by our customers (for example, to communicate with you about our products and services and provide you with marketing information), which may subsequently be withdrawn at any time (by using preference settings in emails or on our Sites, or emailing us as set out in the “Contact” section) without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.

In some instances, you may be required to provide us with personal data for processing as described above, in order for us to be able to provide you to use all the features of the Site.

COOKIES POLICY

INFORMATION ABOUT OUR USE OF COOKIES AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES

Our Site uses cookies and other similar technologies (as described below) to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site, allows us to improve our Site and provide you with tailored content and advertising.

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer's hard drive.

You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them below:

Types and Purposes of Cookies:

Strictly Necessary

These cookies are essential in order to enable you to browse our Site and use its features. The information collected by these cookies relate to the operation of our Site, for example website scripting language and security tokens to maintain secure areas of our Site.

Performance / Analytics

These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our Site, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages, and how you arrived at our Site. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our Site and never to identify you. These cookies are sometimes placed by third-party providers of web traffic analysis services, such as Google Analytics.

Functionality

These cookies remember choices you make, for example saving your account username, in order to improve your experience of our Site and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. The information these cookies collect may be anonymized and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites.

Targeting or Advertising

These cookies collect information about your browsing habits and inferred interests in order to make advertising more relevant to you. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an ad, as well as to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks. They remember the other websites that you visit and this information is shared with third-party organizations, for example advertisers.

Social Media

These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our Site with social media organizations such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the privacy policies of these organizations for how their cookies work.

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

Some of our Sites may use Google AdSense to publish advertisements, including information about your demographics and interests. When you view or click on an advertisement a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other websites. You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google’s Advertising and Privacy page: http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.

Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies. However, if you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies. Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our Site, including certain personalized features, if you delete or disable cookies.

For more information on managing cookies, please go to www.allaboutcookies.org, or visit www.youronlinechoices.eu which has further information about behavioral advertising and online privacy.

WEB BEACONS

We, or our third party partners, may employ a software technology called web beacons (also known as web bugs, clear gifs or pixels) which helps us understand what content is effective, for example by counting the number of users who have visited these pages, and to understand usage patterns. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to let us know when content is viewed. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded on web pages, ads, and e-mail. We, or our third party partners, may tie the information gathered by web beacons to the other information we collect about you.

In addition to disabling cookies and other tracking technologies as described above, you may opt-out of receiving targeted advertising from participating ad networks, audience segment providers, ad serving vendors, and other service providers by visiting websites operated by the Network Advertising Initiative, Digital Advertising Alliance, or European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance.

 

VERSION: 1.4_GLOBAL
Effective Date: 10/29/21