Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Lou Van Stone Music, we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

  • We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We're not happy when services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
  • We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
  • We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

It is Lou Van Stone Music's policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Lou Van Stone Music collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Lou Van Stone Music’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Lou Van Stone Music’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Lou Van Stone Music may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Lou Van Stone Music also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users and for users leaving comments on our blogs. Lou Van Stone Music only discloses logged in user and commenter IP addresses under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information as described below, except that blog commenter IP addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Lou Van Stone Music’s websites choose to interact with Lou Van Stone Music in ways that require Lou Van Stone Music to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Lou Van Stone Music gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we ask visitors who comment on our blog to provide a username and email address. Those who wish to receive WPBeginner updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Lou Van Stone Music collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfil the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Lou Van Stone Music. Lou Van Stone Music does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Lou Van Stone Music may collect statistics about the behaviour of visitors to its websites. For instance, Lou Van Stone Music may monitor the most popular pages on the list25.com site or use spam screened by the Akismet service to help identify spam. Lou Van Stone Music may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Lou Van Stone Music does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Lou Van Stone Music discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Lou Van Stone Music’s behalf or to provide services available at Lou Van Stone Music’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organisations may be located outside of your home country; by using Lou Van Stone Music’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Lou Van Stone Music will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organisations, as described above, Lou Van Stone Music discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Lou Van Stone Music believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Lou Van Stone Music, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Lou Van Stone Music website and have supplied your email address,  may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Lou Van Stone Music and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Lou Van Stone Music takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorised access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. [Lou Van Stone Music uses cookies to help Lou Van Stone Music identify and track visitors, their usage of Lou Van Stone Music website, and their website access preferences.Lou Van Stone Music visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Lou Van Stone Music’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Lou Van Stone Music’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Business Transfers

If Lou Van Stone Music, or substantially all of its assets were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Lou Van Stone Music goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Lou Van Stone Music may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognise your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Lou Van Stone Music and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

Comments

Comments and other content submitted to anti-spam services are not saved on our servers unless they were marked as false positives, in which case we store them long enough to use them to improve the service to avoid future false positives.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Lou Van Stone Music may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Lou Van Stone Music’s sole discretion. Lou Van Stone Music encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

 

Questions and Contact Information

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at lou@louvanstone.com.