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This website is operated by Sculpting Sounds Ltd. A company registered in England and Wales. Our company number is: 13979604
Privacy Policy & Terms
Privacy Policy as of 23/02/2023
This is the Privacy Policy of Sculpting Sounds Ltd. In this document, “we”, “our, "us” refer to Sculpting Sounds Ltd.
Introduction:
This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all the information we collect about you. It sets out the conditions to which we may process the information we collect from you, or that you provide to us. This includes information that may identify you and information that may not, this is known as PI (“Personal Information”). In the context of the law and in this notice “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.
If you are unhappy with any of the points below please contact us by email info@sculptingsounds.studio, to see if we can resolve any issue.
We take the protection of your privacy, confidentiality and data very seriously. We understand that our customers are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
We take care to maintain the confidentiality of all the information you provide to us, and hope that you reciprocate.
Our Policy complies with UK law, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regards to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this by requesting that you please read the information provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org.
Except as set out below, we do not share, sell, or disclose to a third party any information collected through our face to face exchanges, or digitally delivered to us through our website, messaging devices & apps, text, email, telephone, or other communication device or medium.
We are registered with the ICO.
The Basis on which we process information about you:
1) Information we process because we have a contractual obligation with you:
When you visit our website, buy a service or product from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is formed between us.
In order to carry out a contract, some information you have given us may need to be processed. Some of this information could be personal information.
We may use it in order to:
1.1) Provide you with our services
1.2) Sell products to you
1.3) Provide you with advice about our services and products, and ways in which you can use our website.
We process this information on the basis that there is a contract between us, or that you have requested our services in someway before a contract is formed.
Occasionally we may want to perform some analytics on the services/products we provide in order to monitor our performance. If this is the case, you will not be identified personally in anyway.
We shall continue to process information under this basis until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party, under the terms of the contract.
2) Information we process with your consent:
Where there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide more information about a service or product we provide, you provide consent to us to process information that maybe personal information.
Wherever possible we ask for your explicit consent, for example by asking you to agree to our use of cookies on our website. Please see part 9 of the ‘The basis on which we process information about you’ section of this privacy policy for a detailed breakdown of the cookies used by our website.
Sometimes you may have given your consent implicitly, for example, when you send us an email or message by any means, to which you reasonably expect a reply.
Except to where you have agreed that we can use your personal information, we do not use your information in anyway that will personally identify you.
You may withdraw your consent at anytime by emailing us at shop@lessobviousrecords.com and instructing us as such. However, if you do so, you may no longer be able to use our website or our services, in order to satisfy your withdrawal.
3) Information we process as we have a legal obligation:
In order to fulfil legal requirements, we must process your information in order to comply with statutory obligations.
If a legal authority requires me to to pass on information by request or with a warrant or court order, your personal information maybe included.
4) Information provided on the understanding that it will be shared with a third party:
Our website and other social networking websites may allow you to post a comment, photo, multimedia response or in other words, information. These comments and the information contained within them can be read, downloaded, copied or used by other people.
If you post information under these circumstances, you could include personal information, therefore it is up to you to decide the privacy level to which you are willing to share your own personal information within this open forum.
Once this information enters the public domain, we have no control as to what third parties may do with it. We accept no responsibility for the actions of third parties at any time.
If you’d like me to remove posted personal information from public view, and it is under our control to do so, and there is no legal basis for us to keep it, at our discretion we will remove it. Please contact joseph@lessobviousmusic.com with the request.
5) Complaints regarding content on my website:
If you complain about content on our website, it will always be investigated.
If we believe that there is a justifiable or legal reason in doing so, we will remove any content that we are investigating whilst the investigation is on going.
If we believe your complaint is valid, we will take the offending article away from the website.
Please contact info@sculptingsounds.studio to make a complaint about our website.
6) Sending a message to us through our website:
If you choose to use the form on our website in order to send us a message, we will only use the information, telephone number and email address provided by you in order to follow up the message, or in line with points 1 & 2 of the ‘The basis on which we process information about you’ section of this privacy policy.
7) Complaining:
If we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given to us. We use this information in order to resolve any complaint.
If your complaint requires me to contact a third party, we may decide to give the third party some of the information contained in your complaint, in order to resolve it.
Use of information I collect through automated systems when visiting my website:
8) Cookies:
We use cookies on our website. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive/storage solution by your website when you visit any website.
When entering our website, please interact with the banner at the bottom of the screen to choose your cookie preferences.
Some cookies may last for a defined period or time, others may last indefinitely. Your web browser should allow you to choose the cookies you keep and delete. It should also allow you to prevent or limit their use. We use www.squarespace.com in order to host and make our website, in this process squarespace.com automatically applies cookies to our website.
Disclosure, sharing of your information and other matters:
9) Data Storage & Data maybe processed or stored outside the UK/European Union:
As we use wix.com to make my website, their servers are based around the world, therefore when you access our website, information transferred to wix.com could be stored on any of these servers.
10) Verification of your information:
If required, we can update or/and provide a copy of the information we hold on you to you.
Before updating your personal information, or providing a copy to you, we will take steps to verify that you are the entity making the request for the information itself, or making the update to the information.
If you require a copy of the information we hold on you, please email info@sculptingsounds.studio.
11) Use of website by children:
If you are under 18, you may use our website only with consent from a parent or guardian.
12) Encryption of data sent between us:
Squarespace provide a Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL certificate, in order to provide our website’s identity to your web browser and in order to encrypt any data transfer between us whilst you are using our website.
13) Compliance with the law:
This privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with the law of every country, location and jurisdiction within which we aim to do business. If you think it fails to comply with laws within your jurisdiction, please email me info@sculptingsounds.studio as we would like to hear about this and discuss it with you.
However, it is your decision as to whether you wish to use our services, products or website.
18) Review of this privacy policy:
We may update this privacy policy from time to time. The terms applicable to your are the ones that are published on our website, http://www.scultpingsounds.studio or http://www.josephbuckler.com, on the day of use. If you have any questions about our privacy policy, please email info@sculptingsounds.studio and we’ll endeavour to answer your query.