Effective date: January 1, 2023
The Music Syndicate, LLC (“us”, “we”, or “our”) operates the www.thesyn.com website (the “Service”). This page informs you of our policies regarding the collection, use, and disclosure of personal data when you use our Service and the choices you have associated with that data.
This policy intends to comply with both the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) standards and California Privacy Protection Rights with respect to the information gathered through our website and any related subdomains used by the Music Syndicate, LLC. By using the Music Syndicate, LLC.’s website, you are agreeing to be bound by this Policy. If you are not satisfied with or do not agree with our Privacy Policy, you should not use our Website.
We use your data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Unless otherwise defined in this Privacy Policy, terms used in this Privacy Policy have the same meanings as in our Terms and Conditions.
Service means www.thesyn.com website operated by The Music Syndicate, LLC
Personal Data means data about a living individual who can be identified from those data (or from those and other information either in our possession or likely to come into our possession).
Usage Data is data collected automatically either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Cookies are small pieces of data stored on your device (computer or mobile device).
Data Controller means the natural or legal person who (either alone or jointly or in common with other persons) determines the purposes for which and the manner in which any personal information are, or are to be, processed.
For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, we are a Data Controller of your Personal Data.
Data Processor (or Service Provider) means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Data Controller.
We may use the services of various Service Providers in order to process your data more effectively.
Data Subject is any living individual who is using our Service and is the subject of Personal Data.
We collect several different types of information for various purposes to provide and improve our Service to you.
Types of Data Collected:
While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you (“Personal Data”). Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
We may use your Personal Data to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials and other information that may be of interest to you. You may opt out of receiving any, or all, of these communications from us by following the unsubscribe link or instructions provided in any email we send or by contacting us.
We may also collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Service or when you access the Service by or through a mobile device (“Usage Data”).This Usage Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Service by or through a mobile device, this Usage Data may include information such as the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser you use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may use and store information about your location if you give us permission to do so (“Location Data”). We use this data to provide features of our Service, to improve and customize our Service. You can enable or disable location services when you use our Service at any time, through your device settings.
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our Service and hold certain information. Cookies are files with small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Tracking technologies also used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze our Service.
You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service.
Examples of Cookies we use:
The Music Syndicate, LLC uses the collected data for various purposes:
If you are from the European Economic Area (EEA), The Music Syndicate, LLC legal basis for collecting and using the personal information described in this Privacy Policy depends on the Personal Data we collect and the specific context in which we collect it.
The Music Syndicate, LLC may process your Personal Data because:
The Music Syndicate, LLC will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Music Syndicate, LLC will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of our Service, or we are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Your information, including Personal Data, may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from your jurisdiction.
If you are located outside United States and choose to provide information to us, please note that we transfer the data, including Personal Data, to United States and process it there.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by your submission of such information represents your agreement to that transfer.
The Music Syndicate, LLC will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of your data and other personal information.
If The Music Syndicate, LLC is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Disclosure for Law Enforcement or Other Government Agency
Under certain circumstances, The Music Syndicate, LLC may be required to disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
The Music Syndicate, LLC may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
To comply with a legal obligation
In such cases, we may raise or waive any legal objection or right available to us.
We have implemented commercially reasonable technical and organizational procedures measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and unauthorized access, use, alteration or disclosure such as firewalls and encryption. In addition, we limit access to your information by employees, agents, contractors, suppliers and authorized third parties who have a business need to know. All are subject to a duty of confidentiality, and they will process your information only upon our instructions. We have also put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach as required by law or regulation. Finally, please note that the internet is an open system and even with safeguards, we cannot and do not guarantee or warrant the security of any information that you transmit on or through our Website and any transmission of your information is at your own risk.
We do not support Do Not Track (“DNT”). Do Not Track is a preference you can set in your web browser to inform websites that you do not want to be tracked.
You can enable or disable Do Not Track by visiting the Preferences or Settings page of your web browser.
Your Data Protection Rights Under General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
We may employ third party companies and individuals to facilitate our Service (“Service Providers”), to provide the Service on our behalf, to perform Service-related services or to assist us in analyzing how our Service is used.
These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
Any third parties to whom we may disclose personal information may have their own privacy policies which describe how they use and disclose personal information. Those policies will govern use, handling and disclosure of your personal information once we have shared it with those third parties as described in this Privacy Policy. If you want to learn more about their privacy practices, we encourage you to visit the websites of those third parties. These entities or their servers may be located either inside or outside the United States.
We may use third-party Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service.
Google Analytics is a web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our Service. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.
For more information on the privacy practices of Google, please visit the Google Privacy & Terms web page: http://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/
We may use third-party Service Providers to show advertisements to you to help support and maintain our Service.
We may allow third-parties to display advertisements on our site. These companies may use tracking technologies, such as cookies, to collect information about users who view or interact with their advertisements. Our website does not provide any personal information to these third parties, but they may collect information about where you, or others who are using your computer, saw and/or clicked on the advertisements they deliver, and possibly associate this information with your subsequent visits to the advertised websites. Some of these third-party advertising companies may be advertising networks that are members of the Network Advertising Initiative, which offers a single location to opt out of ad targeting from member companies (www.networkadvertising.org). We also recommend that you consult the third-party privacy policies
Google AdSense & DoubleClick Cookie
Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our Service. Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our Service or other websites on the Internet.
You may opt out of the use of the DoubleClick Cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting the Google Ads Settings web page: http://www.google.com/ads/preferences/
We strive to comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act and the EU General Data Protection Regulation. Our Sites and Services are not directed to children under the age of 13 (if you are located in the United States) and under the age of 16 (if you are located outside the United States). We do not knowingly collect information, including personal information from children or other individuals who are not legally able to use our Sites and/or Services. If you are under the applicable ages listed above, please do not provide any personal information to us. If we obtain actual knowledge that we have collected personal information from someone under the applicable age listed above, we will promptly delete it, unless we are legally obligated to retain such data.
If you believe that we have mistakenly or unintentionally collected information from someone under the applicable age listed above, please contact us online or via the contact information set forth in Section 15 below. For users in the United States, please also visit https://www.consumer.ftc.gov/** for information from the Federal Trade Commission about protecting children’s privacy online. You may also visit **www.OnGuardOnline.gov for social networking safety tips for parents and youth.
We access, retain, store and use personal information for the least amount of time necessary pursuant to our relationship with you (e.g., to provide you with or access to our products and services), in accordance with our data retention policies and applicable law. We do not collect more personal information than is necessary to fulfill our obligations to you or at law or for purposes stated in this Privacy Policy. Please be aware that even after you cancel your User Account, copies of certain information from your User Account may remain viewable under certain circumstances. For fraud detection or to comply with applicable law or our internal security policies, we may also retain backup information related to your User Account on our servers for some time after cancelation. Further, you acknowledge that it is not always possible to completely remove or delete all of your information due to technical constraints, contractual, financial or legal requirements.
If you are a resident of the State of California, we provide you with information above on how to exercise your choice options such as your right to opt-out or opt-in for use of your personal information by third parties for marketing purposes. Therefore, pursuant to the California Civil Code, we are not required to maintain or disclose a list of the third parties that received your personal information for marketing purposes during the preceding year. If you are a California resident and wish to request information about how to exercise your third-party disclosure choices or other rights afforded under the law of the State of California, please contact us via our online contact us online or via the contact information set forth in Section 15 below. All requests must be labeled “Your California Privacy Rights” in the topic line or on the envelope or post card. For all requests, please clearly state that the request is related to “Your California Privacy Rights,” include your name, street address, city, state, zip code and e-mail address (your street address is optional if you wish to receive a response to your request via email) and indicate your preference on how our response to your request should be sent (email or postal mail). We will not accept requests via the telephone or by fax. We are not responsible for notices that are not labeled or sent properly or that do not have complete information.
If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (EEA), you have certain data protection rights. The Music Syndicate, LLC aims to take reasonable steps to allow you to correct, amend, delete, or limit the use of your Personal Data.
If you are a resident of the EEA you may request a copy of your personal information and confirmation that we are processing personal information about you. You may also be entitled to ask us for other information such as purposes of processing, categories of personal data and recipients of the information. You may be entitled to request correction of any personal information about you which is incomplete or inaccurate, deletion or erasure of it, suspension of processing of it or making it available for transfer to third parties. These rights apply under and subject to applicable law. If you want to exercise any of these or other rights under applicable law, please contact us at admin@thesyn.com. We may require you to prove your identity with approved identification.
You may also have the right, in certain circumstances, to object to our processing your personal information. However, we may be entitled to continue processing it in line with applicable law. You can exercise this right at any time by contacting us at admin@thesyn.com. You may also have the right, where provided under applicable law, to ask us to stop processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes. You can exercise this right by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your information or by clicking "unsubscribe" on the emails you receive. You can also exercise this right at any time by contacting us at admin@thesyn.com.
We will retain your personal information for as long as needed to provide you with services you have requested. We will retain and use your personal information as necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes and enforce our agreements.
The Services may be linked to other sites, widgets and platforms or embedded within the Services that are operated by other companies, including, without limitation, Third Party Services. Syndicate is not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites, widgets and platforms or other services operated by third parties that are linked to, embedded within or integrated with the Services or for the privacy practices of third-party service providers. Once you leave the Services via such a link, access a third-party application, widget or platform, you should check the applicable privacy policy of the third party to determine, among other things, how it will handle any personally identifiable or other information that it may collect from you.
Our Privacy Policy tells you what Personal Data we may collect from you, how we may process your Personal Data, how you can limit our use of your Personal Data, and your rights to obtain, modify and/or delete any Personal Data we have collected from you. Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our Website.
We are committed to the security and privacy of all our customers. We take your privacy seriously, and we will work with you to ensure that you have an enjoyable online experience.
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.
We will let you know via email and/or a prominent notice on our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the “effective date” at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:
By email: operations@thesyn.com
By mail: 1801 Willow Ave, Weehawken, NJ 07086