What WhoSampled's terms say

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• Many different types of personal data are collected

  2. The data we collect about you Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows: - Identity Data includes first name, last name, title, username or similar identifier. - Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers. - Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details. - Transaction Data includes details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us. - Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website or app. - Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses. - Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, app, products and services. - Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

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• You are prohibited from attempting to gain unauthorized access to other computer systems

  VIRUSES You must not attack our Service via a denial-of-service attack or a distributed denial-of service attack. By breaching this provision, you would commit a criminal offence under the Computer Misuse Act 1990. We will report any such breach to the relevant law enforcement authorities and we will co-operate with those authorities by disclosing your identity to them. In the event of such a breach, your right to use our Service will cease immediately.

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• This service assumes no responsibility and liability for the contents of links to other websites

  WE ARE NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR WEBSITES WE LINK TO Where our Service contains links to other sites, resources or promotional offers provided by third parties, these links are provided for your information only. Such links should not be interpreted as approval by us of those linked websites, offers or information you may obtain from them. If you access third party sites or offers you understand that you do so on the third party’s terms and conditions and at your own risk. We have no control over the contents of those sites, resources or promotional offers and we will not be liable to you for loss or damages arising from or in connection with third party content.

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• This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially

  This service is only available for use individually and non-commercially.

  OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS You may not make any commercial use of our Service or any data or materials made available on our Service without authorisation in writing from us. We would be happy to discuss terms with prospective commercial users.

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• Spidering, crawling, or accessing the site through any automated means is not allowed

  OUR INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY RIGHTS You must not scrape, extract, reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any data or other material available on the Service without our express written permission. & WHO CAN USE THE SERVICE? You must be a human. Use of this Service by "bots" must be done in accordance with the robots.txt rules and is permitted only by search engines for the purpose of indexing our pages.

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• Your personal data may be aggregated into statistics

  Your personal data is aggregated into statistics

  We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data could be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as this data will not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature. However, if we combine or connect Aggregated Data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

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• The service assumes no liability for any damages the user incurs

  This service assumes no liability for any losses or damages resulting from any matter relating to the service

  LIMITATION OF OUR LIABILITY We will not be liable to any user for any loss or damage, whether in contract, tort (including negligence), breach of statutory duty, or otherwise, even if foreseeable, arising under or in connection with the use of, or inability to use, our Service. For example, we will not be liable for any direct, indirect, incidental, special, consequential or exemplary damages, including but not limited to, damages for loss of profits, goodwill, use, data or other intangible losses (even if we have been advised of the possibility of such damages), resulting from: (i) the cost of procurement of substitute goods and services resulting from any goods, data, information or services purchased or obtained or messages received or transactions entered into through or from our Service; (ii) unauthorised access to or alteration of your transmissions or data; (iii) statements or conduct of any third party on our Service; (iv) termination of your account.

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• A complaint mechanism is provided for the handling of personal data

  Contact details You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK regulator for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

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• You can request access, correction and/or deletion of your data

  10. Glossary YOUR LEGAL RIGHTS You have the right to: Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a "data subject access request"). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it. Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us. Request erasure of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request of erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

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• The posting of pornographic content is prohibited

  CONTENT STANDARDS Contributions must not: 3: Promote sexually explicit material.

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• This service is only available to users over a certain age

  This service is only available to users over 13

  WHO CAN USE THE SERVICE? You must be 13 years or older to use this Service. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you should review these terms of use with your parent or guardian to make sure you and your parent or guardian understand and agree to these terms of use.

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• You are prohibited from posting content which promotes violence or politically or religiously extremist values

  You are prohibited from posting content which promotes violence or politically or religiously extremist values.

  CONTENT STANDARDS Contributions must not: 4: Promote violence.

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• Minors must have the authorization of their legal guardians to use the service

  WHO CAN USE THE SERVICE? You must be 13 years or older to use this Service. If you are between the ages of 13 and 18, you should review these terms of use with your parent or guardian to make sure you and your parent or guardian understand and agree to these terms of use.

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• You are prohibited from sending chain letters, junk mail, spam or any unsolicited messages

  ACCEPTABLE USE POLICY PROHIBITED USES OF OUR SERVICE You may use our Service only for lawful purposes. You may not use our Service: 5: To transmit, or procure the sending of, any unsolicited or unauthorised advertising or promotional material or any other form of similar solicitation (spam).

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• You can opt out of receiving promotional communications

  You can opt out of promotional communications

  4. How we use your personal data Opting out You can ask us or third parties to stop sending you marketing messages at any time by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you OR by contacting us at any time.

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