Playing Vinyl

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Specializing in Buying Rare & Premium Records

We are US based, easy to work with and "know our records"!

Genres We Buy

Record Types We Buy

This is not an exhaustive list, so feel free to reach out if you think we might be interested!

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Who Are We?

R.A.R. LLC (owner of Playing Vinyl) has been in business for over 15 years. Based in Phoenix, AZ, we work with record collectors, estate professionals, resellers and anyone with specialty records they are looking to sell. We are transparent in our dealings and do our best to make the transactions as easy as possible for our customers. Contact us with any questions.

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PRIVACY POLICY
Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to playingvinyl.com and R.A.R. LLC ("RAR") and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy and Terms of Conditions, unless otherwise noted, all references to RAR include playingvinyl.com and RAR. The playingvinyl.com website is a site with information about vinyl and other music records ("Records"). By using the RAR website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.


General Terms
RAR reserves the right to refuse service to anyone for any reason at any time.


You understand that your content (not including credit card information), may be transferred unencrypted and involve (a) transmissions over various networks; and (b) changes to conform and adapt to technical requirements of connecting networks or devices. Credit card information is always encrypted during transfer over networks.


You agree not to reproduce, duplicate, copy, sell, resell or exploit any portion of the Service, use of the Service, or access to the Service or any contact on the website through which the service is provided, without express written permission by us.


We are not responsible if information made available on this site is not accurate, complete or current. The material on this site is provided for general information only and should not be relied upon or used as the sole basis for making decisions without consulting primary, more accurate, more complete or more timely sources of information. Any reliance on the material on this site is at your own risk. We reserve the right to modify the contents of this site at any time, but we have no obligation to update any information on our site. You agree that it is your responsibility to monitor changes to our site.


Information We Collect


We collect information when you provide information to us or by visiting our website or when you pay us, such as through third party websites like Paypal.
Communications With Us : You may also provide us information when you respond to surveys or communicate with us via email.


Information We Collect Automatically
We also collect some information automatically:


Log Information: Like most websites, we collect information that web browsers, mobile devices, and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, IP address, unique device identifiers, language preference, referring site, the date and time of access, operating system, and mobile network information.

We use this information to, for example, provide our Services to you, as well as get insights on how people use our Services, so we can make our Services better.


Location Information: We may determine the approximate location of your device from your IP address. We collect and use this information to, for example, calculate how many people visit our Services from certain geographic regions.


Information from Cookies & Other Technologies: A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Pixel tags (also called web beacons) are small blocks of code placed on websites and emails. RAR uses cookies and other technologies like pixel tags to help us identify and track visitors, usage, and access preferences for our Services, as well as track and understand email campaign effectiveness and to deliver targeted ads. For more information about our use of cookies and other technologies for tracking, including how you can control the use of cookies, please see our Cookie Policy.
Prices & Products
We reserve the right at any time to modify or discontinue the buying of Records without notice at any time.
We shall not be liable to you or to any third-party for any modification, price change, suspension or discontinuance.
We reserve the right, but are not obligated, to limit the sales of our products to any person, geographic region or jurisdiction. We may exercise this right on a case-by-case basis. We reserve the right to limit the quantities of any products or services that we offer. All descriptions of products or product pricing are subject to change at anytime without notice, at the sole discretion of us. We reserve the right to discontinue any product at any time. Any offer for any product or service made on this site is void where prohibited.




Third Party Websites


Certain content, products and services available via our Service may include materials from third-parties.


Third-party links on this site may direct you to third-party websites that are not affiliated with us. We are not responsible for examining or evaluating the content or accuracy and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for any third-party materials or websites, or for any other materials, products, or services of third-parties.
We are not liable for any harm or damages related to the purchase or use of goods, services, resources, content, or any other transactions made in connection with any third-party websites. Please review carefully the third-party's policies and practices and make sure you understand them before you engage in any transaction. Complaints, claims, concerns, or questions regarding third-party products should be directed to the third-party.
How And Why We Use Information
Purposes for Using Information
We use information about you as mentioned above and for the purposes of letting you know about upcoming sales, responding to inquiries, analyzing data to improve our services and other ways that we hope will help our customers.

To measure, gauge, and improve the effectiveness of our advertising, and better understand user retention and attrition–for example, we may analyze how many individuals made a purchase after receiving a marketing message or the features used by those who continue to use our site after a certain length of time;
To monitor and prevent any problems with our Services, protect the security of our Services, detect and prevent fraudulent transactions and other illegal activities, fight spam, and protect the rights and property of RAR and others, which may result in us declining a transaction or the use of our Services;


To communicate with you, for example through an email, about offers and promotions offered by RAR and others we think will be of interest to you, solicit your feedback, or keep you up to date on RAR and our products; and
To personalize your experience such as target our marketing messages to groups of our users and serve relevant advertisements.We may use Third Party email services such as specialized email platforms, to send out email notifications and messages. We are not responsible and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for any failure from these platforms to fail to send email messages you were expecting, such as sale notices. Furthermore, we are not responsible and we do not warrant and will not have any liability or responsibility for messages that are automatically sorted or "tagged" by your email provider, email hosting service or email reading software that prevent you from potentially seeing messages that have been sent.


Prohibited Uses


In addition to other prohibitions as set forth in the Terms of Service, you are prohibited from using the site or its content: (a) for any unlawful purpose; (b) to solicit others to perform or participate in any unlawful acts; (c) to violate any international, federal, provincial or state regulations, rules, laws, or local ordinances; (d) to infringe upon or violate our intellectual property rights or the intellectual property rights of others; (e) to harass, abuse, insult, harm, defame, slander, disparage, intimidate, or discriminate based on gender, sexual orientation, religion, ethnicity, race, age, national origin, or disability; (f) to submit false or misleading information; (g) to upload or transmit viruses or any other type of malicious code that will or may be used in any way that will affect the functionality or operation of the Service or of any related website, other websites, or the Internet; (h) to collect or track the personal information of others; (i) to spam, phish, pharm, pretext, spider, crawl, or scrape; (j) for any obscene or immoral purpose; or (k) to interfere with or circumvent the security features of the Service or any related website, other websites, or the Internet. We reserve the right to terminate your use of the Service or any related website for violating any of the prohibited uses.

Who on our team has access

Members of our team and third party contractors who may help with technical or design issues of the site may have access to the information you provide us.

Sharing Information
How We Share Information
We do not sell our users’ private personal information.


We share information about you in the limited circumstances spelled out below and with appropriate safeguards on your privacy:

Subsidiaries, Employees, and Independent Contractors: We may disclose information about you to our subsidiaries, our employees, and individuals who are our independent contractors that need to know the information in order to help us provide our Services or to process the information on our behalf. We require our subsidiaries, employees, and independent contractors to follow this Privacy Policy for personal information that we share with them.


Payment processors

We accept payments through PayPal and Quantum Merchant Services. When processing payments, some of your data will be passed to these companies, including information required to process or support the payment, such as the purchase total and billing information.
Please see their respective privacy policies for more information.
We also have software installed on our site that may require storage of personal data or sharing data with these external services.
Third Party Vendors: We may share information about you with third party vendors who need to know information about you in order to provide their services to us, or to provide their services to you or your site. This group includes vendors that help us provide our Services to you (like the payment providers mentioned above, fraud prevention services that allow us to analyze fraudulent payment transactions, postal and email delivery services that help us stay in touch with you, customer chat and email support services that help us communicate with you, software vendors that may require storage or sharing of data to make their services work on our website, registrars, registries, and data escrow services that allow us to provide domain registration), those that assist us with our marketing efforts (e.g. by providing tools for identifying a specific marketing target group or improving our marketing campaigns), those that help us understand and enhance our Services (like analytics providers), and companies that make products available on our websites who may need information about you in order to, for example, provide technical or other support services to you. There may also be partners who we share data with to help evaluate purchase opportunities.
Legal Requests: We may disclose information about you in response to a subpoena, court order, or other governmental request.

Business Transfers: In connection with any merger, sale of company assets, or acquisition of all or a portion of our business by another company, or in the unlikely event that RAR goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would likely be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. If any of these events were to happen, this Privacy Policy would continue to apply to your information and the party receiving your information may continue to use your information, but only consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Information Shared Publicly

Information that you choose to make public is disclosed publicly.


That means, of course, that information like your public profile, posts, other content that you make public on your website, and your “Likes” and comments on other websites, are all available to others.

Public information may also be indexed by search engines or used by third parties.


Please keep all of this in mind when deciding what you would like to share.


How Long We Keep Information
We generally discard information about you when we no longer need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it.
Security

While no online service is 100% secure, we work very hard to protect information about you against unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction, and take reasonable measures to do so, such as monitoring our Services for potential vulnerabilities and attacks.

Choices

You have several choices available when it comes to information about you:

Opt-Out of Electronic Communications: You may opt out of receiving promotional messages from us. Just follow the instructions in those messages. If you opt out of promotional messages, we may still send you other messages, like those about your account and legal notices.


Set Your Browser to Reject Cookies: You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies before using RAR’s website, with the drawback that certain features of RAR’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
Ads and Analytics Services Provided by Others

Ads appearing on any of our Services may be delivered by advertising networks. Other parties may also provide analytics services via our Services. These ad networks and analytics providers may set tracking technologies (like cookies) to collect information about your use of our Services and across other websites and online services. These technologies allow these third parties to recognize your device to compile information about you or others who use your device. This information allows us and other companies to, among other things, analyze and track usage, determine the popularity of certain content, and deliver advertisements that may be more targeted to your interests. Please note this Privacy Policy only covers the collection of information by RAR and does not cover the collection of information by any third party advertisers or analytics providers.


Third Party Software

We may use third party software to provide our services. We don’t own or control these third parties and they have their own rules about collection, use and sharing of information, which you should review.
Google Remarketing

Our site uses Google AdWords Remarketing Service. We use this service as a marketing tool to encourage past visitors of playingvinyl.com to revisit our website and inquire about our services. This service sets a cookie on a web visitor’s computer and then displays R.A.R. LLC’s ads on Google and third party websites based on your past visit to playingvinyl.com. This could be a display ad (“banner ad”), a text ad or similar types of ads that Google AdWords service may be able to display.


You can change your settings (including the ability to opt-out) on Google’s website here:

https://adssettings.google.com/




Children Under Thirteen

RAR does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.


Opt-Out & Unsubscribe

We respect your privacy and give you an opportunity to opt-out of receiving announcements of certain information. Users may opt-out of receiving any or all communications from RAR by contacting us here:


Email: sales at playingvinyl.com

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, RAR may change its Privacy Policy from time to time. RAR encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the change log below, and, in some cases, we may provide additional notice (such as adding a statement to our homepage or sending you a notification through email or your dashboard). Your further use of the Services after a change to our Privacy Policy will be subject to the up