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Privacy & cookie policies

PRIVACY POLICY

We take your privacy seriously and will only use your personal information you provide to contact you in relation to any questions you have about Sound Origins or if you wish to provide sounds or songs for playlists.

We are committed to protecting your privacy. Any information we collect about you is done so in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998. We do not pass your information onto any other organisations.

We will never collect sensitive information about you without your explicit consent. The information we hold will be accurate and up to date. You can check the information that we hold about you by emailing us. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct it promptly. The personal information which we hold will be held securely in accordance with our internal security policy, GDPR and the Web Trader Code. We will not transfer your information outside the EEA (European Economic Area). We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. This can include using a “cookie” which would be stored on your browser. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser settings. If you have any questions/comments about privacy, you should contact us

Information we hold about you

We may process certain special categories of information for specific and limited purposes, we will only process special categories of information where we have obtained your explicit consent or are otherwise lawfully permitted to do so. We do not obtain personal data from any source other than from you.

How we use your information

We will only use and share your information where it is necessary for us to carry out our lawful business activities. 
The way we use your data is described below:

  • To contact you to reply to specific questions you have asked
  • To contact you if you have expressed interest in adding to playlists
  • Monitor, maintain and improve traffic to the Sound Origins website

How we keep your information

By acting as an intermediary to provide you with products or services, we create records that contain your information, such as customer account records and activity records. Records can be held on a variety of media (physical or electronic) and formats

We manage our records to help us to serve our customers and to comply with legal and regulatory requirements. Records help us demonstrate that we are meeting our responsibilities and to keep as evidence of our business activities.

Retention periods for records are determined based on the applicable legal or regulatory requirements. We normally keep customer account records for the life span of any product or service that has been arranged by us in order that we can deal efficiently with any queries that you may have

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure with us and with the third parties who act on our behalf.

COOKIE POLICY

This website uses cookies to better the users experience while visiting the website. Where applicable this website uses a cookie control system allowing the user on their first visit to the website to allow or disallow the use of cookies on their computer / device. This complies with recent legislation requirements for websites to obtain explicit consent from users before leaving behind or reading files such as cookies on a user’s computer / device.

​Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computers hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors.

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. This software is provided by Google Analytics which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information. You can read Google’s privacy here for further information.

Other cookies may be stored to your computer’s hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

What are cookies?

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

What cookies are used on this website?

PHPSESSI
This is a session cookie used to preserve data across subsequent accesses. It is a temporary cookie that remains in the cookie file of your browser until you close the browser. It is mainly used to maintain your identity

Google Analytics
This is a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use and compile meaningful site traffic reports.

How to enable and disable cookies

Google Chrome

  1. Click on the ‘wrench’ icon on the browser (usually found top-right corner) to open the tools menu
  2. From the tools menu select ‘Options’
  3. Click the ‘Under the Hood’ tab from the menu on the left.
  4. In the ‘Privacy’ section, select the ‘Content settings’ button
  5. To enable cookies: select ‘Allow local data to be set’ option
  6. To disable cookies: select ‘Block all cookies’ option

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Chrome. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Chrome, refer to Google.

Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.0, 7.0, 8.0, 9.0, 10.0, 11.0

  1. Click on ‘Tools’ at the top of your browser window and select ‘Internet Options’
  2. In the options window navigate to the ‘Privacy’ tab
  3. To enable cookies: Set the slider to ‘Medium’ or below
  4. To disable cookies: Move the slider to the top to block all cookies

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Explorer. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Internet Explorer, refer to this page from Microsoft.

Mozilla Firefox

  1. Click on ‘Tools’ at the browser menu and select ‘Options’
  2. Select the Privacy panel
  3. To enable cookies: Check ‘Accept cookies for sites’
  4. To disable cookies: Uncheck at ‘Accept cookies for sites’

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Firefox. For more information, refer to Mozilla.

Opera

  1. Click on ‘Setting’ at the browser menu and select ‘Settings’
  2. Select ‘Quick Preferences’
  3. To enable cookies: check “Enable Cookies”
  4. To disable cookies: uncheck “Enable Cookies”
  5. Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Opera. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Opera, refer to Opera Software.

Safari on OSX

  1. Click on ‘Safari’ at the menu bar and select the ‘Preferences’ option
  2. Click on ‘Security’
  3. To enable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Only from site you navigate to’
  4. To disable cookies: In the ‘Accept cookies’ section select ‘Never’

Note there are various levels of cookie enablement and disablement in Safari. For more information on other cookie settings offered in Safari, refer to Apple.

All other browsers

Please look for a ‘help’ function in the browser or contact the browser provider.


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