This Privacy Policy (referred to herein as ‘Policy’) has been created to inform you about how we deal with privacy concerns at Empty Sea Audio, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) which operates https://www.empty-sea.com (the “Site”.) Your privacy is very important to us and for that reason, you must agree to the terms of this Policy before using our website.

This Policy governs all of the information that we collect about you and how we use the collected information. By accepting this Policy, you consent to our use of your personal information in the manner outlined within this Policy. You acknowledge this Policy by using the Site.

 

INFORMATION COLLECTION

The only reason we collection personal data about you is to provide you with a better experience while browsing and buying sound libraries from our store. We only collect personal data about you that we consider necessary for this purpose and to achieve this goal. You are under no obligation to provide us with any information unless you want to make a purchase. Some information is collected automatically which is not purchase specific – those details can be found below.

When you visit this website, we can record certain information in relation to your visit such as:

  • Your IP or proxy server IP;
  • Basic domain information;
  • Your Internet service provider is sometimes captured
  • The date and time of your visit to the website;
  • The length of your session;
  • The pages which you have accessed;
  • The number of times you access our site within any month;
  • The size of file you look at;
  • The website which referred you to our website; and
  • The operating system which your computer uses.

Various pages on this Site also invite you to provide us with your name and contact details, for example, to be added to our mailing list for our newsletter or to enter competitions.

The Site uses session cookies, which are used only during a browsing session, and expire when you quit your browser. Upon closing your browser, the session cookie set by this Site is destroyed and no personal information is maintained which might identify you should you visit our Site at a later date.

If you leave a comment or create an account 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.

If you choose to buy sound effect libraries using this Site, we collect information about your buying behavior. This information is only used for statistical and website development purposes.

We also collect information from people who use this site, to send news, information about our activities and general promotional material which we believe may be useful to you or us;
to monitor who is accessing the Site and to profile the type of people accessing the Site.

If you use a payment facilitator (Paypal, Stripe, etc…) on the Site, we may collect additional necessary information, including but not limited to billing address, Country of origin and Phone number. No credit card details are ever stored.

 

USE OF INFORMATION AND DISCLOSURE

We only use the collected information for the following purposes:

  • Forwarding important information relating to Empty Sea Audio, LLC and other requested information;
  • Contacting you in response to your feedback or query;
  • Monitoring Site performance;
  • Improving our Site and services to you;
  • Internal administration; and
  • Other purposes that are in accordance with your instructions.

We do not store credit card details nor do we share financial details with any 3rd parties. Empty Sea Audio, LLC will not give, sell, trade or otherwise disclose any personal information about you to a third party unless we are required to do so under European law.

 

COOKIES AND ADVERTISING

Occasionally, we may use third party advertising companies to serve ads based on prior visits to the Site. These advertising companies use cookies to anonymously collect data. No personally identifiable information is collected by these cookies. The anonymous data they collect is kept separate from the personal information in your account. You can opt out of third party advertising cookies at any time.

We use third party analytics services that use cookies to record general site usage information – like page visits and the way users move between pages on the Site. This general site analytics information is not matched to your user account. Other cookies are used to enhance your use of the Site, such as remembering that you are logged in. You are able to minimise or block cookies using the privacy settings in your internet browser, but this may restrict your use of the Site. For general information on cookies, see https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

YouTube

Our website uses plugins from YouTube, which is operated by Google. The operator of the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed about which of our pages you have visited.

If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your YouTube account.

YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

Further information about handling user data, can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.

Vimeo

Our website uses features provided by the Vimeo video portal. This service is provided by Vimeo Inc., 555 West 18th Street, New York, New York 10011, USA.

If you visit one of our pages featuring a Vimeo plugin, a connection to the Vimeo servers is established. Here the Vimeo server is informed about which of our pages you have visited. In addition, Vimeo will receive your IP address. This also applies if you are not logged in to Vimeo when you visit our plugin or do not have a Vimeo account. The information is transmitted to a Vimeo server in the US, where it is stored.

If you are logged in to your Vimeo account, Vimeo allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Vimeo account.

For more information on how to handle user data, please refer to the Vimeo Privacy Policy at https://vimeo.com/privacy.

Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page, your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly.

For this purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes aware that our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a uniform and attractive presentation of our plugin. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) DSGVO.

If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.

Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.

SoundCloud

On our pages, plugins of the SoundCloud social network (SoundCloud Limited, Berners House, 47-48 Berners Street, London W1T 3NF, UK) may be integrated. The SoundCloud plugins can be recognized by the SoundCloud logo on our site.

When you visit our site, a direct connection between your browser and the SoundCloud server is established via the plugin. This enables SoundCloud to receive information that you have visited our site from your IP address. If you click on the “Like” or “Share” buttons while you are logged into your SoundCloud account, you can link the content of our pages to your SoundCloud profile. This means that SoundCloud can associate visits to our pages with your user account. We would like to point out that, as the provider of these pages, we have no knowledge of the content of the data transmitted or how it will be used by SoundCloud. For more information on SoundCloud’s privacy policy, please go to https://soundcloud.com/pages/privacy.

If you do not want SoundCloud to associate your visit to our site with your SoundCloud account, please log out of your SoundCloud account.

DISCLAIMER

This Site contains some links to other sites. Empty Sea Audio, LLC is not responsible for the privacy practices of linked sites, or the content. Underlined words and phrases are click-through links or hyperlinks to pages and websites.

 

SECURITY

This Site has security measures in place to protect the loss or misuse of, or alteration or unauthorised access to, information under our control. However, if you send information from this Site, it will not be encrypted unless we expressly tell you it is.

 

AMENDMENTS TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

We may change this Policy. Such changes will be effective when a notice of the change is made available on the Site. We will provide you with thirty (30) days notice to allow you the opportunity to notify Empty Sea Audio, LLC if you do not agree to such changes.

 

INTERNATIONAL TRANSFER OF INFORMATION

Empty Sea Audio, LLC uses Amazon S3 for storage & serving, thus meaning the information collected from you will be stored in these countries. By voluntarily providing information to us when using the Site, you are consenting to the collection and use of your personal information by us.

 

FURTHER INFORMATION

For further information about Empty Sea Audio, LLC’s privacy policy, please contact us directly.