Our Privacy Policy

Gospel Musicians Privacy Notice

Updated as of December 8, 2007

The GospelMusicians Privacy Policy describes how GospelMusicians and its subsidiaries treat personal information when you use GospelMusicians services, including information given when you use GospelMusicians. In addition, the following describes privacy practices specific to GospelMusicians. To understand how we use the information you give us as you use GospelMusicians, you should read this policy and the GospelMusicians Privacy Policy.

Personal Information

  • Non-Account Activity. You can make purchases on GospelMusicians without having a GospelMusicians Account. You can also contact us without having a GospelMusicians Account.

  • Account-Related Activity. Certain other activities on GospelMusicians—like uploading or viewing videos or posting comments,—require you to have a GospelMusicians account. We ask for some personal information when you create a GospelMusicians Account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access. A GospelMusicians account allows you to use many of our services that require registration.

  • Usage Information. We may record information about your usage, such as when you use GospelMusicians, groups you subscribe to, wish lists, and purchases you make, the contacts you communicate with, the videos you watch, and the frequency and size of data transfers, as well as information you display or click on in GospelMusicians (including UI elements, settings, and other information). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your account. We may use clear GIFs (a.k.a. "Web Beacons") in HTML-based emails sent to our users to track which emails are opened by recipients.

  • Content Uploaded to Site. Any personal information or video content that you voluntarily disclose online (on discussion boards, in messages and chat areas, within your playback or profile pages, etc.) becomes publicly available and can be collected and used by others.

  • Responsibility. You are solely responsible for the content you upload and are responsible for any copyright infringements related to the content you have uploaded.

  • Payment Information.  When making a purchase with GospelMusicians, you will be required to provide us with payment information.  Valid credit/debit card information (including expiration date and security code), accurate checking account information, and current billing addresses will be necessary for a purchase to be processed.

Uses

  • If you submit personal identity information to us through the GospelMusicians Site, we use your personal information to maintain, operate, and provide to you, the general and personalized features and functions of the GospelMusicians Site, and to process any flagging activity or correspondence you send to us.

  • Your account name (not your email address) is displayed to other Users when you upload videos or send messages through the GospelMusicians Site and other Users can contact you through messages and comments. Any videos that you submit to the GospelMusicians Site may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by the general public.

  • We do not use your email address or other personally identifiable information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent or except as part of a specific program for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. We may, however, use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major GospelMusicians Site changes or for customer service purposes).

  • We do not store your credit/debit card or bank account information anywhere on our servers or in our written records.  This is to maintain your privacy and ensure the most secure online shopping we can provide.

  • We use both your personally identifiable information and certain non-personally-identifiable information (such as anonymous user usage data, cookies, IP addresses, browser type, clickstream data, etc.) to improve the quality and design of the GospelMusicians Site and to create new features, promotions, functions, and services by storing, tracking, analyzing, and processing user preferences and trends, as well as user activity and communications.

  • We use cookies, clear gifs, and log file information to: (a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit the GospelMusicians Sites; (b) provide custom, personalized content and information; (c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns; (d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors, pages viewed, etc.; and (e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests. If you download the GospelMusicians Uploader, your copy of the of the Uploader includes a unique application number. The unique application number and information about your installation of the Uploader (e.g. version number, language) will be sent to GospelMusicians when the Uploader automatically checks for updates.

Your Choices

  • You may, of course, decline to submit personally identifiable information through the GospelMusicians Site, in which case you can still make purchases and explore the GospelMusicians Site, but GospelMusicians may not be able to provide certain services to you.

  • You may update or correct your personal profile information and email preferences at any time by visiting your account profile page.

Third-party Advertisers, Links to Other Sites

GospelMusicians allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to serve advertisements within the GospelMusicians Sites. These third-party ad servers or ad networks use technology to send, directly to your browser, the advertisements and links that appear on the GospelMusicians Sites. They automatically receive your IP address when this happens. They may also use other technologies (such as cookies, JavaScript, or Web Beacons) to measure the success of their advertisements and to personalize the advertising content you see.

GospelMusicians does not provide any personally identifiable information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent or except as part of a specific program for which you will have the ability to opt-in or opt-out. The advertiser may use information regarding your use of the GospelMusicians Sites, such as the number of times you viewed an ad (but not any personally identifiable information).

You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks (see links below) for more information on their policies and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. GospelMusicians' privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites.

More Information

GospelMusicians adheres to the US Safe Harbor privacy principles. For more information about the Safe Harbor framework or our registration, see the Department of Commerce's web site.

If you have additional questions, please contact us any time. Or write to us at:

GospelMusicians Privacy
6445 S. Chickasaw Trail, Suite 299
Orlando, Florida  32829