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Privacy Policy / Terms Of Use
By visiting our website and using its services, you agree to the following Private Policies and Terms of Use. If you do not agree, please, leave the website immediately.
Who we are
Our website address is: https://thebabelflute.com.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.
We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.
Information We Collect Automatically
• Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services — for example, when you create an account, leave a comment or participate in the Forum.
• Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
• Stored information: We access some stored information through your device operating system’s permissions. For example, if you give us permission to access the photographs on your mobile device’s camera roll, our Services may access the photos stored on your device when you upload a photograph or a poster to the Forum. This is only needed to provide our services in helping you to promote your concerts/flute activities and enrich your experience of using this website.
Basic account information
We ask for basic information from you in order to set up your account. For example, we require individuals who sign up for a shopping account or through Forum to provide an email address and password, along with a username or name — and that’s it. We will also ask you to provide your name and email address in the contact form.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Payment and contact information:
If you buy something from our shop, we will collect information to process those payments and contact you. We also keep a record of the purchases you’ve made. We use Paypal and Stripe for the payment processing.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Legal Bases for Collecting and Using Information
A note here for those in the European Union about our legal grounds for processing information about you under EU data protection laws, which is that our use of your information is based on the grounds that:
(1) The use is necessary in order to fulfill our commitments to you under the applicable terms of service or other agreements with you or is necessary to administer your account — for example, in order to enable access to our website on your device or complete a transaction in our Shop; or
(2) The use is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation; or
(3) The use is necessary in order to protect your vital interests or those of another person; or
(4) We have a legitimate interest in using your information — for example, to provide and update our Services; to improve our Services so that we can offer you an even better user experience; to safeguard our Services; to communicate with you; to measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising; and to understand our user retention and attrition; to monitor and prevent any problems with our Services; and to personalize your experience.
Security
While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.
Analytics
We use Google Analytics to measure our traffic and market our services.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
Information Shared Publicly
Information that you choose to make public is — you guessed it — disclosed publicly. That means information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on our website, and your “Likes” and comments under the articles and in The Forum are all available to others — and we hope they get a lot of views!
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything. For example, if you are a user, we will need you to contact us from the email address associated with your account. You can also designate an authorized agent to make a request on your behalf by giving us written authorization. We may still require you to verify your identity with us.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
We have a long-standing policy that we do not sell our users’ data. We aren’t a data broker, we don’t sell your personal information to data brokers, and we don’t sell your information to other companies that want to spam you with marketing emails.
We might show ads to our visitors, and the revenue they generate lets us offer free access to our Services so that money doesn’t become an obstacle to having a voice.
How to contact us
If you need to contact us, please, send us an email to thebabelflute@gmail.com
Translation
Our Privacy Policies and Terms Of Use were originally written in English (US). In the event of a conflict between a translated version of our Privacy Policy & Terms of Use and the English version, the English version will control.
Indemnity
You agree to indemnify and hold The Babel Flute, its parent or subsidiary companies and their affiliates, and their respective directors, officers, employees, and agents from any and all liabilities, claims and expenses, including reasonable attorneys fees, arising from breach of this Agreement, any other policy, your use or access of thebabelflute.com or any Internet site linked to or from thebabelflute.com, or in connection with the transmission of any content on thebabelflute.com.
Miscellaneous
This Agreement comprises the entire agreement between thebabelflute.com and you, and supersedes any prior agreements with respect to the subject matter herein. The Babel Flute may revise this Agreement or any other policy at any time and from time to time, and such revision shall be effective two (2) days upon posting notice of such revision prominently on thebabelflute.com.
You agree to review this Agreement periodically to be aware of such revisions. If any such revision is unacceptable to you, you must discontinue accessing thebabelflute.com. Your continued accessing and use of thebabelflute.com following notice of any such revision shall conclusively be deemed acceptance of all such revisions. If any provision of this Agreement or any other policy be held invalid or unenforceable, that portion shall be construed in accordance with applicable law as nearly as possible to reflect the original intention of the parties and the remaining portions will continue in full force and effect. The failure of thebabelflute.com to insist upon or enforce strict performance of any provision of this Agreement shall not be construed as a waiver of any provision or right. This Agreement shall be governed by the laws of the state or province of domicile of thebabelflute.com, excluding its conflict of laws rules, and you and thebabelflute.com each submit to the exclusive jurisdiction of the courts of that state or province. This Agreement is personal to you and you may not assign your rights or obligations thereunder to anyone.
All logos, brand names, products, trademarks and service marks appearing herein may be the trademarks or service marks of their respective owners. References to any trademark, service mark and links to or from thebabelflute.com have been done strictly for clarification and identification and does not constitute endorsement by thebabelflute.com of the products, services or information offered by the owner of such trademark, service mark or link or endorsement of thebabelflute.com by such trademark, service mark or link owner.
These Policies were updated on March 16, 2021. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes, as our Privacy Policies and Terms Of Use might change. In this case we will update the date and give a short summary of the changes. It is your responsibility to check it, if you wish to continue using our platform and its services. Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policies will be subject to the updated policy.
*Update on January 6, 2023
The Indemnity and Miscellanius sections have been formulated and added.
