Privacy Policy

Vinyl Virgins values your right to privacy. This Privacy Policy is effective June 5, 2019 and describes the types of information that Vinyl Virgins gathers from visitors and how that information is used. Vinyl Virgins reserves the right to modify this Privacy Policy at any time. The currently operative Privacy Policy will always be available by clicking on the Privacy Policy link on the home page. Please read this policy carefully and, if you have any questions, please ask them here.

Unregistered Users

We collect certain information necessary to assist us in operating the Site. We log your IP address, ISP (Internet Service Provider), Internet browser and operating system, the time of your visit, and the pages that you viewed. We log this information to assist us in diagnosing server problems, administering our website, and tracking usage statistics. Your IP address is provided to you by your Internet Service Provider and may be constant or may vary each time you access the Internet, depending on the type of Internet service you have. We do not try to identify you through your IP address and it would be extremely difficult for us to do so.

If you click through to the Site from another website, then we collect that information. This helps us learn where our visitors are coming from and helps us make the Site better. Any such information is collected and used only in the aggregate and although we can generate reports to help us understand the information as a whole, we cannot generate reports about specific users. If you have provided personal information to another website from which you click through to the Site, then you should review the privacy policy of that website to determine what information that website collects and how it is used. At present, the Site does not receive any personal information you may have provided to any website not operated by Vinyl Virgins and we have no plans to do so. If our plans should change, we will modify this Privacy Policy to reflect that change before any change is implemented, and any such personal information would be subject to this Privacy Policy.

We may place small files known as “cookies” on your computer’s hard drive to help us learn about how visitors use our website and to provide our users with a better experience. A cookie may, for example, contain certain information that allows us to track your path through the Site, to determine whether you are a return visitor, and to automatically log you into an Interactive Areas such as discussion forums. Cookies do not permit us to personally identify you and cannot access any other data on your computer. Your web browser may provide a way for you to refuse cookies and you are free to do so without affecting your ability to access the Site. However, you will lose the ability to personalize your experience on the Site, including the ability to participate in any of our Interactive Areas. Cookies are harmless, so we encourage you to allow us to place one on your computer so that you can take full advantage of everything the Site has to offer.

Registered Users

We may provide you with the opportunity to register with the Site. The benefits of registration may include the ability to post messages and other information in our Interactive Areas, and the ability to personalize the website to best serve your needs. If you choose to register, then you will provide certain information to us. That information may or may not be personally identifiable. For example, you may be required to provide a username and password, but as long as your username is not your real name, we will not be able to identify you personally.

In addition, we may offer you the opportunity to opt-in to receiving e-mails containing information you may find useful. If you decide to opt-in, you will provide your name and e-mail address. That information may be collected and stored by a third-party e-mail marketing service that sends out the emails for us, and that information will be subject to the privacy policy of that third-party e-mail marketing service. In addition, should we ever sell this website, the purchaser will also obtain the right to access and use your name and e-mail address. You may opt-out of receiving e-mails at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email.

Disclosure of Personal Information

Because we do not collect any personally identifiable information, we do not have it. And because we do not have it, we cannot disclose it to any third party.

Collection of Personally Identifiable Information by Third-Party Sites.

Vinyl Virgins may provide you with links to third-party websites in order to obtain additional relevant information, to purchase products or services, or for other reasons. When you click on such a link, you may be given the opportunity to enter personally-identifiable information to be submitted to that third-party website, which may include your name, birth date, e-mail address, telephone number, mailing address, credit card numbers, or other information. You may be given that opportunity either through links that will take you directly to the third-party website, through a pop-up window provided by that third-party website or through a pop-up form that allows you to enter information without leaving the Vinyl Virgins website. In any case, any personally identifiable information you enter is provided directly to the third-party website; Vinyl Virgins does not itself collect or store any of this information. Vinyl Virgins has no control over any third-party website or over any personally identifiable information that any third-party website may collect from you. Before providing any personally identifiable information to any such third-party website, you should review that website’s terms of use and privacy policy and make sure that they are acceptable to you.

Affiliate Programs and Referral Fees

Vinyl Virgins’s purpose is to inform, educate, motivate, inspire, and aid you in reaching your goals. In order to provide you with the quality information that you receive at Vinyl Virgins, Vinyl Virgins may receive revenues from third-party websites to which Vinyl Virgins provides links or that provide advertising to be displayed on the Vinyl Virgins website.

In addition, Vinyl Virgins may receive commissions through one or more third-party affiliate programs, such as the Amazon Services LLC Associates Program, an affiliate advertising program designed to provide a means for websites to earn advertising fees by advertising and linking to Amazon.com, Amazon.co.uk, Amazon.de, Amazon.fr, Amazon.it, Amazon.es, and Amazon.ca. Generally, such commissions are earned when you click on an advertisement displayed on Vinyl Virgins or click on a link to a third-party website where you make a purchase.

Participation in Google Adsense and Other Online Advertising Programs

Vinyl Virgins may display advertisements provided through the Google AdSense, Media.net or other third-party advertising programs. Such third-parties use cookies such as the DoubleClick cookie to serve ads that may be more relevant to you, based on your prior visits to Vinyl Virgins and/or other sites on the Internet. You may opt out of Google’s use of the DoubleClick cookie for interest-based advertising by visiting Ads Settings or out of all use of the DoubleClick cookie by visiting http://www.doubleclick.com/privacy/dart_adserving.aspx.

Children’s Privacy

This website is a general audience site, and we do not knowingly collect information about children. Should a child whom we know to be under 13 send personal information to us, we will use that information only to respond directly to that child to inform him or her that we must have parental consent before receiving his or her personal information.