About Discollective and the Information We Collect

Discollective provides an environment for users to discover new music through member recommendations and reviews, and share music opinions by writing artist, album, and song reviews. Discollective is an online social networking community and music information site that connects people through networks of friends for sharing similar musical interests. To accomplish this, members create their own profiles which are shown to other members of the site. From one's profile, members can send private messages to other members,and invite members to join their private friends network.

Information Collected/Tracked by Discollective

Discollective collects user-submitted account information such as name and email address to identify users and send notifications related to the use of the service. Discollective also collects user-submitted profile information such as age and location.

Information not Directly Submitted by Users to Discollective

This is information we collect that is not personally identifiable, such as browser type and IP address. This information is gathered for all users to the site.

Use of Information Obtained by Discollective

Information users submit to Discollective Profile information as well as username and photos are displayed to members using the site to support the function of the site as social networking community where users can meet new people with similar musical interests. Email address are used when a user invites a friend via email to join the service, when a user requests to add another user to their friend list, and when we send notifications to a user related to their use of the service. A user's email address is not shared or displayed with people. Users within a personal network communicate on Discollective with each other through the Discollective service, without disclosing email addresses. We may also use a user's email address to send weekly updates or news regarding our site, but the user may choose not to receive email of this type by accessing their Account Info.

Information that users do not submit to us

We use your server, IP address, and browser-type related information in the general administration of our website.

Sharing of the Information this Site Gathers/Tracks

As a matter of policy we do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your personal information for the protection of your membership.

Links

This site may contain links to other websites. Please be aware that Discollective is not responsible for the privacy practices of other Web sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every web site that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Web site.

Use of Cookies

A cookie is a piece of data stored on the user's computer tied to information about the user. We use both session ID cookies and persistent cookies. For the session ID cookie, once users close the browser, the cookie simply terminates. A persistent cookie is a text file stored on the user's hard drive for an extended period of time. Persistent cookies can be removed by following Internet browser help file directions. Cookies are used to manage sessions on our site. Also, users may optionally use a cookie to remember their password in order to automatically log in to our site. We do not and will not use cookies to collect private information from any user which they did not intentionally submit to us.

Correcting/Updating or Removing Information

Discollective users may modify or remove any of their personal information at any time by logging into their account and accessing features such as Edit Profile and Account Info.

Changes in Our Privacy Policy

If we change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on our web site so our users are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it. If we are going to use users' personally identifiable information in a manner different from that stated at the time of collection we will notify users via email or by placing a prominent notice on our site.

Security

Your Discollective account is password-protected. This web site takes every precaution to protect our users' information. We use industry standard measures to protect your information that is stored within our database. If you have any questions about the security at our website, please contact us.

Invite a Friend

If a user elects to use our Invite feature to invite a friend to our site, we ask them for the friend's email address. Discollective will automatically send the friend an email inviting them to join the site. Discollective stores this email address for the purpose of automatically adding the respondent to the friends list of the user sending the invitation, and also to send reminders of the invitation. Discollective does not sell these email addresses or use them to send any other communication besides invitations and invitation reminders. The friend may contact Discollective to request the removal of this information from our database.

Email Choice/Opt-out

Users who no longer wish to receive our weekly updates or news may opt-out of receiving these communications by following the instructions contained in the email or by logging-in and changing their settings in the Account Info section of the site.

Contacting the Web Site

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, please contact us.