Privacy Policy

  1. DEFINITIONS

    • “benkestokmusic.com” hereinafter referred to as "We”, “Us”, “Ben Kestok” or “Company”. Users or customers of the site and/or its services hereinafter referred to as “User”, “Customer” or “You”. This Privacy Policy hereinafter referred to as “Policy”.

  2. ABOUT THE PRIVACY POLICY

    • This Policy aims to make clear what personal information We collect from You, what We do with that information, how We use cookies on this site, and what Your rights are in regards to Your information.

    • THIS POLICY IS EFFECTIVE FROM 04/08/2020 (FOURTH OF AUGUST TWO-THOUSAND AND TWENTY).

  3. PERSONAL INFORMATION & COMMUNICATIONS

    • 3.1. - PERSONAL INFORMATION

      • 3.1.1. - WHAT INFORMATION WE GATHER FOR ORDERS OR COMMUNICATIONS

        • When you buy something on this website, or use the contact form, we collect personal information from you.. We may collect information like your:

          • Billing and shipping address, details relating to your purchase, email address, name and date of birth.

        • We use this information to most effectively provide you with the service you require. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us. As you go through checkout, this site may auto-complete your shipping and billing address by sharing what you type with the Google Places API and returning suggestions to you to improve your checkout experience.

      • 3.1.2. - WHAT INFORMATION WE GATHER FOR WEBSITE ANALYTICAL PURPOSES

        • This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

          • Information about your browser, network, and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website or your IP address.

        • This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

          • Clicks, internal links, pages visited, scrolling, searches or timestamps.

        • We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

      • 3.1.3 - FONTS

        • This website uses font files from Google Fonts and Adobe Fonts. To properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you, including:

          • Information about your browser, network, or device or your IP address.

      • 3.1.3. - HOW LONG WE STORE INFORMATION

        • Users personal information is collected and stored by Squarespace. In accordance with GDPR, User’s personal information (defined earlier in this section) will only be stored for a long as it is necessary. In the case of benkestokmusic.com, this will apply if a customer orders a service. In this case, personal data will be stored for the duration of the service and will be removed once the finished material has been delivered and We have no more purpose for keeping the information.

      • 3.1.4. - HOW THIS INFORMATION IS SECURED

        • As personal information submitted on this site is stored by Squarespace, Users may look to Squarespace’s Privacy Policy for information on how Squarespace secures their information. We have copied section 8 of their policy, which explains how they protect Your information, here for convenience:

          • While no service is completely secure, we have a security team dedicated to keeping personal information safe. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards that are intended to appropriately protect against accidental or unlawful destruction, accidental loss, unauthorized alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, misuse and any other unlawful form of processing, of the personal information in our possession. We employ security measures such as using firewalls to protect against intruders, building redundancies throughout our network (so that if one server goes down, another can cover for it) and testing for and protecting against network vulnerabilities.

    • 3.2. - VISITOR DATA

      • This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including:

        • Information about your browser, network and device, web pages you visited prior to coming to this website and your IP address.

      • Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

    • 3.3. - EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS

      • 3.3.1. - ORDER EMAILS

        • We may email you with messages about your order or account activity. For example, we may email you to tell you that:

          • You’ve made a purchase or your order has been delivered/shipped.

        • It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, so they can send these emails to you on our behalf.

      • 3.3.2. - ABANDONED CART EMAILS

        • You’ll receive an automated email within 24 hours after you abandon your shopping cart, if all of the following occur:

          • You enter your email address at checkout, you add a product which is in stock to your shopping cart, you close your browser or leave this website without completing your purchase.

        • You can unsubscribe from these messages at the bottom of the email. The email will link back to this website, where you can pick up where you left off and complete your purchase.

      • 3.3.3. - GENERAL EMAIL COMMUNICATIONS

        • During the process of creating Your product, We may email you with questions, requests, updates, product delivery or any general feedback. This is not an automated process and such emails will be written and sent personally. Pursuant to clause 3.1.3. of the policy, your contact information will only be stored for as long as necessary with regards to your order.

  4. USER’S RIGHTS

    • 4.1. - GATHERING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

      • This policy sets forth that we will only gather, retain and use personal information if you either specifically opt-in, or are offered the opportunity to opt-out and elect not to opt-out of such sharing at the time you provide personal information or when you choose to participate in a feature on this site.

    • 4.2. - ACCESSING, MODIFYING OR REMOVING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION STORED WITH US

      • Users of the site have a right to access whatever information We have stored on them, and to ask for that information to be edited, removed or not shared with third-parties. As this site is run by Squarespace, this is done by Us submitting a request to privacy@squarespace.com, so Users of the site may use the contact form on this site to request their information, or alternatively email ben@benkestokmusic.com with any requests. Company pledges, and is bound by applicable data privacy laws, to always provide complete electronic copies of the information requested by User, so longs as it is their personal information, or to otherwise comply with any relevant User requests.

    • 4.3. - CONTACTING US

      • Company pledges to always provide up-to-date contact information on benkestokmusic.com, should User ever need access to their personal information.

        • CURRENT POINT OF CONTACT IS EITHER THROUGH CONTACT FORM FOUND ON THIS PAGE, OR BY EMAIL TO ben@benkestokmusic.com

    • 4.4. - DO-NOT-TRACK BROWSER REQUESTS

      • Pursuant to CalOPPA regulation, California residents are entitled to know how benkestokmusic.com responds to “Do Not Track” browser settings. Like many other websites and online services, we do not currently alter our practices when we receive Do Not Track signals as there is no currently no regulation enforcing any specific response to these signals.

  5. COOKIES

    • 5.1. - THE COOKIES WE USE

      • This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, and for how long they will be stored unless deleted, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

      • These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

      • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner by clicking “OK - I agree”. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

    • 5.2. - CAN I OPT OUT?

      • You cannot opt out of the functional cookies that are required for this site to function securely and properly, but you may opt out of the analytical cookies BY NOT ACKNOWLEDGING THE COOKIE BANNER BY CLICKING “OK - I AGREE”.

  6. CHANGES TO THE POLICY

    • Should this Privacy Policy ever be updated, users of the site will be notified in an announcement bar that will appear on the top of the site immediately after the update. This bar will be displayed on the site for at least thirty (30) days after updates have been made.