Policy
IntellectualMusician’s Commitment to Your Privacy
Your privacy on the Internet is of the utmost importance to us. At IntellectualMusician.com, we want to make your experience online satisfying and safe. We invite you to contact us if you have questions about this policy. You may contact us by mail at the following address:
IntellectualMusician.com
6 Wigglesworth ST, APT 1
Boston, MA 02120
You may contact us by email at admin@intellectualmusician.com.
Because we gather certain types of information about our users, we feel you should fully understand the terms and conditions surrounding the capture and use of that information. This privacy statement discloses what information we gather and how we use it.
Information IntellectualMusician.com Gathers and Tracks
IntellectualMusician.com gathers two types of information about users:
- Information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. These are voluntary submissions to receive our electronic newsletters, to participate in our message boards or forums, to email a friend, and from participation in polls and surveys.
- Information IntellectualMusician.com gathers through aggregated tracking information derived mainly by tallying page views throughout our sites. This information allows us to better tailor our content to users’ needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience. Because IntellectualMusician.com derives its revenue mainly from sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated demographic data is essential to keeping our service free to users. Under no circumstances does IntellectualMusician.com divulge any information about an individual user to a third party.
IntellectualMusician.com Gathers User Information In The Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services, which require some type of voluntary submission of personal information by users:
1. Electronic newsletters (Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users. IntellectualMusician.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page. Users can also subscribe to the newsletters at the time of registration.
2. Message boards/forums
Users of the site’s Message Boards and Forums must register separately for these services (free of charge) in order to post messages, although they needn’t register to visit the site. During registration the user is required to supply a username, password, and email address.
3. “E-mail this to a friend” Service
Our site users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking “e-mail this to a friend”. The user must provide their email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used only in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email. The information is not used for any other purpose.
4. Polling
We may offer interactive polls to users so they can easily share their opinions with other users and see what our audience thinks about important issues. Opinions or other responses to polls are aggregated and are not identifiable to any particular user. IntellectualMusician.com may use a system to “tag” users after they have voted, so they can vote only once on a particular question. This tag is not correlated with information about individual users.
5. Surveys
IntellectualMusician.com may occasionally conduct user surveys to better target our content to our audience. We sometimes share the aggregated demographic information in these surveys with our sponsors, advertisers and partners. We never share any of this information about specific individuals with any third party.
6. Comments
IntellectualMusician.com allows visitors to post comments on most content. Comments may be edited or deleted by IntellectualMusician staff at any time. Comment submission must conform to IntellectualMusician.com standards.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will never knowingly request personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13 without requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
IntellectualMusician.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not correlate this information with data about individual users. IntellectualMusician.com does break down overall usage statistics according to a user’s domain name, browser type, and MIME type by reading this information from the browser string (information contained in every user’s browser).
IntellectualMusician.com sometimes tracks and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our Search function, but this tracking is never associated with individual users. We use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain Personal Information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. But the only personal information a cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. IntellectualMusician.com uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive the warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys.
Use of Information
IntellectualMusician.com uses any information voluntarily given by our users to enhance their experience in our network of sites, whether to provide interactive or personalized elements on the sites or to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls, surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out special editions when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. IntellectualMusician.com never shares newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners.
When we use tracking information to determine which areas of our sites users like and don’t like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track what individual users read, but rather how well each page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a better service for you. We track search terms entered in Search function as one of many measures of what interests our users. But we don’t track which terms a particular user enters.
IntellectualMusician.com creates aggregate reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent to their needs. Because we don’t track the usage patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor will never know that a specific user clicked their ad. We will not disclose any information about any individual user except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Sharing of the Information
IntellectualMusician.com uses the above-described information to tailor our content to suit your needs and help our advertisers better understand our audience’s demographics. This is essential to keeping our service free. We will not share information about individual users with any third party, except to comply with applicable law or valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of our users or the public.
Security
IntellectualMusician.com operates secure data networks protected by industry standard firewall and password protection systems. Our security and privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced as necessary and only authorized individuals have access to the information provided by our customers.
Opt-out Policy
We give users options wherever necessary and practical. Such choices include:
- Opting not to register to receive our electronic newsletters.
- Opting not to participate in certain interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need to gather any personally identifiable information from our users
- Opting to have your membership with IntellectualMusician.com terminated including the removal of all personal data from our database. Email
admin@intellectualmusician.com with your login name and we will process your removal from our systems.
Your Consent
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by IntellectualMusician.com. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we will post those changes on this page so that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
By submitting your article(s) to us;
- You declare that you are the sole owner and author of the article and own 100% of all copyrights pertaining to it.
- Your submission to IntellectualMusician.com gives unconditional permission for us to publish your article on the website, RSS feed, and otherwise.
- Your submission to IntellectualMusician.com also gives unconditional permission for your articles to be reprinted in affiliated blogs, websites and print publications. Furthermore, if someone violates your copyright — it will be 100% up to you to take legal action against those who abuse your copyright to protect your interests. If you do not agree to these terms, do not submit your articles.
- It is the IntellectualMusician.com Team’s sole decision as to whether your article is published and for how long. There are no guarantees made that your article(s) will be published. Quality matters. We reserve the right to remove your article(s) and/or membership account at any time for any reason.
- The IntellectualMusician.com Editorial Team reserves the right to re-classify your article in a topic category that may be more suitable than originally submitted.
- IntellectualMusician.com is advertiser supported. We reserve the right to publish ads on the same pages as your articles.
- If your article does not conform to the IntellectualMusician standards our editors may edit your article so that it does conform to the current content standards.
Authorship:
In order to maintain author position, and continue receiving payment for submitted content you must remain active as an author. After six months of inactivity your author account may be disabled and deleted. Inactivity is defined as a period of time over the course of which no content as been submitted to the site.
Authorship may also be terminated at any time for any reason without warning or explanation.
Payment of Authors
As an author you shall be paid 50% of all advertising revenue displayed with your content for as long as you maintain your authorship with intellectualmusician.com.
General Issues:
IntellectualMusician.com reserves the right to modify these Terms & Conditions at any time without prior notice.
Disclaimer:
Liability: IntellectualMusician.com and its parent company does not warrant or assume any legal liability or responsibility for the accuracy, completeness, or usefulness of any information or product represented on this site.
No Implied Endorsement: IntellectualMusician.com does not endorse or recommend anything. The views of the authors that have submitted their articles to this site are owned by them alone and do not necessarily reflect the views of IntellectualMusician.com, its management team or owners. Further, IntellectualMusician.com does not recommend any product or service found via any advertisement within this site.
No Warranty: When using this site, you may find many links to 3rd party Internet sites. IntellectualMusician.com is not responsible for the content or availability of these 3rd party sites. IntellectualMusician.com does not warrant or guarantee the products, services, or information found on external or 3rd party sites.
No Pop-Ups: There are no Pop-Ups anywhere within the IntellectualMusician.com site. If you receive one as a result of clicking on any of the 3rd party links found within this site — know that they did not originate from our site.
The authors of the articles in this site do not dispense medical, legal or professional advice, nor do they prescribe any treatment or strategy that should be tested without the advice of a professional. Information presented on this site is for educational or entertainment purposes only. You are responsible for your own actions should you use any information found on this site.
