Privacy Policy
LAST UPDATED: 10/15/19
VuHaus Corp. (“VuHaus,” “we,” or “us”) values the privacy of individuals who visit the NPR Music Live Sessions website, hosted and managed by VuHaus at https://livesessions.npr.org (the “Service”). This Privacy Policy (“Privacy Policy”) is designed to explain how we collect, use, and share information provided by and collected from users of the Service. This Privacy Policy is incorporated by reference into our Terms of Service. By using the Service, you agree to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. Capitalized terms not defined in this Privacy Policy have the meaning given to them in the Terms of Service.
NPR Music Live Sessions is a music video distribution platform hosted and managed by VuHaus, and supported by National Public Radio, Inc. (“NPR”), that allows Users to browse and stream music content (including live streams, music performance videos and interviews) from participating public radio stations. This Privacy Policy applies only to the Service and does not govern NPR.org or the websites, applications, newsletters, platforms or other services of NPR or its Member stations.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
Information You Provide Us
If you contact us directly, we may receive information about you. For example, when you email us, we will receive your email address, the contents of a message or attachments that you may send to us, and any other information you choose to provide.
Information We Collect Automatically From Your Use of the Service
When you use our Service, we may collect information from you through automated means, such as cookies, web beacons, and web server logs. By using the Service, you consent to the placement of cookies, beacons, and similar technologies in your browser and on emails in accordance with this Privacy Policy. The information collected in this manner includes IP address, browser characteristics, device IDs and characteristics, operating system version, language preferences, referring URLs, and information about the usage of our Service. We use your IP address to derive your approximate location.
We also work with analytics providers such as Google Analytics, which use cookies and similar technologies to collect and analyze information about use of the Service and report on activities and trends. These Services may also collect information regarding the use of other Services, apps and online resources. You can learn about Google’s practices by going to https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners/, and opt out of them by downloading the Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on, available at https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
We may use this information, for example, to ensure that the Service functions properly, to determine how many users have visited certain pages or opened messages, or to prevent fraud. If you do not want information collected through the use of cookies, there is a procedure in most browsers that allows you to automatically decline cookies or be given the choice of declining or accepting the transfer to your computer of a particular cookie (or cookies) from a particular site. You may also wish to refer to http://www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies/index.html. If, however, you do not accept cookies, you may experience some inconvenience in your use of the Service.
HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION
We may use the information we collect:
- To operate, maintain, enhance, and provide features of the Service, to provide Services and information that you request, to respond to comments and questions, and otherwise to provide support to users.
- To understand and analyze the usage trends and preferences of our users, to improve the Service, and to develop new products, Services, features, and functionality.
- To contact you for administrative, informational, and marketing purposes, including by providing customer Service or sending communications, including changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
- We may aggregate data collected through the Service and may use and disclose for any purpose aggregated data that doesn’t identify individual users.
- For our business purposes, such as audits, security, compliance with applicable laws and regulations, fraud monitoring and prevention.
- To enforce our Terms of Service or other legal rights.
- For other purposes described at the point of collection, or for which we otherwise have obtained your consent.
HOW WE SHARE YOUR INFORMATION
We disclose information that we collect through the Service to third parties in the following circumstances:
- To our third party service providers who provide services such as service hosting, data analysis, customer service, email delivery, auditing, advertising and sponsorship services, and other services, for the purpose of providing such services.
- To a potential or actual acquirer, successor, or assignee as part of any reorganization, merger, sale, joint venture, assignment, transfer or other disposition of all or any portion of our business, assets or stock (including in bankruptcy or similar proceedings).
- If required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is appropriate: (a) under applicable law, including laws outside your country of residence; (b) to comply with legal process; (c) to respond to requests from public and government authorities, including public and government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) to enforce our terms and conditions; (e) to protect our operations or those of the public radio stations that provide content for the Service, NPR, or any of our respective affiliates; (f) to protect our rights, privacy, safety or property, and/or that of the public radio stations that provide content for the Service, NPR, or any of our respective affiliates, you or others; and (g) to allow us to pursue available remedies or limit the damages that we may sustain.
Subject to the choices you have to control certain collection and uses of information as described in this Privacy Policy, we also may share, in accordance with applicable law, aggregated or other information we collect that does not directly identify you or the devices you use to access the Services with NPR and the public radio stations that provide content for the Service so that we and they can work to improve the Service, provide you with content, understand trends and content performance, and understand general audience characteristics such as age and location.
THIRD PARTY SERVICES
We may display third-party content on the Service. Third-party content may use cookies, web beacons, or other mechanisms for obtaining data in connection with your viewing of and/or interacting with the third-party content on the Service. This Privacy Policy does not address, and we are not responsible for, the privacy, information or other practices of any third parties, including any third party operating any site or Service to which the Service links. The inclusion of a link on the Service does not imply endorsement of the linked site or Service by us or by our affiliates.
SECURITY
We use certain physical, organizational, and technical safeguards that are designed to maintain the integrity and security of information that we collect. Please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable and thus we cannot and do not guarantee the security of your data.
YOUR CHOICES
You may, of course, decline to share certain information with us, in which case we may not be able to provide to you some of the features and functionality of the Service. From time to time, we send marketing e-mail messages to our users. If you no longer want to receive such emails from us on a going forward basis, then you may opt-out via the “unsubscribe” link provided in each such email.
USE OF SERVICE BY MINORS
The Service is not intended for children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect information online from children under the age of 13. If VuHaus becomes aware that any person submitting information to the Service is under the age of 13, we will promptly take steps to delete the information. If you become aware that your child or any child under your care has provided us with information without your consent, please contact us at the contact information listed below.
INTERNATIONAL CROSS-BORDER DATA TRANSFER
Our Service is hosted in the United States, is intended for visitors located within the United States, and is not directed at users outside of the United States. If you choose to use our Services from the European Union or other regions of the world with laws governing data collection and use that may differ from U.S. law, then please note that you are transferring your personal information outside of those regions to the United States for storage and processing. Also, we may transfer your data from the U.S. to other countries or regions in connection with the storage and processing of data, fulfilling your requests, and operating the Services. By providing any information, including personal information, on or to the Services, you consent to such transfer, storage, and processing.
UPDATES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may make changes to this Privacy Policy. The “Last Updated” date at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. If we make material changes, we may notify you through the Service or by sending you an email or other communication. We encourage you to read this Privacy Policy periodically to stay up-to-date about our privacy practices. Your use of the Service following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us by email at info@vuhaus.com or by writing us at:
VuHaus Corp.
5277 Manhattan Circle, Suite 210
Boulder, CO 80303