Privacy and Cookie Policies
Updated November 27, 2024
Who we are
The SonobeatRecords.com website is owned and operated by Sonobeat Historical Archives (“we”, “us”, and “our”) and hosted in the United States of America by HostPapa, Inc. Sonobeat Historical Archives, located in the United States, is a collective of the heirs of Sonobeat Recording Company and Sonosong Music Publishing Company co-founder Bill Josey Sr., who died in 1976. We provide historical information about singers, songwriters, and musicians who Sonobeat Recording Company recorded in Central Texas during the period 1967-1976, as well as facts about and insights into the Central Texas music scene, and particularly that of Austin, Texas. We also issue digital editions of recordings made by Sonobeat Recording Company during the 1960s and 1970s, but we do not sell anything on our website. All our digital releases are offered through third party online services, such as Apple Music and Amazon Music, to which we provide links. We do not control the privacy and cookie policies of these third party services and suggest that you review their respective privacy and cookie policies.
You may contact us by sending an email to privacy@sonobeat.com.
SSL security
No data transmission over the internet is guaranteed to be 100% secure from third party interception. But to provide a high level of data transmission security, we use industry standard SSL (Secure Sockets Layer) technology to establish an encrypted connection between our website and your web browser. Sonobeat.com and SonobeatRecords.com redirect you to https://A URL that begins with https:// uses an SSL connection. The “s” following “http” indicates a secure connection.sonobeatrecords.com, which is secured by an SSL certificate issued by AlphaSSL, powered by GlobalSign. Most browsers indicate that the website you are viewing is using an SSL connection by showing a in or near the URL bar. In many browsers, you may click on the to view details about the website’s SSL certificate.
The information and data we collect
We do not require or ask you to sign up or enter a user name or password to access any pages on our website. We do not offer any newsletters or subscription services, nor do we send out marketing email, conduct surveys, sell products or services on our website, or provide a comments section on any of our website pages, so we never ask you to fill out any forms or submit any information to us except when you make an in-site search query. We do not directly collect any personally-identifiable information or data about you unless you initiate communication with us through email, in which case we will collect and store your email address, the content of the email, and any other personally-identifiable information and data that you voluntarily provide in or through your email communication with us. Although we are happy to receive email inquiries and comments, we do not solicit you to communicate with us.
We have access to certain non-personally-identifiable information and data collected by our web hosting service when you visit our website. This information usually includes:
- the IP address or proxy server IP address from which your connection to our website originated
- the domain name you requested (for example, “sonobeat.com” or “sonobeatrecords.com”)
- the place – for example, the region, country, and locality – from which your connection to our website originated or through which it was routed
- the identity of your internet service provider
- the date and time of your visits to our website
- the length of your visits to our website
- the pages on our website that you visit and time you spend on each
- the number of times you come to our website within any period of time, such as each day, week, or month
- the website that referred you to our website (such as Google, DuckDuckGo, Yahoo, or a link from a third party website)
- the operating system and browser your computer uses (such as Windows, MacOS, iOS, iPad OS, Android, Edge, Outlook, Safari, Chrome, Firefox)
This information does not tell us your name, physical address, email address, or phone number.
We use Site Search 360 to enable to you search within our site (for example, to find pages on our site that contain the name of a person, act, or song Sonobeat recorded). Site Search 360 is operated by SEMKNOX GmbH, a company located in Germany. When you use the Site Search 360 search feature on our site, in addition to collecting some of the information listed above, Site Search 360 collects your search query and retains this information, which is available to us via Site Search 360 search reports.
In addition, Site Search 360 sets cookies for user-centric security and to store your last search query. These cookies do not store any personally-identifiable information. All communication between you, when you use the search function on our website, and Site Search 360’s server is encrypted and secured via SSL (Secure Sockets Layer); however, your search queries are processed and the results provided by Site Search 360, not by us.
We use CookieBot (“CookieBot”) to assure compliance with EU and other privacy laws, such as the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and ePrivacy Directive (ePR). CookieBot is operated by Cybot, a company located in Denmark. CookieBot provides cookie consent, cookie monitoring, and cookie control for our website, as well as an analysis of the cookies used on our website, which you can review on our Cookie Declaration page. When you first visit SonobeatRecords.com from any country in the European Union, CookieBot presents you with information about and personal control over the cookies we use on our website. You may modify your cookie choices for our website at any time by visiting our Cookie Declaration page.
We use Google Analytics, a web page useage analysis service provided by Google LLC (“Google”), to provide the information mentioned above. Code that enables Google Analytics to work is embedded in each of our web pages. We also have access to some of the information and data mentioned above through logs kept by our web host, HostPapa Inc. (“HostPapa”). The information and data Google and HostPapa collect on our website are used to track and examine user interaction with our web pages and to prepare and share reports on those interactions with us and, in Google’s case, with Google’s affiliated services. Google may use the data collected here to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network; however, our website does not contain any Google-served ads and, therefore, we are not responsible for any of Google’s data collection and sharing policies or procedures nor those of Site Search 360, HostPapa, or CookieBot.
Many typefaces (fonts) and icons on our website are served by Google, Fontawesome.com, and icons8.com, each of which has its own privacy and cookie policies and, therefore, we are not responsible for any of those policies. You may review Google’s policy here, Fontawesome’s policy here, and icon8’s policy here.
How we use the information and data we collect
We use the information and data available to us from Google Analytics, Site Search 360, and HostPapa to better understand who visits our website and from what parts of the world, the number of unique visitors, how visitors navigate within our website, and the search queries visitors make within our website. This helps us improve the design, flow, and content of our website. We use the information and data collected by CookieBot to assure compliance with website privacy laws around the world. However, we do not use information or data we collect to serve you tailored advertising or personalize your experience on our website, except to direct you to pages on our website responsive to your search query when you make a Site Search 360 search or to help you reach websites and online services, such as Apple Music, that we mention or link to.
When you contact us directly by email, we use your email address and the content of your email, which may contain personally identifiable information, to respond to your inquiries and comments. We do not provide your email address or any other personally-identifiable information or data about you to any third party unless you expressly ask or authorize us to do so. Similarly, we do not initiate email contact with you for marketing purposes, but our responses to email you send us may contain marketing information we believe to be responsive to your inquiries or comments.
Although we take appropriate measures to safeguard against unauthorized disclosures of information and data we receive from Google Analytics, Site Search 360, HostPapa, and CookieBot and that we collect directly, we cannot assure you that this information and data will never be disclosed in a manner inconsistent with our Privacy and Cookie Policies. It is an unfortunate feature of the internet affecting all websites that data theft occurs and that stolen data is used in harmful ways by malicious actors.
We do not use or transfer personally-identifiable information or data about you in ways unrelated to the uses described in our Privacy and Cookie Policies without first giving you the opportunity to opt out of these unrelated uses.
Although we may access and review the information and data collected by Google Analytics, Site Search 360, HostPapa, and CookieBot when you visit our website, we do not retain that information. We retain only information and data you provide to us directly, for example, through email communications you send us. Although you can request that we erase any of your personal information and data in our possession, we do not control or have the ability to erase information collected by Google Analytics, Site Search 360, HostPapa, or CookieBot. If you request us to erase your personal information in our possession, we will do so, except that we will not erase and will continue to retain information that is necessary for our legitimate business purposes (for example, we will retain information you provide us via email about artists Sonobeat recorded or that correct factual errors on our website) and to comply with law and regulations, prevent fraud, resolve disputes, troubleshoot problems, assist with investigations, enforce our Terms of use and Privacy and Cookie Policies, and take other actions permitted by law. The information we retain will be handled in accordance with our Privacy and Cookie Policies.
Cookies
To enhance your experience while visiting our website, our web pages use “cookies” to, for example, help you navigate our site or navigate to third party websites we mention or link to, conduct in-site search queries, and provide us with website usage statistics. Cookies are text files placed and stored in your computer’s web browser database. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address, name, or other personally-identifiable information. If you choose to furnish us with personally-identifiable information or data, such as through email communications, this information and data may be linked to the data stored in the cookie.
As we mentioned above, we, Google Analytics, Site Search 360, HostPapa, and CookieBot set cookies on our website. According to the privacy policies of those third party websites, these cookies do not store any personally-identifiable information. Most modern web browsers provide tools that let you permit, deny, limit, and erase cookies set by websites. Learn more about website cookies at the Cloudflare website.
“Do Not Track”
Most modern web browsers provide a means for you to automatically send a “Do Not Track” request to the websites you visit. California Business & Professions Code Section 22575(b) provides that California residents are entitled to know how our website responds to “Do Not Track” browser settings. Because there is not yet any internet industry consensus as to the meaning of “Do Not Track” in this context, like many other websites and online services, we do not alter our practices when we receive a “Do Not Track” request from a web browser. Learn more about “Do Not Track” at the Do Not Track website.
The California Consumer Privacy Act
The California Consumer Privacy Act (“CCPA”), which became effective on January 1, 2020, requires that any for-profit business that sells the personal information of more than 50,000 California residents annually, or has an annual gross revenue exceeding $25,000,000, or derives more than 50% of its annual revenue from selling the personal information of California residents must provide California residents the right to opt out of having their data sold to third parties, request disclosure of data already collected, and request deletion of data collected. Although SonobeatRecords.com does not meet any of the threshholds under the CCPA (we do not sell your personal information, nor do we have gross revenue exceeding $25,000,000, nor do we make more than 50% of our annual revenue from reselling personal information), we afford California residents the same rights under the CCPA as if we did meet the criteria. Our data collection policies are described on this page, and, if you are a California resident, you may exercise your CCPA rights by contacting us at privacy@sonobeat.com.
Collection of information and data by third party websites and services
Our website contains mentions of and links to websites and online services, such as Apple Music and Amazon Music, operated by or on behalf of third parties, each of which has its own information and data practices that may be different than ours. We do not control the privacy and cookie policies of these third party websites and urge you to review their respective privacy and cookie policies.
Our commitment to security
We maintain appropriate physical, electronic, and managerial procedures to safeguard and help prevent unauthorized access to, maintain data security of, and correctly use the information and data we collect online or receive from the third party services we use. The primary method by which we achieve these safeguards is by not collecting personally-identifiable information about you in the first place.
Updates and effective date
From time to time, we may update our Privacy and Cookie Policies. We will notify you when we make material changes to the way we treat personally-identifiable information and data by placing a notice on our website’s home page directing you to this page. We encourage you to periodically check back and review our policies so that you always will know what information and data we collect, how we use it, and to whom we disclose it.
Our privacy and cookie policies described on this page were most recently updated on November 27, 2024, primarily to correct spelling and grammatical errors, add clarity, and add and revise references to third party resources and providers we use, but our policies are in all material respects the same as those which we implemented on February 20, 2012, as updated on January 6, 2016, November 25, 2017, May 6, 10, 12, and 18, 2018, April 23, 2019, May 15, 2019, June 15, 2019, October 14, 2019, November 10, 2019, November 8, 2020, and September 5, 2022.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about our Privacy and Cookie Policies or their implementation, you may contact us at privacy@sonobeat.com.