Effective 4/21/20
This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their “Personally Identifiable Information” (PII) is being used online. PII, as described in US privacy law and information security, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your Personally Identifiable Information in reference to the features and functionality of our websites and data systems. This privacy policy applies to 8countaudio.com, direct email and all company services (collectively “Services”) where this privacy policy is referenced, regardless of how you access or use them, including through mobile devices. We may amend this privacy policy at any time by posting the amended version on this site including the effective date of the amended version. We will announce any material changes to this privacy policy via email.
Visiting any of our websites and/or using any our Services or continuing to subscribe to our marketing channels constitutes consent to use your information as outlined in this privacy policy. You, the user, are responsible for contacting us to revoke consent if you no longer wish for us to use your data. However, visiting any of our websites and/or using our Services after such a request to revoke consent will constitute a new instance of consent until you should re-new your request to revoke your consent.
If you do not agree to any of the provisions of this Privacy Policy, you should not use any of our websites or Services.
What is Personally Identifiable Information (PII)?
Personally Identifiable Information is information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person. An identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier, or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person.
We do not consider personal information to include information that has been anonymized or aggregated so that it can no longer be used to identify a specific natural person, whether in combination with other information or otherwise.
We collect personal information from you when you use our Services.
What personal information do we collect from the people that visit our blog or website?
When ordering or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number, credit card information or other details to help you with your experience. You will be given the opportunity to opt-in to any marketing that would require further retention or usage of your information.
When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you place an order, subscribe to a newsletter, enter a contest, respond to a survey, provide us with feedback on our products or Services, fill out a form, or enter information on our site.
Media
If you send us pictures to post on our blog pages or other pages on our 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.
How Do We Use Your Information?
We may use the information we collect from you when you register, make a purchase, sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:
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To personalize your experience and to allow us to deliver the type of content and product offering in which you are most interested.
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To improve our website and Services in order to better serve you.
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To administer a contest, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
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To quickly process your transactions.
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For the purpose of fulfilling orders with our order fulfillment partner
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To send periodic emails regarding your order or other products and Services.
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To follow up with you after correspondence (email or phone inquiries)
How Do We Protect Your Information?
Our website is scanned on a regular basis for security holes and known vulnerabilities in order to make your visit to our site as safe as possible.
We use regular Malware Scanning.
Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology.
We implement a variety of security measures when a user places an order, enters, submits, or accesses its information to maintain the safety of the user’s personal information.
All transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.
Do We Use Cookies?
Yes. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. For instance, we use cookies to help us remember and process the items in your shopping cart. Cookies are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved Services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
These cookies will last for one year. Please feel free to regularly delete cookies in your browser’s settings or to turn them off entirely.
We Use Cookies To:
- Understand and save user’s preferences for future visits.
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Keep track of advertisements.
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Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party Services that track this information on our behalf.
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. You do this through your browser settings. Since every browser is a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.
If you turn cookies off it will turn off some of the features of the site.
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 other websites are beyond our control and may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Legitimate Interests
We have a legitimate interest in using your personal information. In particular, we have a legitimate interest in the following circumstances:
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To operate our business and provide you with tailored advertising and communications.
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To develop and promote our business via our websites, social media, and Services.
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To analyze and improve the safety and security of our websites and Services.
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To provide and improve the Services, including any personalized customer service.
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To analyze the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
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To market directly to individuals in ways that are compliant with this agreement.
Third Party Disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer your Personally Identifiable Information to outside parties unless we provide users with advance notice. These parties will also be disclosed via our privacy policy. We may also release information when the release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, safety and cases of National Security and law enforcement requirements.
However, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses in an aggregate form.
Third Party Links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. This Privacy Policy addresses only our use and handling of personal information that we collect from you in connection with providing you our products and Services. If you disclose your information to a third party or visit a third-party website via a link from our websites, the third party’s privacy policy and practices will apply to any personal information you provide to them or they collect from you.
We cannot guarantee the privacy or security of your personal information once you provide it to a third party, and we encourage you to evaluate the privacy and security policies of your trading partner before entering into a transaction and choosing to share your personal information. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
Third-Party Tools & Services and Onward Transfers:
8 Count Audio does not plan to disclose personally identifiably information to any third-party. However, you may be disclosing your information to third-parties when using our websites and other Services. As such, 8 Count Audio is not responsible for the privacy practices of these other websites, apps and services, and we recommend that you review the privacy policies of each of these websites, apps or services before visiting our websites, using our Services or sharing any personally identifiable information. Visitation or use of our websites and Services constitutes acceptance of this agreement and constitutes your agreement to hold 8 Count Audio and its affiliates harmless from the privacy practices of our third-party tools. Such transfers would only be self-actuated by an individual visiting or using our websites, Services, subscriptions and/or social media channels. As such, the GDPR provision regarding liability for the actions of agent processors does not apply, as 8 Count Audio is not transferring your Personally Identifiable Information to third-parties in these self-actuated instances. The act of an individual visiting or using our websites, Services, subscriptions and/or social media channels constitutes acknowledgement that that they are responsible for the data that they are transferring to third-parties. 8 Count Audio is liable in actual cases of onward transfers where a third-party organization processes or transfers data in a manner not consistent with the Privacy Shield Principles. See below for a comprehensive list of third-party tools and Services:
PayPal
We use PayPal to collect and process payment card information. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for PayPal:
https://www.paypal.com/us/webapps/mpp/ua/privacy-full
MailChimp
MailChimp is an automated marketing platform that we use to stay in contact with people that opt in to our email updates. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for MailChimp:
https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/
We use Facebook as a means of marketing and increasing our level of contact with our customers. We never provide any Personally Identifiable Information to Facebook, unless we have express permission. For example, sharing a picture and tagging a contest winner. Advertisements in Facebook may be a result of Google AdSense, Remarketing and their use of the DART cookies and third-party cookies. Please refer the ‘Google’ section of this policy for further information. The information collected by Facebook when interacting with or viewing our Facebook profile and your rights for this data are outlined in Facebook’s privacy policy. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for Facebook:
https://www.facebook.com/policy.php
We use Instagram as a means of marketing and increasing our level of contact with our customers. We never provide any Personally Identifiable Information to Instagram, unless we have express permission. For example, sharing a picture and tagging a contest winner. Advertisements in Instagram may be a result of Google AdSense, Remarketing and their use of the DART cookies and third-party cookies. Please refer the ‘Google’ section of this policy for further information. The information collected by Instagram when interacting with or viewing our Instagram profile and your rights for this data are outlined in Instagram’s privacy policy. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for Instagram:
https://help.instagram.com/519522125107875?helpref=page_content
We use Twitter and Twitter ads as a means of marketing and increasing our level of contact with our customers. We never provide any Personally Identifiable Information to Twitter, unless we have express permission. For example, sharing a picture and tagging a contest winner. Advertisements in Twitter may be a result of Google AdSense, Remarketing and their use of the DART cookies and third-party cookies. Please refer the ‘Google’ section of this policy for further information. The information collected by Twitter when interacting with or viewing our Twitter feed and your rights for this data are outlined in Twitter’s privacy policy. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for Twitter:
https://twitter.com/en/privacy
Snapchat
We use Snapchat as a means of marketing and increasing our level of contact with our customers. We never provide any Personally Identifiable Information to Snapchat, unless we have express permission. For example, sharing a picture and tagging a contest winner. Advertisements in Snapchat may be a result of Google AdSense, Remarketing and their use of the DART cookies and third-party cookies. Please refer the ‘Google’ section of this policy for further information. The information collected by Snapchat when you are interacting with our account and content and your rights for this data are outlined in Snapchat’s privacy policy. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for Snapchat:
https://www.snap.com/en-US/privacy/privacy-policy/
YouTube
We use YouTube as a means of marketing, demonstration and increasing our level of contact with our customers. We never provide any Personally Identifiable Information to YouTube, unless we have express permission. For example, sharing a video and tagging a contest winner, or instances which fall under public domain and fair use. Advertisements in YouTube may be a result of Google AdSense, Remarketing and their use of the DART cookies and third-party cookies. Please refer the ‘Google’ section of this policy for further information. The information collected by YouTube when you are interacting with our account and content and your rights for this data are outlined in YouTube’s privacy policy. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for YouTube:
https://www.youtube.com/static?template=privacy_guidelines
SoundCloud
We use SoundCloud as a means of marketing, demonstration and increasing our level of contact with our customers. We never provide any Personally Identifiable Information to SoundCloud, unless we have express permission. For example, sharing an audio recording, or instances which fall under public domain and fair use. Advertisements in SoundCloud may be a result of Google AdSense, Remarketing and their use of the DART cookies and third-party cookies. Please refer the ‘Google’ section of this policy for further information. The information collected by SoundCloud when you are interacting with our account and content and your rights for this data are outlined in SoundCloud’s privacy policy. Please use the following link to access the privacy policy for SoundCloud:
https://pages.soundcloud.com/geo/uk_us_ie/legal/privacy-policy.html
Right of Access and Portability
You have the right to gain access to the PII data, and the right of rectification, disabling, deletion and transference of your personal data. If you have any questions concerning the collection, processing or use of your personal data, please contact us at info@8countaudio.com. The same is valid for information, deletion and change requests regarding your personal data as well as for revocation of given consent.
How does our site handle Do Not Track signals?
We honor Do Not Track signals and do not track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
Does our site allow third-party behavioral tracking?
It’s also important to note that we allow third-party behavioral tracking via the self-actuated third-party tools listed in the “Third-Party Tools & Services and Onward Transfers” section of this policy.
Fair Information Practices
The Fair Information Practices Principles form the backbone of privacy law in the United States and the concepts they include have played a significant role in the development of data protection laws around the globe. Understanding the Fair Information Practice Principles and how they should be implemented is critical to comply with the various privacy laws that protect personal information.
In order to be in line with Fair Information Practices we will take the following responsive action, should a data breach occur:
We will notify you via email within 7 business days of discovery.
We also agree to the Individual Redress Principle which requires that individuals have the right to legally pursue enforceable rights against data collectors and processors who fail to adhere to the law. This principle requires not only that individuals have enforceable rights against data users, but also that individuals have recourse to courts or government agencies to investigate and/or prosecute non-compliance by data processors.
CAN-SPAM Act
The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
We collect your email address in order to:
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Send information, respond to inquiries, and/or other requests or questions
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Process orders and to send information and updates pertaining to orders.
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Send you additional information related to your product and/or service (when you opt in)
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Market to our mailing list or continue to send emails to our clients after the original transaction has occurred.
To be in accordance with CAN-SPAM, we agree to the following:
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Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
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Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
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Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
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Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
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Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
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Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, you can email us at info@8countaudio.com
You can also follow the instructions at the bottom of each email, and we will promptly remove you from ALL correspondence.
This policy and any subsequent privacy policy is available at 8countaudio.com/privacy
Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.