Privacy Policy

Personal Information We May Collect

“Personal Information” is information that identifies you as an individual or relates to an identifiable person, including:

• Name
• Job title and company name
• Postal address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Bank account information
• Date of birth
• Other information contained in the Interested Parties Information (“IPI”) System developed and maintained by the Société Suisse des Auteurs (“SUISA”). More information concerning the IPI can be found at http://www.ipisystem.org.
• Other personally identifiable information about you and third parties that you may choose to disclose (including by authorizing third parties to disclose) to us and/or our third-party service providers, including by completing profile forms, completing applications, questionnaires or similar documents, communicating with customer service personnel, and otherwise interacting with us and our third-party service providers.

If you submit any Personal Information relating to other people to us or to our service providers in connection with the Services, you represent that you have the authority to do so and to permit us to use the information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

We and our service providers may collect Personal Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through the Services: We may collect Personal Information through the Services, such as when you create an account.
• Offline: We may collect Personal Information when you provide it to us offline, such as when you call our customer service.
• From Other Sources: We may receive your Personal Information from other sources, such as foreign collection societies, public databases, joint marketing partners, and other third parties.

• To respond to your inquiries and fulfill your requests.
• To send administrative information to you, such as information regarding the Services and changes to our terms, conditions, and policies.
• To send you marketing communications that we believe may be of interest to you.
• To personalize your experience on the Services by presenting products and offers tailored to you.
• For our business purposes, such as data analysis, audits, fraud monitoring and prevention, developing new products, enhancing, improving or modifying our Services, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns, and operating and expanding our business activities.

• To our service providers who provide services such as website hosting, data analysis, payment processing, information technology and related infrastructure provision, customer service, email delivery, auditing, and other services.
• To facilitate business transactions, business relationships and the resolution of disputes and other issues by, within or among us, our related legal entities, publishers, licensees and others.
• To third parties, to permit them to send you marketing communications, consistent with your choices if you have currently opted into such sharing. Information on how to modify any choice you have made regarding the receipt of marketing communications may be found in the Choices and Access section below.
• By you, on message boards, chat, profile pages, blogs, and other services to which you are able to post information and materials. Please note that any information you post or disclose through these services will become public and may be available to other users and the general public.
• To a third party in the event 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 connection with any bankruptcy or similar proceedings).

We also may use and disclose your Personal Information as we believe to be necessary or appropriate: (a) under applicable law, which may include laws outside your country of residence; (b) to respond to requests from courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, and other public and government authorities, which may include such authorities outside your country of residence; (c) to enforce our terms and conditions; and (d) to protect our rights, privacy, safety, or property, and/or that of our affiliates, you, or others.

“Other Information” is any information that does not reveal your specific identity or does not directly relate to an identifiable individual, such as:

• Browser and device information
• Information collected through cookies, pixel tags and other technologies
• Demographic information and other information provided by you
• Aggregated information

If we are required to treat Other Information as Personal Information under applicable law, then we may use it for the purposes for which we use and disclose Personal Information as detailed in this Policy.

We and our service providers may collect Other Information in a variety of ways, including:

• Through your browser or device: Certain information is collected by most browsers or automatically through your device, such as your Media Access Control (MAC) address, computer type (Windows or Macintosh), screen resolution, operating system name and version, device manufacturer and model, language, and Internet browser type and version. We use this information to ensure that the Services function properly.
• Using cookies: Our policy regarding cookies may be found in the Our Use of Cookies section below.
• Using pixel tags and other similar technologies: Pixel tags (also known as web beacons and clear GIFs) may be used in connection with some Services to, among other things, track the actions of users of the Services (including email recipients), measure the success of our marketing campaigns, and compile statistics about use of the Services and response rates.
  We do not respond to browser do-not-track signals at this time.
• Using Adobe Flash technology (including Flash Local Shared Objects (“Flash LSOs”)) and other similar technologies: We may use Flash LSOs and other technologies to, among other things, collect and store information about your use of the Services. If you do not want Flash LSOs stored on your computer, you can adjust the settings of your Flash player to block Flash LSO storage using the tools contained in the Website Storage Settings Panel. You can also control Flash LSOs by going to the Global Storage Settings Panel and following the instructions (which may include instructions that explain, for example, how to delete existing Flash LSOs (referred to as “information” on the Macromedia site), how to prevent Flash LSOs from being placed on your computer without your being asked, and (for Flash Player 8 and later) how to block Flash LSOs that are not being delivered by the operator of the page you are on at the time). Please note that setting the Flash Player to restrict or limit acceptance of Flash LSOs may reduce or impede the functionality of some Flash applications, including those used in connection with the Services.
• IP Address: Your IP address is a number that is automatically assigned to the computer that you are using by your Internet Service Provider. An IP address may be identified and logged automatically in our server log files whenever a user accesses the Services, along with the time of the visit and the page(s) that were visited. Collecting IP addresses is standard practice and is done automatically by many websites, applications and other services. We use IP addresses for purposes such as calculating usage levels, diagnosing server problems, and administering the Services. We may also derive your approximate location from your IP address.
• From you: Information such as your preferred means of communication is collected when you voluntarily provide it.
• By aggregating information: Aggregated Personal Information does not personally identify you or any other user of the Services (for example, we may aggregate Personal Information to calculate the percentage of our users who have a particular telephone area code).

We may use and disclose Other Information for any purpose, except where we are required to do otherwise under applicable law. We may combine Other Information with Personal Information. If we do, we will treat the combined information as Personal Information as long as it is combined.

We use cookies to optimize your browsing experience as you navigate through our website, including by remembering your display preferences or whether you have agreed (or not) to our use of cookies on this site.

A cookie is a small text file that a website saves on your computer or mobile device when you visit the site. It enables the website to remember your actions and preferences (such as login, language, font size and other display preferences) over a period of time, so you don’t have to keep re-entering them whenever you come back to the site or browse from one page to another.

Enabling these cookies is not strictly necessary for the website to work but it will provide you with a better browsing experience. You can delete or block these cookies, but if you do that some features of this site may not work as intended.

The cookie-related information is not used to identify you personally and the pattern data is fully under our control. These cookies are not used for any purpose other than those described here.

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. For details, see aboutcookies.org. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

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 Services link. The inclusion of a link on the Services does not imply endorsement of the linked site or service by us or by our affiliates.

We seek to use reasonable organizational, technical, and administrative measures to protect Personal Information within our organization. Unfortunately, no data transmission or storage system can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. Please also be aware that we may use third-party cloud service providers that provide hosting, data storage and other services pursuant to standard terms and conditions that may be non-negotiable; these service providers have informed us or the general public that they apply security measures they consider adequate for the protection of information within their systems, or they have a general reputation for applying such measures. If you have reason to believe that your interaction with us is no longer secure (for example, if you feel that the security of your account has been compromised), please immediately notify us in accordance with the “Contacting Us” section below.

If you no longer want to receive marketing-related emails from us on a going-forward basis, you may opt out by following the instructions contained in each such email or by submitting a request to privacypolicy@mintservices.com. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable. Please note that if you opt out of receiving marketing-related emails from us, we may still send you important administrative messages, from which you cannot opt out.

If you would like to review, correct, update, suppress, or delete Personal Information that you have previously provided to us, you may contact us by submitting a request to us by email or mail to:

Mint SUISA/SESAC Digital Services, AG
ATTN: Privacy Policy
Bellariastrasse 82
8038 Zurich
Switzerland
Email: privacypolicy@mintservices.com

In your request, please make clear what Personal Information you would like to have changed, whether you would like to have your Personal Information suppressed from our database, or otherwise let us know what limitations you would like to put on our use of your Personal Information. For your protection, we may only implement requests with respect to the Personal Information associated with the particular email address that you use to send us your request, and we may need to verify your identity before implementing your request. We will try to comply with your request as soon as reasonably practicable.

Please note that we may need to retain certain information for recordkeeping purposes and/or to complete any transactions that you began prior to requesting a change or deletion. There may also be residual information that will remain within our databases and other records, which will not be removed.

We will retain your Personal Information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.

The Services are not directed to individuals under the age of sixteen (16), and we request that they not provide Personal Information through the Services.

Your Personal Information may be stored and processed in any country where we have facilities or in which we engage service providers, and, by using the Services, you consent to the transfer of information to countries outside of your country of residence, including the United States, which may have data protection rules that are different from those of your country. In certain circumstances, courts, law enforcement agencies, regulatory agencies, or national security authorities in those other countries may be entitled to access your Personal Information.

If you are located in the European Economic Area (EEA): Some of the non-EEA countries are recognized by the European Commission as providing an adequate level of data protection according to EEA standards. The full list of these countries is available from the European Commission’s website.

Currently, we utilize the services of SESAC, Inc. for our data processing needs. SESAC, Inc., based out of and operating within the United States of America, participates in and has certified its compliance with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, to ensure adequate data protection measures are in place with respect to the data we share with SESAC, Inc. For more information about SESAC, Inc.’s participation in the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield List at https://www.privacyshield.gov/list. SESAC, Inc. is committed to subjecting all personal data received from European Union (EU) member countries and Switzerland, in reliance on the Privacy Shield Framework, to the Framework’s applicable Principles. To learn more about the Privacy Shield Framework, visit the U.S. Department of Commerce’s Privacy Shield web site at https://www.privacyshield.gov. For more information about SESAC, Inc., including reviewing its Privacy Policy, visit its website at https://www.sesac.com/.

We ask that you not send us, and you not disclose, any sensitive Personal Information (e.g., social security numbers, information related to racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religion or other beliefs, health, biometrics or genetic characteristics, criminal background, or trade union membership) on or through the Services or otherwise to us.

We may change this Privacy Policy. The “LAST UPDATED” legend at the top of this page indicates when this Privacy Policy was last revised. Any changes will become effective when we post the revised Privacy Policy on the Services. Your use of the Services following these changes means that you accept the revised Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at privacypolicy@mintservices.com, or:

Mint SUISA/SESAC Digital Services, AG
ATTN: Privacy Policy
Bellariastrasse 82
8038 Zurich
Switzerland

Because email communications are not always secure, please do not include credit card or other sensitive information in your emails to us.