Privacy Policy Digital Bros
We value your information very much. In this Privacy Policy, we want to help you understand how we treat the information you have shared with us through Digital Bros Distribution, including our services, our websites in the Digital Bros Distribution domain, our blog, as well as our software (collectively the “Services”). This way, you can make informed decisions about the relationship between us and you. So please read it carefully.
By using our Services, you agree to the terms and conditions set forth in this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy is incorporated into, and is subject to, our Terms of Service. Throughout this Privacy Policy, we will also refer to terms defined in our Terms of Service.
Your Information
In order to provide you with our Services, we need to collect information from you to best serve your needs. Therefore, we may collect various types of information through the Services we provide. You can rest assured, we strictly use your “Personal Information” (i.e., information that personally identifies you or could be used to personally identify you) to provide the Services. We may also process Personal Information upon your consent.
What you share with us
When you use our Services, you may share with us and we may collect Personal Information which includes (but is not limited to) the following:
– Your email address when you subscribe to our blog;
– Your last name, first name, email address, and mailing address when you create an account;
– Your payment information when you buy a paid subscription;
– Your language of preference, subscription plan, billing information, mastering history, and promotional code associated with your account, where applicable;
– Your files, content, configuration parameters, and other information (your “Data”), including your photos, audio files, production preferences, structural data, and emails, as well as ancillary information (for example, musical style or type of instrument);
– Your list of contacts, if you grant us access;
– Your visitor profile on our website and blog;
– Your interactions with us, whether by email, on our blog, or on our social media platforms.
What is shared with us through our Services
We may also collect the following information when you use our Services:
– We collect information on the devices that you use to access our Services. This information includes things like your IP address, web browser and the device that you use, the webpage that linked you to our sites, and the identifiers associated with your devices. If you have activated the location service parameters on your devices, these can also send us information about your geographical location;
– We use “cookies” to collect information and to operate and improve our Services. A cookie is a small data file that we store on your electronic device. We may use “persistent cookies” to record your email and password for when you log on to our Services in the future. We may use “session identifier cookies” to activate certain features of the Services, to better understand and improve your experience with the Services, to track data about the overall use of the Services (length of visits, number of users, etc.), and to optimize the marketing of our Services;
– Most web browsers allow you to refuse cookies or ask for your consent before you accept cookies. However, if you do not accept cookies, you might not be able to use all of our Services’ features;
– We may also combine information that we collect through our Services with information that we collect from other sources. For example, if you log on to your Digital Bros Distribution account through Facebook, you give us access to information associated with your Facebook profile.
How we treat Your Information
We take matters regarding your information very seriously. We make sure that we use your Personal Information only when we absolutely need it to fulfill our duties to you and only give access to those employees who need to have access to it to fulfill their duties to you.
Therefore, we may use the information that we collect in a variety of ways to provide the Services, including:
– To authenticate you when you log on to your account or the blog;
– To provide you with the requested subscription and to proceed with payment;
– To access, store, and analyze your Data so that you may enjoy our Services;
– To activate certain features, like previews, editing, sharing, and song searches. For example, if you give us access to your contacts, we can store that information to simplify some of your interactions, like sharing your Data or sending out emails or invitations to use our Services;
– To understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the Services, and to develop new products, services, features, and functionalities;
– To improve the performance of our mastering algorithm and music engine based on the music you upload. You, the musician, retain ownership, copyright, and publishing rights of your music;
– To follow up on any question and request for assistance or information;
– To understand your needs and preferences, and to assess your level of satisfaction with our Services;
– To send you updates on our products, services, news, and events, and to follow up on our offers, promotions, or contests (for example, to send you your referral credits when you have referred someone to our Services), to the extent permitted by applicable law;
– To comply with legal and regulatory requirements, where applicable.
How we may share Your Information
Don’t worry, your Personal Information is in safe hands. We absolutely do not sell or market your Personal Information to third parties. Your Data is yours. However, to provide you the Services, we may share certain information that we collect from you in the following manner:
– Within our family of companies, including parents, corporate, affiliates, subsidiaries, business units, and other companies that share common ownership;
– To our service providers or partners, so that they can help us provide, improve, and promote our Services, but only when they require such information to perform their services. We may provide Personal Information to our providers and partners to process it for us based on our instruction and in compliance with our privacy policy;
– For business transactions relating to any reorganization, merger, sale of assets, funding, or acquisition of all or part of our activities by another corporation, including in the context of a due diligence or closing process;
– In all cases where sharing your information is permitted or required by applicable law (for example, court order, situation that threatens the life, health, or safety of an individual).
When we share your Personal Information with third parties, we take reasonable measures to ensure that those third parties follow the rules in this Privacy Policy, and that they provide sufficient guarantees to implement the appropriate technical and organizational measures.
We may share certain automatically collected, aggregated, or otherwise non-personally identifiable information with third parties for various purposes, including (i) for following various reporting obligations; (ii) for business or marketing purposes; or (iii) to assist such parties in understanding your interests, habits, and usage patterns for certain programs, content, services, and/or functionality available through the Services. In short, whenever we share your information with others, it is to best serve your needs.
Your Preferences
To give you the ability to control how you share your information with us, we offer you various options. Here are a few:
– You may be able to access or register for the Services through third parties (each, an “Integrated Service”), such as through your Facebook account, or otherwise allow an Integrated Service to provide Personal Information or other information to us. By allowing us to connect with an Integrated Service, you authorize us to access and store your name, email address(es), and other information that the Integrated Service shares with us, and to use and disclose it according to this Privacy Policy. You should check your privacy settings on each Integrated Service to find out what information is shared with us and make changes according to your preferences. Please review each Integrated Service’s terms of use and privacy policies carefully before using their services to connect to our Services;
– You can edit your contact information and language of communication at all times. This is the best way to ensure that your Personal Information is accurate and up to date;
– You can change your password at all times;
– You can subscribe and unsubscribe to our promotional offers;
– You can log out of your account securely by clicking on the “Log Out” button;
– You can delete your account at all times by contacting our customer support team at digitalbrosdistribution@gmail.com
Other Websites and Social Media
Our website and blog may have links to third-party websites like Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr, Instagram, SoundCloud, or others. We can’t control or be held responsible for the privacy practices of these third parties. Some features, such as data sharing, offer you the possibility of granting third parties access to your information. For example, through API interfaces. Please be aware that how these third parties handle your information is under the privacy policies of those third parties. Also bear in mind that anyone may read, collect, and use information that you publish in a public forum such as our blog or on social media.
Referral Campaigns
We may from time to time invite you to share a promotional offer or to refer our Services to members of your family or close friends. In such cases, please make sure that the people you refer us to are indeed members of your family (spouse, common-law partner, parent, or child) or are people with whom you have a personal relationship (frequent communications, shared affinities, opinions, etc.). We would really appreciate it if you referred us only to people you closely know who’d be interested in our Services.
How we manage Your Information
Digital Bros Distribution may store or process your Personal Information in other countries where we have facilities or have third-party service providers. By using the Service, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside your country of residence, including the United States. Therefore, your Personal Information may be subject to data protection and privacy laws different from those in your country. While such information is outside of Canada,
it is subject to the laws of the country where it is held and may be disclosed to governments, courts, law enforcement, or regulatory agencies of such other country in accordance with its laws. However, our practices regarding your Personal Information will always be governed by this Privacy Policy.
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