Privacy Policy

DATED 2012-04-11 · VERSION 20120501_rev01 · COMPARED WITH 20120102_rev01 · ARCHIVE SNAPSHOT

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+Effective as from 12 December 2011.
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 Spotify USA Inc., a Delaware corporation ("**Spotify**", "**we**" or "**us**") wishes to bring you the best music service available. To be able to do this, and to offer you products and services described 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 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 described on the [Spotify Websites](https://www.spotify.com/us/), 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 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 described on the [Spotify Websites](https://www.spotify.com/us/), we may ask you for and collect certain information such as email address, postal address, age, gender residence and the URL of the website from which you are signing up. 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 information such as media that you access, queries you make, the URL of the website from which you use or access the Spotify Service, 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.
 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, (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), and (vii) as otherwise stated in this Spotify Privacy Policy.
 If you connect your Spotify account to Facebook, we will make available and/or share your Facebook user name and your Facebook profile picture to other Spotify users. Further, Spotify users may be able to use the Spotify Service to search for or view your Spotify profile and the information contained therein, such as Playlists, as defined below (for example, if they know and input your user name in the Spotify Software Application or Spotify Service). Please familiarize yourself with and use the settings in the preferences pane as they provide you with some options to adjust the information in your Spotify profile that may be viewed and your activities that may be shared.
 If you choose to activate Spotify Social or otherwise publish your playlists, starred music top lists, and current playing song (hereafter jointly "**Playlists**"), your Playlist information will be publicly available to other Spotify users (for example, on your Spotify profile page or social activity stream) and may be used, or re-shared by other Spotify users. Spotify is not responsible for the use or re-sharing of Playlist information by others once it is made public. If you do not wish for such use or re-sharing of this type of data taking place going forward, you should not activate Spotify Social and/or adjust your settings and listening mode.