Privacy Policy

1. Introduction

Value Music Records ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy explains how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website valuemusicrecords.com.

2. Information We Collect

2.1 Information You Provide

• Email enquiries sent through the contact links (including the information you choose to send)
• Any other information you voluntarily provide

2.2 Automatically Collected Information

• Device information (browser type, operating system)
• Usage data (pages visited, time spent)
• IP address (anonymized for analytics)
• Cookies and similar technologies

3. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information to:

• Respond to your inquiries and contact requests
• Improve our website and user experience
• Analyze website traffic and usage patterns
• Comply with legal obligations

4. Third-Party Services

4.1 Spotify

Our website embeds Spotify players for music streaming. When you interact with Spotify embeds, Spotify's privacy policy applies. Visit spotify.com/privacy for more information.

4.2 Website Analytics

Campaign labels may be retained in page memory for up to 30 minutes while navigating the site, so music clicks can be associated with the campaign that brought a visitor here. They are not stored in cookies or browser storage. Global Privacy Control also disables our analytics.

We use Besökskollen (besokskollen.se) to measure public page visits, clicks to music platforms, clicks to artist profiles and playback starts reported by embedded players. Events can include the public artist and song identifier, platform and button placement. A click or player start is not a verified stream or follow. We send the page path, screen width, referring website origin and campaign labels (utm_source, utm_medium and utm_campaign), but not arbitrary query strings, messages, email addresses or songwriter content. Admin routes are excluded. Our analytics code does not set cookies or use browser storage, and respects Do Not Track.

5. Cookies

The public site analytics does not set cookies. Other site features and external services work as follows:

• Admin authentication: The private studio uses an authentication cookie.
• Language: The selected public language is represented by the page URL.
• Spotify: Embedded players load content from Spotify, whose own privacy and storage practices apply.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect website functionality.

6. Your Rights (GDPR & CCPA)

Depending on your location, you may have the following rights:

• Access: Request a copy of your personal data
• Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate data
• Erasure: Request deletion of your data ("right to be forgotten")
• Portability: Request transfer of your data
• Objection: Object to processing of your data
• Withdraw consent: Withdraw previously given consent

To exercise these rights, contact us via our contact page.

7. Data Retention

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law. Contact form submissions are retained for 2 years. Analytics data is anonymized and aggregated.

8. Data Security

We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data against unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Our website uses HTTPS encryption for all data transmission.

9. Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If you believe we have collected data from a child, please contact us immediately.

10. Changes to This Policy

We may update this privacy policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated revision date. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

11. Contact Us

If you have questions about this privacy policy or our data practices, please contact us: