Privacy Policy
PARMA Recordings (“us”, “we”, or “our”), a music production company in North Hampton, New Hampshire, United States, operates www.piazzollacompetition.com (the “Website”). This policy explains when and why we collect Personal Information, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others, and how you can control your information. By using the Website, you agree to the collection, storage, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.
1. Information We Collect and How It’s Used
2. How We Protect Your Information
3. How We Share Information
4. Control Your Information
5. Additional Information
6. Privacy Policy Changes
7. Contact
1. Information We Collect and How It’s Used
We’re committed to protecting your data. It is our policy, intent, and plan to protect you and your privacy in the course of our work. Along those lines, we do not sell, rent, lease, or trade email lists with any other entities for profit or marketing purposes.
1.1 Email Correspondence
If you choose to contact us via a contact form or email address we will receive your name, email address, and optionally, your phone number. We use this information to respond to your inquiry. Emails are stored indefinitely or until request for deletion.
1.2 Competition Entry
When entering the Piazzolla Music Competition, you will be asked to provide Personal Information, such as, your name, billing address, email address, and credit card details. This information is used to: process payments and prevent fraud, send a confirmation email of your submission, contact you if we have trouble processing your submission, and to comply with legal obligations.
All transactions made through the Website are processed through PayPal. We do not process or store credit card information on our Website server. Information required to process the payment, including billing information, will be transferred to PayPal. The PayPal Privacy Policy can be viewed here.
1.3 Analytics
We use Google Analytics to collect and analyze Website traffic information such as the browser type, referring site, pages visited, and the date of each visit. We use this information to find out how much traffic the Website is receiving and to learn what content is most popular. This information helps us improve the Website and monitor performance.
Google Analytics uses cookies to measure and report statistics about interactions on the Website. For more information about Google Analytics cookies used on the Website, please see the section below titled “Cookies.”
Google Analytics collects IP addresses to provide and protect the security of the service, and to provide geographical location information. Information collected through the use of Google Analytics is retained indefinitely (for as long as we maintain our Google Analytics account). For more information on how Google collects and uses data, view Google’s “How Google uses information from sites or apps that use our services” page and the Google Privacy Policy.
You can opt-out of Google Analytics by using the Google Analytics Opt-Out Browser add-on. This add-on will disable measurement by Google Analytics for any website you visit.
1.4 Cookies
Cookies are small data files that are placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a website. We use cookies to gain insight into how the Website is performing.
Google Analytics
Google Analytics uses the following first party cookies to collect data related to the device/browser, IP address, and Website activities. This data is used to measure and report statistics about interactions with the Website.
_ga (expires after 2 years of inactivity)
_gat (expires after 1 minute)
_gid (expires after 24 hours)
Woocommerce
Woocommerce cookies are used to allow our webstore to function properly. No personal information is stored within these cookies. Blocking these cookies will prevent the contest entry from functioning properly.
woocommerce_cart_hash (expires when the browsing session ends)
woocommerce_items_in_cart (expires when the browsing session ends)
wp_woocommerce_session_ (expires after 2 days)
Cookie Banner
If you click “okay” on the cookie banner, this cookie will be set to record your choice and prevent the cookie banner from displaying again while you browse the Website.
privacy_embeds (expires after 1 day)
Control Cookies
You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies in your browser settings. Look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to identify, limit, and remove cookies.
2. How We Protect Your Information
We take reasonable technical and organizational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse, or alteration of your Personal Information. However, no online service is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee the security of information transmitted over the internet. By choosing to submit Personal Information through the Website, you acknowledge and agree to assume any risks involved in the transmission and storage of such information.
This Website uses HTTPS to provide a secure, encrypted connection between your web browser and the Website server.
3. How We Share Information
Employees who need Personal Information to perform a specific task (for example, customer service) are granted access to this information, but only for the duration of the task.
We may release your Personal Information if its release is appropriate to comply with the law or to protect our or others’ rights, property or safety.
4. Control Your Information
If you are a citizen of the EU, you may have certain rights concerning the information we hold about you, as defined in the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). You may request a copy of any Personal Information we have about you and ask us to change/correct this information. You may also request that we erase any Personal Information we hold about you. This does not include information we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
To request a copy of your information, change/correct your information or request that your information be deleted, please write to privacy@parmarecordings.com.
5. Additional Information
5.1 Links
The Website may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of other websites. We encourage visitors to be aware when they leave our Website and to read the privacy policies of any other website that collects Personal Information.
5.2 Children’s Information
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13. Any person who provides Personal Information through the Website represents to us that he or she is 13 years of age or older. If we learn that Personal Information has been collected from a Website visitor under 13 years of age, we will take the appropriate steps to delete this information.
5.3 International Data Transfers
Information collected through the Website will be stored and processed in the United States.
6. Privacy Policy Changes
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time, so please check this page occasionally for changes. Your continued use of the Website after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your consent to such change.
This privacy policy was updated on: January 25, 2021
7. Contact
If you have any questions or thoughts about our policies, messages, or communications methods, please email our Data Controller and Protection Officer at privacy@parmarecordings.com.