Privacy Policy as of April 28, 2007.

GaraheJam Artists’ Privacy Policy This Privacy Policy applies to the GaraheJam website. GaraheJam believes in the responsible use of personal information. We understand that without the trust and respect of the musicians and fans that make up our community we’d have nothing. So we’ll strive to honor the privacy of anyone who signs up as a member.

GaraheJam is the sole owner of the personal information collected on its website. We will not sell, share, or rent this information to others in ways different from what is disclosed in this Privacy Policy.

GaraheJam will staff ask for personal information only when it’s necessary in order to deliver value-add service to you. We require certain pieces of information so we can provide you a personalized experience. We collect your zip-code or other location information in order to provide locally-targeted notifications of nearby concerts. Similarly, we need names of uploading users and musicians in order to identify each user/artist and only require a mailing address when shipping of music will occur.

Here’s the information that we require for basic registration at GaraheJam.com:

1. A Screen name is collected and made public on the site. (Your Screen name becomes your public display-name at our Websites. It need bear no relation to your actual name). The following information is collected at registration:
2. Your email address (for important contacts).
3. A password for your account. (We remind you not to reveal your password to anyone).
4. Your gender and date of birth. (For our own demographic reports - so we can build a better site for our audience).
5. Your zip code (US/Philippine residents only).
6. This data will be saved by GaraheJam in our databases.

Note: In the future, your music preferences, favorites, interests, and other information may be displayed in order to attract more fans.

Lastly, in general on GaraheJam, you may provide information for your Public Profile to introduce yourself to other members of GaraheJam, including the information listed above, or other information, but are under no obligation to do so.

If you register your Band with GaraheJam, you may be required to provide us with your first and last names, plus the first and last names and gender of all band members. In addition you will need to provide a “biography” of your band. These names and bio will be made public on your band’s profile page, gender will remain private. In addition you may provide additional information about your band for public display on your Band Profile, but are under no obligation to do so.

The information that you provide for your Public Profile or for your Band Profile will be publicly displayed without restriction on GaraheJam.com. By providing such information for public display, you recognize that it may be considered public domain and as such may be viewed, copied, or re-distributed by anybody who visits our Website. This public information includes without limitation your music preferences and any other information you choose to make available such as your own name, others’ names, images, song names and biographical information. Nevertheless, you retain any trademark rights of your band/song names and any copyright of your music and lyrics.

Except for administrative emails (like important changes to this privacy policy, for example) all other emails we send are under your control. You may register your wishes at the Account Settings section of GaraheJam.com. We issue many types of email communication. The following is a non-comprehensive list: (1) we send a registration email when you first become a member (2) we send a regular opt-in newsletter (3) we provide an opt-in subscription to occasional emails for the announcement of new site features, special events, etc (4) we send invitations or “add friend requests” at the request of your friends who are users of our service; we may send one follow up email to such invitations if they do not generate a response the first time (5) we notify you of updates that have happened to your account, your profile page, or your band page (6) if you are in a band, we notify you of changes in your status within a contest, or reviews of your music (7) we may notify you when you receive messages from other members of the service.

This website takes reasonable precautions to protect our users’ information. When users submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected. All of our users’ information, not just the sensitive information mentioned above, is restricted in our offices. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, a customer service representative) are granted access to personally identifiable information. Furthermore, all employees are kept up-to-date on our security and privacy practices and are regularly reminded about the importance we place on privacy, and what they can do to ensure our customers’ information is protected. Finally, the servers that we store personally identifiable information on are kept in a secure environment, behind a locked cage.

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of each and every website that collects personally identifiable information. This privacy statement applies solely to information collected by this Website.

If a user elects to use our referral service for informing a friend about our site, we ask them for the friend’s name and email address. We will automatically send the friend a one-time email invitation to visit the site, and may send one follow-up invitation to friends that did not respond. We store this information for the sole purpose of sending these emails.

In the event of an inconsistency, the Terms of Use shall control.