Effective June 30, 2006
Privacy Policy
Welcome to our website! This Internet site (the "Site") is operated and maintained by Musicians In Debut International ("MIDI"). This Privacy Policy describes MIDI’s policies and procedures for the collection of personally identifiable and other information by this Site and our use and dissemination of such information.
Your personal privacy is important to MIDI. If you do not feel comfortable with MIDI’s Privacy Policy as outlined below, you should not use this Site since our services and the effective operation of this Site assume the availability of information provided by you.
While this Site is not directed at children, MIDI is pleased that children of all ages may be interested in MIDI’s educational information. However, MIDI joins the industry in recognizing that children may not be able to make informed choices about use of the Internet or about personal information requested online. MIDI’s website does not knowingly or intend to collect any Personal Information from children. If you are under 13 years old, you may use MIDI’s web site only with the involvement and supervision of a parent or guardian.
From time to time, MIDI may revise this Privacy Policy and will post these changes to this Site. You must review this Privacy Policy at this Site periodically for an up-to-date understanding of MIDI policies and practices. To communicate with MIDI about this Privacy Policy, please contact:
Stella Sick
615 Second Avenue South
Minneapolis, MN 55402
piano@ecompetition.org
INFORMATION COLLECTED BY MIDI
Personally identifiable information about visitors to this Site (for instance, information such as your name, e-mail address, mailing address, and telephone number) is collected only when submitted by you as a visitor. Such information may be collected in connection with your visit to this Site if you request information
Information that you provide in public forums, such as user groups or chat rooms, and information that you submit to us as recommendations, requests for information and feedback are not considered or treated as personally identifiable or confidential information.
WHAT IS DONE WITH PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION COLLECTED BY MIDI
MIDI does not share, trade, sell, or otherwise give away your e-mail address. To assist in building membership by mail, MIDI sometimes exchanges with other organizations the mailing address information of its patrons. If you prefer not to participate in such exchanges, e-mail us at piano@ecompetition.org or call us at (763) 416-3256. We will need your name, address, and your e-mail address to honor your request.
In rare cases, as with any organization or individual, we may need to disclose certain information to comply with a valid legal process, such as a court order, subpoena or search. We also may choose to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims even if this involves the disclosure of information obtained from this Web site.
If we change our information handling practices or other privacy aspects, we will post those changes to this privacy statement, at least 30 days prior to their implementation.
We use the information you provide to deliver quality products and services to you. For example, if you have ordered an item or requested a newsletter or updates about our services or products, we will use the information you provide to respond to that request or to provide other information about MIDI and its services.
We may also disclose personally identifiable information if we are required to do so by law, or if in our good faith judgment, this disclosure is reasonably necessary to comply with legal process, to detect or prevent illegal, harmful or fraudulent use of this Site or linked sites, to respond to any claims or to protect the rights of MIDI, its customers and the public. We may also share your information with our partner agencies and service providers who assist us in administering various site services and programs.
NON-PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
When visitors come to this Site, MIDI collects non-personally identifiable information or "aggregate" information concerning how its visitors use this Site, including the pages viewed and links used. Collecting such information involves the logging of IP addresses, the visitor’s operating system, types of browser software and internet service providers used by each visitor to this or linked sites. Although such information generally is not personally identifiable, it can be used to determine the IP address of the visitor’s Internet Service Provider and the geographic location of her/his point of connectivity to the Internet. This information allows us to analyze and improve the effectiveness of our services and those of our affiliates and service providers.
USE OF "COOKIES" AND TRACKING TECHNOLOGY
This Site and its service providers use current industry methods, including "cookies" and tracking technology ("clear gifs", "web beacons", "log files", etc.), to enable MIDI to make visits to this Site and communications with our visitors more personalized and effective, and to analyze the services we provide through this Site. For example, "cookies" are tags sent to reside on the visitor’s computer, to enhance a visitor’s experience at our site, to allow repeat visitors to be served more quickly and efficiently, or to tell us where our visitors go and how our visitors use our Site and related sites. MIDI does not use cookies to obtain personally identifiable information about a user that was not previously provided.
Visitors may receive cookies from other third party sites that they visit, including service provider sites. MIDI cannot control the content or use of these cookies or tracking technologies by third party sites or service providers. Visitors should consult their browser’s manual for instructions on how to refuse or disable cookies. Refusing or disabling cookies may affect our ability to complete requests you have made for products or services from this Site. MIDI may disclose non-personally identifiable information to affiliates or advertisers regarding content viewing, traffic levels or browser paths to their advertisements on this Site.
YOUR CHOICES REGARDING PERSONALLY IDENTIFIABLE INFORMATION
If you would like to correct or modify personally identifiable information you have previously provided, such as your email address, phone number or other contact information, please contact us at piano@ecompetition.org, or the address above. If you would like to request that your personally identifiable information not be shared with third parties, please notify us at piano@ecompetition.org, or the address above.
If you would like to delete or remove from our system the personally identifiable information which you have previously provided, please contact us at piano@ecompetition.org. We will delete your personally identifiable information from our database if we reasonably can.
However, there may be residual information that will remain within our databases and logs that may or may not contain personally identifiable information or that is very difficult to locate and remove. There may be information that has been transmitted already to third parties which is beyond our control. Your request for deletion of this information may prevent or reduce our ability to service your earlier request to this Site or to access this web site in the future. We will follow the policy outlined here, but we are not responsible for any failure or shortcoming in deleting or controlling the disclosure of information you have made available through use of this Site or for the timing of our actions after your request.
For each of your requests, you should receive an email response from MIDI, confirming receipt of the request. If you do not receive such a response, you must assume that your request has not been received by our servers or processed. Your request should be repeated until receipt confirmation is received or, as an alternative, your request should be sent by regular mail to the address indicated above.
When you request modification to your data, you must provide us with all relevant existing data (name, address, email address, etc), along with the specific modifications, necessary to identify you and make the changes you request.
Terms of Use
PIANO-E-COMPETITION FORUM
We are not responsible for any messages posted. We do not vouch for or warrant the accuracy, completeness or usefulness of any message, and are not responsible for the contents of any message.
The messages express the views of the author of the message, not necessarily the views of this bulletin board. Any user who feels that a posted message is objectionable is encouraged to contact us immediately by email. We have the ability to remove objectionable messages and we will make every effort to do so, within a reasonable time frame, if we determine that removal is necessary.
You agree, through your use of this service, that you will not use this bulletin board to post any material which is knowingly false and/or defamatory, inaccurate, abusive, vulgar, hateful, harassing, obscene, profane, sexually oriented, threatening, invasive of a person's privacy, or otherwise violative of any law.
You agree not to post any copyrighted material unless the copyright is owned by you or by this bulletin board.
