Privacy Policy
Last Updated December 2022
Promethean Instruments (“Promethean Instruments”,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) have created this privacy policy (this “Privacy Policy”) as we respect your privacy, and we know that you care about how information you provide to us is used and shared. This Privacy Policy applies to our information collection and use practices: (i) online when you visit any of our websites, including, without limitation including www.prometheaninstruments.com (the “Websites”); and (ii) offline when you provide information to us.
ACCEPTANCE OF TERMS
By visiting our Website, you are agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy and the accompanying Terms of Service, both of which govern your use of the Website. By providing us information offline, you are also agreeing to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
THE INFORMATION WE COLLECT
In the course of operating the Website and/or interacting with you, we will collect (and/or receive) the following types of information.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
When you sign up to receive any of our communications (such as newsletters, responding to a survey, registering for an event, or purchasing any product or service), you may be required to provide us with personal information about yourself, such as your first and last name, residential address, email address, and phone number. We do not collect any personal information from Visitors when they use the Website unless they provide such information voluntarily, such as by registering as a Registered User, sending us an email or signing up for a newsletter. All information we collect and/or receive under this section is collectively called “Personal Information.”
ORDER INFORMATION
When you place an Order, you must provide us with certain information relevant to the products and services you are seeking to purchase. Such information is collectively called the “Order Information.” This includes exact specifications of the guitars and the components in the guitars that you have purchased or registered and linked to your account. This extends to any products purchased on the website including merchandise, electronics and accessories.
BILLING INFORMATION
When you wish to purchase a product or service, you may be required to provide certain information in addition to the Personal Information and Order Information noted above. Such information may include a debit card number, credit card number, expiration date, billing address, activation codes, and similar information. Such information is collectively called the “Billing Information.” Although we will have access to the Billing Information, it may also be collected and processed by our third-party payment vendors pursuant to the terms and conditions of their privacy policies and terms of use. This includes vendors such as Stripe Inc, or other third-party payment merchants that power our ecommerce store or work alongside our main website as a sales channel.
OTHER INFORMATION
In addition to the information noted above, we may collect additional information (collectively, the “Other Information”). Such Other Information may include:
From You. Additional information about yourself that you voluntarily provide to us (e.g., via a survey), such as household income range, gender, product and service preferences, and other information that does not identify you personally.
From Your Activity. Information that we automatically collect when you use the Website, including, without limitation: IP addresses, which may consist of a static or dynamic IP address and will sometimes point to a specific identifiable computer or device; browser type and language; referring and exit pages and URLs; date and time; amount of time spent on particular pages; what sections of the Websites you visit; and similar data; and information about your device, including the type of device; universally unique ID (“UUID”); advertising identifier (“IDFA”); MAC address; operating system and version (e.g., iOS, Android or Windows); carrier and country location; hardware and processor information (e.g., storage, chip speed, camera resolution, NFC enabled); network type (WiFi, 3G, 4G, LTE); and similar data.
From Cookies. Information that we collect using “cookie” technology. Cookies are small packets of data that a website stores on your computer or mobile device’s hard drive so that your computer will “remember” information about your visit. We may use both session cookies (which expire once you close your web browser) and persistent cookies (which stay on your computer until you delete them) to help us collect Other Information and to enhance your experience using the Websites. If you do not want us to place a cookie on your hard drive, you may be able to turn that feature off on your computer or mobile device. Please consult your Internet browser’s documentation for information on how to do this and how to delete persistent cookies. However, if you decide not to accept cookies from us, the Website may not function properly and/or you may be logged out of your account.
Third-Party Analytics. We use third-party analytics services (such as Google Analytics) to evaluate your use of the Website, compile reports on activity, collect demographic data, analyse performance metrics, and collect and evaluate other information relating to the Website and mobile and Internet usage. These third parties use cookies and other technologies to help analyse and provide us the data. By accessing and using the Website, you consent to the processing of data about you by these analytics providers in the manner and for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. For more information on Google Analytics, including how to opt out from certain data collection, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics. Please be advised that if you opt out of any service, you may not be able to use the full functionality of the Website.
From Other Sources. We also may collect or receive information from third parties, including but not limited to Facebook, Instagram, Spotify, Mailchimp, Reverb, and/or other third-party social media sites.
Information Collected by or Through Third-Party Advertising Companies. We may share Other Information about your activity on the Websites with third parties for the purpose of tailoring, analysing, managing, reporting, and optimizing advertising you see on the Website and elsewhere. These third parties may use cookies, pixel tags (also called web beacons or clear gifs), and/or other technologies to collect such Other Information for such purposes. Pixel tags enable us, and these third-party advertisers, to recognize a browser’s cookie when a browser visits the site on which the pixel tag is located, in order to learn which advertisement brings a user to a given site.
ACCESSING AND MODIFYING PERSONAL INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES
If you have registered for the Website, you may access, review, and make changes to your Personal Information, Billing Information, and certain Other Information by following the instructions found on the Website. In addition, you may manage your preferences relating to marketing and non-transactional communications by clicking on the “unsubscribe” link located on the bottom of any Promethean Instruments marketing email. Customers cannot opt out of receiving transactional emails related to their account or their Orders. We will use commercially reasonable efforts to process such requests in a timely manner. You should be aware, however, that it is not always possible to completely remove or modify information in our subscription databases.
HOW WE USE AND SHARE THE INFORMATION
We may use the Personal Information, the Order Information, the Billing Information, and the Other Information (collectively, the “Information”) to provide our services; to process Orders; to administer rewards and promotional programs; to maintain and improve our Website and services to you; to solicit your feedback; and to inform you about our products and services and those of any third-party marketing partners.
We may also use and/or share Information as described below.
Promethean Instruments will access, use, and share the Information as required to process your Orders and provide support to you.
To provide our services and administer rewards and promotional programs, we may share the Information (excluding the Billing Information) with our third-party promotional and marketing partners, including, without limitation, businesses participating in our various programs.
With your permission, third-party applications or services may access your Personal Information. We use standard OAuth (open authorization) to enable you to give permission to share your Personal Information with other websites and services, such as Facebook and Twitter (e.g., when you agree to a pop-up requesting you to allow another application to access your account information). We also use OAuth to allow us to share information about you that is stored by us without sharing your security credentials.
We may employ other companies and individuals to perform functions on our behalf. Examples may include providing technical assistance, Order fulfillment, customer service, and marketing/promotional assistance. These other companies will have access to the Information only as necessary to perform their functions and to the extent permitted by law.
In an ongoing effort to better understand our Visitors, customers, and our products and services, we may analyse the Order Information and Other Information in aggregate form to operate, maintain, manage, and improve the Website and/or our products and services. This aggregate information does not identify you personally. We may share this aggregate data with our affiliates, agents, and business partners. We may also disclose aggregated user statistics to describe our products and services to current and prospective business partners and to other third parties for other lawful purposes.
As we develop our businesses, we might sell or buy businesses or assets. In the event of a corporate sale, merger, reorganization, sale of assets, dissolution, or similar event, the Information may be part of the transferred assets.
To the extent permitted by law, we may also disclose the Information: (i) when required by law, court order, or other government or law enforcement authority or regulatory agency; or (ii) whenever we believe that disclosing such Information is necessary or advisable, for example, to protect the rights, property, or safety of Promethean Instruments or others.
We do not monitor, recognize, or honor any behavioral advertising opt-out or do not track mechanisms, including general web browser “Do Not Track” settings and/or signals.
INFORMATION YOU SHARE
Please keep in mind that whenever you voluntarily make your Personal Information available to third parties – for example on message boards, social media groups, or web logs; through email; during workshops and courses, or in comment or chat areas – that information can be seen, collected, heard, and/or used by others besides us. We are not responsible for any unauthorized third-party use of such information.
HOW WE PROTECT THE INFORMATION
We take many commercially reasonable steps to protect the Information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. Please understand, however, that no security system is impenetrable. We cannot guarantee the security of our databases, nor can we guarantee that the Information that you supply will not be intercepted while being transmitted to and from us over the Internet. In particular, e-mail sent to or from the Website may not be secure, and you should therefore take special care in deciding what information you send to us via email.
DATA STORAGE FACILITIES & SECURITY
Our website is hosted by Hostinger.com We do not keep local backups of customer data on our servers at any of our physical locations and do not grant access to these databases to external contractors unless required to carry out website, server or database maintenance work. Our website is secured with SSL to provide optimal security. Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) is a standard security technology for establishing an encrypted link between a server and a client—typically a web server (website) and a browser, or a mail server and a mail client (e.g., Outlook). This ensures your data is safe from being intercepted while you shop with us online, and is encrypted.
CHILDREN
We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under the age of 13 through the Websites. If you are under 13, please do not give us any Personal Information. We encourage parents and legal guardians to monitor their children’s Internet usage and to help enforce our Privacy Policy by instructing their children to never provide Personal Information through the Websites without their permission. If you have reason to believe that a child under the age of 13 has provided Personal Information to us, please contact us at info@prometheaninstruments.com with “Personal Information Request” in the subject line, and we will endeavour to delete that information from our databases.
EXTERNAL WEBSITES
The Website may contain links to third-party websites. We have no control over the privacy practices or the content of any of our business partners, advertisers, sponsors, or other websites to which we provide links. As such, we are not responsible for the content or the privacy policies of those third-party websites. You should check the applicable third-party privacy policy and terms of use when visiting any other websites.
RETENTION AND USE OF WEBSITE ACTIVITY IN MARKETING
We will retain your shopping history and use details of the products you have previously purchased to make suggestions to you for other products which we believe you will also be interested in.
We will retain and evaluate information on your recent visits to our website and how you move around different sections of our website for analytics purposes to understand how people use our website so that we can further enhance the customer experience.
We will keep a record of the articles on our website that you have clicked on and use that information to target advertising on this website to you that is relevant to your interests, which we have identified based on articles you have read.
We may share some or all of your Information with any of our parent companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures, directors, internal shareholders and board members, or other companies under common control with us.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
This Privacy Policy is effective as of the date stated at the top of this Privacy Policy. We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. By accessing the Website and/or using our services after we make any such changes to this Privacy Policy, you are deemed to have accepted such changes. Please be aware that, to the extent permitted by applicable law, our use of the Information is governed by the Privacy Policy in effect at the time we collect the Information. Please refer back to this Privacy Policy on a regular basis.
WHAT ARE YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Promethean Instruments would like to make sure you are fully aware of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:
The right to access – You have the right to request Promethean Instruments for copies of your personal data. Depending on the complexity of your request, we may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Promethean Instruments correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Promethean Instruments to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Promethean Instruments erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Promethean Instruments restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Promethean Instruments’ processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Promethean Instruments transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.
HOW TO CONTACT US
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us via email at info@prometheaninstruments.com with “Privacy Policy Enquiry” in the subject line. You have the right to request that Promethean Instruments transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you. If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at the e-mail listed above with “Privacy Policy Request” in the subject line.
Promethean Instruments is located in Melbourne, Victoria and all policies are governed by the local law in Victoria.