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Privacy Policy

​​We have updated our Privacy Policy to comply with the new requirements under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) coming into effect on May 25, 2018. We are not changing anything that we do with your information — we are just making clear how we use it, how long we keep it, and your rights to it.
 
Thank you for visiting The Learning Dock.

This privacy policy tells you how we use personal information collected at this site. Please read this privacy policy before using the site or submitting any personal information. By using the site, you are accepting the practices described in this privacy policy. These practices may be changed, but any changes will be posted and changes will only apply to activities and information on a going forward, not retroactive basis. You are encouraged to review the privacy policy whenever you visit the site to make sure that you understand how any personal information you provide will be used. Note: The privacy practices set forth in this privacy policy are for this web site only. If you link to other web sites, please review the privacy policies posted at those sites.
 
Who We Are
 
The Learning Dock, LLC, producers of Teach Me Bass Guitar and its online bass community, Thunder Row (thunderrow.com). Our web address is https://www.thelearningdock.com.
 
Collection of Personal Information
 
We collect personally identifiable information, like names, postal addresses, email addresses, and telephone numbers, when voluntarily submitted by our visitors. The information you provide is used only to fulfill your specific request, unless you give us permission to use it in another manner, for example to add you to one of our mailing lists. We do not sell or trade your information. We may use this information in the following ways:
• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To send periodic email newsletters or other products and services.
• To administer a giveaway, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
• To follow up with you after correspondence (email or phone enquiries).
 
Additional Collection Information

This website utilizes Google Analytics to help us in understanding our audience so that we can develop content and experiences readers may enjoy. Google Analytics is a freemium web analytics service offered by Google that tracks and reports website traffic and data, which it stores for 26 months. You can view the Google Privacy & Terms here and Compliancy Policy here.
 
We may use the information we collect when you sign up for our newsletter, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features in the following ways:

• To improve our website in order to better serve you.
• To send periodic email newsletters or other products and services.
• To administer a giveaway, promotion, survey, or other site feature.
• To follow up with you after correspondence (email or phone enquiries).
 
Third Party Disclosure

We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your Personally Identifiable Information unless we provide users with advance notice. This does not include website hosting partners, email management and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conduction our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when it’s release is appropriate to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others’ rights, property, or safety.
 
Third-party Links

Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We, therefore, have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.
 
Cookies

The Learning Dock (TLD), LLC, producer of TMBG, may use cookie and tracking technology depending on the features offered. Cookie and tracking technology are useful for gathering information such as browser type and operating system, tracking the number of visitors to TMBG, and understanding how visitors use the site. Cookies can also help customize TMBG for visitors. Personal information cannot be collected via cookies and other tracking technology; however, if you previously provided personally identifiable information, cookies may be tied to such information.

You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since all browsers are a little different, look at your browser’s Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
 
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
 
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

We also use cookies to:

• Keep track of advertisements.
• Run our affiliate management program.
• Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future. We may also use trusted third-party services that track this information on our behalf.
 
We honor Do Not Track signals and Do Not Track, plant cookies, or use advertising when a Do Not Track (DNT) browser mechanism is in place.
 
Embedded Content From Other Websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
 
Bass Tips

We collect your name and email address when signing up for Bass Tips. The CAN-SPAM Act is a law that sets the rules for commercial email, establishes requirements for commercial messages, gives recipients the right to have emails stopped from being sent to them, and spells out tough penalties for violations.
 
To be in accordance with CANSPAM, we agree to the following:


• Not use false or misleading subjects or email addresses.
• Identify the message as an advertisement in some reasonable way.
• Include the physical address of our business or site headquarters.
• Monitor third-party email marketing services for compliance, if one is used.
• Honor opt-out/unsubscribe requests quickly.
• Allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email.
 
Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Giveaways and Surveys

With your express permission, we may collect information from you, like name, email, and country. All terms of participation will be included with each giveaway or survey.

Contact Forms

 

We keep contact form submissions for a certain period for customer service purposes, or to follow up with you after correspondence, but we do not use the information submitted through them for marketing purposes.
 
What Rights You Have Over Your Data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Privacy Contact Information

If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy you may contact us using the information below: By e-mail:  ; by Phone: 877-333-8007. Business address: 24 Blakeport Lane, Palm Coast, FL 32137
 
Ad Management and Displays

 

This website may use Google AdSense. Google AdSense is a program run by Google that allows publishers in the Google Network of content sites to serve automatic text, image, video, or interactive media advertisements, that are targeted to site content and audience. Google’s advertising requirements can be summed up by Google’s Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users. Google, as a third-party vendor, uses cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.


We have implemented the following:


• Google Display Network Impression Reporting
• Demographics and Interests Reporting
 
We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out

Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

California Online Privacy Protection Act (CalOPPA) 

 

CalOPPA is the first state law in the nation to require commercial websites and online services to post a privacy policy. The law’s reach stretches well beyond California to require any person or company in the United States (and conceivably the world) that operates websites collecting Personally Identifiable Information from California consumers to post a conspicuous privacy policy on its website stating exactly the information being collected and those individuals or companies with whom it is being shared.  See more here:

In Accordance with CalOPPA, we agree to the following:

Users can visit our site anonymously.
• Our privacy policy is available from our home page, as well as our about page.
• Our Privacy Policy link includes the word ‘Privacy’ and can easily be found on the page specified above.
• You will be notified of any Privacy Policy changes:
o On our Privacy Policy Page
Can change your personal information, where applicable:
• By emailing us –
 
COPPA (Children Online Privacy Protection Act) - When it comes to the collection of personal information from children under the age of 13 years old, the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (COPPA) puts parents in control. The Federal Trade Commission, United States’ consumer protection agency, enforces the COPPA Rule, which spells out what operators of websites and online services must do to protect children’s privacy and safety online.
 
We do not specifically market to children under the age of 13 years old.
Privacy Contact Information - If you have any questions, concerns, or comments about our privacy policy you may contact us using the information below: By e-mail: ; by Phone: 877-333-8007.
 
We reserve the right to make changes to this policy. Any changes to this policy will be clearly posted.

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