Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

This Privacy Policy outlines how Rafael K Music collects, uses, discloses, and protects your personal information when you use our website and services. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that your personal information is handled in a safe and responsible manner.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect and process the following data about you:

Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, etc.

Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, etc.

Usage Data: Information about how you use our website and services.

Marketing and Communications Data: Preferences in receiving marketing communications from us and your communication preferences.

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the information we collect for various purposes, including:

To improve, personalize, and expand our website and services.

To communicate with you, including customer service and support.

To send you updates, marketing, and promotional materials.

To process transactions and manage your orders.

When ordering, as appropriate, you may be asked to enter your: name, e-mail address, mailing address, phone number or credit card information. You may, however, visit our site anonymously.

Email and address data is stored for up to two years purposes of shipping, completion of orders and customer support. Order payment is completed by PayPal (read their privacy policy here).

As mentioned above YouTube, Spotify, Bandcamp and Soundcloud might be able to track you and they might store data on their servers about you. Please check their privacy policies how to request your personal data from them and how to disable this functionality on their end.

If you choose to sign up for our mailing list, we use the email address provided to send you occasional updates. Our mailing list is held with Mailchimp, and you can see their privacy policy here.

You have a right to know what personal data we have and you are entitled to ask to be deleted from our database or update your preferences at any time. If you wish to update any personal data held by us, request deletion of personal data held by us or request a copy of the personal data we currently hold on you, please contact us via the form on our website. We will respond to requests within a month of their receipt.

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personally identifiable information.

Links may be affiliate links.

4. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes we make will be posted on this page, and where appropriate, notified to you by email.

5. Cookies

We use “Cookies” which won’t harm your computer nor install any malicious software. Cookies are used to provide you with an improved user experience. Cookies are small text files which are stored on your computer when you open this web page with your web browser. Most cookies are called “Session cookies” which are automatically removed from your computer once you close your browser. Some other cookies will stay on your computer until you delete them.

You can adjust your browser in a way that it warns you about Cookies and you can configure your browser to reject all cookies, reject them under certain conditions and you can configure that cookies automatically expire after you have closed your browser. If you choose to deactivate cookies completely the functionality on this web page might be limited.

6. Google Analytics

My website uses the functionality of Google Analytics. Provider is Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway Mountain View, CA 94043, USA. Google analytics uses so called Cookies as described above in the section “Cookies”. You can control them in the same way as described above.

Google transmits information from your browser to their servers and your data is stored there. This data is used to analyse the use of this website and the cookies stored by google on your computer help them to perform this analysis. To protect your privacy your IP address is anonymised before it is being sent over to the google servers so that google is not able to identify your identity.

The information gathered by google is then used to generate reports about the activity of this website. This information is used to improve the website content, to identify the referrers to the website, identify geographic breadth and interest to the website and identify technical problems, for example broken links.

7. Meta Pixel

We utilize Meta Pixel, a tool provided by Meta Platforms, Inc., for our advertising and retargeting initiatives. Meta Pixel enables us to measure and optimize the effectiveness of our advertising by understanding your interactions with our website. This includes the pages you visit, the products or services you view, and your engagement with our content. The information collected through Meta Pixel is used to deliver personalized and targeted advertisements, making your experience more relevant and tailored to your interests. Rest assured, all data collected via Meta Pixel is treated in accordance with this Privacy Statement, and we do not share your personal information with Meta Platforms, Inc. for any purpose other than the optimization of our own advertising campaigns. If you wish to opt-out of Meta Pixel tracking, you can adjust your preferences through your browser settings or decline cookies.

8. YouTube

My website uses plugins from YouTube YouTube, LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. When you view web pages where a YouTube plugin is embedded then data is transmitted to YouTube and stored on their servers. This allows YouTube to keep track which videos you have watched embedded into witch websites. If you are logged into YouTube while you watch videos on this site then this will be associated with your account and YouTube logs your personal watch history. You can prevent this by logging out before you watch videos here and YouTube offers extensive controls to limit the storage of the watch history, to disable it and to remove this information from their servers. Please read their privacy policy.

9. Bandcamp

My website uses Bandcamp to stream music. BandCamp collects data on stream numbers and location and this is transmitted to and stored on their serves. I am not able to identify individual users. If you purchase anythign from my store on BandCamp I will use this information to update you on that purchase and (if appropriate) post the purchase to you. No data will be kept longer than is needed for these functions. Please read their privacy policy.

10. Soundcloud

My website uses Soundcloud to stream music. If you are logged into Soundcloud your streams will be attached to your user and allows Soundcloud to keep track of which tracks you have listened to. I am able to access this data through my account in Soundcloud. This data is amalgamated with streams from Soundcloud’s website so I am unable to tell where a stream has taken place (embedded on my website or from Soundclouds website). Data collected in this way is transfered to and stored on their servers. Please read their privacy policy.

11. Spotify

My website uses Spotify to stream music. If you are logged into Spotify your streams will be attached ot your user and used to influence your recomendations. This data is transfered to and stored on Spotify’s servers. I am unable to view individual user data though can track total streams of my music through Spotify for Artists. Please read their privacy policy.

12. Wordpress

This website is created via WordPress. Please read their privacy policy