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CafeMidi.com is committed to protecting your privacy. You can
visit most pages on our site without giving us any information about
yourself. But sometimes we do need information to provide services
that you request, and this privacy statement explains data collection
and use in those situations. This privacy statement only applies to
CafeMidi.com; it does not apply to other online or offline
CafeMidi.com sites, products or services. Please read the complete
CafeMidi.com privacy statement.
- Collection of your Personal Information
- We will ask you when we need information that
personally identifies you (personal information) or allows us to
contact you. Generally, this information is requested when you are
registering before entering a contest, ordering e-mail
newsletters, joining a limited-access premium site, signing up for
an event or training, or when purchasing and/or registering
CafeMidi.com products. Personal information collected by
CafeMidi.com often is limited to e-mail address, language, country
or location, but may include other information when needed to
provide a service you requested.
- For example: If you choose a service or
transaction that requires payment, such as making a purchase in
the store area of the Web site, we will request personal
information necessary for billing and/or shipping, such as: name,
address, telephone number, and credit card number.
- CafeMidi.com also collects certain information
about your computer hardware and software. This information may
include: your IP address, browser type, operating system, domain
name, access times and referring Web site addresses. This
information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain
quality of the service, and to provide general statistics
regarding use of CafeMidi.com.
- CafeMidi.com also collects information about
which pages our customers visit within CafeMidi.com. This site
visitation data is identified only by a unique ID number, and it
is never linked with personal information unless a user consents
as described below.
- We use your personal information for the
following purposes:
- To ensure our site is relevant to your needs.
- To deliver services, such as newsletters,
events, training or software, that you request or purchase.
- To help us create and publish content most
relevant to you.
- To alert you to product upgrades, special
offers, updated information and other new services from
CafeMidi.com, if you so request.
- To allow you access to limited-entry areas of
our site as appropriate.
- We will merge site-visitation data with
anonymous demographic information for research purposes, and we
may use this information in aggregate to provide more relevant
content. In some limited-entry sections of CafeMidi.com, with your
approval, we will combine site-visitation data with your personal
information in order to provide you with personalized content. If
you decline permission, we will not provide you the personalized
service and won’t merge your personal information with
site-visitation data.
- We occasionally hire other companies to provide
limited services on our behalf, including packaging, mailing and
delivering purchases, answering customer questions about products
or services, sending postal mail and processing event
registration. We will only provide those companies the information
they need to deliver the service, and they are prohibited from
using that information for any other purpose.
- CafeMidi.com may disclose your personal
information if required to do so by law or in the good-faith
belief that such action is necessary to:
- conform to the edicts of the law or comply
with legal process served on CafeMidi.com or the site
- protect and defend the rights or property of
CafeMidi.com and its family of Web sites
- act in urgent circumstances to protect the
personal safety of CafeMidi.com employees, users of CafeMidi.com
products or services, or members of the public.
- Your information may be stored and processed in
the United States or any other country in which CafeMidi.com or
its affiliates, subsidiaries or agents maintain facilities, and by
using this site, you consent to any such transfer of information
outside of your country. CafeMidi.com abides by the safe harbor
framework as set forth by the U.S. Department of Commerce
regarding the collection, use, and retention of data from the
European Union.
- Control of your Personal Information
- When you register, or otherwise give us
personal information, CafeMidi.com will not share that information
with third parties without your permission, other than for the
limited exceptions already listed. It will only be used for the
purposes stated above.
- CafeMidi.com may send out periodic e-mails
informing you of technical service or security issues related to a
product or service you requested, or confirming you requested a
product or service. You will not be able to choose to unsubscribe
to these mailings, as they are considered an essential part of the
service you have chosen.
- Access to your Personal Information
- We will provide you with the means to ensure
that your personal information is correct and current.
- Security of your Personal Information
- CafeMidi.com is committed to protecting the
security of your personal information. We use a variety of
security technologies and procedures to help protect your personal
information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. For
example, we store the personal information you provide in computer
servers with limited access that are located in controlled
facilities. When we transmit sensitive information (such as a
credit card number) over the internet, we protect it through the
use of encryption, such as the Secure Socket Layer (SSL) protocol.
- Protection of Children's Personal Information
- CafeMidi.com is a general audience site and
does not knowingly collect any personal information from children.
- Use of Cookies
- When someone visits the site, a cookie is
placed on the customer's machine (if the customer accepts cookies)
or is read if the customer has visited the site previously. One
use of cookies is to assist in the collection of the site
visitation statistics described above.
- We also use cookies to collect information on
which newsletter links are clicked by customers. This information
is used to ensure we are sending information customers want to
read. It is collected in aggregate form and never linked with your
personal information.
- Web beacons, also known as clear gif
technology, or action tags, may be used to assist in delivering
the cookie on our site. This technology tells us how many visitors
clicked on key elements (such as links or graphics) on a
CafeMidi.com Web page. We do not use this technology to access
your personally identifiable information on CafeMidi.com; it is a
tool we use to compile aggregated statistics about CafeMidi.com
Web site usage. We may share aggregated site statistics with
partner companies but do not allow other companies to place clear
gifs on our sites.
- If you choose to not have your browser accept
cookies from the CafeMidi.com Web site, you will be able to view
the text on the screens, however you will not experience a
personalized visit nor will you be able to subscribe to the
service offerings on the site.
- Changes to this Statement
- CafeMidi.com will occasionally update this
privacy statement. When we do, we will also revise the "last
updated" date at the top of the privacy statement. For material
changes to this statement, CafeMidi.com will notify you by placing
prominent notice on the Web site.
- Contact Information
- CafeMidi.com welcomes your comments regarding
this privacy statement, please contact us by
clicking here.
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