Privacy Policy

Half Light LLC – Website Privacy Policy/Your California Privacy Rights​

Effective Date: 01/01/2024​

Half Light LLC (“Company” or “We”) respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy.

This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit the website www.halflightmusic.co (our “Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.

This policy applies to information we collect:

- On this Website.

- In email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website.

- Through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website, which provide dedicated non-browser-based interaction between you and this Website.

- When you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services, if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by:

- us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or

- any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries); or any third party (including our affiliates and subsidiaries), including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on] the Website.

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website. By accessing or using this Website, you agree to this privacy policy. We reserve the right to change this policy from time to time. Your continued use of this Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check this policy periodically for updates.​

Children Under the Age of 16

Our Website is not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 16 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 16, please contact us at: contact@halflightmusic.co.

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

- by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline (“personal information“);

- that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

​We collect this information:

- Directly from you when you provide it to us.

- Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

- From third parties, for example, our business partners.


Information You Provide to Us

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

- Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of subscribing to our service, posting material, or requesting further services. We may also ask you for information when you enter a contest or promotion sponsored by us, and when you report a problem with our Website.

- Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses), if you contact us.

- Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research purposes.

- Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information before placing an order through our Website.

- Your search queries on the Website.​

- You also may provide information to be published or displayed (hereinafter, “posted“) on public areas of the Website, or transmitted to other users of the Website or third parties (collectively, “User Contributions“). Your User Contributions are posted on and transmitted to others at your own risk. Although, please be aware that no security measures are perfect or impenetrable. Additionally, we cannot control the actions of other users of the Website with whom you may choose to share your User Contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that your User Contributions will not be viewed by unauthorized persons.​

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies ​

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

- Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.

- Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.​

The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

- Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

- Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

- Speed up your searches.

- Recognize you when you return to our Website.​

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

- Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.

- Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

- Web Beacons. Pages of our Website may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).​

We do not collect personal information automatically, but we may tie this information to personal information about you that we collect from other sources or you provide to us.​

Third-Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Technologies​

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.​

How We Use Your Information

- We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

- To present our Website and its contents to you.

- To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

- To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.

- To provide you with notices about your subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.

- To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

- To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.

- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

- For any other purpose with your consent.​

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audiences. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.​

Disclosure of Your Information​

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

- To our subsidiaries and affiliates.

- To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business.

- To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

- To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.

- For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.

- With your consent.​

We may also disclose your personal information:​

- To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.

- To enforce or apply our terms of use or terms of sale and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

- If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Half Light, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.​

- Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information​

We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:

- ​Tracking Technologies and Advertising. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe’s website. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this site may then be inaccessible or not function properly.

- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can opt-out.

- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your email address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties’ products or services, you can opt-out. If we have sent you a promotional email, you may send us a return email asking to be omitted from future email distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.​

- We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Privacy Notice for California Residents for more information.​

Accessing and Correcting Your Information​

You may also send us an email at contact@halflightmusic.co to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

If you delete your User Contributions from the Website, copies of your User Contributions may remain viewable in cached and archived pages, or might have been copied or stored by other Website users.California residents may have additional personal information rights and choices. Please see Privacy Notice for California Residents for more information.


Privacy Notice for California Residents​

This Privacy Notice for California Residents supplements the information contained in Half Light’s Privacy Policy and applies solely to all visitors, users, and others who reside in the State of California (“consumers” or “you”). We adopt this notice to comply with the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 (CCPA) and any terms defined in the CCPA have the same meaning when used in this Notice.

Where noted in this Notice, the CCPA temporarily exempts personal information reflecting a written or verbal business-to-business communication (“B2B personal information“) from some its requirements.

Information We Collect

We may collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, references, is reasonably capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked, directly or indirectly, with a particular consumer, household, or device (“personal information“). Personal information does not include:

- Publicly available information from government records.
- Deidentified or aggregated consumer information.

In particular, we may collect the following categories of personal information from consumers:​

A. Identifiers (MAY BE COLLECTED):A real name, alias, postal address, unique personal identifier, online identifier, Internet Protocol address, email address, account name, Social Security number, driver’s license number, passport number, or other similar identifiers.​​

B. Personal information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)) (MAY BE COLLECTED):A name, signature, Social Security number, physical characteristics or description, address, telephone number, passport number, driver’s license or state identification card number, insurance policy number, education, employment, employment history, bank account number, credit card number, debit card number, or any other financial information, medical information, or health insurance information.Some personal information included in this category may overlap with other categories.

​C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law (NOT COLLECTED):Age (40 years or older), race, color, ancestry, national origin, citizenship, religion or creed, marital status, medical condition, physical or mental disability, sex (including gender, gender identity, gender expression, pregnancy or childbirth and related medical conditions), sexual orientation, veteran or military status, genetic information (including familial genetic information).

​D. Commercial information (MAY BE COLLECTED):Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.​

E. Biometric information (NOT COLLECTED):Genetic, physiological, behavioral, and biological characteristics, or activity patterns used to extract a template or other identifier or identifying information, such as, fingerprints, faceprints, and voiceprints, iris or retina scans, keystroke, gait, or other physical patterns, and sleep, health, or exercise data.

F. Internet or other similar network activity (MAY BE COLLECTED):Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.​

G. Geolocation data (NOT COLLECTED):Physical location or movements.​

H. Sensory data (MAY BE COLLECTED):Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.​

I. Professional or employment-related information (NOT COLLECTED):Current or past job history or performance evaluations.​

J. Non-public education information (per the Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (20 U.S.C. Section 1232g, 34 C.F.R. Part 99)) (NOT COLLECTED):Education records directly related to a student maintained by an educational institution or party acting on its behalf, such as grades, transcripts, class lists, student schedules, student identification codes, student financial information, or student disciplinary records.

​K. Inferences drawn from other personal information (NOT COLLECTED):Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.​​

We obtain the categories of personal information listed above from the following categories of sources:Directly from you. For example, from forms you complete or products and services you purchase.Indirectly from you. For example, from observing your actions on our Website.Third-parties who are involved in the provision of our products and services to you.

Use of Personal Information​

We may use or disclose the personal information we collect for one or more of the following purposes:

- ​To fulfill or meet the reason you provided the information. For example, if you share your name and contact information to request a price quote or ask a question about our products or services, we will use that personal information to respond to your inquiry. If you provide your personal information to purchase a product or service, we will use that information to process your payment and facilitate delivery. We may also save your information to facilitate new product orders or process returns.

- To provide, support, personalize, and develop our Website, products, and services.

- To create, maintain, customize, and secure your account with us.

- To process your requests, purchases, transactions, and payments and prevent transactional fraud.

- To provide you with support and to respond to your inquiries, including to investigate and address your concerns and monitor and improve our responses.

- To personalize your Website experience and to deliver content and product and service offerings relevant to your interests, including targeted offers and ads through our Website, third-party sites, and via email or text message (with your consent, where required by law).

- To help maintain the safety, security, and integrity of our Website, products and services, databases and other technology assets, and business.

- For testing, research, analysis, and product development, including to develop and improve our Website, products, and services.

- To respond to law enforcement requests and as required by applicable law, court order, or governmental regulations.

- As described to you when collecting your personal information or as otherwise set forth in the CCPA.

To evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our consumers is among the assets transferred.​

We will not collect additional categories of personal information or use the personal information we collected for materially different, unrelated, or incompatible purposes without providing you notice.​

Sharing Personal Information

We may disclose your personal information to a third-party for a business purpose. When we disclose personal information for a business purpose, we enter a contract that describes the purpose and requires the recipient to both keep that personal information confidential and not use it for any purpose except performing the contract.​

We may share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:​

- Service providers.


Disclosures of Personal Information for a Business Purpose


In the preceding twelve (12) months, Half Light has not disclosed personal information for a business purpose:

Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records personal information categories.
Category C: Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
Category D: Commercial information.
Category E: Biometric information.
Category F: Internet or other similar network activity.
Category G: Geolocation data.
Category H: Sensory data.
Category I: Professional or employment-related information.
Category J: Non-public education information.
Category K: Inferences drawn from other personal information.​

We disclose your personal information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:​

- Service providers.
- Internet cookie data recipients.

Sales of Personal Information

In the preceding twelve (12) months, Half Light has not sold personal information in the following categories of personal information:​

- Identifiers.

- California Customer Records personal information categories.

- Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.

- Commercial information.

- Biometric information.

- Internet or other similar network activity.

- Geolocation data.

- Sensory data.

- Professional or employment-related information.

- Non-public education information.

- Inferences drawn from other personal information.


Half Light does not sell your personal information to third-parties.​

Your Rights and Choices​

The CCPA provides consumers (California residents) with specific rights regarding their personal information. This section describes your CCPA rights and explains how to exercise those rights.

Access to Specific Information and Data Portability Rights​

You have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our collection and use of your personal information over the past 12 months. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights below), we will disclose to you:​

- The categories of personal information we collected about you.

- The categories of sources for the personal information we collected about you.

- Our business or commercial purpose for collecting or selling that personal information.

- The categories of third-parties with whom we share that personal information.

- The specific pieces of personal information we collected about you (also called a data portability request).

- If we sold or disclosed your personal information for a business purpose, two separate lists disclosing i) sales, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient purchased; and ii) disclosures for a business purpose, identifying the personal information categories that each category of recipient obtained.​

- We do not provide these access and data portability rights for B2B personal information.​

Deletion Request Rights​

You have the right to request that we delete any of your personal information that we collected from you and retained, subject to certain exceptions. Once we receive and confirm your verifiable consumer request (see Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights below), we will delete (and direct our service providers to delete) your personal information from our records, unless an exception applies.​

We may deny your deletion request if retaining the information is necessary for us or our service provider(s) to:​

- Complete the transaction for which we collected the personal information, provide a good or service that you requested, take actions reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, or otherwise perform our contract with you.

- Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity, or prosecute those responsible for such activities.

- Debug products to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality.

- Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise their free speech rights, or exercise another right provided for by law.

- Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act (Cal. Penal Code § 1546 seq.).

- Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when the information’s deletion may likely render impossible or seriously impair the research’s achievement, if you previously provided informed consent.

- Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with consumer expectations based on your relationship with us.

- Comply with a legal obligation.

- Make other internal and lawful uses of that information that are compatible with the context in which you provided it.​

We do not provide these deletion rights for B2B personal information.​

Exercising Access, Data Portability, and Deletion Rights

To exercise the access, data portability, and deletion rights described above, please submit a verifiable consumer request to us by emailing us at contact@halflightmusic.co.

​Only you, or someone legally authorized to act on your behalf, may make a verifiable consumer request related to your personal information. You may also make a verifiable consumer request on behalf of your minor child.You may only make a verifiable consumer request for access or data portability twice within a 12-month period. The verifiable consumer request must:​

- Provide sufficient information that allows us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected personal information or an authorized representative, which may include:​ Your first name, last name, and email address.​

- Describe your request with sufficient detail that allows us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.​

We cannot respond to your request or provide you with personal information if we cannot verify your identity or authority to make the request and confirm the personal information relates to you.​

Making a verifiable consumer request does not require you to create an account with us.​

We will only use personal information provided in a verifiable consumer request to verify the requestor’s identity or authority to make the request.​

Response Timing and Format​

We endeavor to respond to a verifiable consumer request within forty-five (45) days of its receipt. If we require more time (up to 90 days), we will inform you of the reason and extension period in writing.We will deliver our written response by mail or electronically, at your option.Any disclosures we provide will only cover the 12-month period preceding the verifiable consumer request’s receipt. The response we provide will also explain the reasons we cannot comply with a request, if applicable. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your personal information that is readily useable and should allow you to transmit the information from one entity to another entity without hindrance.We do not charge a fee to process or respond to your verifiable consumer request unless it is excessive, repetitive, or manifestly unfounded. If we determine that the request warrants a fee, we will tell you why we made that decision and provide you with a cost estimate before completing your request.​

Non-Discrimination​

We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your CCPA rights. Unless permitted by the CCPA, we will not:​

- Deny you goods or services.

- Charge you different prices or rates for goods or services, including through granting discounts or other benefits, or imposing penalties.

- Provide you a different level or quality of goods or services.

- Suggest that you may receive a different price or rate for goods or services or a different level or quality of goods or services.​

However, we may offer you certain financial incentives permitted by the CCPA that can result in different prices, rates, or quality levels. Any CCPA-permitted financial incentive we offer will reasonably relate to your personal information’s value and contain written terms that describe the program’s material aspects. Participation in a financial incentive program requires your prior opt in consent, which you may revoke at any time.

Changes to Our Privacy Notice​

We reserve the right to amend this privacy notice at our discretion and at any time. When we make changes to this privacy notice, we will post the updated notice on the Website and update the notice’s effective date. Your continued use of our Website following the posting of changes constitutes your acceptance of such changes.​

Contact Information

If you have any questions or comments about this notice, the ways in which Half Light collects and uses your information described here, your choices and rights regarding such use, or wish to exercise your rights under California law, please do not hesitate to contact us at:

Website: www.halflightmusic.co

Email: contact@halflightmusic.co
Established in 2018, half light is comprised of composers & sound designers. We make music for screen & music software.