Welcome to https://www.bardguitars.com (the “Site”). Bard Guitars values your support and is committed to protecting your privacy. We maintain strict privacy policies and take great care to ensure that unauthorized persons do not access or compromise your information. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”) and those who sign up for our email list (“Contacts”).

Personally Identifiable Information

“Personally Identifiable Information” refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number and email address. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.

What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?

Bard Guitars does not collect any Personally Identifiable Information when you merely visit our Site. When you sign up for our email list you become a Contact. We collect the following Personally Identifiable Information from our Contacts: names and email addresses.

How does the Site use Personally Identifiable Information?

We use Personally Identifiable Information to communicate with our Contacts. We email Contacts with updates on events and other information related to our products. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to correspond with our Contacts in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.

How do we share your information?

We do not share or sell Personally Identifiable Information to any outside commercial party. We offer the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving information or being contacted by us.

How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?

Personally Identifiable Information collected by Bard Guitars is securely stored in a database, and is not accessible to third parties or anyone other than direct employees with a relevant need for the information.

What choices are available to Visitors regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?

No Personally Identifiable Information is collected from Visitors. Contacts have opted to be contacted by Bard Guitars to receive offers, information, or news related to Bard Guitars via email. 

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.

Are cookies used on the Site?

Our Site is built in WordPress. WordPress sites use two basic types of cookies – one tracks admin logins, and one tracks comments left on the Site. Other cookies may be added through plugins used to build the Site. Aside from this, our site does not generate cookies.

How does Bard Guitars keep Personally Identifiable Information secure?

The Personally Identifiable Information of our Contacts is kept in a secure database that is only accessible to essential employees who are given a password to gain access to the information. 

How can Contacts correct any inaccuracies in Personally Identifiable Information?

Contacts may contact us to update Personally Identifiable Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies by emailing us at info@bardguitars.com.

Can a Contact delete or deactivate Personally Identifiable Information collected by the Site?

Contacts can delete/deactivate Personally Identifiable Information from our database by contacting us. However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a database entry without retaining some residual information. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted. We will not sell, transfer or use Personally Identifiable Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.

Your rights

These are summarized rights that you have under data protection law:

• The right to access
• The right to rectification
• The right to erasure
• The right to restrict processing
• The right to object to processing
• The right to data portability
• The right to complain to a supervisory authority
• The right to withdraw consent

What happens if the Privacy Policy changes?

We will inform our Visitors and Contacts of material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting such changes on the Site, or via email.

Links

https://www.bardguitars.com contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their privacy policies may differ from ours.

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