Privacy Policy

GigNote, LLC

Gignote, LLC (We", "Us", "Our") provides a platform for musicians to find and create events via gignote.io (“Site”), and therefore we learn a great deal about our users, including personal identifying information. We recognize that your privacy is important, so we have developed this Privacy Policy to guide us, and to inform you, about how we handle your sensitive personal information. If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or complaints about its implementation, please contact our Privacy Manager at team@gignote.io.
IMPORTANT: BY USING THE SITE AND/OR OFFERINGS AVAILABLE ON THIS SITE, YOU GIVE YOUR CONSENT THAT ALL PERSONAL DATA THAT YOU SUBMIT MAY BE PROCESSED BY US IN THE MANNER AND FOR THE PURPOSES DESCRIBED BELOW. IF YOU DO NOT AGREE TO THESE TERMS AND CONDITIONS, DO NOT USE THE SITE.

1. What personal identifying information we collect.

In order to use some features of the Site, you must first complete the registration process. During registration, you are required to provide certain Personally Identifiable Information, including, but not limited to the information described below. This information will periodically be used by us to contact you.
We collect your
  • ·name
  • ·email address
  • ·age
  • ·gender and other demographic information
  • ·general location not full home address

2. Cookies; location tracking.

We use cookies to remember certain user information. This allows users of the Site to avoid logging in more than once, thereby saving time. You may, at any time, disable or refuse to accept cookies by changing the preferences or settings on your browser. If you choose to disable cookies, you will still be able to use our Site. However, you will not be able to fully take advantage of certain automation and other functionality features available on this Site. Please note: No personally identifiable information is collected with the cookies that we set. Accepting cookies while on the Site will not put the user at risk for marketing to other sites.
Gignote, LLC site(s) are not set up to track, collect or distribute personal information not entered by visitors. Through access logs Gignote, LLC does collect clickstream data and HTTP protocol elements, which generate certain kinds of non-identifying site usage data, such as the number of hits and visits to our sites. This information is used for internal purposes by technical support staff for research and development, user analysis and business decision making, all of which provides better services to the public. The statistics garnered, which contain no personal information and cannot be used to gather such information, may also be provided to third parties.

3. Children's Privacy.

Protecting the privacy of children is especially important to us. For that reason, we never collect or maintain information at our Site from those we actually know are under 18, nor do we allow registration of users under the age of 18.

4. How we use personal identifying information.

We take your privacy very seriously. Accordingly, we agree that we will only use the information you provide for the following specific purposes:
  • ·To effectuate a registration made by you;
  • ·To improve the content and overall look and feel of our Site and services;
  • ·To contact you about site news, updates and changes to this policy, to enable you to retrieve your password, if necessary, and to bill you for services we perform for you.

5. Disclosure of personal identifying information.

To employees within Gignote, LLC
To agents of Gignote, LLC
To government authorities
We agree that we will not share, sell, rent or otherwise distribute your Personally Identifiable Information with outside parties, except to provide products or services you've requested through us, or in response to a validly-issued subpoena, court order, or other legal process, or when necessary to establish or exercise our legal rights or defend against legal claims made by you or on your behalf.
From time to time, we may employ the use of return email addresses to answer the email we receive from you. Such addresses are not used for any other purpose and are not shared with outside parties.
Finally, we agree that we will never use or share the personally identifiable information provided to us by you in any way that violates or is otherwise unrelated to the means described in this agreement, without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated uses.

6. The reasonable safeguards we use to secure your information.

We collect your contact information, your credit card information using standard electronic channels. The electronic channels we use to collect your information may include email and telephone channels. The information we collect is stored in both paper and electronic records within our office. We do not remove your information from our office. The electronic information is stored only on local computers. Internally to Gignote, LLC, we use a secure network and whenever possible we transmit data only over a secure network to reduce risk of disruption or interception of information.

7. Who outside our company has access to your information and why?

We do not share your personal identifying information with persons outside Gignote, LLC, except (i) when we are required to do so by reason of a government requirement or court order, or (ii) for routine internal operations such as accounting, in which case our accounting firm may have access to a portion of your personal identifying information. So, while we do not intentionally share your personal identifying information with these service providers, we cannot know if those providers are able to intercept our communications of that information. For that reason, we keep all such electronic communications to a minimum.
We may use an advertising program that could provide targeted advertisement to the user of the site. We will not share any information collected through this Site with any advertising program. Any target advertising from such advertising program will have been based on information gathered by such advertising program from sources other than Us.
We collect and use IP addresses to analyze trends, administer the site, track user movement, and gather broad aggregate demographic information for reporting and sponsorship purposes. IP addresses are not linked to Personally Identifiable Information.
From time to time, we may use non-identifiable aggregate information to better design our Site and to share with select advertising partners, sponsors, and/or affiliates. For example, we may tell an advertiser that X number of individuals visited a certain area on our Site, or that Y number of men and Z number of women filled out our registration form, but we would not disclose anything that could be used to personally identify those individuals.

8. Communication with persons on the Site.

If you participate in a Gignote, LLC Gig, chat function, or other form of posting on the Site, you should be aware that the information disclosed and shared will be broadly available to other persons, both inside of and/or outside Gignote, LLC, who have access to that Gig, chat function, or other form of posting. Participant's expressed opinion is his or her own and should not be considered as reflecting the opinion of Gignote, LLC.

9. Your rights to your information.

You own your personal identifying information. You may have access to your information by notifying us in writing of your desire. We may charge a small administrative fee to prepare copies of your information. You also may complain to us about our services or suspected releases of your personal identifying information that are contrary to this Privacy Policy. The email contact for access and complaints is team@gignote.io.

10. Our legal duties with respect to your information.

We are committed to maintaining the privacy of your personal identifying information. We will inform you immediately if we become aware of any situation in which your personal identifying information have been disclosed in any way that contradicts this Privacy Policy.

11. Scope of this Agreement; Third Party Sites.

Although this agreement applies to the entirety of information obtained by you for the purpose of accessing or using content controlled and owned by Gignote, LLC, it does not apply to entities that are not owned or controlled by us. This Site contains links to other third party sites. Please be aware that Gignote, LLC does not claim any responsibility for the privacy practices of these third party sites. We encourage you to be aware when you leave our site and to take reasonable precautions when sharing your personally identifiable information on third party sites.

12. Opt-In Policy.

You are automatically opted in to receive newsletters and other useful information from us. To unsubscribe from our mailings (except important system and content update information detailed below), you may contact Us at team@gignote.io.

13. No Liability for Acts of Third Parties.

Gignote, LLC will exercise all reasonable efforts to safeguard the confidentiality of customer personal information. However, transmissions protected by industry standard security technology and implemented by human beings cannot be made absolutely secure. Consequently, Gignote, LLC shall not be liable for unauthorized disclosure of personal information due to no fault of Gignote, LLC including, but not limited to, errors in transmission and unauthorized acts of Gignote, LLC staff and/or third parties.

14. Changes to this Policy.

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Policy; and (b) your agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.