Our Policy
This Privacy Policy sets out how we will treat the personal information which you provide to us while using the website located at freevocals.com (the “Site”) and/or the services provided from it (the “Services”). You are deemed to accept the terms of this Privacy Policy on your first use of the Site. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time and such changes shall be effective from the date and time the revised Privacy Policy is posted on the Site.
Personal Information
To provide the Site and the Services, it is necessary for us to hold and process certain personal information. We take your privacy very seriously and use reasonable care in keeping this information secure and preventing any unauthorised access or unlawful use of it. We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it. All personal information is processed by us in accordance with applicable data protection legislation and our website is encrypted with SSL. Persons under the age of 18 are not eligible to use our services and should not submit any personal information to freevocals.com.
Usage
We may collect or ask you to provide some or all of the following: name, address, email addresses, IP addresses, web-browser details, operating system details, and/or your activities on the Site. This information will be stored together with any additional information you may provide to us and will be used to provide you with the Services. We may also use your personal information:
(i) to analyse use of the Site; and;
(ii) to licence sound recordings to you; and;
(iii) to send you account transactional emails such as download links, password resets and email verification links. We may also occasionally send you updates and offers by email which you can choose to unsubscribe from.
Sharing Information
We do not sell our users private personal information. We share information about you in the limited circumstances outlined below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:
- Employees, subsidiaries and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.
- Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like payment providers that process your credit and debit card information) and those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers).
Cookies
We use ‘cookies’ while you access the Site to avoid the need to re-enter details on different occasions. If you do not wish to receive ‘cookies’, you may change the settings on your computer or browser accordingly. You can find out more about the cookies that we use below.
Consent
If you do not want us to retain or use your personal information in any way, please do not provide the data to us or, if you have already provided personal information and wish to withdraw your consent, please email privacy@freevocals.com and we will remove your data.
Cookies and how they Benefit You
Our website uses cookies, as almost all websites do, to help provide you with the best experience we can.
Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer or mobile phone when you browse websites.
Our cookies help us:
- Make our website work as you’d expect
- Save you having to login every time you visit the site
- Remember your settings during and between visits
- Improve the speed/security of the site
- Personalise our site to you to help you get what you need faster
- Continuously improve our website for you
- Make our marketing more efficient
We do not use cookies to:
- Collect any personally identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
You can learn more about all the cookies we use below.
Granting us permission to use cookies
If the settings on your software that you are using to view this website (your browser) are adjusted to accept cookies we take this, and your continued use of our website, to mean that you are fine with this. Should you wish to remove or not use cookies from our site it will likely mean that our site will not work as you would expect.
More about our Cookies
We use cookies to make our website work including:
- Making our cart and checkout work
- Determining if you are logged in or not
- Remembering your search settings
- Remembering if you have accepted our terms and conditions
- Tailoring content to your needs (e.g. using Geo-location to display different currencies)
There is no way to prevent these cookies being set other than to not use our site.
Third party functions
Our site, like most websites, includes functionality provided by third parties. A common example is an embedded YouTube video. Disabling these cookies may break some functions offered by these third parties.
YouTube Cookies
So that you can preview the audio in our downloads, we provide embedded YouTube videos. After clicking on the video thumbnail placeholder and then pressing play on the loaded video iframe, cookies will be set by YouTube.
Cookies are set by:
- Google – Privacy Policy
The privacy implications will be dependent on the privacy settings you have chosen with Google.
Anonymous Visitor Statistics Cookies
We use cookies to compile visitor statistics such as how many people have visited our website, what type of technology they are using (e.g. Mac or Windows which helps to identify when our site isn’t working as it should for particular technologies), how long they spend on the site, what page they look at etc. This helps us to continuously improve our website. These so called “analytics” programs also tell us if, on an anonymous basis, how people reached this site (e.g. from a search engine) and whether they have been here before.
We use: Google Analytics
Turning Cookies Off
You can usually switch cookies off by adjusting your browser settings to stop it from accepting cookies. Doing so however will likely limit the functionality of our’s and a large proportion of the world’s websites as cookies are a standard part of most modern websites
It may be that your concerns around cookies relate to so called “spyware”. Rather than switching off cookies in your browser you may find that a privacy friendly browser achieves the same objective by automatically deleting cookies considered to be invasive.