House of Sound is a one-of-a-kind experiential concept designed as an immersive space to showcase McIntosh Group brands: McIntosh, Sonus faber, Pro-Ject, Rotel, and Sumiko. It is a thoughtfully curated townhouse that offers guests a unique, all-encompassing sensory experience – one that realizes the full potential of audio excellence.
McIntosh Laboratory, Inc. is a premier American designer and manufacturer of high-fidelity audio equipment, known for delivering an unmatched sonic experience. Discover more at www.mcintoshlabs.com
ro-Ject Audio Systems is a pioneer in manufacturing high-quality turntables and accessories. With a commitment to delivering excellent build quality and sonic performance at reasonable prices, they redefine what is possible in high-end audio. Discover more at https://pro-jectusa.com.
Sumiko is dedicated to crafting phono cartridges that combine state-of-the-art technical performance with superb tracking and musical sound reproduction. Hand-built, their cartridges excel in analog music reproduction for turntables. Discover more at
Sonus faber is an esteemed Italian brand specializing in high-end audio engineering and design. Their handcrafted speakers, inspired by centuries of musical instruments, deliver natural and immersive sound. Discover more at www.sonusfaber.com.
Rotel is a renowned global brand known for producing high-quality audio electronics with exceptional sound reproduction that consistently receive critical acclaim. Discover more at www.rotel.com.
OPT-OUT REQUESTS FOR US STATE RESIDENTS
At McIntosh Laboratory, Inc., we use your information to help deliver the best experience and to keep you informed of offers, special promotions and new products. We do not directly exchange personal information for financial remuneration, such as monetary compensation. However, the consumer privacy laws of certain US states, including California, Colorado, and Connecticut define the term “sale” in a manner that includes disclosures of Personal Data in exchange for anything of value, such as other information. These states’ laws, as well as laws in Utah and Virginia, also regulate the use and disclosure of Personal Data for targeted or cross-context online behavioral advertising.
Where they apply, these states’ laws give residents of these states the right to opt out of the use and disclosure of their Personal Data for targeted or cross-context online behavioral advertising, and in the case of California, Colorado, and Connecticut, from “sales” of their Personal Data as defined by the laws in those states. For more information, please see our Privacy Policy.
To opt out of online “sales” of your personal information and the use and disclosure of personal information for targeted or cross-context online behavioral advertising, please visit our preference center, and click the “Reject All” button, and then click “Confirm My Choices.” Please note that your preferences will only apply to this website and only to the browser and device you are using at the time you make the selection. You will need provide your preferences for each browser on each device you use, and on each website of ours that you access, to make the opt out effective on those other browsers, browsers, devices, and websites.
If you are a resident of California, Colorado, or Connecticut and would like to exercise the right to opt-out of offline “sales” of your personal information, such as to our dealers or distributors, you or the authorized agent that you authorize to act on your behalf may submit a request to us by completing the form below, calling us at 1-800-538-6576, or emailing us at [email protected]. Please specify your privacy request is related to House of Sound NYC.
INTRODUCTION
McIntosh Group, Inc. (“Company” or “We”) respects your privacy and is 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 Our Website at www.houseofsoundnyc.com (“Our Website“) and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting, and disclosing that information.
Except where expressly stated otherwise, this policy applies only to information we collect on or through Our 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, you may elect not to use Our Website. By accessing or using Our Website, you agree to this policy. This policy may change from time to time in our sole discretion and your continued use of Our Website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes. Therefore, please check the policy periodically for any updates.
CALIFORNIA NOTICE AT COLLECTION
If you are a California resident, the Additional Information for Residents of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia section below includes additional information that we provide pursuant to the California Consumer Privacy Act of 2018 as amended from time to time (“CCPA”). That section includes information regarding the categories of information to be collected, the purposes for which the categories of information are collected or used, whether the information is sold or shared and how to opt out of sales and sharing, and how long the information is retained. You can find those details by clicking on the links above.
INFORMATION WE COLLECT
We collect and use information by which you may be personally identified (“Personal Information”), which may include:
HOW WE PROCESS AND USE YOUR INFORMATION
As a general matter, we collect, use, disclose, and store your information when we have an appropriate legal basis. We use Personal Information that we collect about you or that you provide to us the following purposes:
1. Pursuant to Your Consent. We process Personal Information to the extent you provide your consent, such as when we request to process Personal Information for a purpose that is not already identified by this Privacy Notice.
2. To Perform a Contract with You. We process Personal Information to enter into, or perform under, the agreement between us, such as processing payments, shipping orders, and responding to support or warranty requests. If you do not provide Personal Information, we will not be able to enter into the contract. We will notify you if this is the case at the time.
3. Legitimate Interests. We process Personal Information for our legitimate interests, consistent with your rights and appropriate to the context, to:
DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
We may disclose Personal Information we collect about you:
LINKED WEBSITES/THIRD PARTY DEALERS
For your convenience we may provide hyperlinks to third party websites, including those of Authorized McIntosh Dealers and Authorized McIntosh Distributors, as well as of other third parties. The websites of these third parties have their own privacy policies and are not covered by the McIntosh privacy policy. Therefore, we do not endorse or assume any responsibility for such third party sites, information, products, or services. If you click on any such hyperlink, we recommend that you read the relevant privacy notice of the linked website(s) to make sure you are comfortable with the applicable privacy and data security practices that govern, which may be different than as described in this policy.
YOUR CHOICES
You may choose not to provide the Personal Information we request through Our Website. However, not providing information we request may restrict your ability to use certain features of Our Website. For example, you may be able to restrict the collection of Personal Information or functionality through your device’s operating system or by disabling cookies, but doing so may prevent you from using the functionality of Our Website. Some browsers have a “do-not-track” feature that let you tell websites that you do not want to have your online activities tracked. At this time, Our Website does not respond to browser “do-not-track” signals. We allow third parties to use Our Website to collect Personal Information about your online activities over time and across different websites, applications, and other online products or services.
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.
You may also send us an e-mail at [email protected] to request access to, correct or delete any Personal Information that you have provided to us. Please specify your request your privacy request is related to House of Sound NYC in your e-mail. We may not accommodate a request if we believe fulfilling the request would violate any law or legal requirement, cause the information to be incorrect, or otherwise is not required by law.
CHILDREN UNDER AGE OF 16
Our Website are not intended for children under 16 years of age. No one under age 16 may provide any information to or through Our Website. We do not knowingly collect Personal Information from children under 16. If you are under 16, do not use Our Website, register to use any of the features on Our Website, provide any information on Our Website or through any of its features, use any of the interactive features of Our Website, or provide any information about yourself to us (including your name, address, telephone number, e-mail 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 [email protected]. Please specify your privacy request is related to House of Sound NYC in your e-mail.
DATA SECURITY
We have implemented measures designed to secure your Personal Information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration and disclosure. Although we do our best to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee the security of your Personal Information transmitted to Our Website. Any transmission of Personal Information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on Our Website.
RETENTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We retain Personal Information for as long as necessary to carry out the processing activities described above, including but not limited to providing Our Website or content, products, or other services we make available, compliance with applicable laws, regulations, rules and requests of relevant law enforcement and/or other governmental agencies, and protecting our and our business partners’ and customers’ rights, property, or safety, and the rights, property, and safety of our users and other third parties.
INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS
Your Personal Information will be stored and processed in your region, in the United States, and in any other country where we or our affiliates, subsidiaries, or service providers operate. Typically, the primary storage location is in the customer’s region or in the United States and may have a backup to a data center in another region. You acknowledge that we will transfer your Personal Information to, and store your Personal Information in, jurisdictions which may have different data protection rules than in your country, and Personal Information may become accessible as permitted by law in those territories, including to law enforcement and/or national security authorities in those territories.
When we transfer Personal Information subject to the data protection laws of the European Economic Area (“EEA”), Switzerland, or the United Kingdom (“UK”) to entities located outside the EEA Switzerland, or the UK, we will rely on a legal framework that provides appropriate safeguards, which could include the standard contractual clauses, binding corporate rules, or frameworks deemed adequate by the European Commission or relevant governmental authorities of Switzerland or the UK.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR INDIVIDUALS LOCATED IN THE EEA, SWITZERLAND, AND THE UNITED KINGDOM
If you are located in the EEA, Switzerland, or the UK, you may have certain rights in regard to your Personal Information. These rights may include, depending on the circumstances surrounding the processing of Personal Information, the following:
You may exercise these rights, to the extent they apply, by contacting us as provided at the end of this privacy policy, or by following other instructions provided in this privacy policy or in communications sent to you. Please be prepared to provide reasonable information to identify yourself and authenticate your requests.
ADDITIONAL INFORMATION FOR RESIDENTS OF CALIFORNIA, COLORADO, CONNECTICUT, UTAH, AND VIRGINIA
The US states of California, Colorado, Connecticut, Utah, and Virginia have laws that require additional information to be shared with residents of those states (“consumers” or “you”). This section supplements the information contained in this policy by providing certain information and describing certain rights that apply only to these consumers. This section only applies to Personal Information subject to the requirements of the laws referenced above and does not apply to data, such as deidentified data, not subject to those requirements.
Personal Information Rights and Choices
We have described below some privacy rights we offer to you and others. Where the rights described below are provided by law, there may be limitations or exceptions that apply to your request in accordance with applicable legal requirements. We have described these rights generally, without noting all applicable or potentially applicable limitations or exceptions. When you make a request, we may provide more detailed information regarding any legal requirements applicable to or your request and whether any exception or limitation applies.
Rights to Know About Personal Information Collected, Disclosed or Sold and to Data Portability
In addition, if you are a California resident, you have the right to request that we disclose certain information to you about our sale, collection, use, and disclosure of your Personal Information during the applicable time period for your request. If we receive and confirm a verifiable consumer request from you pursuant to the Exercising Your Rights section below, we will disclose one or all of the following depending on the scope of the request:
Right to Request Deletion of Personal Information
Rights to Request to Opt Out of the Sale of Personal Information and Certain Sharing or Processing for Targeted or Cross-Context Behavioral Advertising Purposes
We have also configured Our Website to process opt-out preference signals that may allow you to inform us of your desire to opt out of the online sale and sharing of your Personal Information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising. Opt-out preference signals must be in a format commonly used and recognized by businesses and be delivered by a platform, technology, or mechanism that makes clear to consumers that the use of the signal is meant to have the effect of opting the consumer out of the sale and sharing of Personal Information as described above.
If we receive an opt-out preference signal from you, we may offer you the option to provide additional information to help facilitate your opt-out request. We may also notify you if an opt-out preference signal we receive from you conflicts with your privacy settings or participation in certain programs we offer and request your consent to sales or sharing of Personal Information or to affirm your intent to withdraw from any relevant programs.
Even if you opt out of the sharing or processing of your Personal Information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising, you may still see our ads online at other sites and apps, and we may still base aspects of ads on your interactions with us and Our Website.
Right to Request Correction of Your Personal Information
Right to Non-Discrimination for Exercising Your Rights
Financial Incentives for Your Personal Information
Exercising Your Rights
Your request must provide information sufficient to permit us to reasonably verify you are the person about whom we collected Personal Information, or an authorized representative of that person. In order to verify your request, we may ask you to provide information such as your first and last name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, or any other information necessary to verify your identity or status as a representative of the person. Your request also must include sufficient detail for us to properly understand, evaluate, and respond to it.
If we cannot fulfill, or are permitted to decline, your request then we will alert you or your authorized representative. We may charge a reasonable fee to respond in certain circumstances where permissible under applicable law, such as if you have made several repetitive requests. For data portability requests, we will select a format to provide your Personal Information that is readily usable.
In certain situations, if we do not fulfill your request, you may appeal by contacting us through the methods described above.
Information We Collect
We have collected the following categories of Personal Information from consumers within the last twelve (12) months:
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A. Identifiers.
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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.
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B. Personal Information categories listed in the California Customer Records statute (Cal. Civ. Code § 1798.80(e)).
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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.
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C. Protected classification characteristics under California or federal law.
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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).
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D. Commercial information.
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Records of personal property, products or services purchased, obtained, or considered, or other purchasing or consuming histories or tendencies.
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E. Internet or other similar network activity.
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Browsing history, search history, information on a consumer’s interaction with a website, application, or advertisement.
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F. Geolocation data.
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Approximate location as derived from your IP address.
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G. Sensory data.
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Audio, electronic, visual, thermal, olfactory, or similar information.
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H. Professional or employment-related information.
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Current or past job history or performance evaluations.
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I. Inferences drawn from other Personal Information.
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Profile reflecting a person’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes.
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We obtain the categories of Personal Information listed above from the following categories of sources:
Purposes for Using, Disclosing, and Otherwise Processing Personal Information
We may collect and use the categories of Personal Information described above for one or more of the business and commercial purposes described in the How We Use Your Information section above.
Disclosing Personal Information
In the preceding 12 months, we may have disclosed the categories of Personal Information listed below to the categories of third parties identified below for a business purpose:
In the preceding twelve (12) months, we may have disclosed the following categories of Personal Information to the third parties identified below for a business purpose:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category B: California Customer Records Personal Information categories.
Category D: Commercial Information
Category E: Internet or other similar network activity.
Category F: Geolocation Data
Category G: Sensory Data
Category H: Professional or employment-related information.
Category I: Inferences drawn from other Personal Information.
We disclose your Personal Information for a business purpose to the following categories of third parties:
Categories of Personal Information Shared with or Sold to Third Parties
We do not disclose Personal Information to third parties in exchange for monetary consideration (e.g., a cash payment). However, some applicable laws define “sale” very broadly in a manner that includes disclosing Personal Information in exchange for valuable consideration, and also regulate “sharing” and other use of Personal Information for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising. Under those laws, we may sell or share, and in the preceding 12 months, we may have sold to third parties, or shared with third parties for cross-context behavioral advertising, the following categories of Personal Information:
Category A: Identifiers.
Category D: Commercial Information
Category E: Internet or other similar network activity.
Category F: Geolocation Data
Category I: Inferences drawn from other Personal Information.
We may have sold or shared each of these categories of Personal Information with third parties such as our dealers and distributors, data partners, advertising networks that enable or participate in targeted and cross-context behavioral advertising, social media platforms, and analytics partners that provide online tracking technologies that we use to analyze use of Our Website.
We do not have actual knowledge that we sell the Personal Information of consumers under the age of 16 or share the Personal Information of consumers under the age of 16 for targeted or cross-context behavioral advertising.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ Personal Information, we will notify you through a notice on Our Website’ home pages. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable e-mail address for you, and for periodically visiting Our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
CONTACTING US
If you have any questions or concerns about this privacy policy and/or how we process Personal Information, or would like to exercise any applicable legal rights set forth above, please contact us via the methods provided below. Please specify your privacy request is related to House of Sound NYC.
Email: [email protected]
Mail: McIntosh Labs
Re: Privacy Compliance Officer
2 Chambers Street
Binghamton, NY 13903-2699