PRIVACY POLICY

When you visit Indie Music Place, we collect certain information to enhance your online experience. To help ensure an enjoyable online experience for all of our visitors, we provide this summary of what information Indie Music Place collects online, and how Indie Music Place uses that information.

This Privacy Policy statement applies only to the information collected online by Indie Music Place.

What information do we collect?

General Browsing: Indie Music Place gathers navigational information about where visitors go on our Web site and information about the technical efficiencies of our Web site and services (i.e. time to connect to our Web site, time to download pages, etc.). This information allows us to see which areas of Indie Music Place are most visited and helps us better understand our customers' experiences at Indie Music Place. This helps us improve the quality of your online experiences by recognizing and delivering more of the preferred features, areas and services. In the process of gathering navigational information non-personally identifiable information (for example, domain type, browser version, service provider and IP address) may be collected which will provide information regarding a visitor's use of our Web site (such as the time of a visitor's last visit to a page on our site).

Indie Music Place uses a browser feature known as a cookie, which assigns a unique identification to your computer. Cookies are typically stored on your computer's hard drive and are used by Indie Music Place to help track clicks and pass information as you go through the pages within the Indie Music Place Web site. We may also use a cookie and/or a technology known as clear gifs which are typically stored in e-mails to help us confirm your receipt of, and response to, our e-mails and provide you a more personalized experience.

Indie Music Place uses cookies to tell us whether you have, or someone using your computer has previously, visited Indie Music Place. If you have previously registered, or if you purchase any thing online, register for e-mail or register for one of the online sweepstakes that we may offer at this Web site, cookies could allow us to associate your registration and/or purchase information with Web site navigational information from previous browsing visits. If you indicate in our online surveys in which you elect to participate that you would like to be considered for future Indie Music Place marketing research, we may use cookies to associate your e-mail registration information with your survey.

If you purchase a product or sign up for services from Indie Music Place on our Web site, we will ask you to provide us with a bunch of different information as much or as little as your name, billing address, billing info, telephone number, e-mail address, credit card information, any message that you would like to include with your product, as well as the recipient's name and the telephone number and address to which you would like the product shipped. Upon completion of ordering a product, you will be given an order number.

We collect personal information at this Web site when you sign up for e-mail, which includes your name, address and e-mail address. We may also collect additional personal information from you if you elect to participate in certain features and activities that we may offer at this Web site. For example, we may from time to time post optional quizzes, polls, or surveys that may ask for additional information from you (i.e. additional demographic information, preferences, etc.).

We may occasionally participate in sweepstakes with other companies with a link to a Web site hosted by the other company. If you elect to participate in the sweepstakes by going to the linked Web site, you may be providing personal information, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number and gender to the company that is hosting the sweepstakes Web site. However, some, if not all, of the personal information that you provide on the sweepstakes Web site may be provided to us by the company hosting the sweepstakes.

To ensure compliance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, Indie Music Place does not knowingly maintain information provided by children under the age of 13.

When you sign up for e-mail, sign up for a sweepstakes that we sponsor or create an account, you will be added to the Indie Music Place e-mail marketing list and we will send you exclusive information about special offers, media events, new products and much more.

Indie Music Place does not sell, rent or trade your e-mail address to unaffiliated third parties, but does use third parties to administer and manage our e-mails, however, we have the right to share your email with any company we feel is necessary and can benefit both parties.. Third parties who manage and administer our e-mails are required to maintain your e-mail address in confidence. If you'd like to be removed from the Indie Music Place e-mail list, you can follow the removal instructions located at the bottom of the next e-mail you receive from Indie Music Place . Please be aware, even if you elect not to receive e-mail, or subsequently ask to be removed from the Indie Music Place e-mail marketing list, you may still receive e-mail confirmations for product purchases made on our Web site, and you may receive e-mails sent by a friend using E-mail a Friend.

If you e-mail a wish list to a friend, we will not collect, retain or review the names or e-mail addresses of the recipient of your wish list.

Indie Music Place uses its direct mailing list to send you Indie Music Place mailings regarding exclusive information about special offers, new products and much more. In addition, please be aware that Indie Music Place makes names and addresses in this direct mailing list available to other companies. If you no longer wish to receive our direct mailings or have your name and address shared with other companies (other than third parties who provide services to Indie Music Place ) please email us at email@indiemusicplace.com.

Occasionally, we may post special surveys, quizzes or polls on our Web site. We will aggregate the answers provided by all visitors who participate in each quiz, poll and survey and use this aggregate information to help us better understand our customers. We may also use the information you provide in your responses to enhance and personalize our product offerings and mailings to you. If you indicate when taking a quiz, poll or survey that you would like to be considered for participation in future Indie Music Place marketing research, we will associate your answers with your e-mail registration information and use this combined information to contact you for future Indie Music Place marketing research.

The information you provide when you make a purchase on our Web site is used to process your request and send the requested product. If it is a product, we will include your name and billing address in the packing slip that accompanies any product(s) that you ask us to ship to others. We may also use the information you provide when you make a purchase on our Web site to contact you or the recipient(s) in the event of order or delivery difficulties. In addition, we will add your e-mail address to the Indie Music Place e-mail marketing list. The information you provide when using the Order Status feature on our Web site is used to assist you in tracking your order(s).

If we receive your personal information because you have entered a sweepstakes linked to our Web site, we will use the information to contact you regarding exclusive information about special offers, new products and other information about Indie Music Place.

You should be aware that we may disclose specific information about you if necessary to do so by law or based on our good faith belief that it is necessary to conform or comply with the law or it is necessary to protect the users of our Web site, the site or the public.

We may use third parties to help us provide services to you, such as monitoring site activity, conducting surveys, processing product or service orders, maintaining our database and administering e-mails, drawings or sweepstakes or contests that we sponsor. If personally identifiable information (i.e. name, address, e-mail address, telephone number) is provided to any of these third parties, we will require that such information be maintained by them in confidence, unless otherwise specified in this privacy policy or otherwise required by Official Rules for sweepstakes.

In the event Indie Music Place sells or transfers a particular portion of its business assets, consumer information may be one of the business assets transferred as part of the transaction. If substantially all of the assets of Indie Music Place are acquired, consumer information may be transferred as part of the acquisition.

If you are visiting Indie Music Place from a location outside of the U.S., your connection will be through and to servers located in the U.S. All information you receive from Indie Music Place will be created on servers located in the U.S. and all information you provide will be maintained in our Web server and internal systems located within the U.S.

For your convenience, our Web site may contain links to other Web sites. Some of these Web sites may request or require you to provide personal information. Indie Music Place is not responsible for the privacy practices of such Web sites and you should review their privacy policies prior to providing any personal information. Links that appear on Indie Music Place should not be deemed in all cases to imply that Indie Music Place endorses or has any affiliation with the linked Web sites.

We designed Indie Music Place to accept product and service orders only from Web browsers that permit communication through Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology; for example, 4.0 versions or higher of Netscape Navigator and versions 5.01 or higher of Internet Explorer, versions 0.8 or higher of Firefox and versions 1.2 or higher for Safari. SSL is encryption technology that provides security while information is being transmitted over the Internet.

While we implement the above security measures on this Web site, you should be aware that 100% security is not always possible on the internet.

If you have questions or concerns with respect to our Privacy Policy, please feel free to contact us at email@indiemusicplace.com. Should there be a material change in the categories of information collected at Indie Music Place or a material change in how we use information collected at Indie Music Place, we will post the revised Privacy Policy on this Web site, state the effective date of the revised Privacy Policy at the bottom of the Privacy Policy and for the first 30 days after the revisions indicate these material changes by noting them in italic type with "[Revised]" following the revised sentence. [Revised]. If you are concerned about how your personal information is used, please visit our Web site often for this and other important announcements from Indie Music Place.

This privacy policy effective January 1st 2009.