Bearshare takes your privacy very seriously. In order to provide you with the highest quality service, we do collect certain information from you in accordance with the following guidelines.

Direct Submissions:

In order to provide you with excellent service and a superior customer experience Bearshare has several areas where you can submit information to us and we also have features that automatically collect information from users of our service. Some of the information you may choose to provide includes personally identifiable information such as your name, address, email, age, gender and interests. In addition, we may collect information linked to your communications preferences, your payment and billing information, your searches and purchases, music you own, your music listening preferences, your library, play lists, most played artists and other requested information on surveys that are presented to you.

Bearshare Personalization Service:

If you have elected to enable any of Bearshare's Personalization Services, Bearshare uses technology and services from third party partners to understand your unique interests by analyzing what content you view across Web sites and search results. This information is used to make music and other content recommendations to you. Bearshare and its partners also provide this information to other third parties to enable them to show you advertisements across the web that might be more interesting to you.

What Information is collected by the Bearshare Personalization Service?

When you first agree to receive the Bearshare Personalization Service, information will be collected about your Web browsing history to begin building a profile of your interests. While your computer is on, the Personalization Service will periodically collect:

* Anonymous information about how you use the Web; for example -
o the URL addresses of Web pages you view and how long you view them,
o the links and advertisements you click on,
o whether you make a purchase, and
o non-personally identifiable information you provide on Web pages and forms, including the Internet searches you conduct.
* Which computer operating system and Web browser(s) you use, and identification of some of your system settings.
* Information on how you use the Bearshare Personalization Service; for example, how often you use it and its settings and preferences.