The Song Company – Terms and Conditions of Use

Welcome to our website. This website, with URL addresses https://the.song.company/, https://www.song.company/, and any subdomain of https://song.company/, is owned and operated by The Song Company Pty Ltd (ABN 27 001 577 377). Should you continue to use this website & app, you are agreeing to comply with and be bound by the following terms and conditions of use, which together with our Privacy Policy govern The Song Company Pty Ltd’s relationship with you in connection with this website & app. Should you not agree with any of these terms and conditions, please do not use our website & app.

The terms ‘The Song Company Pty Ltd’, ‘The Song Company’, ‘the.song.company’, ‘song.company’, ‘us’, ‘our’ or ‘we’ refer to The Song Company Pty Ltd, the owner of the website & app, whose registered office is at Suite 6, 15 Hickson Road, Dawes Point, New South Wales 2000, Australia. The terms ‘you’ or ‘your’ refer to the website & app user.

Your use of this website is subject to the following terms and conditions:

The content of this website is for your general information and use only. It is subject to change without prior notice.

This website may use cookies to monitor browsing preferences. If you allow cookies to be used, personal information may be stored by us for use by third parties. For further information about cookies, please consult the Privacy Policy, available at https://the.song.company/docs/privacy.html

The content of the website should be used as a guide only. Whilst all efforts are made to ensure that the information is correct and current at the time of publishing, information contained on this information is of a general and indicative nature only and you should corroborate information with advertised presenters of the events advertised to ensure that content is correct and up-to-date. Links to other websites & apps are provided as a convenience only. Neither we nor any third parties provide any warranty or guarantee as to the performance, accuracy, timeliness, completeness or suitability of the information and materials found or offered on this website & app for any particular purpose. You hereby acknowledge that such information and materials may contain mistakes, inaccuracies or errors and we expressly exclude any liability for such to the fullest extent permissible by law.

Your use of any information or materials on this website & app is entirely at your own risk, for which we shall not be liable. It shall be your own responsibility to ensure that any products, services or information available through this website & app meet your specific requirements.

This website & app contains material which is owned by or licensed to us. This material includes, but is not limited to, the content, design, layout, appearance, look and graphics of the website & app. Any reproduction of the website & app’s material is prohibited other than in accordance with the copyright notice, which forms part of these terms and conditions.

All trademarks reproduced on this website & app, which are not the property of, or licensed to us, are acknowledged on the website & app wherever possible.

Unauthorized use of this website & app may be a criminal offence and/or give rise to a claim for damages.

This website may also, on occasion, include links to other websites & apps which are not controlled by us. These links are given for your convenience to provide you with further information. You acknowledge that they are used at your own risk. They do not signify that we recommend or endorse the websites & apps. We have no control over the nature, content and availability of those websites & apps.

Your use of this website and any dispute arising out of your use of it is subject to the laws of New South Wales, Australia.

You may only use this website & app for lawful purposes and in a manner consistent with the nature and purpose of the website.

These terms and conditions do not relate to your use of any product or service described on our website unless otherwise agreed. You must refer to the individual warranty relevant to any particular product or service.

These terms and conditions may be amended from time to time. Your continued use of our website following any such amendments will be deemed to be confirmation that you accept those amendments.

You indemnify us from and against all claims, suits, demands, actions, liabilities, costs and expenses (including legal costs and expenses on a full indemnity basis) resulting from your use of the website.

In no event will we be liable for any loss, damage, cost or expense including legal costs and expenses (whether direct or indirect) incurred by you in connection with the use of this website.

Every effort is made to keep the website & app up and running smoothly. However, we take no responsibility for, and will not be liable for, the website & app being temporarily unavailable due to technical issues beyond our control.

Summary

  • Personal Data collected for the following purposes and using the following services:
  • Access to third party services' accounts
  • Access to the Facebook account
  • Permissions: In app registration, Likes and Publish to the Wall
  • Access to the Twitter account
  • Personal Data: In app registration and Various types of Data
  • Content commenting
  • Disqus
  • Personal Data: Cookie and Usage Data
  • Interaction with external social networks and platforms
  • Facebook Like button, social widgets
  • Personal Data: Cookie, Usage Data, Profile information


Full policy

Data Controller and Owner

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: 

  • Cookie and Usage Data.

Other Personal Data collected may be described in other sections of this privacy policy or by dedicated explanation text contextually with the Data collection.

The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or collected automatically when using this Application.

Any use of Cookies - or of other tracking tools - by this Application or by the owners of third party services used by this Application, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify Users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the User.
Failure to provide certain Personal Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services.

The User assumes responsibility for the Personal Data of third parties published or shared through this Application and declares to have the right to communicate or broadcast them, thus relieving the Data Controller of all responsibility.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data.
The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Data Controller's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time

The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Application to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Access to third party services' accounts, Creation of the user in app profile, Content commenting and Interaction with external social networks and platforms.

The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.

Facebook permissions asked by this Application

This Application may ask some Facebook permissions allowing it to perform actions with the User's Facebook account and to retrieve information, including Personal Data, from it.

For more information about the following permissions, refer to the Facebook permissions documentation (https://developers.facebook.com/docs/authentication/permissions/) and to the Facebook privacy policy (https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/).

The permissions asked are the following:

Basic information

By default, this includes certain User’s Data such as id, name, picture, gender, and their locale. Certain connections of the User, such as the Friends, are also available. If the user has made more of their data public, more information will be available.

Likes

Provides access to the list of all of the pages the user has liked.

Publish to the Wall

Enables the app to post content, comments, and likes to a user's stream and to the streams of the user's friends.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Access to third party services' accounts

These services allow this Application to access Data from your account on a third party service and perform actions with it.

These services are not activated automatically, but require explicit authorization by the User.

Access to the Facebook account (This Application)

This service allows this Application to connect with the User's account on the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook Inc.

Permissions asked: Likes and Publish to the Wall.

Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy https://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Access to the Twitter account (This Application)

This service allows this Application to connect with the User's account on the Twitter social network, provided by Twitter Inc.

Personal Data collected: Various types of Data.

Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy http://twitter.com/privacy

Content commenting

Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this Application.

Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments.
If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when users do not use the content commenting service.

Disqus (Disqus)

Disqus is a content commenting service provided by Big Heads Labs Inc.

Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data.

Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy http://docs.disqus.com/help/30/

Interaction with external social networks and platforms

These services allow interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Application.

The interaction and information obtained by this Application are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network.

If a service enabling interaction with social networks is installed it may still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.

Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook)

The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook Inc.

Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data.

Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy http://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation.php

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related services.
The User is aware of the fact that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System Logs and Maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System Logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

The rights of Users

Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.

This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.To determine whether any of the third party services it uses honour the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller erase the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.


Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically from this Application (or third party services employed in this Application ), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User

The individual using this Application, which must coincide with or be authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refer.

Data Subject

The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers to.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application.

This Application

The hardware or software tool by which the Personal Data of the User is collected.

Cookie

Small piece of data stored in the User's device.

Legal information

Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n. 95/46/EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies.

This privacy policy relates solely to this Application.