Privacy Policy

BLABBERMOUTH.NET is committed to protecting your privacy and honoring the integrity of your personal information. We are also dedicated to creating the very best experience we can for you on our web site. In order to achieve this we need to collect some information. This information is used to understand you better and to provide a more personalized experience on our site. We do not sell, license or trade to a third party any personal information given by an individual. All information is stored in our secure databases, which are located in a secure facility.

Information Uses

The information we gather may be used for the following purposes:

Email addresses are to be used for our own newsletter. This will inform you of upcoming events, promotions, etc. If you do not wish to be on this mailing list, please reply to the newsletter and place "unsubscribe" in the subject line.

Information about your computer speed and modem connection enables us to enhance our web site to maximum potential vis-a-vis our visitors.

Demographics and other reports may be culled from the information as a whole (including from cookies) and may also be matched with other data. Such information will not be sold or traded. This aggregated information helps us, our advertisers, prospective partners and other parties to better understand our visitors. We do not give out any personal or personally identifiable information, unless requested to do so by law.

Music preferences, roots and influences help us to create web sites for participating artists/bands, to be able to position these artists so that fans may find their music, and to direct you to other music you may enjoy.

Non-Personal Information and Cookies

Certain non-personal information of visitors is recorded by the standard operation of our servers, including the URL that you just came from, which URL you next go to, what browser you're using, and your IP address. Such information is not identifiable to any one person and is used only to improve our web site or is aggregated as discussed above.

Cookies are little bits of data that we have sent through your browser to your hard drive for record keeping purposes. Cookies are not programs and cannot be used to read any data or files on your computer. Cookies make using our web site easier by saving your personal preferences and your password (so you don't have to re-enter it each time you visit our site) and by delivering content specific to your interests. We also use cookies to record how many times a user has visited our site and what pages the user has accessed. Most browsers are initially set up to accept cookies, although you can reset your browser to refuse all cookies or indicate when a cookie is being sent. If you choose to disable your cookie settings or refuse to accept a cookie, some parts of our web site will not function properly or may be considerably slower. For example, without cookies, you will not be able to set personalized preferences or you may have difficulty completing shopping transactions, entering contests or playing games.

Children's Privacy

In accordance with the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act (commonly referred to as COPPA), under no circumstances do we require children under the age of 13 to provide us with any personal information. Children under the age of 13 should not submit or post any personal information without the written consent of their parents or legal guardians. If you are a child under the age of 13 and want to submit your personal information to us, you should ask your parents or guardians to send an e-mail to bmouth@bellatlantic.net specifically allowing us to collect your personal information through this web site. By doing so, you allow us to alert your parent or guardian about our site's privacy policy. We do not intend to sell, license or trade any such information collected to third parties. Parents may review or change the personal information of their children provided to us or further refuse our collection of such information by sending an e-mail to bmouth@bellatlantic.net.

Chat Areas/Bulletin Boards

If you voluntarily disclose personal information on the bulletin boards or in the chat areas on this web site, that information can also be collected and used by others and may result in unsolicited messages from other people.

Links

Our site contains links to other sites that are not maintained by BLABBERMOUTH.NET. We cannot guarantee the security of your personal information on those sites. Please review their privacy policy statement before submitting any personal information to such sites.

Surveys & Giveaways

From time to time, our site requests information from users via surveys or contests. Participation in these surveys or contests is completely voluntary and the user therefore has a choice whether or not to disclose this information. Information requested may include contact information (such as name and shipping address), and demographic information (such as zip code, age level). Contact information will be used to notify the winners and award prizes. Survey information will be used for purposes of monitoring or improving the use and satisfaction of this site.

Questions

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or any matter pertaining to the use of your personal information on this site, or if you would like to review or change the personal information that you provided to us, please send an e-mail to bmouth@bellatlantic.net.

Consent

By your use of our web sites, you consent to the use of your personal information as expressed in this privacy policy. We reserve the right to amend this privacy policy at any time, with any such change in the policy effective immediately on the posting of the revised policy on this site.