Last Update: 21.03.2024
This Privacy Policy explains how we (as defined below) collect, use and disclose your information (which may include personal data, as defined in data protection law) when you use the MusicBash application (“Site”). Please read the following carefully to understand our practices regarding your information and how we will treat it.
Please click on the sections below to learn more about our Privacy Policy:
WHO WE ARE
Universal Music GmbH (“We”, “us” or “our”) decides on the purpose and the means of the processing of your personal data and is therefore the “Controller” for the processing of personal data under applicable data protection law. We may share your personal data with our affiliate UMG Recordings Services Inc, of 2220 Colorado Avenue, Santa Monica, California, USA (“UMG”) as an independent data controller under applicable data protection law.
Each of Universal Music GmbH and UMG separately declare this Privacy Policy to you (and, where applicable, references in this Privacy Policy to UMG or “we”, “us” or “our” will be deemed to be references to both Controllers for such purpose).
As used in this Privacy Policy, the term “our affiliates” includes all entities we control, are controlled by or are under common control with, including subsidiaries, joint ventures or other entities in whom we have a substantial ownership interest.
Personal information is information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify you. Personal information also includes anonymous information that is linked to information that can be used to directly or indirectly identify you. Personal information does not include information that has been irreversibly anonymized or aggregated so that it can no longer enable us, whether in combination with other information or otherwise, to identify you.
Here is a description of the types of personal information we may collect:
Depending on the services and products you use, we collect the following data from or about you.
We collect personal information you give us when you use our Site, register on our Site, subscribe to a service, place an order, participate in a contest, participate in discussion boards or other social media functions, contact us, interact with us at in-person events, or otherwise interact with us.
The information you provide us may include your name; address; e-mail address; phone number; date of birth; payment information (such as credit or debit card information, other account and authentication information as well as billing, shipping and contact details); personal description; photographs, videos, audios or images or comments.
Information about your use of our Site
We may collect information when you visit our Site.
The information we collect may include the type of device you use; your device’s unique identifier; mobile network information, including phone number; the IP-address; browser type and version; browser plug-in types and versions; operating system; hardware version; device locations (including specific geographic locations, such as through GPS, Bluetooth or WiFi signals); login information; time zone setting; language; usage information, including the full URL clickstream to, through and from our websites, including date and time; diagnostic and browsing information, including pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page; file attributes, (such as attributes for photos, videos, music, and documents); location information from or about the computers, phones or other devices on which you access our Site. Some of this information we may collect automatically.
Information from third parties
We also work with third parties (including, for example, business partners, sub-contractors in technical, payment and delivery services, advertising networks, analytics providers, social networks such as Facebook and Twitter, search information providers, credit reference agencies, third parties who enable sign on functionality and social network integration) and may receive information about you from them.
If you choose to use features on our websites or other services or products that connect to your online profiles, accounts or services (including social media accounts) (“Connected Accounts”), we may collect any information that you permit through your settings on those Connected Accounts. For example, if you log in to our site using your Facebook account and choose to allow Facebook to share your profile with us, we may collect that information. Information we receive from Connected Accounts includes email address, first and last name, location (hometown and country), gender, date of birth, likes, posts or other social activity. Please review your Connected Account privacy settings to control what information is provided to us through this option.
Please also read section “Social Connect” below for more information about the connection with certain Social Connect partners.
COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to distinguish you from other users, to provide, protect, and improve our services and products, including to provide you with a good experience (such as by personalizing content, offering and measuring advertisements, understanding user behavior), and providing a safer experience.
For detailed information on the cookies and other technologies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookies Policy below.
Some of the content, advertising and functionality on our Site may be provided by third parties that are not affiliated with us. For example, you may have the opportunity to log in to our Site using sign-in services such as Facebook Connect or an Open ID provider. These services will authenticate your identity and provide you the option to share certain personal data with us. Services like Facebook Connect give you the option to post information about your activities on this Site to your profile page to share with others within your network.
Third-party advertisers also may have a presence on our Sites. These and other third parties may collect or receive certain information about your use of our Sites, including through the use of cookies and other Internet technologies, and this information may be collected over time and combined with information collected across different websites and online services.
SOCIAL CONNECT
‘Social Connect’ means the connection of your account at Spotify, Deezer or AppleMusic with our the application at Spotify, Deezer or AppleMusic. When you login with Social Connect, we may collect your data from the respective Social Connect partner. Depending on the individual case, the partner may be Spotify, Deezer, or similar. However, at no time will we receive access to your login data of the respective service.
You may disconnect your Spotify account from our service at any time. To do this, open www.spotify.com. There you will find the ‘Apps’ section, and within that section, you will find the app ‘Universal Music’. You can disconnect by clicking on the button ‘Remove Access’ (
https://www.spotify.com/account/apps/).
You may disconnect your Deezer account from our service at any time. To do this, open
www.deezer.com. There you will find the ‘Apps’ section, and within that section, you will find the app ‘Universal Music’. You can disconnect by clicking on the button ‘Remove Access’ (
https://www.deezer.com/account/apps).
When you login with your Apple Music account, we do not collect any personal data from AppleMusic about you.
Generally speaking, we use personal information to provide, improve, and develop our products and services, to communicate with you, to offer you targeted advertisements and services, and to protect us and our users.
We collect, process, and determine how to process your personal information for the following purposes:
We may use your information to respond to your queries.
Subject to your express consent, we may use your information to send you or share your information with our affiliates for them to send you direct marketing communications with information on relevant Universal Music artists. We may make suggestions and recommendations about goods or services that may interest you and provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about other goods and services we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about or that we feel may interest you, based on our legitimate interest in offering you direct marketing, services and products and for business continuity.
To provide you with our services and products and improve them
We may use your information to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us. We may use your information to allow you to interact with our websites, apps and other services or products, for example by posting comments or to share information from our Site on third party social media platforms.
When you participate in a contest, sweepstake or giveaway, we may use your information to carry out those programs because this processing is necessary for the performance of a contract (contest, etc.) to which you are a party or in order to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract (contest, etc.). Where part of such program, we may use your information to create and release music and other promotional videos or parts of it on our channels or concerts or gigs of our artists or release your name as a winner of such program, subject to your prior express consent, where necessary. Some of these activities have additional rules, which may contain further information about how we use personal information, so we encourage you to read those rules carefully before participating.
We may use your information to administer our websites, apps and other services and products, to improve them to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer, as well as for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes. Such processing is based on our legitimate interest in offering you direct marketing, services and products and for business continuity.
To provide and measure targeted advertisement and services
Subject to your prior express consent, we may measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, track the progress and number of entries in competitions and promotions, and deliver relevant advertising to you, as well as provide or permit third parties to provide targeted advertising via websites you visit about goods or services that you may find interesting (see more on this in our Cookies Policy below.
Subject to your prior express consent(s) we or the independent data controllers we share your data with may share your data with one or more of the following platforms to perform an overlap analysis between social network user data with your data and the creation of a source audience for advertising purposes. Your data may thereby also be processed outside the territory of the European Union. This could present a risk for your data because it may be more difficult for you to exercise your rights.
You may withdraw your consent to the building of such custom audiences any time in the privacy preferences which you find in the settings of the Site.
To promote safety and security and comply with regulatory requirements
We may use your information to where necessary to comply with legal and regulatory requirements and, based on our legitimate interests, as part of our efforts to keep our Site safe and secure.
Based on our legitimate interest, we may combine information we receive from other sources with information you give to us and information we collect about you (including information in relation to your devices). We may use this combined information for the purposes set out above.
Where any of the uses of your information requires your prior express consent, note that you may withdraw your consent by contacting us as set out in the ‘Contact Us’ section below. In the context of direct marketing communication, you also may unsubscribe via opting out via the respective opt-out mechanism, such as an unsubscribe-button in a marketing-email.
We may share your personal data with the following affiliates who each act as an independent data controller:
- Universal Music Operations Limited, 4 Pancras Square, London, N1C 4AG United Kingdom. See Privacy Policy here.
- Universal Music AB, Banérgatan 16, 115 23 Stockholm Sweden. See Privacy Policy here.
- Universal Music BV, PO Box 1908,1200 BX Hilversum. See Privacy Policy here.
- Universal Music Investments, Inc., 2220 Colorado Ave, Santa Monica, CA 90404. See Privacy Policy here.
- Universal Music France, 20, rue des Fossés Saint jacques, 75005 PARIS 5. See Privacy Policy here.
- Universal Music GmbH, PRIME TOWER – Hardstrasse 201, 8005 Zürich, Switzerland. See Privacy Policy here.
We may share your personal data with any UMG Company, listed
here, and with selected third parties including:
- Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors for the performance of any contract we enter into with them or you in order to provide you with a product or service;
- To share your information with artist management or similar business partners (e.g. concert agency of artist);
- To manage your access to the Site or notify you about changes to the Site;
- Business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors to provide you with information about promotions and offers;
- Relevant Universal Music artists and/or their representatives;
- Subject to your consent which may be required according to the applicable data protection law, advertisers, advertising networks and social networks that require the data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others. We may also use aggregate and other information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target. We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience;
- Analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimization of our Site;
- Third parties when you consent to or request such sharing or where such sharing may be based on our prevailing legitimate interests.
We may disclose your personal data to third parties:
- In the event that we sell or buy any business or assets, in which case we may disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets;
- If the UMG Company that controls this Site or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets;
- If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply any of our applicable terms of use and other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of us or our affiliates, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction;
- To any other third party where lawful.
STORAGE AND TRANSFER OF DATA
All the information you provide may be processed and stored, transferred or accessed by entities around the world as described in this policy. We will take steps to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy. We have put in place technical and organizational procedures designed to safeguard the information we collected on this Site.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our Site; any transmission is at your own risk.
CHILDREN
This Site is not directed toward children (as defined by local law) nor does UMG knowingly collect information from children (as defined by local law) without parental consent except where in compliance with applicable laws.
YOUR RIGHTS
You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to object to or request the restriction of processing of your personal data, and to request access to, rectification, erasure, and portability of your own personal data by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section below. We may require you to prove your identity with approved identification if you request this information.
You may also be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority if you consider that our processing of your personal data infringes applicable law.
You are responsible for keeping your information current and up-to-date. You may update your information by contacting us as described in the “
Contact” section below.
We will retain your information for as long as your account is active or as needed to provide you services. We will retain and use your information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.
YOUR CALIFORNIA PRIVACY RIGHTS
California residents may opt out of having their personally identifiable information shared with third parties for those third parties' direct marketing purposes by contacting us as described in the “Contact” section below.
Some web browsers may transmit “do-not-track” signals to the websites and other online services with which a user communicates. There is no industry standard that governs what, if anything, websites should do when they receive these signals. UMG currently does not take action in response to these signals.
LINKS TO THIRD PARTY WEBSITES
Our Site, our newsletters and other communications may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any material changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page prior to the change becoming effective and/or we will notify you through the Site or, where appropriate, by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to our privacy policy.
USERS IN THE EUROPEAN ECONOMIC AREA
This section of this Privacy Policy applies only if you use the Site from a country that is a Member State of the European Economic Area and supplements the information in this Privacy Policy.
Legal Basis for Data Processing
We process personal data for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, as described above.
Our legal basis to process personal data includes processing that is: necessary for the performance of the contract between you and us (for example, to provide you with the services you request and to identify and authenticate you so you may use the Site); necessary to comply with legal requirements (for example, to comply with applicable accounting rules and to make mandatory disclosures to law enforcement); necessary for our legitimate interests (for example, to manage our relationship with you and to improve the Site); and based on consent by our customers (for example, to communicate with you about our products and services and provide you with marketing information), which may subsequently be withdrawn at any time (by using preference settings in emails or on our Sites,
using this form, or emailing us as set out in the Contact section) without affecting the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
We may use automated decision making technologies, including profiling, to support our data processing activities. Our automated decision making capabilities include logic that attempts to identify artists, music, communications, products, or offers that we believe may interest you. By using this logic, it helps us personalize your interactions with UMG and UMG artists. For you, this means that you may see online advertisements, direct marketing communications (if you have subscribed), or other advertising or marketing messages or special offers based on your activity on our Sites or interactions with us or our affiliates, or our third party partners.
In some instances, you may be required to provide us with personal data for processing as described above, in order for us to be able to provide you to use all the features of the Site.
International transfers
Our sharing your personal data in accordance with this Privacy Policy, may involve transferring your data outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring, where required by law, at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:
- transferring personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission;
- using specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal data the same protection it has in Europe; or
You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to request a copy of relevant safeguards by contacting UMG as described in the “
Contact” section.
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed by
clicking here, or by mail at the relevant address specified above.
You may contact the global Data Protection Officer by
clicking here, the German Data Protection Officer may be contacted
here.
For questions, comments or requests not related to this Privacy Policy please see
this FAQ on how to contact us.
COOKIES POLICY
Our Site uses cookies and other similar technologies (as described below) to distinguish you from other users of our Site. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our Site, allows us to improve our Site and provide you with tailored content and advertising.
A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer if you agree. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.
You can find more information about the types of cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them in the table below:
| Type of Cookie | Purpose of Cookie |
| Strictly Necessary | These cookies are essential in order to enable you to browse our Site and use its features. The information collected by these cookies relate to the operation of our Site, for example website scripting language and security tokens to maintain secure areas of our Site. |
| Performance / Analytics | These cookies collect anonymous information about how you use our Site, for example which pages you visit most often, whether you receive any error messages, and how you arrived at our Site. Information collected by these cookies is used only to improve your use of our Site and never to identify you. These cookies are sometimes placed by third-party providers of web traffic analysis services, such as Google Analytics |
| Functionality | These cookies remember choices you make, for example the country you visit our Site from, your language and any changes you have made to text size or other parts of web pages that you can customise, in order to improve your experience of our Site and to make your visits more tailored and enjoyable. The information these cookies collect may be anonymised and cannot be used to track your browsing activity on other websites. |
| Targeting or Advertising | These cookies collect information about your browsing habits and inferred interests in order to make advertising more relevant to you. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert, as well as to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These cookies are usually placed by third-party advertising networks. They remember the other websites that you visit and this information is shared with third-party organisations, for example advertisers. |
| Social Media | These cookies allow you to share what you’ve been doing on our Site with social media organisations such as Facebook and Twitter. These cookies are not within our control. Please refer to the privacy policies of these organisations for how their cookies work. |
Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.
We may use cookies:
(i) to collect anonymised data on users behaviour on the site. We may also capture what site a user has come from and what site they go to and also some demographic data (e.g. the user’s location) and we may use that daa to analyse user behaviour across multiple sites;
(ii) to categorise pools of users (on an anonymised basis) based on demographic and/or behavioural data and use this to, (1) target our advertising to cookie-ed users on third party websites and Universal Music websites, and (2) use that data to allow targeted third party advertising to categorised cookie-ed users either in respect of advertising placement UMG has bought/placed and targeted to users on behalf of third parties or in respect of advertising bought/placed by third parties and targeted to cookie pools UMG has “sold” to these third parties.
Some of our Sites may use Google AdSense to publish advertisements, including information about your demographics and interests. When you view or click on an advertisement a cookie will be set to help better provide advertisements that may be of interest to you on this and other websites. You may opt-out of the use of this cookie by visiting Google’s Advertising and Privacy page:
http://www.google.com/privacy_ads.html.
Most internet browsers are automatically set up to accept cookies. However, if you want to refuse or delete any cookies (or similar technologies), please refer to the help and support area on your internet browser for instructions on how to block or delete cookies. Please note you may not be able to take advantage of all the features of our Site, including certain personalised features, if you delete or disable cookies.
Web Beacons
We, or our third party partners, may employ a software technology called web beacons (also known as web bugs, clear gifs or pixels) which helps us understand what content is effective, for example by counting the number of users who have visited these pages, and to understand usage patterns. Web beacons are tiny graphics with a unique identifier, similar in function to cookies, and are used to let us know when content is viewed. In contrast to cookies, which are stored on a user’s computer hard drive, web beacons are embedded on web pages, ads, and e-mail. We, or our third party partners, may tie the information gathered by web beacons to the other information we collect about you.