Privacy Policy

Your privacy is very important to us. At Beckmann Violins we have a few fundamental principles that we follow:

• We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it.
• We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law or protect our rights.
• We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of our site.

Beckmann Violin Shop, Inc. (“Beckmann Violins”) operates beckmannviolins.com. It is Beckmann Violins’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our websites.

Website Visitors

Like most website operators, Beckmann Violins collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Beckmann Violins’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Beckmann Violins’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Beckmann Violins may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its website.

Gathering of Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Beckmann Violins’s websites choose to interact with Beckmann Violins in ways that require Beckmann Violins to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Beckmann Violins gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. Those who wish to receive Beckmann Violins updates via email, we collect their emails. In each case, Beckmann Violins collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Beckmann Violins. Beckmann Violins does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.

Aggregated Statistics

Beckmann Violins may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its websites. For instance, Beckmann Violins may monitor the most popular pages on the beckmannviolins.com site. Beckmann Violins may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Beckmann Violins does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Beckmann Violins discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Beckmann Violins’s behalf or to provide services available at Beckmann Violins’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Beckmann Violins’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Beckmann Violins will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Beckmann Violins discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Beckmann Violins believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Beckmann Violins, third parties or the public at large. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Beckmann Violins takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

Cookies

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. Beckmann Violins uses cookies to help Beckmann Violins identify and track visitors, their usage of Beckmann Violins website, and their website access preferences. Beckmann Violins visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Beckmann Violins’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Beckmann Violins’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Beckmann Violins may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Beckmann Violins’s sole discretion. Beckmann Violins encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.