Bethel Music Center, Inc Statement of Privacy

Bethel Music Center LLC is committed to protecting your privacy.  This Statement of Privacy applies to Bethel Music Center LLC and its family of vendor sites and governs data collection and usage at all Bethel Music Center LLC sites and services.  Bethel Music Center LLC is a music dealer web site that is intended for users of all ages.  Personal information of all users is collected, used and disclosed as described in this Statement of Privacy. 

Collection of your Personal Information

Bethel Music Center LLC collects personal information, such as your e-mail address, name, home and work telephone number.  Bethel Music Center LLC may also collect demographic information, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, musical instrument preferences, interests and favorites.

Bethel Music Center LLC also collects certain information about your computer hardware and software.  This information may include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring Web site addresses.  Bethel Music Center LLC uses this information for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of Bethel Music Center LLC.

Bethel Music Center LLC keeps track of the pages our customers visit within www.bmcmusicsource.com in order to determine what Bethel Music Center LLC sites and services are the most popular.  This data is also used by Bethel Music Center LLC to deliver customized content and advertising to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Use of your Personal Information

Bethel Music Center LLC and its operational service partners collect and use your personal information to operate Bethel Music Center LLC and deliver the services you have requested.  Bethel Music Center LLC also uses your personal information to inform you of other products or services available from Bethel Music Center LLC and its affiliates.  Bethel Music Center LLC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered.

Bethel Music Center LLC does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties.  Bethel Music Center LLC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you.  In those cases, your personal information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. 

We occasionally hire other companies to provide limited services on our behalf, such as handling the processing and delivery of mailings, providing customer support, processing transactions, or performing statistical analysis of our services.  We will only provide those companies the personal information they need to deliver the service.  They are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information and are prohibited from using that information for any other purpose.

Bethel Music Center LLC does not use or disclose sensitive personal information, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent.

Bethel Music Center LLC may access and/or disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Bethel Music Center LLC or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Bethel Music Center LLC, including its Bethel Music Center LLC family of vendor Web sites; or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Bethel Music Center LLC, its web sites, or the public.

Control your Personal Information

You may stop the delivery of future promotional e-mail from Bethel Music Center LLC by following the specific instructions in the e-mail you receive.  The instructions explain how to stop receiving such e-mails.

There are some Bethel Music Center LLC services that send out periodic e-mails informing you of technical service issues, product surveys, new feature announcements and news about Bethel Music Center LLC products and services.  You will not be able to unsubscribe to these mailings, as they are considered a part of the service you have chosen.

Security of your Personal Information

Bethel Music Center LLC 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 on computer systems with limited access, that are located in controlled facilities.  When we transmit highly confidential 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.

Collection and Use of Children's Personal Information

Bethel Music Center LLC and its family of vendor sites is intended for users of all ages.  Children may visit these general audience areas of Bethel Music Center LLC and provide personal information, which will be collected, used and disclosed as described is this Statement of Privacy.  Some, but not all, Bethel Music Center LLC sites require users to provide age information.  For those users who visit such sites and identify themselves as under 13, Bethel Music Center LLC will obtain consent from parents for the collection, use and sharing of their children's personal information as described in this Statement of Privacy.  If Bethel Music Center LLC changes this Statement of Privacy in a way that expands the collection, use or disclosure of children's personal information to which a parent has previously consented, the parent will be notified and Bethel Music Center LLC will be required to obtain the parent's additional consent.

Use of Cookies

Bethel Music Center LLC uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience.  A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server.  Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer.  Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time.  For example, if you personalize Bethel Music Center Center LLC sites or services, a cookie helps Bethel Music Center LLC to recall your specific information on subsequent visits.  This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as addresses, and so on.  When you return to Bethel Music Center LLC, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Bethel Music Center LLC features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies.  Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer.  If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Bethel Music Center LLC services or Web sites you visit.  LLC's pages, or register with Bethel Music

Use of Web Beacons

Bethel Music Center LLC Web pages may contain electronic images known as Web beacons - sometimes called single-pixel gifs - that allow Bethel Music Center LLC to count users who have visited those pages and to deliver co-branded services.  Bethel Music Center LLC may include web beacons in promotional e-mail messages or Bethel Music Center LLC Newsletters in order to count how many messages have been opened and acted upon.  Web beacons are not used to access your personal information on the Bethel Music Center LLC network of sites and services; they are a technique we use to compile aggregated statistics about Bethel Music Center LLC Web site usage.

Web beacons collect only a limited set of information including a cookie number, time and date of a page view, and a description of the page on which the Web beacon resides.  Bethel Music Center LLC Web pages may also contain Web beacons placed there by our advertising partners to help determine the effectiveness of our Internet advertising campaigns.

Use of Third Party Ad Networks

Bethel Music Center LLC displays the majority of the online banner advertisements you see on Bethel Music Center LLC Web pages.

In addition, Bethel Music Center LLC allows other companies, called third-party ad servers or ad networks, to display advertisements on Bethel Music Center LLC Web pages.  Some of these ad networks may place a persistent cookie on your computer.  Doing this allows the ad network to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement.  In this way, ad networks may compile information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw their advertisements and determine which ads are clicked on.  This information allows an ad network to deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you.  Bethel Music Center LLC does not have access to or control of the cookies that may be placed by the third-party ad servers or ad networks.

Enforcement of this Statement of Privacy

If you have questions regarding this statement, you should first contact Bethel Music Center LLC via e-mail.  If you do not receive acknowledgement of your inquiry or your inquiry has not been satisfactorily addressed, you should then contact Bethel Music Center LLC to resolve your concerns.

Contact Information

Bethel Music Center LLC welcomes your comments regarding this Statement of Privacy.  If you believe that Bethel Music Center LLC has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Bethel Music Center LLC by postal mail, telephone, or e-mail.

Bethel Music Center LLC

273 Greenwood Ave.

Bethel, CT  06801 

203-792-4304

info@bmcmusicsource.com