Privacy Policy

• Contact and tip forms: your name, email address and message.
• Get Published submissions: your name, email, band or project details, links, bio, and the writing, photos or other material you send.
• Advertising inquiries: your name, company, email and campaign details.
• Forum and member accounts: your email address, member handle, password, genre tags and the posts you write.
• Classifieds: the listing you post (title, description, location, price and contact details) and, for gear sales that carry a fee, a payment method on file.
• Purchases, such as print subscriptions: your name, email, shipping address and order details.
• Newsletters: your email address, if you subscribe.

Card and bank details are handled by our payment processor. We do not store full card or bank account numbers on our servers.

When you visit, we and our partners automatically collect information such as your IP address, browser and device type, approximate location based on your IP address, the pages you view, the links you click, the site that referred you, and the date and time of your visit. We collect this through cookies, pixels and similar technologies, including our website platform’s analytics and Google Analytics.

• To run, maintain and improve the site
• To answer your messages and review your submissions
• To publish material you send us for publication, credited the way you ask
• To operate the forum and classifieds, including automated moderation that filters prohibited words and content
• To process orders, listings and payments
• To send newsletters you asked for (unsubscribe anytime with the link in any email)
• To show advertising and measure how ads perform
• To understand how readers use the site
• To protect the site from spam, fraud and abuse, and to meet our legal obligations

We show ads from third-party advertising partners, including Google AdSense.

• Third-party vendors, including Google, use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s prior visits to this website or other websites.
• Google’s use of advertising cookies enables it and its partners to serve ads to our users based on their visit to this site and/or other sites on the Internet.
• You may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings: https://www.google.com/settings/ads
• You can also opt out of many third-party vendors’ use of cookies for personalized advertising at https://www.aboutads.info/choices and https://optout.networkadvertising.org
• To learn how Google uses information from sites that use its services, visit https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites

Advertising partners currently serving ads on our site:

• Google AdSense: https://policies.google.com/technologies/ads

We will update this list when we add partners. Visitors in the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom and Switzerland are asked for consent before personalized ads are shown.

You can also block or delete cookies in your browser settings. Some parts of the site may not work without them. Our site does not currently respond to browser “Do Not Track” signals.

Some links on the site are affiliate links. If you buy through one, we may earn a commission, and the retailer may use a cookie to record the referral.

We do not sell your personal information for money. We share it only:

• With service providers that run the site for us, such as website hosting, payment processing, email and analytics providers
• With advertising partners, through the cookies described above
• When you post publicly: forum posts, classified listings and published submissions are visible to everyone, along with your handle or byline
• When the law requires it, or to protect the rights, safety or property of Rock Magazine, our readers or others
• If Rock Magazine is sold or merged, as part of that transaction

Under some state privacy laws, letting advertising partners collect information through cookies for personalized ads may count as a “sale” or “sharing” of personal information. You can opt out as described below.

Depending on where you live, including California, other U.S. states with privacy laws, the European Economic Area and the United Kingdom, you may have the right to:

• Know what personal information we hold about you and get a copy
• Correct it
• Delete it
• Opt out of the “sale” or “sharing” of your personal information and of targeted advertising
• Use these rights without being treated differently

To make a request, email vitanovacapital@protonmail.com with “Privacy request” in the subject line. We may need to verify your identity first, and you may use an authorized agent. We will respond within the time the law requires.

Rock Magazine is not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from them. You must be 13 or older to create a forum account, and 18 or older to post classifieds, sell gear or make purchases. If you believe a child has sent us personal information, email vitanovacapital@protonmail.com and we will delete it.

We keep information only as long as we need it for the purposes above, such as while your account is open or until we have answered your message, and as required for legal, tax and accounting purposes. You can ask us to delete your account at any time.

We use reasonable safeguards, including encrypted (HTTPS) connections, to protect your information. No website is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee it.

Our articles link to ticket sellers, record stores, other publications and other websites. Those sites have their own privacy practices, so please read their policies.

Rock Magazine is run from the United States, and the information we collect is processed there.

If we change this policy, we will update the effective date at the top. We will note significant changes on the site.

vitanovacapital@protonmail.com
Vita Nova Capital Group LLC, California, USA