Spotify Privacy Policy changes — 20111002_rev01

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Effective as from 14 July 2011.

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Effective as from 22 September 2011.

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Spotify USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("**Spotify**", "**we**" or "**us**") wish to bring you the best music service available. To be able to do this, and to offer you products and services available on the Spotify websites at [http://www.spotify.com/](http://www.spotify.com/) and other Spotify branded URLs (the "**Spotify Websites**"), Spotify will request some information from you and automatically collect information about your use of the Spotify Software Application, the Spotify Service (both as defined in the [Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use](https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/)). Further, Spotify will request information from other third party services if such services are activated via Spotify. This policy (the "**Spotify Privacy Policy**") describes our online privacy practices and what personal information we may collect from you and what we will and will not do with that information.

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## 1\. How we collect and use personal information

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When you sign up for a Spotify account or purchase Spotify's products and services available on the Spotify web page, we may ask you for certain personal information such as email address, postal address, age, gender and residence. In addition, when you use the Spotify Software Application, Spotify Service and Spotify Websites, we will automatically receive information about your use of the application, service and website including personal information such as media that you access, queries you make, date and time of your request, your Internet protocol address, performance of your network and computer, your browser type, language and identifying information, your operating system and application version.

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When you sign up for a Spotify account or purchase Spotify's products and services available on the Spotify web page, we may ask you for certain personal information such as email address, postal address, age, gender and residence. When creating a Spotify account, or connecting your already existing Spotify account with your Facebook account, we will also receive and store the following information from Facebook, Inc ("**Facebook**") your name, user name, password, profile picture, unique Facebook identifier and access token, gender, birthday and email address. In addition, when you use the Spotify Software Application, Spotify Service and Spotify Websites, we will automatically receive information about your use of the application, service and website including personal information such as media that you access, queries you make, date and time of your request, your Internet protocol address, performance of your network and computer, your browser type, language and identifying information, your operating system and application version.

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Further, if you activate Spotify Social (as defined in the [Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use](https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/)), we will receive and store your Facebook user name.

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We will use your personal information (i) to provide the products and services that you have purchased or requested (including Spotify Social, as defined in the [Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use](https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/), and the display of customized content and advertising), (ii) to communicate with you concerning your account, customer service issues and Spotify products and services, (iii) to personalize and improve the Spotify Software Application, the Spotify Service and the Spotify Websites, (iv) to ensure the technical functioning of our products and services, (v) to develop new products and services, and (vi) to protect the copyright-protected content of the Spotify Service (e.g. by limiting access to the Spotify Service content to users with a Spotify account).

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We will use your personal information (i) to provide the products and services that you have purchased or requested (including the display of customized content and advertising), (ii) to communicate with you concerning your account and customer service issues, (iii) to personalize and improve the Spotify Software Application, the Spotify Service and the Spotify Websites, (iv) to ensure the technical functioning of our products and services, (v) to develop new products and services, and (vi) to protect the copyright-protected content of the Spotify Service (e.g. by limiting access to the Spotify Service content to users with a Spotify account).

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If you have activated Spotify Social, we will share your Facebook user name and your Facebook profile picture to other Spotify users connected to Spotify Social. Further, the default setting is that all your playlists (including created playlists, starred music and top lists) are visible for other Spotify users connected to Spotify Social. If you do not wish for such use of your personal data taking place, you should not activate Spotify Social or adjust your Spotify Social settings.

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## 2\. Sharing information with others

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Unless you give us your explicit approval in advance and except as outlined in Section 1 above and except with respect to, Spotify affiliates (being other companies controlled by or under common control with us), we will only share your personal information as is necessary to

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+Effective as from 14 July 2011.
+Effective as from 22 September 2011.
 Spotify USA, Inc., a Delaware corporation ("**Spotify**", "**we**" or "**us**") wish to bring you the best music service available. To be able to do this, and to offer you products and services available on the Spotify websites at [http://www.spotify.com/](http://www.spotify.com/) and other Spotify branded URLs (the "**Spotify Websites**"), Spotify will request some information from you and automatically collect information about your use of the Spotify Software Application, the Spotify Service (both as defined in the [Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use](https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/)). Further, Spotify will request information from other third party services if such services are activated via Spotify. This policy (the "**Spotify Privacy Policy**") describes our online privacy practices and what personal information we may collect from you and what we will and will not do with that information.
 ## 1\. How we collect and use personal information
+When you sign up for a Spotify account or purchase Spotify's products and services available on the Spotify web page, we may ask you for certain personal information such as email address, postal address, age, gender and residence. In addition, when you use the Spotify Software Application, Spotify Service and Spotify Websites, we will automatically receive information about your use of the application, service and website including personal information such as media that you access, queries you make, date and time of your request, your Internet protocol address, performance of your network and computer, your browser type, language and identifying information, your operating system and application version.
+When you sign up for a Spotify account or purchase Spotify's products and services available on the Spotify web page, we may ask you for certain personal information such as email address, postal address, age, gender and residence. When creating a Spotify account, or connecting your already existing Spotify account with your Facebook account, we will also receive and store the following information from Facebook, Inc ("**Facebook**") your name, user name, password, profile picture, unique Facebook identifier and access token, gender, birthday and email address. In addition, when you use the Spotify Software Application, Spotify Service and Spotify Websites, we will automatically receive information about your use of the application, service and website including personal information such as media that you access, queries you make, date and time of your request, your Internet protocol address, performance of your network and computer, your browser type, language and identifying information, your operating system and application version.
+Further, if you activate Spotify Social (as defined in the [Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use](https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/)), we will receive and store your Facebook user name.
+We will use your personal information (i) to provide the products and services that you have purchased or requested (including Spotify Social, as defined in the [Spotify Terms and Conditions of Use](https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/end-user-agreement/), and the display of customized content and advertising), (ii) to communicate with you concerning your account, customer service issues and Spotify products and services, (iii) to personalize and improve the Spotify Software Application, the Spotify Service and the Spotify Websites, (iv) to ensure the technical functioning of our products and services, (v) to develop new products and services, and (vi) to protect the copyright-protected content of the Spotify Service (e.g. by limiting access to the Spotify Service content to users with a Spotify account).
+We will use your personal information (i) to provide the products and services that you have purchased or requested (including the display of customized content and advertising), (ii) to communicate with you concerning your account and customer service issues, (iii) to personalize and improve the Spotify Software Application, the Spotify Service and the Spotify Websites, (iv) to ensure the technical functioning of our products and services, (v) to develop new products and services, and (vi) to protect the copyright-protected content of the Spotify Service (e.g. by limiting access to the Spotify Service content to users with a Spotify account).
 If you have activated Spotify Social, we will share your Facebook user name and your Facebook profile picture to other Spotify users connected to Spotify Social. Further, the default setting is that all your playlists (including created playlists, starred music and top lists) are visible for other Spotify users connected to Spotify Social. If you do not wish for such use of your personal data taking place, you should not activate Spotify Social or adjust your Spotify Social settings.
 ## 2\. Sharing information with others
 Unless you give us your explicit approval in advance and except as outlined in Section 1 above and except with respect to, Spotify affiliates (being other companies controlled by or under common control with us), we will only share your personal information as is necessary to
 . Comply with laws, regulations and any applicable court orders or to respond to or comply with litigation matters or other legal process.
 . Allow for a change of ownership of Spotify (including but not limited to an acquisition by or merger with another company) and related transfer of all personal information to the new owner in which case any information remains protected in accordance with this Spotify Privacy Policy.
 . Allow advertising audits and analysis measuring the size and composition of the group of users that have listened to and/or viewed an advertisement or other promotional information.
 . Allow us to use a third party to perform surveys measuring your experiences and use of our services (not permitting the third party to use your personal information for any other purpose).
 . Allow us to share aggregated statistics about use of the Spotify Software Application and the Spotify Service with parties with whom we do business. We will not, however, share personally identifying information with these parties or any other third parties, except under the narrow circumstances described above.
+In some cases, access to certain products and services may require you to provide your personal information to a third party, such as our business partners. In such cases, this will be stated during the registration process, in the terms of use or in a similar manner. The third party's use of such information is governed by that party's privacy policy, and Spotify's use is governed by this Spotify Privacy Policy. Please visit the privacy policy of our business partners' to make sure that you understand how they use the personal information you provide to them. If you do not wish for such use of your personal data taking place, you should not register for the applicable product or service.
+If you have connected your Spotify account to Facebook and have agreed to share information about the music you are playing to Facebook Spotify will share every song you play to Facebook If have chosen to share to Facebook and you choose to publish a playlist, your playlist information will also be shared to Facebook. If you have not chosen to share to Facebook and you choose to publish a playlist, your playlist information will be publicly available to other Spotify users via the Spotify Software Application but not shared to Facebook. You can choose to disable automatic publishing of new playlists in the preferences pane. Information shared to Facebook will be attributed to the Facebook account to which your Spotify account is connected. Facebook's use of such information is governed by Facebook's privacy policy and Spotify's use of such information is governed by this Spotify Privacy Policy. You understand and agree that you need to consult both privacy policies to amend or delete personal information which has been provided to Facebook. If you do not wish for such use of your personal data to take place, you should not agree to share information about the music you play to Facebook and/or adjust your settings to deactivate such sharing.
+In some further cases, access to certain products and services may also require you to provide your personal information to a third party, such as our business partners. In such cases, this will be stated during the registration process, in the terms of use or in a similar manner. The third party's use of such information is governed by that party's privacy policy, and Spotify's use is governed by this Spotify Privacy Policy. Please visit the privacy policy of our business partners' to make sure that you understand how they use the personal information you provide to them. If you do not wish for such use of your personal data taking place, you should not register for the applicable product or service.
 ## 3\. Transfer of personal information to other countries
 Spotify processes personal information on servers in a number of countries. We may therefore transfer and process your personal information on a server outside the United States. However, we will use our best efforts to do so in accordance with this Spotify Privacy Policy and applicable law.
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