Privacy Policy

CIRCLE OF SONGS is committed to respecting your privacy and recognizes your need for appropriate protection and management of personally identifiable information that you may share with CIRCLE OF SONGS (i.e., any information by which you can be identified, such as name, address, and telephone number).

In general, you can visit CIRCLE OF SONGS without telling us who you are or revealing any personal information about yourself. We may at times track the IP address of the computer, proxy server, or Internet service provider from which people visit us and analyze visitors' use of our website for trends and statistics, but an individual site visitor remains anonymous. Cookies used in such tracking, or to otherwise enhance the usability of the CIRCLE OF SONGS site will not identify, monitor or track any personally identifiable information. You may set your Internet browser to disable or reject the use of cookies.

When we seek to collect personally identifiable information from you it is our intent to inform you before we do that and to tell you what we intend to do with the information. Such personally identifiable information may include your (a) name; (b) home address; (c) e-mail address or (d) telephone number. You will have the option not to provide the information, and in the future you will be able to "opt out" of certain uses of the information. If you choose not to provide the information we request, you can still visit most of CIRCLE OF SONGS Site, but you may be unable to access certain options, offers, and services or certain secure pages used for licensee reporting and payment and accessing and sending other information.

CIRCLE OF SONGS may selectively provide certain information to other companies or organizations whose products or services we think may interest you. If you do not want the information you provide to CIRCLE OF SONGS to be shared with other companies and you indicate this preference when you provide the information to CIRCLE OF SONGS, we will honor your preference.

CIRCLE OF SONGS is not responsible for the content or privacy practices of third-party Web sites to which this Site may link or may be linked.

Future substantive changes to this privacy policy will be grouped under a heading entitled "Recent Changes to the CIRCLE OF SONGS Privacy Policy."

This privacy policy is effective as of July 1, 2004.

If you have any comments or questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact our Webmaster at webmaster@circleofsongs.com.

CIRCLE OF SONGS Privacy Policy for Online Membership Applicants

CIRCLE OF SONGS will not use the personal information given on-line by applicants for CIRCLE OF SONGS membership for any purpose other than the processing of the applicants' applications. If an applicant is accepted for membership, we will handle his or her personal information as we do all CIRCLE OF SONGS members' personal information, using it only in furtherance of communications ordinarily exchanged with or engaged in with our membership body.

A Special Word To Our Members

Personal data privacy is a new and evolving area. We are trying to do our best to maintain the accuracy and security of any personal information that you provide to us. We are working on tools that will allow you to review and update your information in the future from this Site. Members especially can help us by contacting us when you become aware of inaccuracies. See Contacting CIRCLE OF SONGS.

Privacy With Respect to 18 and Under

CIRCLE OF SONGS's practices comply with the Children's Online Protection Rule of the Federal Trade Commission.
CIRCLE OF SONGS encourages parents and guardians to spend time online with their children and to participate in the interactive activities offered on this Site.
No information should be submitted to or posted at CIRCLE OF SONGS' Site by guests under 18 years of age without the consent of their parent or guardian.
Unless otherwise disclosed during collection, CIRCLE OF SONGS does not provide any personally identifying information of people under 18 years of age, regardless of its source, to any third-party for any purpose whatsoever.
No information collected from guests under 18 years of age is used for any marketing or promotional purposes whatsoever, either inside or outside CIRCLE OF SONGS, assuming CIRCLE OF SONGS is aware that the Site visitor is under 18 years of age.