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Privacy Practices Summary

 (See our Privacy Disclosure, below, for Details)

What Do We Collect or Disclose?

Why Do We Collect this Information?

  Collect? Disclose? Complete a Request Run the Site Customize Content Improve the Site Future Marketing Instant Offers Profiling
Your Name and Address X   X            
Your Email Address X   X   X        
UserID and Password X   X X   X      
Your Purchases                   
Your Financial History                   
Your PC Configuration X     X   X      
Navigation and Clickstream Data X         X      
How You Use Interactive Features                  
Demographic, Social or Economic Data                  
Your Personal Preferences X   X   X        
Your Postings and Online Content X   X X   X      
Your Political Affiliations                  
Your Health-Related Information                  
Cookies Used? No Children’s Site? No  


 
The Rockbites P3P-Compliant Privacy Disclosure

Your privacy is important, so we’d like to explain what information we collect when you visit Rockbites Alternative Daily at http://rockbites.com/, why we collect it, and how we use it. We’d also like to explain your options to access and control your information, our data security practices, and other matters.

This privacy disclosure is in accordance with the World Wide Web Consortium’s P3P (Platform for Privacy Preferences) Initiative. You can learn more about this initiative by visiting its Web site.

A Note About Children We do not publish this site for children, especially not for kids under 13. Children may use this site only with the direct supervision of a parent. This is because we use direct quotations from artists and other individuals that may contain profanity or discuss topics of a sexual nature, and we occassionally use explicit language ourselves.

We’ve rated our site with the Internet Content Rating Association. If you’re using a Web browser that supports Internet content ratings, our pages will be viewable only if you have the language control set to “explicit.” Your can learn more about the Internet Content Rating Association by visiting its Web site.

What Information Do We Collect From You, and Why?
We May Collect Information We Need to Contact You Later. If we collect personal contact information (as described below), you may later have us modify or remove it from our system, but you may not access the information yourself. You may choose simply not to provide personal contact information by opting-out at the point of collection.

We May Collect Your Name and Address. When you sign up for a Rockbites subscription, or register to post a notice on our Global Kiosk, you have an opportunity to provide your name, country, and other “real world” contact information.

This information does not inherently reveal and will not be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

We May Collect Your Email Address. We may request your email address, or other information needed to contact you online. This information does not necessarily reveal who you are and we will not link it to your personal identity. We use it to complete and support the immediate activity requested, customize and personalize content to your request, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

We May Collect Other Kinds of Information from You. When you use our site, we may collect personal information about you described below. You may later have us modify or remove the information, but you may not access the information yourself. You may choose simply not to provide actively gathered information by opting-out at the point of collection.

You May be Prompted for a UserID and Password. We may ask you to enter a web site ID, password or other identifier when you post on the Global Kiosk section of this site. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the site, improve the site for everyone, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

We May Collect Information About Your Computer. When you visit our site, we may automatically collect information about your computer configuration, such as your browser type, operating system, IP address, or ISP domain name. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to administer and run the site, improve the site for everyone, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

We May Collect Navigation and Clickstream Data. As you browse our site, we may gather navigational and clickstream data that shows what pages are visited and how long various features are used. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to improve the site for everyone, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

We May Keep Note of Your Personal Preferences. We may gather information concerning your personal likes and dislikes, such as your taste in music, when you sign up for our custom new release notification service. This information will not reveal or be linked to you personally. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, customize and personalize content to your request, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

We May Collect Your Online Postings and Content. The Rockbites Global Kiosk allows you to contribute content, such as band news, etc. Although you may choose to identify yourself in your postings, contributing content does not inherently reveal your personal identity. We use this information to complete and support the immediate activity requested, administer and run the site, improve the site for everyone, and to comply with any requirements of law. This information may be aggregated with similar data in a manner that does not reveal your personal identity and may be disclosed only to our staff and to our immediate agents.

Certain Exceptional Disclosures
We may disclose your information if necessary to protect our legal rights or if the information relates to actual or threatened harmful conduct. Disclosure may be required by law or if we receive legal process.

We Don’t Use Cookies
Cookies are small files stored by your browser in your computer when you visit some Web sites. These Web sites use Cookies to recognize users to improve web site performance or to collect user preferences for commercial reasons. We don’t use cookies. If we later decide to use cookies, we will revise this Policy accordingly.

How Do We Protect Information We Collect?
We follow reasonable technical and management practices to help protect the confidentiality, security, and integrity of data stored on our system. While no computer system is completely secure, we believe the measures implemented by our site reduce the likelihood of security problems to a level appropriate to the type of data involved.

How Long Do We Keep User Information?
We generally keep user data on our server or in our archives for as long as we reasonably need it. We may alter this practice according to changing requirements. For example, we may delete some data if needed to free up storage space. We may keep other data for longer periods if the law requires it.

We administer data management requests in an orderly manner to the extent feasible and within our direct control. We have direct access and control of all data we collect.

Your Consent To This Policy
By using our site, you agree to this Policy. This is our entire and exclusive Privacy Policy and it supersedes any earlier version—although it is fully consistent with the policy described on our other, less formal privacy page. We may change this Policy by posting a new version on our site.

Legal Stuff
This site operates AS-IS and AS-AVAILABLE, without liability of any kind. We are not responsible for events beyond our direct control. This Policy is governed by California law, excluding conflicts of law principles. Any legal actions against us must be commenced in California within one year after the claim arose, or be barred.

If You Have A Privacy Question
If you have a privacy question about our site, please email Murray Jason at privacy@rockbites.com. Or write Rockbites Alternative Daily, Attn: Murray Jason, PO Box 2940, Cupertino CA 95015, USA.

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