Privacy Policy

Hi, my name is Danny Sandrik, owner of Vinyl Record Memories at all-about-vinylrecords.com (the "website" or "site).

One of the things I hold dear is my privacy. I expect the same is true for you. The privacy of your Personal Information is your right. So I want to assure you that the privacy of the information you share with me is as important to me as it is to you.

I want to make my policies on managing your data clear and understandable, so I've tried to write this privacy policy in plain English. Each section of this policy is labelled to make it easy for you to navigate

In this Privacy Policy, I'll tell you about the types of personal information received and collected when you use my website, as well as some of the steps taken to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with me.

I make every effort to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all my site operations. Likewise, I am dedicated to protecting my customers and online visitors privacy on my website. In addition...

• I use a private, paid for email service, that does not place ads in my emails. No one likes it when they sign up for a newsletter and end up receiving spam emails from countless 3rd parties. When you share your email or other personal information with me, I guard it as if it is my own.  The Pobox.com privacy police is available here: Pobox.com privacy.
  

• This site is secure using (HTTPS) protocol. Any data you provide is encrypted for your protection.
  

• This site complies with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) that took effect on May 25, 2018. You will see the notice at the top of every page on this site leading to this privacy page you are currently reading.
  

• I have used the same webhost (Sitesell.com) for the past 15 years. Their honesty and sincere interest in the security and privacy of their customer websites should be the guideline for all webhosts.  Their address is listed in the Data Storage section below. 
  

About Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that's stored on your computer, which your browser provides to my website each time you return to the site. Cookies are used to help identify and track visitors, their use of my website, and their website access preferences.

Google Analytics Cookies

I use Google Analytics to analyze the use of my website. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data, and generates statistical and other information about website use, by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. I share this information with Google, which will store and use this information on its servers. Google's privacy policy is available here: Google Privacy Policy 

I also use information from Google Analytics to track the number of visits to my website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. I use the information that Google Analytics generates relating to my website to create reports about the use of the site. These reports allow me to update my website and improve your usage of it.

If you do not want your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on: Opt-Out

Affiliate Products and Services

I receive an affiliate commission for some of the products/services sold on my site.

The affiliate services platforms I use include: Amazon and ShareASale. 

By clicking on a product or service link on my site, you consent to that platform's use of cookies, as outlined in the links below:

• Amazon Privacy Policy

• ShareASale Privacy Policy

• Sitesell Privacy Policy
  

Social Media

All-about-vinylrecords.com lets you share content with your friends and followers on various social media platforms. (Below are links to their privacy policies.) 

When you click on links to social media websites like Facebook and Twitter, your browser connects directly with that site and sends information such as your IP address, the date and time of your visit, and information about how you use the social media website.

If you want to prevent those social media platforms from collecting your data, please review their individual privacy policies by using the following links:

• Facebook Privacy

• Twitter Privacy

• Linkedin
  

To effectively prevent Facebook from collecting your data, log out of your Facebook account while using this website.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of my site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse all cookies or to notify you when a cookie is requested.

If you choose to refuse All-about-vinylrecords.com's cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of my website.

Personally Identifiable Information

All-about-vinylrecords.com may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate the website.
  
• To display content on the site correctly.
  
• To improve customer service.
  
• To help me respond to your customer service requests and support needs more efficiently.
  
• To personalize your user experience.
  
• To understand how my site's users, as a group, use the services and resources provided on the site.
  
• To improve the site.
  
• To improve the products and services offered on the site.
  
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
  
• To send information to you that you agreed to receive about topics I think will be of interest to you.
•  To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters and/or autoresponder series of emails.
• To respond to your inquiries, questions, and/or other requests.

All-about-vinylrecords.com may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways, including, but not limited to, when you visit my website, register on the site, or fill out a form, and in connection with other activities, services, features or resources made available on my site.

If you submit a question, a comment, a request for information, or make any other submission to me via a form on my site, I'll need your name and your email address and will ask for other information relevant to your submission, so I can respond to you.

All-about-vinylrecords.com also collects each visitor's IP address, which helps to combat spam and fraud. IP addresses are not used for any other purpose.

I will use personal information received from you for internal purposes only. Once the information is reviewed and has served its purpose, it'll be discarded or stored in my files. I will never sell your personal information, nor will I provide it to any third parties without your knowledge and consent.

If I make material changes in the collection of personally identifiable information, I will inform you by placing a notice on my website.

All-about-vinylrecords.com contains links to other websites that may be of interest to you. However, once you have used them to leave our site, we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information you provide while visiting such sites. These sites are not governed by this privacy statement. Always exercise caution by reviewing the privacy statement of the website in question before continuing to use it.

Non-Personally Identifiable Information

All-about-vinylrecords.com may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. Non-personally identifiable information may include the browser name, the type of computer and technical information about your method of connecting to our site, such as the operating system and the Internet service provider you used, and other similar information.

Children's Privacy Protection

My website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. I operate my site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. I do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

In the unlikely event that All-about-vinylrecords.com is ever sold, the information obtained from you through your voluntary participation in the site may transfer to the new owner as a part of the sale so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event, you will receive notice through the website of that change in control and practices, and I will make reasonable efforts to ensure that the purchaser honors any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable information and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host's servers. That host is SiteSell Inc., located at 1000 Saint-Jean Boulevard, Suite 702, Pointe-Claire, QC H9R 5P1 Canada.

Some information is collected by third-party services. These include Feedly and Yahoo.

This website offers RSS as a way to easily follow content updates. We provide links for easy access to My Yahoo! and/or Feedly. Before you choose to use either as your RSS reader, review it's privacy policy via the links in this paragraph.

How You Can Correct or Remove Information.

I provide this privacy policy as a statement to you of my commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted personally identifiable information through my website and would like to download and review that information, click here.

You can also request to edit or delete any of your information from the servers by clicking on this link.

Updates and Effective Date

All-about-vinylrecords.com reserves the right to make changes in this policy. If there is a material change in the cookie and privacy practices, I will indicate on the site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated privacy policy. I encourage you to periodically review this policy so that you will know what information my website collects and how it is used.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to All-about-vinylrecords.com's privacy policy as posted here on this website, please do not consent to the setting of cookies and the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information.

Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: January 02, 2024