Privacy Policy of Southern Sound Media
Southern Sound Media is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information that applies to our services, as well as your choices about the collection and use of your information. By using our services, you understand and agree to the terms of this policy.
1. Information We Collect
We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our services, when you participate in activities on our online platform, or otherwise when you contact us.
- Personal Data You Disclose to Us: We collect personal information such as names, email addresses, phone numbers, postal addresses, and other similar contact data. For artists and other partners, this may include intellectual property details, performance rights organization affiliations, and financial information necessary for payments.
- Data from Third-Party Services: If you link, connect, or log in to our services with a third-party service (e.g., social media platforms, music distribution platforms), the third-party service may send us information such as your registration and profile information from that service.
- Automatically Collected Information: When you access or use our online platform, we may automatically collect certain information, including your IP address, device information, operating system, browser type, referring URLs, access times, and activities on our site. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security and operation of our services, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use personal information collected via our services for a variety of business purposes described below:
- To provide, operate, and maintain our services, including music production, audio mastering, artist management, and digital distribution.
- To improve, personalise, and expand our services, such as developing new sound design techniques or improving our concert promotion strategies.
- To understand and analyse how you use our services.
- To communicate with you, either directly or through one of our partners, for customer service, to provide you with updates and other information relating to the service, and for marketing and promotional purposes.
- To process your transactions and manage your financial records related to services like content licensing or royalty payments.
- To find and prevent fraud and ensure compliance with our terms and policies.
3. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with third parties only in the following situations:
- Service Providers: We may share your data with third-party vendors, consultants, and other service providers who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. Examples include payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and customer service.
- Business Transfers: We may share or transfer your information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
- Affiliates: We may share your information with our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honour this privacy policy.
- With Your Consent: We may disclose your personal information for any other purpose with your consent.
- As Required by Law: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order to comply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process, such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meet national security or law enforcement requirements).
4. Data Security
We have implemented appropriate technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our online platform is at your own risk. You should only access the services within a secure environment.
5. Your Privacy Rights
In some regions (like the European Economic Area), you have certain rights under applicable data protection laws. These may include the right to:
- Request access and obtain a copy of your personal data.
- Request rectification or erasure of your personal data.
- Restrict the processing of your personal data.
- Object to the processing of your personal data.
- Data portability.
- Withdraw your consent at any time.
To make such a request, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will consider and act upon any request in accordance with applicable data protection laws.
6. Changes To This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
7. Contact Us
If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:
Southern Sound Media
12 Foveaux Street, Suite 301
Surry Hills, NSW, 2010
Australia