Platinum Samples - Engineered Drums for BFD
PLATINUMSAMPLES.COM
Privacy Policy

PRIVACY POLICY FOR PLATINUMSAMPLES.COM

Platinum Samples ("Platinum Samples") has created this privacy policy in order to inform you of Platinum Samples' commitment to privacy. The following discloses Platinum Samples' information gathering and dissemination practices for platinumsamples.com ("Site" or "platinumsamples.com").

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY BEFORE USING THIS SITE. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, DO NOT USE THE SITE. BY SUBMITTING ANY PERSONAL INFORMATION TO THE SITE, YOU AGREE TO BE BOUND BY THE TERMS OF THIS PRIVACY POLICY.

Your use of this Site and the terms of this Privacy Policy are also subject to the Terms of Use. Please review those Terms of Use for additional detail regarding your use of this Site.

GENERAL INFORMATION
IP Addresses and Cookies
Generally speaking, you may visit the Site while remaining anonymous and not revealing any personal information.

Platinum Samples uses your IP address to help diagnose problems with the Site servers, to administer the Site, to monitor Site usage, and to gather broad demographic information. Your IP address is used to help identify you and to aid in your navigation through the Site as determined by your customization options, if any. Platinum Samples also may aggregate the IP address with other information to create anonymous Site statistics. Platinum Samples does not, however, use your IP address to collect personal information about you.

Submission of Personal Information
Certain portions of the Site may require that you submit some personal information, such as your name and email address, before using those portions of the Site. At minimum, you are typically required to register with the Site and provide your name or email address before using any of the members only areas of the Site. For some services, such as accessing any support or download sections, registering for events, or requesting a demo CD, you may have to create an account, and submit additional personal information such as your mailing address. You may also be required to submit information such as your name and email address before you will be authorized to post information on the Site.

Use of Personal Information
Platinum Samples uses the information you submit to the Site to provide the services and information you select, to better understand its customers, to provide better products and services, and to assist Platinum Samples with the Site administration, such as with troubleshooting any problems, detecting fraud, resolving disputes, and for any purposes deemed necessary or required by Platinum Samples to enforce the Terms of Use and other terms or conditions applicable to any portion of the Site.

Platinum Samples also uses this information to send you information about Platinum Samples, its affiliated companies, or other topics Platinum Samples thinks may be of interest to you, such as product information or updates. As part of its business, Platinum Samples works with its affiliated companies as well as other authorized partners, such as authorized resellers, to provide you with the services and information described above. As part of those activities, Platinum Samples may share your information with those authorized entities so that they can directly provide the information or services to you.

The processing of your data is either based on your consent or in case the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party, or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.

If the processing is based on your consent, you may at any time withdraw your consent by contacting us at privacy@platinumsamples.com.

In order to enter into a contract regarding the purchase of Platinum Samples’s products or services, you must provide us with the required personal data. If you do not to provide us with all the required information, it will not be possible to deliver the product or service.

Platinum Samples keeps the information you provide for as long as you remain an active user of the site and recipient of our information.

Aggregation and Use of Anonymous Data
Platinum Samples aggregates information provided by you to create anonymous statistical and demographic data. This anonymous data helps Platinum Samples to understand and know its customer base better. That anonymous data may be provided to third parties but never in such a fashion as to identify you personally.

Third Parties
Platinum Samples does not sell to third parties information you have submitted to this Site that identifies you personally.

On occasion, Platinum Samples may offer in conjunction with third parties certain services that may require you (or Platinum Samples) to share your personal information with that third party as a condition for providing that service. While Platinum Samples will treat any information it receives in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Platinum Samples will not be responsible for the information submitted by you to that third party, and Platinum Samples reminds you to review the applicable rules and any third party's applicable privacy policies separately before participating in such service.

Declining Information
You can opt out of receiving Platinum Samples marketing messages; see the Accept/Decline section below. Please note that it may take us a reasonable amount of time to process your request, but once we do, we will no longer use your information.

Even if you decline to receive information or cancel any account or profile, Platinum Samples reserves the right to use the information you previously provided to contact you about administrative matters relating to your use of any portion of the Site, your account, or about any issues relating to the Terms of Use, this Privacy Policy, or any other policy then in-effect.

Public Forums for User Materials
Certain portions of the site are designed to offer you the opportunity to post information on the site, including but not limited to information about yourself ("User Materials"). You should always remember that publicly displayed information is public. For example, you may be permitted to post your resume information, a video you have created, or to post messages in any chat rooms, message boards, mailing lists, and/or news groups this site makes available to its users. If you use a forum, bulletin board or chat room on a Platinum Samples website you should be aware that any information you share is visible to other users. Personally identifiable information you submit to one of these forums can be read, collected, or used by other individuals to send you unsolicited messages. Platinum Samples is not responsible for the personally identifiable information you choose to submit in these forums.

Please see the Terms of Use for additional terms related to Platinum Samples’s forums and posting of User Materials.

Law Enforcement
One exception to this Privacy Policy is that Platinum Samples may provide information you submit to this Site to law enforcement authorities. As noted in the Terms of Use Platinum Samples intends to cooperate with any order or request from law enforcement officials or a court of competent jurisdiction for information as to the identity of individuals submitting or posting information to Platinum Samples or on this Site. Such orders or requests supercede the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Links to Other Sites and Advertising
This Site contains links to other sites not operated by Platinum Samples. Platinum Samples is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of those web sites. Please be sure to review the privacy policies of those sites.

This Site may display advertisements and/or links to third parties. These advertisements or links may contain cookies placed by those third parties. Platinum Samples is not responsible for those advertisements, the web sites to which they are linked, or how any other linked sites may use their own cookies or information. For example, cookies received with banner ads may be collected by the company posting the ad on our Site. Again, please refer to that company's privacy policy for further information.

Surveys and Contests/Sweepstakes
From time to time Platinum Samples may make online surveys available to users of the Site. Participation in those surveys is voluntary. Some online surveys may ask participants for personal information, such as an email address, in addition to requesting answers to survey questions. Platinum Samples may use that personal information to contact the participant if necessary, or as otherwise described above. Platinum Samples may make the results of any survey publicly available, although Platinum Samples will not attribute any particular response to you without your permission.

On occasion Platinum Samples may make available to users of the Site contests, sweepstakes, or similar events in which they may qualify for participation. Participation is always voluntary and subject to the applicable rules. The rules may ask participants to provide personal information as a condition of participation. Platinum Samples may also make the winner's names public, as provided in the applicable rules, or as required by applicable law. Platinum Samples may also use that information as described above. In some instances, the applicable rules may contain additional or different uses for the information you provide; please be sure to review those rules carefully before entering.

Platinum Samples may permit a third party to sponsor a survey, contest, sweepstakes, or other similar event ("third party event") with Platinum Samples, such as through posting it on the Site. Such third party events are governed solely by any applicable rules, and may require you to provide information to that third party as a condition for participation. While Platinum Samples will treat any information it receives in accordance with this Privacy Policy, Platinum Samples is not responsible for the information gathered by that third party, and Platinum Samples reminds you to review the rules and privacy policies separately applicable to those third party events.

Children
Some of Platinum Samples’s websites may appeal to or be intended for children; however, we do not wish to receive data from children. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on the sites their children visit. No information should be submitted to, or posted at, Platinum Samples’s website by visitors under 18 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.

Support Data
Support Data will be used only to provide customers with support, including purposes compatible with providing support, such as troubleshooting recurring issues and improvements to support or to products and services. Platinum Samples will not use Support Data or derive information from it for advertising or similar commercial purposes without customer’s permission.

SECURITY
General Issues
Generally speaking, this site has security measures in place to protect against the loss, misuse and alteration of the information under our control. No security measures are 100% effective and Platinum Samples does not warrant the security of your personal information. Since the site under general usage does not collect financial information, Platinum Samples uses the standard internet connections for those general usage portions of the site, without secured sockets.

Specific Services
This Site may provide certain additional, optional services that may use additional security measures to protect the information, such as financial information, provided by you to obtain the service. Those additional security measures may vary, depending upon the particular service offered. You will be informed of any specific security measures at the time you use a particular service. Please review that information for further detail.

Site Registration
In some cases, you may be prompted to register with the Site to undertake a particular Site activity or obtain a particular service. As part of that registration, you may be asked to choose your own password. Platinum Samples reminds you to protect your password, and not provide it to others to use. Allowing others to access and use your account and password can compromise the security of your information. Platinum Samples disclaims any responsibility or obligation for your decision to provide your password to others.

CHANGES TO THIS POLICY

If and when Platinum Samples makes changes to this site and its products and services, Platinum Samples may have to update this Privacy Policy Statement to better reflect those changes. Because changes to this site or updates to this Privacy Policy Statement may occur, you should review this Privacy Policy Statement from time to time. Remember, your decision to continue using this site after this Privacy Policy Statement is updated will signify that you have agreed to any new terms.

ACCEPT/DECLINE

Typically you accept to receive communications when you submit information to the Site. If you wish to remove your information from the Site registration database and no longer receive future communications or use any services, you may do so through any of the methods described below. Please note that it may take us a reasonable amount of time to process your request.

  1. The Profile section of this Site may permit you to change a previous selection and decline to receive further communications, or to delete your registration.
  2. A particular service may have an Administration section that allows you to change any previous selections for that service.
  3. You can send an email to privacy@platinumsamples.com for assistance in deleting/changing your prior selections.
  4. You may unsubscribe from receiving emails by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the emails received from us.

CORRECT/UPDATE

This Site gives users the following options for changing and modifying information previously provided.

  1. The Profile section of this Site may permit a registered user to change or modify information previously provided.
  2. A particular service may have an Administration section that allows you to change or modify information you previously provided for that service.
  3. You can send an email to privacy@platinumsamples.com for assistance in deleting/changing your prior selections.

RIGHTS UNDER THE GDPR

Platinum Samples is compliant with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Under that regulation, you have the right to (a) be informed about Platinum Samples’s use of your data, (b) to access the data Platinum Samples has collected from you, (c) to correct any mistakes in the data Platinum Samples has collected, (d) the right to have the data Platinum Samples has collected erased, (e) to restrict processing (f) to portability of the information Platinum Samples has collected, (g) to object to the collection and processing of information, and (h) to not be profiled. To exercise any of these rights, please contact Platinum Samples at privacy@platinumsamples.com.

CONTACTING THE WEB SITE

If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this Site, or your dealings with this Site, you can contact the Webmaster at the following email: privacy@platinumsamples.com

NOTICE TO EUROPEAN USERS

Please note that the information you enter on the Site or otherwise provide to Platinum Samples may be transferred outside of the European Economic Area, for purposes of processing, by Platinum Samples, a company located in Los Angeles, California, U.S.A., in order to provide this Site and its services to you. You are advised that the United States uses a sectoral model of privacy protection that relies on a mix of legislation, governmental regulation, and self-regulation. You are further advised that the Council of the European Union has found that this model does not provide "adequate" privacy protections as contemplated by Article 25 of the European Union's Data Directive. (Directive 95/46/EC, 1995 O.J. (L 281) 31)

Article 26 of the European Union's Data Directive allows for transfer of personal data from the European Union to a third country if the individual has unambiguously given his consent to the transfer of personal information, regardless of the third country's level of protection.

By agreeing to this Policy, you consent to the transfer of all such information to the United States and the processing of that information as described in this Policy.

DISCLAIMERS

Platinum Samples intends to take reasonable precautions to abide by this Privacy Policy. Nevertheless, in the event that Platinum Samples does not comply with all terms contained in this Privacy Policy, you agree by using this Site and by submitting information to this Site that your sole and exclusive remedy against Platinum Samples will be to have Platinum Samples promptly correct the handling of your information in the future to accord with this Privacy Policy, and to notify anyone to whom Platinum Samples directly transferred any information of the correct information or to cease using such information.

TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT ALLOWED BY LAW, PLATINUM SAMPLES DISCLAIM ANY OTHER OBLIGATION, LIABILITY, OR WARRANTY TO YOU FOR ANY OTHER ACTION, INACTION, OMISSION, OR OTHER ACTIVITY THAT IS NOT IN ACCORDANCE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, ITS TERMS, OR ITS DISCLAIMERS THEN YOU SHOULD NOT USE THIS SITE.

UNDER NO CIRCUMSTANCES SHALL PLATINUM SAMPLES OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS BE LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL, INDIRECT, ECONOMIC OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, LOSS OF DATA OR LOSS OF USE DAMAGES OR LOST PROFITS) ARISING OUT OF OR CONNECTED WITH THIS PRIVACY POLICY, OR THE FAILURE OF PLATINUM SAMPLES OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS TO ADHERE TO IT, EVEN IF PLATINUM SAMPLES OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS HAVE BEEN NOTIFIED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF ANY DAMAGES. BECAUSE SOME STATES/JURISDICTIONS DO NOT ALLOW THE EXCLUSION OR LIMITATION OF LIABILITY FOR CONSEQUENTIAL OR INCIDENTAL DAMAGES, THE ABOVE LIMITATION MAY NOT APPLY TO YOU. IN SUCH STATES/JURISDICTIONS, THE RESPECTIVE LIABILITY OF PLATINUM SAMPLES OR THEIR SUPPLIERS OR LICENSORS SHALL BE LIMITED TO THE MAXIMUM EXTENT PERMITTED BY APPLICABLE LAW.


Home
Links
Contact
FAQ
Buy
Legal

Copyright 2006 Platinum Samples. All rights reserved