Privacy Policy


LiveGaan Privacy Notice
Updated as of November 21, 2009

The LiveGaan Privacy Policy describes how we and our subsidiaries treat personal information when you use LiveGaan services, including information provided.





Personal Information


Browsing LiveGaan You can listen to music having a LiveGaan Account. You also can contact us by emailing us directly without having to register for an account.


We ask for some personal information when you create an account, including your email address and a password, which is used to protect your account from unauthorized access.



Usage Information


When you use LiveGaan, we may record information about your usage of the site, such as the album, artists and favorites you subscribe to, which other users you communicate with, the music you listen, the frequency and size of data transfers, and information you display about yourself as well as information you click on in LiveGaan (including UI elements, settings). If you are logged in, we may associate that information with your LiveGaan Account. In order to ensure the quality of our service to you, we may place a tag in HTML-based customer support emails or other communications with you in order to confirm delivery.



Content Uploaded to Site


Any personal information or audio content that you voluntarily disclose online may be collected and used by others.



Uses


If you submit personal information to LiveGaan, we may use that information to operate, maintain, and improve the features and functionality of LiveGaan, and to process any flagging activity or other communication you send to us.


We do not use your email address or other personal information to send commercial or marketing messages without your consent. We may use your email address without further consent for non-marketing or administrative purposes (such as notifying you of major LiveGaan changes or for customer service purposes). You also can choose how often LiveGaan sends you email updates in your LiveGaan Account settings page. We use cookies, web beacons, and log file information to:


(a) store information so that you will not have to re-enter it during your visit or the next time you visit LiveGaan;
(b) provide custom, personalized content and information;
(c) monitor the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns;
(d) monitor aggregate metrics such as total number of visitors and pages viewed; and
(e) track your entries, submissions, and status in promotions, sweepstakes, and contests.


Information that is publicly available


When you create a LiveGaan Account, some information about your LiveGaan Account and your account activity will be provided to other users of LiveGaan. This may include the date you opened your liveGaan Account, the date you last logged into your liveGaan Account, your age (if you choose to make it public), the country and the number of audios you have watched. Your LiveGaan Account name, not your email address, is displayed to other users when you engage in certain activities on LiveGaan, such as when you upload audios or send messages through LiveGaan. Other users can contact you by leaving a message or comment on the site.


Any audios that you submit to LiveGaan may be redistributed through the internet and other media channels, and may be viewed by other LiveGaan users or the general public.


You may also choose to add personal information which may include your name, gender, profile picture or other details, that will be visible to other users on your LiveGaan Account channel page. If you choose to add certain features to your LiveGaan Account channel page, then these features and your activity associated with these features will be displayed to other users and may be aggregated and shared with your friends or other users. Such shared activity may include your favorite videos, videos you rated and videos that you have uploaded.



Your Choices


If you have a LiveGaan Account, you may update or correct your personal profile information, email preferences and privacy settings at any time by visiting your account profile page. You may control the information that is available to other users and your confirmed friends at any time by editing your LiveGaan Account and the features that are included on your channel page. If you have enabled Active Sharing, other users may see that you, as identified by your account name, not your email address, are watching the same audio.


You may, of course, decline to submit personal information through LiveGaan, in which case you can still listen audios and explore LiveGaan, but LiveGaan may not be able to provide certain services to you. Some advanced LiveGaan features may use Google services like Google Checkout or AdSense. The privacy notices of those services govern the use of your personal information associated with them.



Advertising on LiveGaan


LiveGaan strives to provide you with relevant and useful advertising and use the DoubleClick cookie, as well as other third party ad serving systems, to do so. We may use a range of information including cookies, web beacons, IP addresses, usage data and other non-personal information about your computer or device (such as browser type and operating system) to provide you with relevant advertising. If you are logged into your LiveGaan Account, we may also show you advertising based on the information you have provided to us in your LiveGaan Account.


We use the DoubleClick cookie on LiveGaan to help advertisers and publishers serve and manage ads on this site and other Google and AdSense partner websites. Advertisers may serve ads based on interests associated with non-personally identifiable online activity, such as videos viewed, frequency of uploading or activity on other AdSense partner sites. Advertisers may also serve ads to you based on previous activity on that advertiser's website. This non-personally identifiable information is held separately from your LiveGaan Account data, or other personally identifying information in our possession. Other third-party ad serving companies may display ads on LiveGaan, provided they comply with our ad serving requirements. LiveGaan does not provide any personal information to these third-party ad servers or ad networks without your consent. You should consult the respective privacy policies of these third-party ad servers or ad networks for more information on their practices and for instructions on how to opt-out of certain practices. LiveGaan 's privacy policy does not apply to, and we cannot control the activities of, such other advertisers or web sites. Any data obtained by third-party ad servers subsequently shared with LiveGaan is maintained and dealt with by LiveGaan in accordance with this privacy policy.