Gottschalkmusiccenter.com Privacy

Your Privacy Rights – Privacy Policy

At Gottschalk Music Center we are committed to protecting the privacy of our customers and users of our website located at www.gottschalkmusiccenter.com (the "Site"). This privacy policy ("Privacy Policy") gives you details of our privacy practices, including: (a) what types of information we collect about you; (b) how the information will be used; (c) to whom we disclose the information; and (d) how we safeguard the information. We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time and will provide notice of any major changes by posting notice on the Site.  

Your Consent – Privacy Policy

By providing personal information and/or non-personal information to us through the Site, our stores or through our customer service department in connection with our Site, you are agreeing to let Gottschalk Music Center collect and use your information as described in the Privacy Policy.  

What Information Do We Collect and Why?

Registration and Payment Information: We may ask you to provide us with personal information on a voluntary basis in certain areas of the Site, and you will be required to provide personal information when you make purchases on the Site. The kinds of personal information that we may request may include your name, address, email address, telephone number, fax number, credit card information (“Personal Information”) and information about your interests in and use of various products, programs, and services. All such information will be treated in accordance with the terms of this Privacy Policy.

IP Addresses and "Cookie" Information: As is the case with many sites, the Site logs your IP address and uses standard technology called "cookies," which are small data files that are downloaded onto your computer when you visit the Site. Cookies automatically identify your browser to the gottschalkmusiccenter.com server whenever you interact with the Site. We use cookies and the information they provide to improve our services and the quality of your experience with the Site. If you prefer not to allow us to collect "cookie" information, you can disable the cookies by turning them off in your browser, although some areas of the Site may not function properly if you do. We do not link IP addresses to your name, email address or other Personal Information. This means that your session will be tracked, but you will not be personally identified. However, certain kinds of cookies allow us to store certain information of yours so you can save time in filling out forms on the Site. We only send this type of cookie to your browser when you have provided your consent for us to save your profile information.

Use of Information From Third Parties: Gottschalk Music Center may use consumer information obtained from third party providers for a variety of purposes, including improving the accuracy of our customer database, to increase our understanding of our customer database, to increase our understanding of our customers, to identify potential new customers and to better tailor our advertising to our customers.

Third Party Advertising Partners: Gottschalk Music Center does not share your private information with Third Party Advertising Partners. 

How Else Does Gottschalk Music Center Use Information That It Collects from the Site?

As well as using information about you for the specific purposes set out above, we may also use information about visitors to the Site to monitor consumer interest in our range of products and services, to troubleshoot problems that may arise on our Site, to protect against fraud or other criminal activity on our Site and other websites, to customize your user experience on the Site, to notify you of product or service offerings that we think may be of interest to you, to inform you about special promotions, and to assist us in tailoring our product lines, our services, and the content of the Site to our online visitors' needs by collecting information about their preferences through tracking patterns of page-viewing on the Site. To assist in this, at certain times, we create a profile relating to you in order to show you the content that we think you might be interested in and to display the content according to your preferences. We may also share data we collect about you, your devices and other visitors to the Site in an anonymous or aggregated form with our business partners and others.

Gottschalk Music Center may disclose information about individual users to third parties who provide services to Gottschalk Music Center and who agree to maintain the confidentiality of such information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. These third parties provide a variety of services to Gottschalk Music Center, including, without limitation, fulfilling product orders, managing or hosting the Site, helping create new content and promotions for the Site, and sending or coordinating the sending of marketing communications to users who have consented to receive such materials. In situations where you have supplied your information in connection with a question or request for information about a product or service offered by one of our business partners, we may also send the information you have supplied to the business partners that offer such products or services.

From time to time, Gottschalk Music Center may be required to share personal information in response to a valid court order, subpoena, government investigation, or as otherwise required by law. We also reserve the right to report to law enforcement agencies any activities that we, in good faith, believe to be unlawful. In addition, we may share certain personal information when we believe that doing so is reasonably necessary to protect the rights, property and safety of our company and/or others. Gottschalk Music Center may also share personally identifiable information with controlling entities, entities it controls, and those under common control. Finally, Gottschalk Music Center may transfer personal information to participating companies in the event of a corporate sale, merger, acquisition, dissolution or similar event.  

Your Rights

You can correct factual errors in your Personal Information by sending us a request that credibly shows any error. If you wish to access, update or correct your Personal Information that we collect online, please contact us by mail at the address shown in the How to Contact section below. To protect your privacy and security, we will take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting access or making corrections.

Opt Out: From time to time, Gottschalk Music Center may notify you by email of special promotions, changes to our Site, new product lines or products or service offerings that we think may be of special interest to you. If you decide you no longer want to receive emails notifying you of this information, click here to unsubscribe, or follow the instructions in each promotional message.

Mailing List: Gottschalk Music Center may occasionally share its mailing list or a part of its mailing list with other reputable organizations. If you do not want your name and address shared with other organizations, or do not wish to receive our mailings, please contact us at 1-209-723-3337. 

Please note that requested changes to the Mailing List may take up to eight (8) weeks to take effect, particularly if we are removing your name from our postal mailings. Email Opt Out requests will be processed within ten (10) days.

SMS Data

We value your privacy and the information you consent to share in relation to our SMS marketing service. We use this information to send you text notifications (for your order, including educational and maintenance content, product information, tips, tricks and request for reviews from us). By consenting to commercial text messages in Gottschalk Music Center’s SMS marketing in the checkout and initializing a purchase or subscribing via our subscription tools, you agree to receive additional recurring commercial text notifications in relation to your order, including without limitation text marketing offers and transactional texts, such as product information and offers and requests for reviews from us. Opt-in data and consent for text messaging will not be shared with any third parties except for messaging partners, for the purpose of enabling and operating our text messaging program.

Our tool stores responses, purchase information, and links clicked to better personalize content we send. This information is used to determine when to send educational, product experience, and product recommendation messages via SMS.

No mobile information will be shared with third parties/affiliates for marketing/promotional purposes.