Privacy policy

Bedroom Genius is a unique social networking website that allows our members to set up artist profiles showcasing their talents and skills enabling them to connect and collaborate with other like-minded people.

Bedroom Genius members can view other member’s profiles, communicate with other artists and share photos, videos, audio samples and text.

We are committed to safe guarding the privacy of our website visitors. This policy sets out how we will treat your personal information.

1. What information do we collect?

We may collect, store and also use the following data sent to us, such as photographs, music and videos.

  1. Bedroom Genius collects personal information that you provide to us for the purpose of registering such as your name, email address, D.O.B, personal interests, gender, hobbies and education.
  2. Information about your computer and about your visits to and use of this website, such as your IP address, geographical location, browser type, referral source, length of visit and number of page views. This information is used to manage the website, track usage and improve the website services. We may share this information with third parties to help us improve Bedroom Genius in order to better serve our users.
  3. Information relating to any transactions carried out between you and us on or in relation to this website including information relating to any purchase you make of our goods or services.

Other information

2. Cookies

We use cookies on this website. A cookie is a text file sent by a web server to a web browser, and stored by the browser. The text file is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server. This enables the web server to identify and track the web browser.

We may send a cookie which may be stored on by your browser on your computer’s hard drive. We may use the information we obtain from the cookie in the administration for marketing purposes. We may also use that information to recognise your computer when you visit our website, and to personalise our website for you, ensuring that visitors are not repeatedly offered the same advertisements and to customize newsletter, advertising and web page content based on browser type, and user profile information. Our advertisers may also send you cookies or use other technologies such as web beacons. (Web beacons are electronic files that allow a web site to count how many users have visited that page or to access certain cookies.) Bedroom Genius makes every effort to ensure that its advertising partners are operating privacy policies that are in accordance with Bedroom Genius own privacy standards.

Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies (for example, in internet explorer you can refuse all cookies by clicking ‘Tools’, ‘Internet Options’, Privacy, and selecting ‘Block all cookies’, using the sliding selector). This will, however, have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites including this one, and you will not be able to take full advantage of Bedroom Genius if you do so.

3. Using your personal data

Personal data submitted on this website will be used for the purposes specified in this privacy policy or in relevant parts of the website.

We may use your personal information to:

  1. administer the website.
  2. improve your browsing experience by personalising the website.
  3. enable your use of the services available on the website.
  4. send to you goods purchased via the website, and supply to you services purchased via the website.
  5. send statements and invoices to you, and collect payments from you.
  6. send you general (non-marketing) commercial communication.
  7. send you email notifications which you have specifically requested.
  8. send to you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our business or the business of carefully selected third parties which we think may be of interest to you by post or, where you have specifically agreed to this, by email or similar technology. (You can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications to be sent, by emailing us at Bedroom Genius).
  9. provide third parties with statistical information about our users, but this information will not be used to identify any individual user.
  10. deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to the website.

We will not without your express consent to provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

4. Other disclosure

In addition to the disclosures reasonably necessary for the purposes identified elsewhere in this privacy policy, we may disclose information about you:

  1. to the extent that we are required to do so by law, regulation or other government authority.
  2. in connection with any legal proceedings or prospective legal proceedings;
  3. in order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk); and
  4. to the purchaser (or prospective purchaser) of any business or asset which we are (or are contemplating) in selling Bedroom Genius have the right to transfer your personal details in the event of a transfer of ownership, such as acquisition by or merger with another company. If the company decides to materially change the contents of this privacy policy, Bedroom Genius will notify you beforehand.

5. International data transfers

Information that we collect may be stored and processed in and transferred between any of the countries in which we operate in order to enable us to use the information in accordance with this privacy policy.

If you are in the European union, information which you provide may be transferred to countries (including the United States, Japan, Brazil, Australia and New Zealand) which do not have data protection laws equivalent to those in force in the European Union. You expressly agree to such transfers.

6. Security of your personal data

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information. We will store all the information you provide on our secure servers. All electronic transactions you make to us or receive from us will be encrypted using SSL technology. The safeguard and security of your personal information depends on your own protection of your account password. Make sure that you do not reveal your account password to any unauthorized people.

Bedroom Genius cannot control any illegal activity of other users that may allow them to access the privacy or security settings of the bedroomgenius.com website. If you become aware of any breach of data security on our website, please contact us ASAP on info@bedroomgenius.com with ‘SECURITY BREACH’ in the title of your message, so we can start investigating immediately.

7. Policy amendments

We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website. You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. We may also notify you of changes to our privacy policy by email.

8. Your rights

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you. Provision of such information may be subject to the payment of a fee (currently fixed at £10.00).

You may instruct us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes at any time by email. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal data for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal data for marketing purposes.

9. Third party websites

The website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy policies or practices of third party websites. Please be aware when you leave our website that you read the privacy statements of each and every site that you visit.

10. Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

11. Children

Children under the age of 14 are not eligible to use or register with Bedroom Genius. If you are under the age of 14, please do not attempt to register for Bedroom Genius or send any information about yourself including name, address, age, email address etc.

If we learn that we have collected information from a child under the age of 14, we will automatically delete the information. If you have reason to believe that this has occurred, please contact Bedroom Genius ASAP on info@bedroomgenius.com with the words ’UNDER AGE MEMBER’ in the message title so we can erase the information as quickly as possible.

12. Contact

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our treatment of your personal data, please write to us by email at info@bedroomgenius.com.

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