Privacy Policy for BMG Myanmar

This Privacy Policy describes how BMG Myanmar (Billionaire Minds Group Co.,Ltd.) (“BMG Myanmar,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you visit our website https://bmgmyanmar.org, use our services, or interact with us. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring the security of your personal data.

1. Information We Collect

We collect various types of information to provide and improve our services to artists, labels, and visitors to our website.

a. Information You Provide Directly: This includes information you actively submit to us:

  • Contact Information: Name, email address, phone number, physical address (for artists/labels).
  • Artist/Label Information: Artist name, band name, label name, biography, genres, social media links, payment information (bank details, tax IDs for royalty payments).
  • Account Credentials: Username and password (for artist portal access).
  • Content Information: Details about your music, artwork, and music videos.
  • Communications: Information you provide when you contact us for support, inquiries, or feedback.

b. Information We Collect Automatically: When you visit our website, we may collect certain information automatically:

  • Device Information: IP address, browser type and version, operating system, device type.
  • Usage Data: Pages you visit on our site, time spent on those pages, referring URLs, clickstream data, and other diagnostic data.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our service and hold certain information. These include session cookies (temporary) and persistent cookies (remain on your device).

c. Information from Third Parties: We may receive information about you from third-party services relevant to our operations, such as:

  • Digital Stores and Platforms: Data related to your music’s performance, streams, downloads, and earnings from services like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Vevo, etc., which is necessary for royalty processing and reporting.
  • Payment Processors: Information related to payment transactions.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes, primarily to provide our services and support our artists:

  • To Provide and Maintain Our Service: Including processing your music for distribution, managing your account, and fulfilling our contractual obligations.
  • To Process Royalty Payments: Calculating, tracking, and distributing your earnings from digital platforms.
  • To Communicate With You: Sending service updates, marketing communications (with your consent), important notices, and responding to your inquiries.
  • To Manage YouTube OAC and Vevo Channels: Setting up, managing, and optimizing your Official Artist Channel and distributing your videos to Vevo.
  • For Content ID and Monetization: Implementing YouTube Content ID to protect your copyrights and monetize your content across platforms like YouTube and Facebook.
  • To Improve Our Website and Services: Analyzing usage patterns to enhance user experience, troubleshoot technical issues, and develop new features.
  • For Security and Fraud Prevention: Protecting our services and users from fraudulent or illegal activities.
  • To Comply with Legal Obligations: Meeting legal, regulatory, and compliance requirements.

3. How We Share Your Information

We may share your information with third parties in specific situations:

  • With Digital Stores and Platforms: To distribute your music and video content to services like Spotify, Apple Music, YouTube, Vevo, TikTok, MPT, Ooredoo, Atom, etc. This is essential for our core service.
  • With Payment Processors: To facilitate royalty payments to you.
  • With Service Providers: We may employ third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our service (e.g., hosting, analytics, customer support). These third parties have access to your Personal Data only to perform these tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose or use it for any other purpose.
  • For Legal Reasons: If required by law, subpoena, or if we believe such action is necessary to comply with the law and the reasonable requests of law enforcement, or to protect the security or integrity of our service.
  • Business Transfers: In connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another company.
  • With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purpose with your explicit consent.

4. Data Retention

We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy, typically for the duration of our business relationship and for a reasonable period thereafter to comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.

5. Security of Your Data

The security of your data is paramount to us. We implement reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures to protect your Personal Data from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Data, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

6. Your Data Protection Rights

Depending on your location and applicable laws, you may have the following rights regarding your Personal Data:

  • Access: The right to request copies of your Personal Data.
  • Rectification: The right to request that we correct any information you believe is inaccurate or complete incomplete information.
  • Erasure: The right to request that we erase your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • Restrict Processing: The right to request that we restrict the processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • Object to Processing: The right to object to our processing of your Personal Data, under certain conditions.
  • Data Portability: The right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details provided below.

7. Links to Other Websites

Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third party’s site. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the “Effective Date” at the top of this Privacy Policy. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us:

  • By email: [Your Contact Email Address]
  • By visiting this page on our website: [Link to your contact form or Contact Us page]
  • By mail: [Your Office Address in Yangon/Myanmar]

Aung Ko

As Co-Founder of BMG Myanmar, my goal is simple: to put Myanmar’s incredible music on the global map. I built BMG to empower artists, ensuring you keep 100% of your rights while your music reaches 150+ platforms worldwide and earns every cent it deserves. Your art, amplified globally—that’s my mission.