Privacy Policy

Effective January 1, 2020

This privacy policy (the “Privacy Policy”) discloses the privacy practices for the peermusic websites located at peermusic.com and various related services (together, the “Site”). Peermusic III, Ltd. and its affiliated companies, the provider of the Site (“Peermusic,” “us,” or “we”), is committed to protecting your privacy. Please read the following information concerning the type, scope and purpose of the processing of personal information.

Controller / Data Protection Officer

The “Controller” of our data collection activities and this Privacy Policy is Peermusic III, Ltd., 901 West Alameda Avenue, Suite 108, Burbank, California 91506, U.S.A. The Data Protection Officer of the Controller is the Peermusic Department of Corporate Information Services, at the same address (email cis@peermusic.com).

Information Collected

In order to better provide you with our numerous services, Peermusic (and the vendors we hire to perform business functions on our behalf) may collect several categories of personal information from you and about you:

We collect Contact Information: We may collect your first and last name, email address, mailing address, and company name.
We collect Correspondence Information: We collect any content you share with us when you send email messages, submit forms or transmit other information by email, telephone or letter.
We collect Location Information: We collect information about your general location, using your zip code or postal code and IP address.
We collect Internet and Network Activity Information: If you use our website, we may gather certain information about you based upon where you visit our Site. Any such information is compiled and analyzed on both an individual and an aggregate basis. This information includes information about what site you came from, what site you visit when you leave us, your interaction with the pages you visit on our Site (such as what areas of the websites you visit and for how long), what browser you are using, and your IP address. If you access our site from a mobile device, we sometimes collect a device identifier.

Use of Information

We use these categories of personal information for the following purposes:

We use your personal information to deliver information to you and to contact you regarding administrative notices. We use Contact Information to communicate with you and to respond to your inquiries, feedback, or other matters related to our relationship with you. We also use Contact Information for account set-up and access purposes.
We use personal information to provide a functional Site and to provide our content and services to you (as required by our agreements with you). We use all categories of personal information to enhance the operation of our Site, statistically analyze Site use, improve our services, and customize our Site’s content, layout, and services. All categories of personal information are also used to resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems and enforce our agreements with you, including our Terms of Use and this Privacy Policy.
We use information for security purposes. We use Internet and Network Activity as necessary to protect our company, our customers, and our clients. We may also use this personal information to protect our websites or our services, as well as to detect and investigate activities that may be illegal or prohibited (such as cyberattacks or fraudulent transactions).
We use information as otherwise disclosed or permitted by law, or as we may notify you.

Your personal information will be erased or blocked as soon as the purpose of its storage no longer applies. That said, we will only store personal information to the extent local law or regulations allow or require, and if such laws stipulate erasure or blocking of personal information after certain periods, we will erase or block your personal information after those periods have elapsed, unless the need for storage continues in order to conclude or fulfill our agreements with you.

Sources

We collect these categories of personal information from the following categories of sources:

We collect information directly from you.We collect Contact Information and Correspondence Information when you engage in certain activities on this Site, such as registering for access, using a service, or sending us feedback, which often requires filling out and submitting an online form. Depending upon the activity, some of the information we may ask you to provide is identified as mandatory (because we need it in order to provide the requested services) and some as voluntary. If you do not provide the mandatory data with respect to a particular service, you will not be able to use that service.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to automatically collect information about you. When you use our Site, we will store cookies on your computer in order to facilitate and customize your use of our Site. A cookie is a small data text file, which a website stores on your computer’s hard drive (if your web browser permits) that can later be retrieved to allow us to recognize your browser or device. We use cookies to remember your device and provide you with a personalized experience of the Site, adjusting language or currency based on your location, for example. Cookies also enable us to measure website traffic information, such as the number of visits a page receives. We do not apply any further analysis or processing of data from cookies. The cookies make your use of the Site easier, make the Site run more smoothly and help us to maintain a secure Site. You are always free to decline our cookies if your browser permits, but some parts of our Site may not work properly in that case.
We work with service providers who collect information on our behalf. Vendors that host or maintain our websites and send promotional emails for us may collect Contact Information and Internet and Network Activity Information. Our analytics providers may also provide us with Internet and Network Activity Information and Location Information, which helps us improve our Site.

Information Sharing

We do not sell, trade, or rent personal information to others. We do provide some of our services through contractual arrangements with affiliates, services providers, partners and other third parties and, as a result, share the categories of personal information described above under the following circumstances:

We share your personal information with vendors who perform services on our behalf ("service providers”). We may share each category of personal information with vendors who help us manage and operate our sites, provide analytics and search engine support, investigate and prevent data incidents, and audit our business and financial statements. Any service provider processing activities will be performed only under a valid legal contract in writing clearly defining the scope and nature of processing. Such a contract may be based, in whole or in part, on applicable certification procedures or on the implementation of standard contractual terms recognized by local legal or regulatory authorities.
We may share your personal information with our clients in limited circumstances (only if you are one of Peermusic’s writers). If you are a writer who has entered into a publishing agreement, we might share your name or other Contact Information with our clients in order to facilitate their use of your music in accordance with our agreement.
We may share your information if we think we have to in order comply with the law or to protect ourselves, our customers and others. Occasionally we may be required by law enforcement or judicial authorities to provide personal information to the appropriate governmental authorities. We will disclose person information upon receipt of a court order, subpoena, or to cooperate with a law enforcement investigation. Subject to all local laws and regulations, we fully cooperate with law enforcement agencies in identifying those who use our services for illegal activities. We reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we in good faith believe to be unlawful.
We may share personal information for other reasons we may describe to you from time to time as permitted by law.

1. Legal Basis for Processing Personal Information

We process your personal information (including any cookie data that may be processed and that may be deemed to be personal information) as a result of your consent to our doing so for the specific purposes laid out in this Privacy Policy, because it is necessary to perform our agreements with you, because it may be necessary to ensure compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, and generally because it is necessary in the pursuit of our legitimate interests (provided that you have the right to require us to demonstrate these interests and to object to any processing we may perform solely on the basis of these interests).

You have the right to withdraw your consent to the processing of personal information at any time by email or other written notice to the address set forth in the “Contact Us” section below. You understand that withdrawal will not affect the legality of our treatment of your personal information while your consent was in place.

Rights to Information / Deletion / Corrections / Complaints / and More

You have the following rights, where provided under applicable law, regarding your information (each of which are subject to various exceptions and limitations):

The right to be informed. You have the right to receive confirmation as to whether or not we are processing your personal information and to have access to your personal information and to be provided with clear and easily understandable information about how we use your information and your rights. This is why we are providing you with the information in this Privacy Policy.
The right to access/right to know. You have the right to request information about the purpose, categories, recipients (or categories of recipients), and period of storage (where possible; if not, any storage criteria) of your personal information; your right to lodge complaints with the appropriate authorities; information about any automated analysis; and information of safeguards on any international transfer, in addition to any other information required to be provided under local law or regulation.

California residents have specific rights to request disclosure of the following information (i) the categories of personal information that we have collected about you; (ii) the categories of sources from which we have collected personal information about you; (iii) the business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling your personal information; (iv) the categories of personal information that we have sold about you and the categories of outside parties to whom the personal information was sold; (v) the categories of personal information that we have disclosed about you for our business purposes and the categories of vendors to whom the personal information was disclosed; and (vi) the specific pieces of personal information that we have collected about you.

The right to rectification. You are entitled to have your information corrected if it is inaccurate or incomplete. We encourage you to promptly update your personal information if it changes.
The right to erasure/deletion. At your request we will delete your personal information if any of the so-called “right to be forgotten” conditions set forth in the GDPR applies, or if any similar conditions are met under equivalent local laws or regulations. It may be impossible to completely delete your information without some residual information because of backups.
The right to restrict processing. We will restrict our processing of personal information if you tell us that it is inaccurate, if you are entitled to request deletion but prefer restriction, if we would otherwise delete it but you need it for legal reasons, or if you are in the process of verifying our “legitimate interests” for processing your personal information (if those interests are the sole legal basis on which we are doing so).
The right to data portability. You have rights to obtain and reuse your personal information for your own purposes across different services and platforms. California residents can request a copy of your personal information in a readily accessible format.
The right to object. You have the right to object to certain types of processing, in particular processing based on our legitimate interests. You also can object at any time to your information being used for direct marketing purposes. Where you object to processing for direct marketing purposes, the personal information shall no longer be processed for such purposes.

You may correct your personal information and exercise your privacy preferences by writing us at:

Peermusic
c/o Corporate Information Services
901 West Alameda Avenue, Suite 108
Burbank, California 91506
email: cis@peermusic.com

Please include your name, address, and/or email address when you contact us. We will take reasonable steps to verify your identity prior to responding to your requests. The verification steps will vary depending on the sensitivity of the personal information and whether you have an account with us.

California residents may also exercise the above rights by calling our toll-free number at (855) 480-PEER [7337].

You may designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf. When submitting the request, please ensure the authorized agent identifies himself/herself/itself as an authorized agent.

Additional Choices on Collection and Use of Information

We may, from time to time, send you emails regarding our services. If you do not want to receive promotional emails, simply contact us at the address or email address provided at the end of this Privacy Policy and let us know. However, there may be certain service related emails that you will have to continue to receive in order to use the Site and the related services.

You also have choices with respect to cookies, as described above and in our Cookies Policy. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept all cookies, to be notified when a cookie is set, or to reject all cookies. If you choose to reject all cookies some parts of our Site may not work properly in your case.

When visiting the Site, a banner will inform you of our use of cookies as described in this Privacy Policy and will instruct you on how to prevent the storage of cookies. If you decline or opt out of cookies and you change to a different browser or device to access the Site, you may need to decline cookies again. In addition, declining cookies will not prevent our Site from recognizing your mobile device. You can decline mobile tracking through the settings on your mobile device. In addition, when you access the Site from different devices, we may correlate both devices with your registration, so that we can provide a more seamless experience to you as a user of the Site.

Security of Information

We take all appropriate technical and organizational measures to ensure a level of security over personal information that is appropriate to the risks of breach, taking into account currently available technical measures, cost, and the particular circumstances and context of our processing of personal information, bearing in mind the likelihood and severity of the consequences to you and others of a potential breach of personal information.

Your personal information is protected in several ways. Access by you to your personal information is available through a unique login ID and a password selected by you. This password is encrypted. We recommend that you do not divulge your password to anyone. In addition, your personal information resides on a secure server that only selected Peermusic personnel and contractors have access to via password. We encrypt your personal information and thereby prevent unauthorized parties from viewing such information when it is transmitted to us. Anyone processing your personal information under the authority of our Controller or processor will not do so except on the Controller’s instructions (unless otherwise required to do so by law).

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, to the full extent you are empowered to do so under local law or regulations, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations of the Internet which are beyond our control; (b) the security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed; and (c) any such information and data may be viewed or tampered with in transit by a third party.

Privacy Policies of Third Party Sites

Except as otherwise discussed in this Privacy Policy, this document only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. Other sites accessible through our Site have their own privacy policies and data collection, use and disclosure practices. Please consult each site’s privacy policy. We are not responsible for the policies or practices of third parties with whom we have no contractual relationship.

Social Media and Plugins

We use social networking sites and platforms to communicate with customers, clients, prospective customers and clients, and other users and to inform them about our services. When accessing the respective networks and platforms, the terms and conditions and the privacy policies of the respective operators apply. Unless otherwise stated in this Privacy Policy, we process personal information from users who communicate with us within social networks and platforms. Within the Site, to the extent we have legitimate interests in doing so, we integrate content and services from third parties, such as video content, into our website. To do so, the third-party content providers must obtain user IP addresses; otherwise the content can’t be viewed in the user’s browser. We do our best to limit our integrated content and services to third parties that use IP addresses solely for the delivery of Third-Party Content. Providers of Third-Party Content may also use the pixel technologies (clear gifs) for statistical or marketing purposes. Pixels can be used to evaluate information such as visitor traffic on the pages of the particular website. This data may also be stored in cookies on the user's device and may include technical information about the browser and operating system, referring websites, visiting time and other information about the use of the Site, and may also be linked to such information from other sources.

In particular, Our website includes YouTube plug-ins. YouTube is owned by Google, Inc. When you visit a page on the Site that contains a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. The YouTube server will be informed which specific page of the Site you have visited. If you are logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube will be able to associate your web browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. Further information on YouTube’s collection and use of your data can be found in YouTube’s privacy policy and your opt-out options may be accessed through the YouTube website. If you do not want YouTube to be able to link your visit to our Site with your YouTube account, please log out of your YouTube account.

Cross-Border Data Transfers

We will sometimes process personal information outside of the country in which it was collected. Such transfer of data will only be made on the basis of our existing contractual obligations, your consent, legal obligations, or our legitimate interests. Such cross-border transfers are compliant with the requirements of the GDPR, including the requirement of specific guarantees (such as “Privacy Shield” certification in the U.S. or compliance with officially recognized standard contractual clauses).

Do Not Track

Do Not Track is a browser-based choice mechanism that is currently under development. Because there are no set standards for how websites should respond to Do Not Track settings, we adhere to the standards described in this Privacy Policy rather than “Do Not Track” signals sent by browsers.

Your California Privacy Rights

California law entitles California users to request information concerning whether a business has disclosed certain information about you to any third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes. California users who wish to request further information in compliance with this law or have questions or concerns about our privacy practices and policies may contact us as specified in the “Contact Us” section below.

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Privacy Policy at any time. Changes will become effective when posted in this Privacy Policy. We will note when we change the Privacy Policy, and will maintain an archive of previous versions, so you should check this Privacy Policy from time to time.

Age Requirements

You must be at least 18 years old to have our permission to use this Site. Our Privacy Policy is that we do not knowingly collect, use or disclose personal information about visitors who are under 18 years of age.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, please contact us by sending an email or letter to:

Peermusic
Corporate Information Services
901 West Alameda Avenue, Suite 108
Burbank, California 91506

Email address: cis@peermusic.com