Heartbeat of the Universe
by Derek Nigell
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FAQ
What is a download gate?
A download gate is a landing page for our music (or other type of content), where we trade a free download in exchange of social support (follow the author and collaborators on SoundCloud or MixCloud, like songs and etc.).
What is a smart link?
A smart link is a landing page for our music, where we list all of the links to online music stores and streaming services, that a certain song or album is available in.
Why and when do you need access to my account?
We need this only for our download gates. Each time you want to download something from our catalog we are going to ask you to give permissions to our web APP to connect to your SoundCloud/Spotify/YouTube or MixCloud profile. For each download gate there are certain actions you need to do in order to unlock the free download (like songs, like videos, follow profiles, subscribe to channels and etc.). We call those "gate rules". Once you click the download button and authorize the connection our APP is going to automatically fulfill the gate rules for you (you are going to follow the listed artists, profiles, like the listed songs and etc.). Your download will be unlocked after that.
Do you extract and store any personal information?
On download gates
To get a basic idea of who you are we do store your current display name in our database (we extract that from the authorized profile). Please note, that this is NOT your unique user name or channel ID (if you have connected with YouTube). We do not store any sensitive personal information like your unique user name, email, profile/channel ID, gender, street address, real name and etc. Display names are not unique and can be (in most cases) changed often, so we decided, that this is the only information we would need to keep track of who is downloading our music. We do keep track of where our downloads are comming from, but we never extract and store any location information from your authorized account (like your street adress). However, we do analyze your IP address and try to guess from wich country and city you are downloading. For example, if you want to download via Mixcloud and give our APP access to your mixcloud account where you entered "Denver - Colorado" as your location, but you are right now in New York, our system will store "New York" as the origin of the download.On smartlinks
To get a basic idea of who you are and where the clicks are coming from, we do analyze your IP address and try to guess your current location (country and city).
What if I already follow the author and collaborators on a given platform.
Each time you want to download something you will see a list of all the artists you need to follow, channels you need to subscribe to, songs and videos you need to like. If you have already fulfill some of thease "gate rules", then our APP will skip them when you authorize the connection and you will still get the free download at the end.
TERMS & PRIVACY
Privacy Policy
MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION ’s Privacy Commitment
We ask for only the least amount of information necessary, gathering only what we believe is essential for doing business, or for the specific transaction at hand.
The goal of this policy is to make explicit the information we gather, how we will use it, and how we will not. This policy is unfortunately longer than we would like, but we must unambiguously address all the relevant cases. We will try and keep the language simple and direct as much as possible.
This Privacy Policy is divided into three parts:
Part I – Information MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION collects and controls
This part deals with how MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION collects and uses information about website visitors, potential customers, users of MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION's products and services, and others who contact MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION through forms or email addresses published on or linked to our websites.
Part II – Information that MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION processes on your behalf
This part deals with how MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION handles data that you entrust to MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION when you use our products and services, or when you share any personal or confidential information with us while requesting customer support.
Part III – General
This part deals with topics that are relevant to both Parts I and II, and other general topics such as MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION's security commitments and how we will inform you when we change this Privacy Policy.
Part I – Information MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION collects and controls
What information MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION collects
We collect information about you only if we need the information for some legitimate purpose. MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION will have information about you only if (a) you have provided the information yourself, (b) MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION has automatically collected the information, or (c) MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION has obtained the information from a third party. Below we describe the various scenarios that fall under each of those three categories and the information collected in each one.
Information that you provide us
i. Account signup : When you sign up for an account to access one or more of our services, you'll be required to use an email address and a password for creating the account. Once your account is created, you can also add information like your name, contact number, email address, company name, and country to complete your profile.
ii. Payment processing : When you start to actively use your account, we ask you to provide your name, contact information, tax ID and credit card information or other payment account information. In all cases, your credit card information is stored and processed by the Payment Gateway Service Provider you choose, not by us. During the payment they inform you about their privacy and security policies, make sure you read them carefully.
iii. Interactions with MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION : We may record, analyze and use your interactions with us, including email, telephone, and chat conversations with our sales and customer support professionals, for improving our interactions with you and other customers.
Information that we collect automatically
i. Information from browsers, devices and servers : When you visit our websites, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices and servers make available, such as the internet protocol address, browser type, language preference, time zone, referring URL, date and time of access, operating system, mobile device manufacturer and mobile network information. We include these in our log files to understand more about visitors to our websites.
ii. Information from first party cookies and tracking technologies : We use temporary and permanent cookies to identify users of our services and to enhance user experience. We may also use cookies, beacons, tags, scripts, and other similar technologies to identify visitors, track website navigation, gather demographic information about visitors and users, understand email campaign effectiveness and for targeted visitor and user engagement by tracking your activities on our websites. We use first-party and third-party cookies on our websites.
iii. Information from application logs and mobile analytics : We or our contractors may collect information about your use of our services from application logs and in-house usage analytics tools, and use it to understand how your business use and needs can improve our products. This information includes clicks, scrolls, features accessed, access time and frequency, errors generated, performance data, storage utilized, user settings and configurations, and devices used to access and their locations.
Information that we collect from third parties
i. Signups using OpenID authentication service providers : You can log in to MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION Services using supported OpenID authentication service providers such as Soundcloud, Facebook and Google. These services will authenticate your identity and give you the option to share certain personal information with us, such as your name and email address.
Purposes for using information
In addition to the purposes mentioned above, we may use your information for the following purposes:
- To communicate with you (such as through email) about services that you have signed up for, changes to this Privacy Policy, changes to the Terms of Service, or important notices;
- To keep you posted on new products and services, upcoming events, offers, promotions and other information that we think will be of interest to you;
- To ask you to participate in surveys, or to solicit feedback on our products and services;
- To set up and maintain your account, and to do all other things required for providing our services, such as enabling collaboration, providing website and mail hosting, and backing up and restoring your data;
- To understand how users use our products and services, to monitor and prevent problems, and to improve our products and services;
- To provide customer support, and to analyze and improve our interactions with customers;
- To detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, to report spam, and to protect the rights and interests of MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION, MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION’s users, third parties and the public;
- To update, expand and analyze our records, identify new customers, and provide products and services that may be of interest to you;
- To analyze trends, administer our websites, and track visitor navigations on our websites to understand what visitors are looking for and to better help them;
- To monitor and improve marketing campaigns and make suggestions relevant to the user.
Legal bases for collecting and using information
Legal processing bases applicable to MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION : If you are an individual from the European Economic Area (EEA), our legal basis for information collection and use depends on the personal information concerned and the context in which we collect it. Most of our information collection and processing activities are typically based on (i) contractual necessity, (ii) one or more legitimate interests of MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION or a third party that are not overridden by your data protection interests, or (iii) your consent. Sometimes, we may be legally required to collect your information, or may need your personal information to protect your vital interests or those of another person.
Withdrawal of consent : Where we rely on your consent as the legal basis, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time, but this will not affect any processing that has already taken place.
Legitimate interests notice : Where we rely on legitimate interests as the legal basis and those legitimate interests are not specified above, we will clearly explain to you what those legitimate interests are at the time that we collect your information.
Your choice in information use
Opt out of non-essential electronic communications : You may opt out of receiving newsletters and other non-essential messages by using the ‘unsubscribe’ function included in all such messages. However, you will continue to receive notices and essential transactional emails.
Disable cookies : You can disable browser cookies before visiting our websites. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use certain features of the websites properly.
Optional information : You can choose not to provide optional profile information such as your photo. You can also delete or change your optional profile information.
Who we share your information with
We share your information only in the ways that are described in this Privacy Policy, and only with parties who adopt appropriate confidentiality and security measures.
Employees and independent contractors : Employees and independent contractors have access to the information covered in Part I on a need-to-know basis. We require all employees and independent contractors of MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION group entities to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
Third-party service providers : We may need to share your personal information and aggregated or de-identified information with third-party service providers that we engage, such as marketing and advertising partners, event organizers, web analytics providers and payment processors. These service providers are authorized to use your personal information only as necessary to provide these services to us.
Other cases : Other scenarios in which we may share the same information covered under Parts I and II are described in Part III.
Your rights with respect to information we hold about you as a controller
If you are in the European Economic Area (EEA), you have the following rights with respect to information that MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION holds about you. MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION undertakes to provide you the same rights no matter where you choose to live.
Right to access : You have the right to access (and obtain a copy of, if required) the categories of personal information that we hold about you, including the information's source, purpose and period of processing, and the persons to whom the information is shared
Right to rectification : You have the right to update the information we hold about you or to rectify any inaccuracies. Based on the purpose for which we use your information, you can instruct us to add supplemental information about you in our database.
Right to erasure : You have the right to request that we delete your personal information in certain circumstances, such as when it is no longer necessary for the purpose for which it was originally collected.
Right to restriction of processing : You may also have the right to request to restrict the use of your information in certain circumstances, such as when you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.
Right to data portability : You have the right to transfer your information to a third party in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, in circumstances where the information is processed with your consent or by automated means.
Right to object : You have the right to object to the use of your information in certain circumstances, such as the use of your personal information for direct marketing.
Right to complain : You have the right to complain to the appropriate supervisory authority if you have any grievance against the way we collect, use or share your information. This right may not be available to you if there is no supervisory authority dealing with data protection in your country.
Retention of information
We retain your personal information for as long as it is required for the purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Sometimes, we may retain your information for longer periods as permitted or required by law, such as to maintain suppression lists, prevent abuse, if required in connection with a legal claim or proceeding, to enforce our agreements, for tax, accounting, or to comply with other legal obligations. When we no longer have a legitimate need to process your information, we will delete or anonymize your information from our active databases. We will also securely store the information and isolate it from further processing on backup discs until deletion is possible.
Part II – Information that indepent contractors or providers processes on our behalf
Information entrusted to indepent contractors or providers and purpose
Information provided in connection with services : We may entrust your information to indepent contractors or providers we use in connection with providing our services or for providing technical support for our services. The data may either be stored on our servers when you use our services, or transferred or shared to us as part of a the services provided.
Who we share service data with
Third party sub-processors : In order to provide services and technical support for our products, MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION engages other third parties .
Employees and independent contractors : We may provide access to your service data to our employees and individuals who are independent contractors MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION involved in providing the services (collectively our “employees”) so that they can (i) identify, analyze and resolve errors, (ii) manually verify emails reported as spam to improve spam detection, or (iii) manually verify scanned images that you submit to us to verify the identities of rightsholders of distributed content. We ensure that access by our employees to your service data is restricted to specific individuals, and is logged. Our employees will also have access to data that you knowingly share with us for technical support or to import data into our products or services. We communicate our privacy and security guidelines to our employees and strictly enforce privacy safeguards within MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION.
Third-party integrations you have enabled : Most of our products and services support integrations with third-party products and services. Through these third-party integrations, you may be allowing the third party to access your service information and personal information about you. We encourage you to review the privacy practices of the third-party services and products before you enable integrations with them.
Other cases : Other scenarios in which we may share information that are common to information covered under Parts I and II are described in Part III.
Retention of information
We hold the data in your account as long as you choose to use MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION Services. Once you terminate your MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION user account, your data will eventually get deleted from active database during the next clean-up that occurs once in 6 months. The data deleted from active database will be deleted from backups after 3 months.
Data subject requests
If you are from the European Economic Area and you believe that we store, use or process your information on behalf of one of our customers, please contact us if you would like to access, rectify, erase, restrict or object to processing, or export your personal data.
Part III – General
Children’s personal information
Our products and services are not directed to individuals under 16. MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION does not knowingly collect personal information from children who are under 16 years of age. If we become aware that a child under 16 has provided us with personal information, we will take steps to delete such information. If you believe that a child under 16 years has provided personal information to us, please write to us with the details, and we will take the necessary steps to delete the information we hold about that child.
How secure is your information
At MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION, we take data security very seriously. We have taken steps to implement appropriate administrative, technical & physical safeguards to prevent unauthorized access, use, modification, disclosure or destruction of the information you entrust to us.
Disclosures in compliance with legal obligations
We may be required by law to preserve or disclose your personal information and service data to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, including to meet national security requirements.
Enforcement of our rights
We may disclose personal information and service data to a third party if we believe that such disclosure is necessary for preventing fraud, investigating any suspected illegal activity, enforcing our agreements or policies, or protecting the safety of our users.
Business Transfers
In the event that we sell our business or get acquired or merged, we will ensure that the acquiring entity is legally bound to honor our commitments to you. We will notify you via email or through a prominent notice on our website of any change in ownership or in the uses of your personal information and service data. We will also notify you about any choices you may have regarding your personal information and service data.
Compliance with this Privacy Policy
We make every effort, including periodic reviews, to ensure that personal information you provide is used in conformity with this Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns about our adherence to this Privacy Policy or the manner in which your personal information is used, kindly write to us. We'll contact you, and if required, coordinate with the appropriate regulatory authorities to effectively address your concerns.
Notification of changes
We may modify the Privacy Policy at any time, upon notifying you through a service announcement or by sending an email to your primary email address. If we make significant changes to the Privacy Policy that affect your rights, you will be provided with at least 30 days' advance notice of the changes by email to your primary email address. If you think that the updated Privacy Policy affects your rights with respect to your use of our products or services, you may terminate your use by sending us an email within 30 days. Your continued use after the effective date of changes to the Privacy Policy will be deemed to be your agreement to the modified Privacy Policy. You will not receive email notification of minor changes to the Privacy Policy.
Our contact information:
MINISTRY OF MUSICS DISTRIBUTION
2825-395 Costa de Caparica (Portugal)
Email: support@ministrymusics.com
For any questions, please contact the administrator via email - support@ministrymusics.com