Madison Records Privacy Policy and Use of Cookies

Madison Records, a music record label headquartered in Atlanta, Georgia, United States, is responsible for the https://madisonrecords.com website, websites of it’s artists, and certain affiliate websites. Together known as (Sites).

For the purposes of the GDPR, Madison Records is the controller in relation to your data. We will review our Privacy Policy annually.

This Privacy Policy sets out how Madison Records collects and processes the personal information you provide while using the Sites. If you have any questions with regard to these practices or no longer wish to receive communications from Madison Records, email info@madisonrecords.com and submit a "Privacy and Personal Data Queries" query. This Privacy Policy was last updated in July 2018 and any changes will be posted to this page.

What data do we collect and how?

We collect your personal information through webforms when you make a purchase from us, or sign-up to a mailing list via any of the Sites. We use this information to send you information regarding Madison Records and our artists, and related activities including those of third parties which we think may be of legitimate interest to you.

If you sign up to any Madison Records (or our artists’ mailing list), we will collect and store the following information: your full name, email address and your public internet protocol (IP) address, and some times your mailing address or birthday. You are not obligated to give us any information that you deem private. We use information like your mailing address or birthday for promotional purposes related to Madison Records or any one of our artists. Your information is strictly confidential and we do not share it with any outside of our company. We mostly use Mailchimp as our email list service provider. Mailchimp will store some of your data on our behalf. You can read Mailchimp’s Privacy Policy here: https://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/

If you place an order via Madison Records or one of our artist websites, we will collect and store the following information: your full name, delivery address, email address and mobile phone number. You must be over 13 years of age in order to purchase items from Madison Records.

We also collect information automatically about your visit to the Sites using cookies. Cookies help us to understand how people use the Sites, enable online transactions and inform our digital advertising. Please see our Cookies Policy below for more details.

How do we use your personal information?

Madison Records mailing lists: The information we collect via mailing lists enables us to tailor e-mail communications to your location and make these more relevant to you, and we will keep this information for as long as your consent is still valid. We will not spam you or send out an exuberant number of emails. Our email communications will include news, offers and information about new releases, taking into account any previous purchases by you from Madison Records.

Madison Records Shopping Cart: In the interest of providing a quality service, we may use third party payment services providers who are located in the United States to handle electronic or card payments. The payment providers handle electronic or card payments without the requirement for you to disclose your payment information or billing address to us.

Madison Records will fulfill your order directly or use a third party fulfillment service located in the United States (Colortest Merch). To ensure you receive your order, Madison Records will provide our march fulfillment partner with your personal information together with information about the products you have ordered. Madison Records and our merchandise partner will keep your full name and delivery address on-file alongside your order details for as long as your consent and the purpose for retaining that data is still valid, such purpose being to enable us to handle any questions from you about your order after shipping.

If you consented to receiving further e-mail communications from us at the time of making your purchase, Madison Records may also use your personal information and order details to contact you about offers which are only open to existing customers. Information collected via Madison Records artist websites may also be stored by that artist's representatives for the purposes set out in this paragraph. If you have not consented to receiving further e-mail communications from us, we will only contact you with important information relating to your purchase - for example if there is a production delay relating to an item you have pre-ordered.

Your rights

Madison Records is committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. We use appropriate technologies and policies to protect the information you have provided to us from unauthorized access and improper use.

Madison Records will not sell your personal information to third parties or use it for purposes not set out in this Privacy Policy. If it is necessary to transfer your data outside the USA, Madison Records will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your data continues to be protected.

You can unsubscribe from Madison Records e-mail communications at any time by using the unsubscribe link in the footer of our e-mails or via emailing info@madisonrecords.com (put UNSUBSCRIBE or PRIVACY POLICY in the subject line). You can also use this contact email to request a copy of the personal information that we hold on you, or if you wish to amend your personal information held by Madison, or request that we delete your personal information from our records.

COOKIES POLICY

In order to make our websites easier to use and improve our service, we use cookies across our Sites. Cookies are small files stored in your browser which do not give us access to your computer. Information generated by the third-party cookies listed below will be transmitted and stored on servers in the United States. For more information on cookies, including how to reject or delete them, please visit http://allaboutcookies.org

Madison Records uses cookies to:

Power our e-commerce process by remembering what is in your cart and where you want your order delivered.

Show you advertisements across third-party websites and social media platforms which are relevant to your interests in Madison Records artists. They are also used to limit the number of times you see an advert, as well as to measure the effectiveness of an advertising campaign. These advertisements are served by Google and Facebook and enabled using the following third-party cookies: Google re-targeting services, Facebook Pixel, and Mailchimp re-targeting and advertising services.
You can opt-out of Google AdWords targeting by visiting Google's Ads Settings here: http://www.google.com/settings/ads. You can opt-out of seeing online interest-based ads from Facebook and other participating companies through the Digital Advertising Alliance in the US, the Digital Advertising Alliance of Canada in Canada or the European Interactive Digital Advertising Alliance in Europe, or through your mobile device settings. You can opt-out of Mailchimp by simply unsubscribing from one of our emails.

Measure and generate reports on use of the Sites so that we can measure and improve their performance including the number of page visits and traffic sources. To do this, we use the following third-party cookies:

Google Analytics, operated by Google Inc. All user data collected by these cookies is in an anonymous form. You can view Google's practices and position on privacy across Google Analytics here: https://policies.google.com/privacy, or here: http://www.google.co.uk/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html

Sqauresapce analytics. Some analytics are also provided by our website host. Most of our domains are hosted by Squarespace and you can read their policy here: https://www.squarespace.com/privacy/