EPITAPH RECORDS COOKIE POLICY

This Cookie Policy describes the different types of cookies that may be applied by Epitaph or by third-party organization on this website. If you have questions regarding this Cookie Policy, please contact privacy@epitaph.com

In this Cookie Policy:

  • When we say “we”, “us” and “our”, we are referring to Epitaph, a California corporation, headquartered in Los Angeles. "Epitaph" includes all entities Epitaph controls, is controlled by or is under common control with, including subsidiaries, joint ventures, or other entities in whom Epitaph has a substantial ownership interest.

  • When we say “you”, “user” or “individual(s)”, we are referring to the person accessing our website and the person whose personal information we are collecting, using and disclosing through cookies.

This cookie policy should be read in addition to our Privacy Policy.

1 – DEFINITION OF “COOKIE”

In short: Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, and to provide organizations with information on you and on your browsing activities.  

In detail: Cookies have several functions such as allowing you to navigate efficiently on a website and remembering your choices and the goods and services you purchased. Thanks to cookies, we can:

  • improve the knowledge we have of you and your interests;

  • offer you content specifically personalized for you (for example, we can remember the choice of language you have made on our site, or show you advertisements that are tailored to your needs and interest).

When we talk about "cookies" we are also talking about technologies similar to cookies, such as scripts, pixels, fingerprinting, web beacons, and redirects. Scripts (sometimes called tags) are programs that run in your browser and perform various actions, such as sending information to our servers.

Cookies can be implemented by us and also by third-party organizations.

2 – What data we collect with the cookies we place on your browser and mobile device

In short: Cookies allow us to collect personal information relating to you, and to transmit technical information about the devices you use, the clicks you make, and the content you view. We combine this information with personal information that you have already provided us or that we have obtained from external sources. (see our privacy policy).

In detail: The cookies we place on your terminal give us access to the following personal information relating to you:

  • Identifiers of the equipment you use (IP address of your computer, Android identifier, Apple identifier, etc.);

  • Type of operating system used by your terminal (Microsoft Windows, Apple Os, Linux, Unix, etc.);

  • Type and version of the browser software used by your terminal (Microsoft Internet Explorer, Apple Safari, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome, etc.);

  • Dates and times of connection to our services;

  • Address of the originating Internet page ("referrer");

  • Browsing data on our services, content viewed;

  • Information relating to your use of our sites and applications;

  • Information relating to the presence of cookies on your terminal, the time and date of viewing; a page, and a description of the page where the cookie is placed;

  • Information on whether or not you read e-mails that we send you, on the clicks you make on the links contained in these e-mails.

3 – Are cookies absolutely essential for the website to function properly?

In short: Yes and no. Some cookies are necessary for our site to function ("essential cookies"). However, for others, when required by applicable legislation, your consent is collected before the cookies are implemented on your terminal (“nonessential cookies”).

In detail: Essential cookies allow our website to function. Without them, your user experience would be degraded. The essential cookies that we implement are the following:

  • Cookies recording the choice you have expressed on the implementation of cookies;

  • Cookies used for authentication purposes and for ensuring the security of our authentication mechanism;

  • Cookies used for personalization of our user interface (choice of language, or presentation of our service), when such personalization is essential to provide you with our service;

  • Cookies allowing you to have access to a free sample of the consent of our website that you have requested;

  • Cookies allowing us to ensure that the display of our content is suitable for your device;

  • Cookies aimed at ensuring the security of the authentication mechanism, for example by limiting robotic or unexpected access attempts.

 

4 – If we set cookies and they are not essential for the operation of our website, what are we using them for?

In short: These cookies, for which we collect your consent, are used to measure our audience, to present you with personalized advertising, to tailor the content displayed on our website/application to your preferences, and to allow you to share our website content on social media platforms.

In detail: These cookies are used for us to support:

  • Optimization of your navigation on our website and applications (based on our legitimate interests)

    • Recording of information relating to a form that you have filled in on our site or to products, services or information that you have chosen on our site (service subscribed, content viewed, purchase made, etc.);

    • A/B testing cookies, i.e., cookies allowing us to build traffic statistics and tests aimed at measuring the relative performance of different versions of our website, detecting navigation problems on our site or application, or even organize the content.

    • Management of our platforms and performance of internal technical operations as part of problem solving, data analysis, tests, research, analysis, studies and surveys;

    • Improvement of our website’s security measures;

    • To ensure our website works as intended on your device and as necessary to provide the content or services you request on our website

  • Email deliverability (based on your consent)

    • To monitor the performance of the marketing emails we send to you;

    • To tailor future marketing emails, we send to you based on your interactions with our previous emails.

  • Audience measurement and web analytics (based on your consent)

    • Establishment of statistics and volumes of visits and use of the various elements making up our site (sections and contents visited, routes) in order to improve the interest and ergonomics of our services;

    • Calculation of the total number of advertisements displayed by us on our advertising spaces, ranking and statistics;

    • Analysis of audiences based on the results of advertising campaigns;

    • Determination of interests and behaviors;

    • Improved customer / user knowledge for personalization purposes.

  • Targeted advertisement (based on your consent)

    • Recognizing you for displaying personalized advertising on social networks;

    • To target you with customized advertising online and on social media based on your online activity and use of our website.

  • Personalization of your activity on our website and application (based on your consent)

    • Personalization of some of our editorial content to tailor it to your interests;

    • Personalization of our product and service offers that are displayed to you;

    • Tailoring the content of our website or of our products and services according to the consent you have previously given on our website.

  • Sharing of your personal information on social media platforms (based on your consent)

    • The use of social networks to interact with our sites and applications (in particular the “like" buttons on Facebook, Twitter) allows you to share content of our website on social media platform.

      • For example, if you are connected to Facebook and you visit a page of our site, Facebook is likely to collect this information.

      • Likewise, if you consult an article on our website and click on the "tweet" button, Twitter will collect this information.

    • Targeting you with customized advertising online and on social media based on your online activity and use of our website;

    • Sharing your information with third party partners for the purposes of them sending you customized advertising content online and on social media;

    • Sharing your information with third party social media platform partners where you interact with social plug-ins (e.g., Facebook like or share button) on our website.

Please consult the privacy policies of any such social networks to learn about the collections and processing they carry out on your data.

 

5 – Are we the only ones who place cookies on your terminal?

In short: No. Some cookies are set by third parties, which could either be our service providers or business partners. Our service providers support us in our day-to-day activities (for example Google sets a cookie to help us measure our audience). Other cookies are placed by our business partners, i.e.:

  • Facebook;

  • Google Analytics;

  • TikTok

  • Reddit

  • Found.ee

  • Twitter

These business partners and their cookies are also presented to you before they implement cookies on your terminal.

To view a complete and updated list of third parties that implement cookies on your terminal through the website you’re visiting, you can click on our widget. You can find it at the bottom of our website pages, next to our Terms of Use.

 

6 – If applicable legislation requires it, how do we collect your consent?

In short: If you are an EU resident, the GDPR and the e-Privacy directive require that you give a freely given, specific, informed and express consent before we implement cookies on your device. When this is the case, we provide you with a simple tool on our website that allows you to consent or refuse to consent to the storage of cookies according to their category ("social network" cookies, audience measurement cookies, advertising cookies, etc.), and purpose.

In detail: Before any cookies are implemented on your terminal, you will be prompted to take a clear, affirmative action so that we can ensure that you agree with the processing of your personal information. This action may, for example, take the form of a checkbox in our online tool. Before obtaining your consent, we will systematically inform you of the names of the organizations implementing the cookies, the consequences of your consent or refusal to consent, the purposes of the processing, and your right to withdraw your consent.

You can choose to consent to certain uses of your data by us or our partners and refuse others.

7. if you change your mind 

In short: if you decide to withdraw you consent, you can do so easily, either by contacting us via e-mail at privacy@epitaph.com or via our online tool.

In detail: You can withdraw your consent at any time and easily.  All you need to do is to send us an email at the following address privacy@epitaph.com or by using our online tool. If you refuse to give us your consent for non-essential cookies, or decide to withdraw it, you will not suffer any negative consequences and will be able to continue to use our service normally.