Privacy Policy

This policy was written in German. To the extent any translated version of this policy conflicts with the German version, the German version controls.

This privacy policy applies to your use of our website inside.buddemusic.com (hereinafter „website“). Protecting our users' personal data is an important concern for BUDDE. All of BUDDE’s activities on and in connection with this website comply with the applicable data protection legislation. The term 'you' refers to the user or viewer of our website.

The website is owned and operated by Budde Music Publishing GmbH s (hereinafter „BUDDE“) whose registered office is Hohenzollerndamm 54a, 14199 Berlin, Germany.

This privacy policy informs you on how and for what purpose we process personal data in connection with your visit to, and use of, our website. Any changes that we make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

BUDDE ensures that stored data and information remains confidential and shall be used within the limits of the statutory provisions, in particular data protection regulations, only.

BUDDE shall provide personal data of you to third parties only if this is required for statutory or legal reasons or if BUDDE has your express consent to do so.

BUDDE is entitled to provide personal data of you to third parties if these third parties are acting on behalf of BUDDE, in particular in relation to the provision, operation and maintenance of the technical infrastructure of the website (capturing of contents, service delivery of server capacities, etc.).

BUDDE is entitled to gather, process and ascertain your connection data to detect, locate and fix faults and errors in the telecommunications systems to the extent necessary in any particular instance. The same shall be applicable for illegal utilisation of the telecommunications networks and services.

In accordance with the statutory provisions BUDDE is entitled to provide information about your personal data to the prosecuting authorities and courts for law enforcement purposes.

During the term of the agreement BUDDE can send you portal related notifications (e.g. via e-mail or newsletter). You can choose to opt out of any of our mailings at any time.

BUDDE does not pass personal data on to third parties, including the postal address and e-mail address, without your explicit approval.

You will be able to create an own profile after the registration on the website.

Upon request, BUDDE will inform you which of your personal data, if any, was collected and stored during your visits to our website. This service is free of charge and can be in electronic format if required.

Due to the inherent nature of the Internet, BUDDE cannot guarantee that information, during transmission through the Internet or while stored on our system or otherwise in our care, will be safe from intrusion by others.

BUDDE is entitled to use so called “Cookies” on the website. Cookies are small files sent and stored on your computer by websites that you visit. Cookies are stored in the file directory of your browser. Should you, however, wish to generally discontinue the use of cookies, you may use your browser settings to prevent the acceptance and storage of new cookies. To find out how this works with your browser, resort to the browser's help function or contact the manufacturer.

The Site may contain links to other sites on the Internet, in particular social media websites such as Facebook, Twitter und YouTube that are owned and operated by third parties. BUDDE is entitled to integrate these links on the website. Third party sites linked to from this website may have different privacy policies and practices. BUDDE is not responsible for the information practices of third party sites, or channels or areas of this website, that are operated by third parties. You should carefully review these other privacy policies in order to determine how each third party may use any personal information you provide.

This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, California, USA 94043, (hereinafter “Google”). Google Analytics uses the so called “cookies”, text files that are stored on your computer, to help analyse how you use the website. The information on the use of the website (including your IP address) obtained through cookies will be sent to and stored on a Google server in the United States. Google will use this information to analyse your use of the website, compiling reports on website traffic for the owner of the site and offer additional services related to website activity and Internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required by law or if such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google shall not associate your IP address with other data held by Google. You can avoid the installation of cookies by changing the settings in your browse. However, this may prevent you from using all the features of this website. By using this website, you consent to the processing of your data by Google in the manner and for the purposes set out above. You may withdraw your consent at any time for future collection and storage of data. To this end, our contacts are shown in the footer. Alternatively, you can use the Google Analytics deactivation add-on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en-GB), if available for your browser.

Please note that this site uses Google Analytics with the extension “_anonymizeIp()” and therefore uses a shortened version of the IP addresses in order to avoid direct personal identification.

BUDDE is entitled to make changes or amendments to the privacy policy with respect to the legal data protection regulations. Any changes to the privacy policy will be posted on inside.buddemusic.com. You can contradict to such changes and amendments within 4 weeks in writing (e-mail is sufficient). In such an event BUDDE is entitled to terminate the licence agreement.