Overview
Our website address is: https://blog.musicdayz.com
MusicDayz is committed to complying with the General Data Protection Regulations (implemented from 25th May 2018) to comply with current legal standards and to maintain the trust and confidence of our visitors to our web site, and subscribers to our newsletter. Here you’ll find information on how we treat data that we collect from visitors to our website, or when someone subscribes to our newsletter.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
If you are a use who edits or publishes an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Contact form
We can collect personal data from you when you visit our website via Contact form which you may submit or if you register to receive an email newsletter from us. Server logs and Cookies will also collect your (anonymised) IP address. We may also install plugins which collect information about how you use and interact with our website.
When you send a message to MusicaDayz via the contact form you give permission for MusicDayz to use your information to respond to your enquiry. None of your personal information will be shared with third-parties.
Types of Information we collect
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when you accessed them. You can accept or reject cookies for our website and can visit any third-party site we may link to and control your cookies via their privacy/cookie setting pages.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Links to other websites
This privacy notice does not cover the links from this site to other websites. Other websites are not governed by this Privacy Policy, and if you have questions about how a site uses your information, you’ll need to check that site’s privacy statement.
Analytics
Who we share your data with
Your information may be accessed by members of staff and website administrators who need to respond to an enquiry via email, telephone or post, and for other specific purposes relating to our activities, for example for the purposes of providing an estimate or quote for work, or other information you request.
MusicDayz personnel and associates will not sell or rent your information to third-parties and we will not share your information with third-parties for marketing purposes without you permission. We will not contact you for marketing purposes electronically or by post if you have indicated that you do not wish to be contacted.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How we protect your data
Musicdayz.com and blog.musicdayz.com have an SSL security certificate – the standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a web server and a browser. This link ensures that all data passed between the web server and browsers remain secure and private.
The website is hosted with a third party, GDPR compliant provider on an EU based server.
What third parties we receive data
What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data
Your choices and access to your personal data
You are entitled to know what personal data that we hold and have the right to ask us to amend or delete this information at any time.
You can use the ‘unsubscribe’ link at the bottom of our newsletter emails to stop receiving email news or use the ‘update preferences’ link if you want to change the information we hold about you.
You can contact us directly to have your information removed from our records:
Contact Johnny Black to find out what data we hold about you, and to request to have your data removed.
Via email: johnny@musicdayz.com
Cookie Policy
What is a cookie?
Cookies are text files containing small amounts of information which are downloaded to your personal computer, mobile or other device when you visit a website. Cookies are then sent back to the originating website on each subsequent visit.
Cookies do several jobs, such as making navigating between pages efficient, remembering your preferences and help to improve your experience of a website.
You can find more information about cookies from the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) Website. The ICO is the body that oversees privacy and use of personal data I the UK https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public/online/cookies
Cookies used on the musicdayz.com and blog.musicayz.com
If you click to accept cookies when you visit our website, you allow us to place small cookies on your computer.
Your Browser (Edge or IE, Firefox, Google Chrome, Safari, Opera and mobile web browsers etc.) allow you to control and remove Cookies that have been stored, usually via the Settings option. Sometimes this is in the same place where you view your History. Use your Browser’s Help facility if you are unsure where you can go to delete cookies.
It is possible to switch off cookies by setting your browser preferences. Turning cookies off may result in a loss of functionality when using our website.
Types of Cookie
Strictly necessary cookies
We may use some functionality-based cookies to help the site work properly. Declining these cookies might change the way the website looks and/or behaves. These cookies are NOT used for targeted advertising.
Performance cookies
These cookies collect anonymous information about users for the purpose of assessing the performance of a website. Common uses include well-known web analytics tools such as ‘Google Analytics’. Below is information about Google Analytics cookies https://developers.google.com/analytics/devguides/collection/analyticsjs/cookie-usage
Functionality cookies
These cookies remember choices that users have made in previous visits to the website in order to improve their experience on subsequent visits. For example, where users select their preferred settings and layout.
Third party cookies
We cannot access cookies placed on your devices by third-party sites such as Facebook, Twitter or Google, nor can the third parties access the data in cookies used by our site.
For example, if you choose to ‘share’ content through Shareaholic (a plugin that is active on this site), Twitter, Facebook or other social networks you might be sent cookies from those websites. We don’t control the setting of these cookies, so you need to check those websites for their cookie information.
Video – If we embed video to this website cookies may be placed on your computer by the respective video streaming websites – find out more from the respective privacy policies: YouTube Privacy Policy & Vimeo Privacy Policy
Analytics We use a third- party service, Google Analytics, to collect standard internet log information and details of visitor behaviour patterns – view the Google Analytics privacy policy here.
Email newsletters I you sign up to receive news via email we may use the third-party provider MailChimp to deliver these to your inbox. MailChimp gathers statistics on email opening and clicks using industry standard. You can read more about MailChimp’s GDPR compliance in their guide MailChimp Guide to GDPR
Forms We may sometimes use Jotform for some of our forms. You can see their privacy policy and information about their data protection practices here https://www.jotform.com/privacy
Shareaholic – This plugin allows you to share posts and shows third-party ads that you may click. When you leave our website by clicking on and ad. you may receive cookies from third-party
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Analytics
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
How to Unsubscribe from Our Newsletters
You can unsubscribe to our mailings at any time using the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails or by contacting Johnny Black / johnny@musicdayz.com
You can update your preferences by clicking the Update Preferences link in the footer of our newsletters.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
You can Johnny Black / johnny@musicdayz.com at any time for clarification of how we use your data or to ask to be removed from our mailing list.
What happens if you post a comment on our blog?
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Comments
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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day
Managing / Removing Cookies in your Browser
Click on the link for your browser below to get information on how to manage & delete cookies in your browser.
New devices and browsing apps for mobile phones, tablets etc. are being created all the time, making it impossible to list them all here. Use the Help feature in your browser or consult the manufacture’s website for specific information about managing cookies on your device or computer.
This Policy was last updated on 29/10/2018