This statement discloses the information gathering process and the privacy and dissemination practices for the CastMP3.com Web site. CastMP3 has created this privacy statement in order to demonstrate our firm commitment to protect your personal privacy.

Your Personal Information

We obtain and hold personal information that you may give to us while using our service. Below is a list of the primary methods we use to collect such information:

• Registration (signup) Information. To use the password protected areas of our site or our Services, you must establish an account with us. This is valid for both Artists and Listener account types. During this process, you are required to provide certain contact information (name, email address, etc.).

• Your Artist Content. You (the artist) holds the rights to all songs, videos and photos published on our service. We will not attempt to sell, give away, replicate or share your content, without your permission. You may choose to remove all your creative content from our servers at any given time.

• Surveys and Customer Service. From time-to-time we may post surveys on our site. The surveys may request demographic information and customer feedback. Participation in these requests is completely voluntary and with each request you will have the choice of whether or not to participate and disclose information. Such survey information will be used to improve the overall experience on our Services and our site. Also, we may collect information that identifies you personally when you submit comments, questions or suggestions to our customer service department.

• CastMP3.com Forums. The site may have chat rooms, discussion boards, online forums and other interactive technologies that allow individual comments and messages to be tied to a guest's name or email address. Please remember that any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information and you should exercise caution when deciding to disclose your personal information online.

• Cookies. In general, CastMP3.com uses cookies to collect little or no information of your site usage. Most browsers automatically accept cookies as the default setting. You can modify these settings at any time be accessing your browser's options menu. If you decide to reject our cookies, certain features of the site may become unavailable and/or malfunction.
  

OUR USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

Internal Use

In general, we use personal information internally to serve our users and to enhance and extend our relationship with our users. More specifically, we use personal information to complete transactions you have requested, to assist you and resolve problems with our site, to respond to customer support inquiries, and to send you periodic email newsletters and updates.

Third Parties

We do not sell, rent, share, trade or give away any of your private information without your permission except to the financial institution that processes your credit card transactions unless required by law.

• Marketing Purposes. We WILL NOT disclose your personal information to third parties so they can inform you about their products or services.
  
  
• Our Affiliates. We may provide all of the nonpublic personal information we collect about you to our affiliates to enable them or enhance our ability to offer you new or additional products or services, improve the quality of the products and services we currently offer to you, and to aid us and them in the assessment of our existing roducts and services and the development of new products or services.
  
  
• Business Transfers. Information about our users and the site is one of our most important business assets. Therefore, information about our users, including personal information, will be disclosed as part of any merger or acquisition, creation of a separate business to provide the site, our Services or fulfill products, sale or pledge of company assets as well as in the event of an insolvency, bankruptcy or receivership in which personal information would be transferred as one of the business assets of the company.
  
  
• Legal cases. We will release all personal information we may have about a user should we be required by law (e.g., warrant or court order).

THIRD PARTY SITES

The CastMP3.com site includes links to third party sites. These may include financial transaction processors (PayPal) and other services. All third party sites mentioned above are governed by their own privacy statements - CastMP3 cannot be held liable for their operations, including their information practices. Users submitting information to or through these third party sites should review the privacy statement of the service being used.