Privacy Policy

Your privacy is critically important to us. We have a few fundamental principles:

  1. We are thoughtful about the personal information we ask you to provide and the personal information that we collect about you through the operation of our services.
  2. We store personal information for only as long as we have a reason to keep it.
  3. We aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what information on your website is shared publicly (or kept private), indexed by search engines, and permanently deleted.
  4. We aim for full transparency on how we gather, use, and share your personal information.

Information We Collect

We only collect information about you if we have a reason to do so — for example, to provide our Services, to communicate with you, or to make our Services better.

We collect this information from three sources: if and when you provide information to us, automatically through operating our Services, and from outside sources. Let’s go over the information that we collect.

Information You Provide to Us

It’s probably no surprise that we collect information that you provide to us directly. Here are some examples:

  1. Basic account information: We ask for basic information such as email address and name from you in order to send you a newsletter from us.
  2. Communications with us (hi there!): You may also provide us with information when you respond to surveys, communicate with us, post a question in our public forums, or sign up for a newsletter. When you communicate with us via form, email, comment, or otherwise, we store a copy of our communications.

Information We Collect Automatically

We also collect some information automatically:

  1. Log information: Like most online service providers, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, including the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information. We collect log information when you use our Services.
  2. Usage information: We collect information about your usage of our Services. We also collect information about what happens when you use our Services (e.g., page views, support document searches at en.support.wordpress.com, features enabled for your website and other parts of our Services) along with information about your device (e.g., screen size, name of cellular network, and mobile device manufacturer). We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, get insights on how people use our Services so we can make our Services better, and understand and make predictions about user retention.
  3. Location information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.
  4. Interactions with other users’ sites: We collect some information about your interactions with other users’ sites while you are logged in to your account with us.
  5. Information from cookies & other technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. Automattic uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies.

How and Why We Use Information

Purposes for Using Information

We use information about you for the purposes listed below:

  1. To provide our Services.
  2. To ensure quality, maintain safety, and improve our Services. For example, by providing automatic upgrades and new versions of our Services and by monitoring and analyzing how users interact with our Services so we can create new features that we think our users will enjoy and that will help them create and manage websites more efficiently or make our Services easier to use.
  3. To place and manage ads in our advertising program.
  4. To market our Services and measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our marketing.
  5. To protect our Services, our users, and the public. For example, by detecting security incidents; detecting and protecting against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; fighting spam; complying with our legal obligations; and protecting the rights and property of us and others.
  6. To fix problems with our Services.  by monitoring, debugging, repairing, and preventing issues.
  7. To customize the user experience. to personalize your experience by serving you relevant notifications and advertisements for our Services, recommending content through our Reader post suggestions, and providing new essays and stories through Longreads for your reading pleasure.
  8. To communicate with you. For example, by emailing you to ask for your feedback, share tips for getting the most out of our services, or keep you up to date about our privacy policy; If you don’t want to hear from us, you can opt out of marketing communications at any time.

How We Share Information

We share information about you in limited circumstances, and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy.

  1. Subsidiaries and independent contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries and independent contractors who need the information to help us provide our Services or process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for any personal information that we share with them.
  2. Third-party vendors: We may share information about you with third-party vendors who need the information in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you or your site. This includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you.
  3. Legal and regulatory requirements: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental requests.
  4. To protect rights, property, and others: We may disclose information about you when we believe in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Quatro Musical and Offerings, third parties, or the public at large.
  5. Business transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that Quatro Musical and Offerings goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.
  6. With your consent: We may share and disclose information with your consent or at your direction. For example, we may share your information with third parties when you authorize us to do so, like when you connected your site to a social media service through our Publicize feature.
  7. Published support requests: If you send us a request for assistance (for example, via a support email or one of our other feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish that request in order to clarify or respond to your request, or to help us support other users.

We have a long-standing policy that we do not sell our users’ data. We aren’t a data broker, we don’t sell your personal information to data brokers, and we don’t sell your information to other companies that want to spam you with marketing emails.

How Long We Keep Information

We generally discard information about you when it’s no longer needed for the purposes for which we collect and use it and we’re not legally required to keep it.

For example, we keep web server logs that record information about a visitor like a visitor’s IP address, browser type, and operating system, for approximately 30 days. We retain the logs for this period of time in order to, among other things, analyze traffic to Quatro Musical and Offerings website and investigate issues if something goes wrong.

Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so. We monitor our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Opt-out of our internal analytics program

You can do this by clicking unsubscribe link in our emails. By opting out, you will stop sharing information with our analytics tool about events or actions that happen after the opt-out.

Contacting Us About Your Rights

You can usually access, correct, or delete your personal data using your account settings and tools that we offer, but if you aren’t able to or you’d like to contact us about one of the other rights, go to Contact Us page form to, well, find out how to reach us.

When you contact us about one of your rights under this section, we’ll need to verify that you are the right person before we disclose or delete anything.

Children

Our website and services are not directed at children under the age of 13 and we do not knowingly collect any personal information from children under the age of 13. If you are a child under the age of 13 and we learn that we have inadvertently obtained personal information from you from our websites, or from any other source, then we will delete that information as soon as possible.

Please contact us if you are aware that we may have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under the age of 13.

How to Reach Us

If you have a question about this Privacy Policy, or you would like to contact us about any of the rights mentioned please contact us through our contact form page. These are the fastest ways to get a response to your inquiry.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Quatro Musical and Offerings may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. We encourage visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (like adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the updated policy.