Terms of Use and Privacy Policy

TaylorDavisViolin.com Terms of Use and Service:

The following terms and conditions apply to TaylorDavisViolin.com and all content, services and products available at or through the Website. The Website is owned and operated by Taylor Davis. The Website is offered subject to your acceptance without modification of all of the terms and conditions contained herein and all other operating rules, policies (including, without limitation, Taylor Davis’s Privacy Policy) and procedures that may be published from time to time on this Website.

Please read this Agreement carefully before accessing or using the Website. By accessing or using any part of the web site, you agree to become bound by the terms and conditions of this agreement. If you do not agree to all the terms and conditions of this agreement, then you may not access the Website or use any services. If these terms and conditions are considered an offer by Taylor Davis, acceptance is expressly limited to these terms. The Website is available only to individuals who are at least 13 years old, or those who have gained express legal parental or guardian consent to use this Website.

 

  1. Responsibility of Website Visitors: Taylor Davis will not be held responsible for any posted comments, images, files or their use or effects. You are responsible for taking precautions as necessary to protect yourself and your computer systems from viruses, worms, Trojan horses, and other harmful or destructive content. The Website may contain content that contains technical inaccuracies, typographical mistakes, and other errors. The Website may also contain material that violates the privacy or publicity rights, or infringes the intellectual property and other proprietary rights, of third parties, or the downloading, copying or use of which is subject to additional terms and conditions, stated or unstated. Taylor Davis disclaims any responsibility for any harm resulting from the use by visitors of the Website, or from any downloading by those visitors of any posted content.
  2. Intellectual Property: This Agreement does not transfer from Taylor Davis to you any Taylor Davis or third party intellectual property, and all right, title and interest in and to such property will remain (as between the parties) solely with Taylor Davis. Taylor Davis logos, and all other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with TaylorDavisViolin.com, or the Website are property of Taylor Davis. Other trademarks, service marks, graphics and logos used in connection with the Website may be the trademarks of other third parties. Your use of the Website grants you no right or license to reproduce or otherwise use any Taylor Davis or third-party trademarks.
  3. Copyright Information: The sheet music found on TaylorDavisViolin.com is for educational use only and may NOT be used for-profit in any way. The sheet music contained on TaylorDavisViolin.com was transcribed by Taylor Davis and when used for educational purposes, falls under “Fair Use” (Section 107, Chapter 1, Title 17 of the United States Copyright Code). The .PDF files are copyright © 2011 by Taylor Davis and may not be reused or sold in any way without expressed written consent. Taylor Davis will not be held responsible for any damages resulting in the use of this sheet music.
  4. Changes: Taylor Davis reserves the right, at its sole discretion, to modify or replace any part of this Agreement. It is your responsibility to check this Agreement periodically for changes. Your continued use of or access to the Website following the posting of any changes to this Agreement constitutes acceptance of those changes. Taylor Davis may also, in the future, offer new services and/or features through the Website. Such new features and/or services shall be subject to the terms and conditions of this Agreement.
  5. Termination: Taylor Davis may terminate your access to all or any part of the Website at any time, with or without cause, with or without notice, effective immediately. If you wish to terminate this agreement. you may simply discontinue using the Website.
  6. Disclaimer of Warranties: The Website is provided “as is”. Taylor Davis hereby disclaims all warranties of any kind, express or implied, including, without limitation, the warranties of merchantability, fitness for a particular purpose and non-infringement. Taylor Davis makes no warranty that the Website will be error free or that access thereto will be continuous or uninterrupted. You understand that you download from, or otherwise obtain content or services through, the Website at your own discretion and risk.
  7. Limitation of Liability: IN NO EVENT WILL TAYLOR DAVIS BE LIABLE WITH RESPECT TO ANY SUBJECT MATTER OF THIS AGREEMENT UNDER ANY CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE, STRICT LIABILITY, OR OTHER LEGAL OR EQUITABLE THEORY FOR: (i) ANY special, incidental, direct, indirect, punitive or consequential damages resulting from your access and use of this Website; (ii) errors, mistakes and inaccuracies of content; (iii) for interruption of use or loss or corruption of data through viruses, bugs, trojan horses, or the like, which may be transmitted or otherwise made available via the Taylor Davis Website; (iv) for any unauthorized access to or use of Taylor Davis’s secure servers and/or any and all personal information and/or financial information stored therein; (v) for any damage of any kind incurred as a result of your use of any content emailed, posted, transmitted, or otherwise made available through the Taylor Davis Website, whether based on any legal theory, contract, or warrenty, and whether or not you are advised of the possibility of such damages. The foregoing shall apply to the fullest extent prohibited by applicable law.
  8. General Warranty: You represent and warrant that (i) your use of the Website will be in strict accordance with the Taylor Davis Privacy Policy, with this Agreement and with all applicable laws and regulations (including without limitation any local laws or regulations in your country, state, city, or other governmental area, regarding online conduct and acceptable content, and including all applicable laws regarding the transmission of technical data exported from the United States or the country in which you reside) and (ii) your use of the Website will not infringe or misappropriate the intellectual property rights of any third party.
  9. Indemnification: You agree to indemnify and hold harmless Taylor Davis, its licensors, and their respective directors, officers, employees and agents from and against any and all claims and expenses, including attorneys’ fees, arising out of your use of the Website, including but not limited to your violation of this Agreement.

TaylorDavisViolin.com Privacy Policy:

The Taylor Davis Privacy Policy informs you as to how Taylor Davis and any partners treat personal information when you use TaylorDavisViolin.com. It is Taylor Davis’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating this Website.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Taylor Davis may or may not intentionally collect non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request.

Registered Account Users

Certain activities available on TaylorDavisViolin.com, such as downloading, uploading, submitting questions and posting comments, require you to have a Taylor Davis Account through a registration process. You will be asked to share your email address and provide a password. Registering for an account will allow you access to extra areas of the Taylor Davis Website, like sheet music downloads. Taylor Davis may at times record information about your behavior and usage of the Website, such as your downloads, videos you watch, and comments you make in order to better facilitate a more enjoyable user experience to visitors and registered users. Please know that any personal information should you choose to disclose on TaylorDavisViolin.com through the various methods of communication available through forums, comments and posts is made publicly available and can be acquired and used by both registered and non-registered users.

What Personal Information do we collect from website visitors and registered users of our website and app?

When placing an order or registering on our site, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your name, email address, mailing address, phone number. To sign up for our newsletter you will be required to provide an email address and a first name, and though not required, you may also optionally provide us with your last name, city, state, country, zip code and birthday.

When do we collect this personal information?

We collect this information from you when you register on our site, place an order, subscribe to our newsletter, or anywhere else you may enter this information on our site.

How do we use this personal information?

We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

  • To process and fulfill buying and selling transactions, including the shipping of physical products to the mailing address you provided during the checkout process. Your personal information will not be sold, exchanged, transferred or given to any other person or organization without your consent other than for the sole purpose of delivering a purchased product.
  • To send an order confirmation email. This email may contain download links to your purchased digital products, as well as inform you when a physical order has been shipped.
  • To respond and follow up to your customer service requests, booking inquiries, comments and questions submitted through our Contact page.
  • To send periodic emails containing news, updates, announcements, product or service information. If you no longer wish to receive emails from our site, you may unsubscribe at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe from this list” link found at the bottom of our emails.

We use the Device Information that we collect to help us screen for potential risk and fraud (in particular, your IP address), and more generally to improve and optimize our Site (for example, by generating analytics about how our customers browse and interact with the Site, and to assess the success of our marketing and advertising campaigns).

Sharing Your Personal Information 

We share your Personal Information with third parties to help us use your Personal Information, as described above. We also use Google Analytics to help us understand how our visitors use the Site.  You can read more about how Google uses your Personal Information here:  https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. You may also choose to opt-out of Google Analytics here: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

We may also share your Personal Information to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights.

As described above, we use your Personal Information to provide you with targeted advertisements or marketing communications we believe may be of interest to you.  For more information about how targeted advertising works, you can visit the Network Advertising Initiative’s (“NAI”) educational page here: http://www.networkadvertising.org/understanding-online-advertising/how-does-it-work.

You may opt out of target advertising by visiting the following sites:
Facebook – https://www.facebook.com/settings/?tab=ads
Google – https://www.google.com/settings/ads/anonymous
Bing – https://advertise.bingads.microsoft.com/en-us/resources/policies/personalized-ads

Another resource to opt out of some advertising services is the Digital Advertising Alliance’s opt-out portal here:  http://optout.aboutads.info/.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Taylor Davis discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its partners and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Taylor Davis’s behalf or to provide services available at TaylorDavisViolin.com, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those partners and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using TaylorDavisViolin.com, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Taylor Davis will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its partners and affiliated organizations, as described above, Taylor Davis only discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Taylor Davis believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Taylor Davis, third parties or the public at large.

Our website implements a variety of security measures when a user places an order enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information. We do not use Malware Scanning. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks only accessible by a limited number of people with special access in order to fulfill orders, send out newsletters, respond to customer service and other inquiries, etc. Those with special access are required to keep personal information confidential. In addition, all sensitive/credit information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology and are processed through a separate gateway provider (PayPal). Credit card information is never stored or processed on our servers.

Third-Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating TaylorDavisViolin.com, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property or safety.

As described above, non-personally identifiable visitor information may be provided to other parties for marketing, advertising, or other uses.

Email Usage

If you are a registered user of TaylorDavisViolin.com and have supplied your email address either through registration, placing an order, or signing up for the Taylor Davis Newsletter, Taylor Davis may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Taylor Davis, of which you may choose to opt-in or opt-out.  You will also receive a confirmation email when you place an order on TaylorDavisViolin.com.  Taylor Davis will primarily use the front page of this Website to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. Taylor Davis takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Are Cookies Used on Our Site?

Yes.  TaylorDavisViolin.com may use cookies to help identify and track visitors, store passwords and usernames for easier log in use, their usage of the Taylor Davis Website, and their website access preferences. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using TaylorDavisViolin.com, with the drawback that certain features of Taylor Davis’s Website may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Ads

Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Taylor Davis and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers. If you have questions regarding any advertisements on this Website, it is in your best interest to directly contact the advertisers yourself.

COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act) Compliance

The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online. Our website and products are not specifically marketed to children under the age of 13 years old.

California Online Privacy Protection Act Compliance

We have taken the necessary steps for our website to be in compliance with the CalOPPA law.

Changing Your Personal Information

Additionally as part of the CalOPPA law, you can make changes to your personal information at any time by logging into your account, or by emailing us via our Contact page requesting such changes.

Your Rights and Data, GDPR

If you are a European resident, you have the right to access the personal information we hold about you and to ask that your personal information is correct, updated or deleted from the website. If you would like to exercise this right, please contact us through the contact form at https://taylordavisviolin.com/contact/

Additionally, if you are a European resident we note that we are processing your information in order to fulfill contracts we might have with you (for example if you make an order through the Site), or otherwise to pursue our legitimate business interests listed above.  Additionally, please note that your information will be transferred outside of Europe, including to Canada and the United States.

Data Retention

When you place an order through TaylorDavisViolin.com, we will maintain your Order Information for our records unless and until you ask us to delete this information.

If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails, please follow the instructions at the bottom of any email you receive from us, unsubscribe, and you will be removed from all correspondence.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Taylor Davis may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Taylor Davis’s sole discretion. Taylor Davis encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

How to Contact Us

If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below, or by submitting a question on our Contact page:

https://taylordavisviolin.com/contact/

or to the email below:

support@taylordavisviolin.com

Last updated: 6/13/2019

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