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Universal Music GmbH
Stralauer Allee 1
10245 Berlin
Deutschland
Tel.: +49 (30) 52007-01
Fax: +49 (30) 52007-09

CEO: Frank Briegmann
Tax ID: 37/153/20755 (Tax office Berlin)
USt-Ident.Nr.: DE198690616
Commercial register: 85604
HRB: 85604

Email: volbeat@universal-music.de
Web: www.universal-m...

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TERMS OF USE

Online-contents

The author reserves the right not to be responsible for the topicality, correctness, completeness or quality of the information provided. Liability claims regarding damage caused by the use of any information provided, including any kind of information which is incomplete or incorrect, will therefore be rejected.
All offers are not-binding and without obligation. Parts of the pages or the complete publication including all offers and information might be extended, changed or partly or completely deleted by the author without separate announcement

Referrals and links

The Author is not responsible for any contents linked or referred to from his pages - unless he has full knowlegde of illegal contents and would be able to prevent the visitors of his site from viewing those pages. If any damage occurs by the use of information presented there, only the author of the respective pages might be liable, not the one who has linked to these pages. Furthermore the author is not liable for any postings or messages published by users of discussion boards, guestbooks or mailinglists provided on his page.


Copyright

The author intended not to use any copyrighted material for the publication or, if not possible, to indicate the copyright of the respective object. If you find any unindicated object protected by copyright, the copyright could not be determined by the author. In the case of such a unintentional copyright violation the author will remove the object from the publication or at least indicate it with the appropriate copyright after notification.


Legal force of this disclaimer

This disclaimer is to be regarded as part of the internet publication which you were referred from. If sections or individual formulations of this text are not legal or correct, the content or validity of the other parts remain uninfluenced by this fact.


 
Data Protection Statement

The following information is intended as an explanation of our position on the protection of personal information, of how we use your data when submitted to us to allow use of the services we offer (e.g. newsletters, sweepstakes, orders) and of the fact that you may at anytime revoke your consent to storage and use of your personal data.


Our attitude towards data protection

We take the protection of personal information very seriously and are committed to respecting the privacy of anyone using our site. We ensure that our treatment of the personal data of users of our website is in accordance with the applicable requirements for the protection of personal data, in particular the Federal Data Protection Act (BDSG) and the Telemedia Act (TMG).


What is personal or personally identifiable information?

Personal or personally identifiable information for the purposes of the BDSG are particulars about the personal or material circumstances of an individual, e.g. name, address, email address, phone number, age, gender, or areas of interest. We collect, process and use for specific purposes - with your consent - only information that we need to register you as, e.g. backstage participants, newsletter subscriber or participants in sweepstakes.


Do we forward your personal data to third parties?

Out of principal, we use your personal information only within our company. We may however also use other companies in the group and affiliated partner companies to provide some of our online services. We can assure you that we have obligated these companies to use your personal data for the intended purpose only according to our instructions. Further access to or use of data by these companies is excluded. We would only ever transfer your personal data to third parties after obtaining your express consent.


Cookies

Cookies are small files that can be stored on a user's computer when visiting our site. They facilitate the use of our website and help us to recognize you on your next visit. Cookies can e.g. serve to create user profiles. They help us to optimise the content of our site to suit your needs. Our cookies do not contain any information about you, only an identification number, which has no meaning outside of our online services. Moreover, cookies do no harm to the computer system of the visitor. If you do not want to take advantage of cookies you can simply disable them in your web browser and enable them again at a later date.


Use of Facebook Social Plugins

Our website uses social plugins ("plugins") from the social network Facebook, which is operated by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook"). The plugins are identified by a Facebook logo or the addition of "Facebook Social Plugin". If you call a page of our website that contains a social plugin, your browser opens a direct link to the Facebook servers. The content of the plugin is sent from Facebook directly to your web browser and from that incorporated in the website.
By integrating the plugin, Facebook receives the information that you have accessed the corresponding site on our website. If you are logged into Facebook, Facebook can assign your visit to your Facebook account. When you interact with the plugins, for example by using the "Like" button or leaving a comment, the corresponding information is transmitted directly from your web browser to Facebook and stored there.
For more information on the purpose and scope of data collection and the further processing and use of data by Facebook, and your rights in this respect and settings options for protecting your privacy please see the Privacy Notices of Facebook. If you do not want Facebook to collect information about you on our website, you need to log out of Facebook just before your visit to our website.


Using Google Analytics for web statistics

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses cookies - these are text files that are stored on your computer and enable an analysis of your use of the Universal Music website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Universal Music website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there.
The Google tracking codes of this website use the function _anonymizeIp(), allowing IP addresses to only be processed in a shortened form to exclude direct references to persons. This applies within the Member States of the European Union and other parties to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases is the full IP address sent to a Google server in the USA where it is then shortened.
On behalf of Universal Music GmbH, Google uses this information to evaluate your use of the Universal Music website, compiling reports on website activity and to provide more services to the Universal Music Group associated with use of the website and internet. The IP address sent by your browser in connection with Google Analytics will not be merged with other data from Google.
You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; we would just point out that in this case you may not be able to use all the features of this website. You may prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and based on your use of the website (including your IP address) by Google and the processing of these data by Google with the use of a Google Browser Plugin. You have to download the available browser plug-in at the link above and install it. In order to make this objection ​​permanent, your browser must be set to accept cookies again.


Use of the scalable central measurement procedure

The Universal Music website uses the "Scalable Central Measuring Method" (SCM) provided by the company INFOnline to determine statistical values ​​regarding use of our site. Here anonymous readings are collected. For the identification of computer systems the SCM measurement uses either a cookie with the ID ivwbox.de or a signature that is automatically created from different information sent by your computer. The process does not store IP addresses, which are only processed in anonymous form.

The range measurement has been developed with the respect of privacy in mind. The aim of range measurement is to statistically determine the intensity of use and the number of users of a web site. At no time are individual users are identified. Your identity is always protected.

For websites that are members of the Association for Verification of the Circulation of Advertisers (IVW), or participate in the study "internet facts" of the workgroup Online-Forschung e.V. (AGOF), the usage statistics are published each month by AGOF and the workgroup Media-Analyse e.V. as well as IVW and can be viewed at the above websites.

Aside from the publication of measurement data, the IVW regularly checks the SCM procedure according to both regulation and privacy-compliant use. You can find more information on the SCM procedure on the website of the Infoline Ltd., which operates the SCM procedure, the data protection website of AGOF as well as the data protection website of IVW. You can object to data processing using SCM via the following link: Optout IVW Box.


Right to information

According to applicable law, we share with you in writing on request, what personal data is stored by you with us. You always have the option to withdraw your consent to the processing and use of your personal data with future effect and in accordance with statutory provisions you also have the right to delete, block or correct this information. You can at any time request information about your personal data stored by Universal Music by sending your request to the following email address myprofile@universal-music.de or in writing to the following address:

Universal Music GmbH
Consumer Business
Stralauer Allee 1
10245 Berlin


Our right to change this Data Protection Policy

We reserve the right to change this Privacy Policy at any time in accordance with the applicable data protection regulations.