COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by Mixtape Massacre. Your privacy on the Internet is importance to us. 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 MIXTAPEMASSACRE.COM GATHERS AND TRACKS
Mixtapemassacre.com gathers two types of information about users:
We collect information that users provide through optional, voluntary submissions. This information may include your name, e-mail address and other personally identifying information. We request this information if you opt-in to receive our electronic newsletters, to shop on our online store, to share with friends and to receive special offers and notices from us.
Users who opt-in to receive the following free services are required to submit certain personally identifying information:
ELECTRONIC NEWSLETTERS
Mixtapemassacre.com gathers the email addresses of users who voluntarily subscribe to our free electronic newsletter. Users may remove themselves from this mailing list by following the link provided in every newsletter that points users to the subscription management page.
“SHARE WITH FRIENDS” SERVICE
Our site’s users can choose to electronically forward a link, page, or documents to someone else by clicking on the “Share with friends” social buttons. The user must provide their social media accounts or email address, as well as that of the recipient. This information is used in the case of transmission errors and, of course, to let the recipient know who sent the email.
Information mixtapemassacre.com gathers through automatically tracking general statistical information about our website and its visitors, such as IP addresses, browsers, pages viewed, number of visitors, etc…. Mixtapemassacre.com tracks user traffic patterns throughout all of our sites. Mixtapemassacre.com breaks 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).
This information allows us to better tailor our content to user’s needs and build a better service for you. It also helps our advertisers and sponsors better understand the demographics of our audience.
We will never knowingly request personally identifying information from anyone under the age of 16 without requesting parental or guardian consent. However, we have no way of distinguishing the age of individuals who access our website, and if a child under 16 has provided us with personally identifying information without parental or guardian consent, the parent or guardian should contact us by sending an email message to info (at) mixtapemassacre.com to remove the information and opt-out of the services provided through this website.
USE OF INFORMATION
Mixtapemassacre.com uses the information collected through this website for our internal business purposes, including enhancing your experience in our network of sites, providing interactive or personalized elements on the sites, and to better prepare future content based on the interests of our users.
As stated above, we use personally identifying information that users voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic newsletters and to enable users to shop in our online store. We send out newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule (depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out exclusive news when we think subscribers might be particularly interested in something we are doing. Mixtapemassacre.com will not share newsletter mailing lists with any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or partners without notifying you first.
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 particular users enter which particular terms.
We use or disclose information to resolve disputes, investigate problems or enforce our User Agreement. We also use or disclose information whenever we believe in good faith that the law so requires or if we otherwise consider it necessary to do so to maintain service and improve our products and services.
COOKIES
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
SECURITY
Mixtapemassacre.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.
No data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be perfectly secure. As a result, while we try to protect your personally identifying information, we cannot ensure or guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us.
OPT-OUT POLICY AND CHANGE TO INFORMATION
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
To update or delete the information that you have provided please send us an email message to info (at) mixtapemassacre.com.
DISCLOSURE OF INFORMATION TO THIRD PARTIES
Except as otherwise expressly discussed, this Privacy Policy only addresses the use and disclosure of information we collect from you. Please remember that whenever you voluntarily disclose personal information online – for example on through email, or in chat areas – that information can be collected and used by others. We recommend that you do not disclose your username or password to anyone. We will never ask you for your username or password in an unsolicited e-mail or phone call.
Mixtapemassacre.com isn’t responsible for content on off site web pages. Parents of anyone under 18 should review all content and determine its’ appropriateness for viewing.
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the collection and use of this information by mixtapemassacre.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.
If you have any questions please email, info (at) mixtapemassacre.com.