Last Updated June 2009
Lovemusic24.co.uk's is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy sets out how we collect and use personal information and date you decide to share with us and other users of our Site, located at www.lovemusic24.co.uk. (we will use, "Lovemusic24.co.uk", “We”, “Us”, “Our” or "Site" to describe ourselves)
By using or accessing Lovemusic24.co.uk, consent to the collection and processing of your personal data as set out in this Privacy Policy.
The Lovemusic24.co.uk website is owned and operated by Archant Suffolk Limited and for the purposes of the Data Protection Act 1998 they are the data controller.
The information we collect
When you visit our Site you provide us with two types of data:
- personal information you provide to us when filling out forms (for example when registering as a member, subscribing for services or posting material to our Site); and
- information collected by us as you use and interact with our Site,
Details of the collection of this information is set out below
When you register as a member of our Site you supply us with certain personal information (for example your name, your email address, your telephone number, your address, your gender, and other personal or preference information).
If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence. We may also ask you to complete surveys that we use for research purposes, although you do not have to respond to them.
When you visit Lovemusic24.co.uk, we collect details of your operating system, your browser type and IP address. In addition, we store certain information from your browser using "cookies" for system administration and to report aggregate information to our advertisers. This is statistical data about our users' browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual.
A cookie is a piece of data stored on the your computer tied to information about, you, the user. We use cookies to confirm that users are logged in and to track your use of the Site as well as recognising you when you return to ours site, making it easier for you to login when you come back to Lovemusic24.co.uk. You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to refuse the setting of cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site.
Cookies also help us to improve our Site and allow us to customise our site according to your personal interests, .
Please note that our advertisers may also use cookies, over which we have no control.
Lovemusic24.co.uk allows registered users to set up a personal profile, create blogs, initiate contact and form relationships with other users, send messages, post classified advertisements, form groups, set up events, and transmit other information and files through various channels. We collect this information so that you can use the Service. We retain this information so that, for example, you can access read messages and maintain your list of friends and contacts. When you update information, we usually keep a copy of the previous version for a reasonable period of time as a back up.
You post content, classified listings, information, images, sound recordings, video, materials and files (User Generated Content) on the Site at your own risk.
We encourage you to set privacy options to control access to your pages, but please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. We cannot control the actions of other users and visitors with whom you may choose to share your pages and information. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that User Generated Content you post on the Site will not be viewed by unauthorised persons. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Site. You understand and acknowledge that, even after removal, copies of User Generated Content may remain viewable in cached and archived pages or if other Users have copied or stored your User Generated Content.
Any collection or use of information provided on Lovemusic24.co.uk contrary to the Terms of Use is a breach of the Lovemusic24.co.uk Terms of Use and should be reported.
You can use our ‘Invite Your Friends’ service to invite a friend to join our site, we will ask you for your friend's email address so that we can contact them. Lovemusic24.co.uk stores this information to send invitations, to link the friend to your personal profile. Your friend may contact us to request that we remove this information from our database.
Where we store your personal data
By using Lovemusic24.co.uk, you are consenting to have your personal data transferred to and processed in the United Kingdom.
The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area ("EEA"). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our suppliers. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
Children aged under 16
Lovemusic24.co.uk does not knowingly collect or ask for personal information from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16, please do not attempt to register for Lovemusic24.co.uk or send any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number or email address.
No one under the age of 16 may register or provide any personal information to or on Lovemusic24.co.uk. In the event that such information has been collected without the consent of a parent or guardian, we will promptly delete that information.
Child protection is very important to us. Please contact us as soon as possible if you believe that we might have any information from or about a child under the age of 16.
Children between the ages of 16 and 18
If you are aged between 16 and 18 please ask you parents or guardian for permission before registering or sending any information about yourself to our Site..
Use of information obtained by Lovemusic24.co.uk
When you register with Lovemusic24.co.uk we ask you to create a personal profile and choose your privacy settings. The information contained in your profile, such as you name and photo, are displayed to people in the groups or networks selected by you in your privacy. Where your privacy settings permit, other Lovemusic24.co.uk users may be able to add photos and other information to your profile.
From time to time we may use your email address to send you information regarding new services offered by Lovemusic24.co.uk. We will also send you service notices by email from for example, if a friend tags a picture of you, you may receive an email alerting you to that tag.
Your publicly available profile including your name and profile picture will be available in search results from the Lovemusic24.co.uk search facility and if your privacy settings permit to third-party search engines. This is primarily so your friends can find you and send an invitation to become a ‘friend’.
We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we may provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women in SW1). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers' wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience.
Sharing your information with third parties
You can choose the information you share with friends, groups and networks through the privacy settings function on our Site. We may share your information with third parties where we consider such disclosure is: reasonably necessary to the use of our site; required by law; or you give us consent to disclose such information. For example:
- When you use our Site we may aggregate the information you provide and inform your friends, groups and network members via the What’s New section of their profiles. You can choose what information we aggregate on your Settings page.
- Lovemusic24.co.uk does not allow search engines to search your personal information other than your name and profile picture. You can choose whether you want to allow search engines to return results of this limited information on your settings page.
- We may provide your information to third parties to run our Site and business, for example hosting information.
- If we are required to under the laws of England or a court order.. We may also disclose information to prevent a crime, injury or to assist in investigations.
- If we sell our business or the Lovemusic24.co.uk Site, your personal information is likely to be transferred to the new owner.
- We may disclose your personal information to any member of our group of companies,.
Links
Lovemusic24.co.uk may contain links to other websites (for example in banner advertisements). We are have no control and are not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site that they should read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by Lovemusic24.co.uk.
Your Rights
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at dataprotection@lovemusic24.co.uk.
Access to Information
The Data Protection Act 1998 gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with this act. Any access request may be subject to a fee of £10 to meet our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.
Changes to our privacy policy
Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail.
Contact
Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to dataprotection@lovemusic24.co.uk.