BEASTIE BOYS PRIVACY POLICY
Revised October 1, 2019
This Privacy Policy describes the policies and procedures of the Beastie Boys ("we", "our" or "us") on thecollection, use and disclosure of your information in connection with your use of www.beastieboys.com,
including the services, features, or content we offer (collectively the “Site"). We receive information about you
from various sources, including: (i) your use of the Site generally; and (ii) if you choose to sign up to receive
our Newsletter. When you use the Site, you are consenting to the collection, transfer, manipulation, storage,
disclosure and other uses of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.
What Does This Privacy Policy Cover?
In Short: This Privacy Policy covers the treatment of your Personal Information gathered when you are using oraccessing our Services.
We are committed to protecting your Personal Information and your right to privacy. Throughout this Privacy
Policy, “Personal Information” means any information that identifies, relates to, describes, is capable of being
associated with, or could reasonably be linked with an individual or household. These include information suchas full name, postal address, e-mail address and/or telephone number, and if applicable also usage data suchas your IP address. Such is the data we collect when you visit the Site.
Here we seek to explain to you in the clearest way possible what Personal Information we collect, how we use
it and what rights you have in relation to it. We hope you take some time to read through it carefully, as it isimportant. If there are any terms in this Privacy Policy that you do not agree with, please discontinue use of
our Site. Otherwise, if you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, or our practices with regards
to your Personal Information, please contact our Data Protection Officer (“DPO”) at info@sammusicbiz.com.
Please read this Privacy Policy carefully as it will help you make informed decisions about sharing your
Personal Information with us.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control, including but
not limited to any third party websites, services and applications (each a "Third Party Service") that you electto access through the Site or to individuals that we do not manage or employ. While we attempt to facilitate
access only to those Third Party Services that share our respect for your privacy, we cannot take responsibility
for the content or privacy policies of those Third Party Services. We encourage you to carefully review theprivacy policies of any Third Party Services you access.
What Information Do We Collect Automatically from You?
In Short: Some information – such as IP address and/or browser and device characteristics – is collected
automatically when you visit our Site.
We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Site that identifies, relates to,describes, is capable of being associated with, or could reasonably be linked with you or your household. This
information may not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but may include device
and usage information, such as your IP address, browser and device characteristics, operating system, language
preferences, referring URLs, device name, country, location, information about how and when you useour Site and other technical information. This information is primarily needed to maintain the security andoperation of our Site, and for our internal analytics and reporting purposes.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:•••

Cookies (or browser cookies). “Cookies” are small text files that are placed on your device by a Web serverwhen you access our Site. We may use both session Cookies and persistent Cookies to tell us how and when
you interact with the Site. We may also use Cookies to monitor aggregate usage and web traffic routing on our
Site and to customize and improve the Site. Unlike persistent Cookies, session Cookies are deleted when you
navigate away from the Site and close your browser. Although most browsers automatically accept Cookies,
you can change your browser options to stop automatically accepting Cookies or to prompt you before
accepting Cookies. Please note, however, that if you don’t accept Cookies, you may not be able to access all
portions or features of the Site. Some Service Providers that we engage (including advertisers) may also place
their own Cookies on your device. Note that this Privacy Policy covers only our use of Cookies and does notinclude use of Cookies by any Third Party or Service Provider you visit directly, both which should have theirown privacy policies.
Flash Cookies. Certain features of our Site may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store
information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Site. Flash cookies are not managed
by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.
Web Beacons. Pages of our Site and our e-mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (alsoreferred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit us, for example, to count users who havevisited those pages or opened an email and for other related Sites statistics (for example, recording the
popularity of certain Sites content and verifying system and server integrity).
What Information Is Collected from Other Sources?
In Short: We may collect limited data from public databases, marketing partners, and other outside sources.
We may obtain Personal Information about you from other sources, such as public databases and other Third
Parties. Such Third Parties are neither part of our Site nor a Service Provider with whom we have a contractual
relationship. All Personal Information that you provide on or to such Third Party or that is collected by a Third
Party is provided directly to the controller, owner or operator of the Third Party and is subject to the owner’sor operator’s privacy policy. We do not monitor or control any data you provide to Third Parties. To that end,
we are not responsible for the content, privacy or security practices of a Third Party. To assure the protectionof your Personal Information, we recommend that you carefully review the privacy policies of any Third Party
you access. You assume the risk of providing any information you provide to a Third Party.
Other than Third Party services as noted above, we do share your Personal Information with certain Service
Providers, who are defined as companies or organizations with whom we have a contractual relationship inconnection with fulfilling our services to you (“Service Providers”). Any Personal Information collected may beshared with our Service Providers.

Below is a list of the Service Providers as of the date of this Policy. Please check this Privacy Policy regularly for
updates on other Service Providers that may be added to our Site or contact us at info@sammusicbiz.com forthe most recent list of Service Providers with whom we are legally or contractually obligated to share yourinformation to facilitate your use of the Site.
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Google Analytics

We also use Google Analytics, a web analysis service of Google Inc. (in future: Google) on our Website. Google
Analytics is a web analysis tool with the help of which we analyze the interaction of the visitors with our
website and thus are able to improve our website for you further. Google Analytics also uses cookies, as they
were in principle described in more detail above. The information generated by the cookie regarding your useof our Website are usually transferred to a server belonging to Google in the US and stored there. Google
Analytics cookies are stored based on Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR. The website operator has a legitimate interest in
analyzing user behavior to optimize both its website and its advertising. The information saved by the cookies
includes, for instance, the time of the website visit, the frequency with which the visitor has called up thewebsite, and from where the visitor has accessed the website. To determine the latter value, Google initially
records the IP address of the user. However, we have activated the IP anonymization on our website. Based on
this, your IP address within Member States of the European Union or in other signatory states of the Treaty on
the European Economic Area is shortened by Google before transmission to the US. Only in exceptional cases
is the full IP address transferred to a server belonging to Google in the US and shortened there. On behalf ofUnilodgers.com, Google will use the aforementioned information to analyze your usage of the website, tocompile reports on the website activities and to provide further services associated with the usage of thewebsite and the Internet towards the website operator. The IP address communicated under Google Analytics
by your browser is not merged with other data of Google.
You can prevent the saving of the cookies by Google Analytics by a corresponding setting in your browser
software; however, reference should again be made to the fact that in this case you may not be able to use allfunctions of our Website.
In addition, you can prevent the recording of the data generated by the cookie and relating to your usage of
the website (incl. your IP address) to Google and the processing of these data by Google, by downloading andinstalling the browser plug-in available under the following
link: http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=de]Further information on data protection with regard to Google Analytics can be found directly here at Google.
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Facebook

Our website uses the sign-up and log-in function and social plug-ins of the social network facebook.com, which
is operated by Facebook Inc., 1 Hacker Way, Menlo Park, California 94025, USA. If you have your normal placeof residence in the European Union, the Facebook services are offered to you by Facebook Ireland Limited,
Hanover Reach, 5-7 Hanover Quay, Dublin 2 Ireland. The social plug-ins are discernible by the Facebook logos(white “f” on blue background or the characteristic Facebook thumb) or marked by the addition “Facebook
Social Plug-In”; all Facebook plug-ins can be viewed here. The sign-up and/or log-in of Facebook is also easy torecognize by the characteristic white script on a blue background.
If you would like to register or log in with us using the Facebook sign-up and/or log-in, you then permit us to:
1. Access your general details such as your name, profile image, gender, the user ID, your friend lists and allother data that you have made public in your profile.
2. Send you e-mails.

3. Post status reports on your behalf.
4. Also to access your data when you are not currently using the application.
5. Access your other profile information such as “About me”, your date of birth, your hometown and yourcurrent place of residence.
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Social Plug-ins

When you call up our Website on which a social plug-in (e.g., a “like” button) is implemented, your browser
will then establish a direct link to Facebook and will then transmit the following data to Facebook directly:
1. date and time of your visit,
2. the Internet address/URL of the site that you are currently visiting,
3. your IP address,
4. your browser,
5. your operating system,
6. your user code if you are a registered user of Facebook and if applicable your surname and first name.
The data can only be transmitted to the Facebook profile when the user is logged in to Facebook. Logging out
of Facebook prevents the transmission of these data to the Facebook profile.
Facebook saves these data for a period of 90 days. Facebook then removes the name and all other personal
information from the data; a pseudonymized usage profile remains.
Please note that we do not have any influence on the scope of the data which Facebook collects with the helpof the plug-in and that with regard to data protection we have to rely on the data usage guideline ofFacebook, on which our aforementioned information is based. Please inform yourself further on Facebook
specifically about the purpose and scope of the data collection and your rights in this regard and the setting
options to protect your privacy using the data usage guidelines.
It is of course possible to prevent the placing of cookies by settings in your browser. In addition, it is also
possible to block the social plug-ins of Facebook with add-ons for your browser such as the “Facebook
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YouTubeOur Website uses plugins from YouTube, including YouTube Pixel, which is operated by Google. The operatorof the pages is YouTube LLC, 901 Cherry Ave., San Bruno, CA 94066, USA. If you visit one of our pages featuring
a YouTube plugin, a connection to the YouTube servers is established. Here the YouTube server is informed
about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to your YouTube account, YouTube allows you
to associate your browsing behavior directly with your personal profile. You can prevent this by logging out ofyour YouTube account. YouTube is used to help make our website appealing. This constitutes a justified
interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information about handling user data can be found in the data protection declaration of YouTube
under https://www.google.de/intl/de/policies/privacy.
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Google Web Fonts

For uniform representation of fonts, this page uses web fonts provided by Google. When you open a page,
your browser loads the required web fonts into your browser cache to display texts and fonts correctly. Forthis purpose your browser has to establish a direct connection to Google servers. Google thus becomes awarethat our web page was accessed via your IP address. The use of Google Web fonts is done in the interest of a
uniform and attractive presentation of our website. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art. 6 (1)(f) GDPR. If your browser does not support web fonts, a standard font is used by your computer.
Further information about handling user data, can be found at https://developers.google.com/fonts/faq and
in Google’s privacy policy at https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/.
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Spotify and Apple Music

Our Website uses plugins from Spotify and Apple Music. The operators of these two applications are as
follows:A) Spotify USA Inc., 45 W. 18th Street, Fllor 7, New York, NY 10011, USA
B) Apple Inc. One Apple Park Way, Cupertino, California, USA, 95014, USA.
If you visit one of our pages featuring a Spotify or Apple Music plugin, a connection to their website isestablished. Here their servers are informed about which of our pages you have visited. If you’re logged in to
your Spotify or Apple Music account, each allows you to associate your browsing behavior directly with yourpersonal profile. You can prevent this by logging out of your Spotify or Apple Music accounts. Spotify andApple Music are used to help connect you with our music. This constitutes a justified interest pursuant to Art.
6 (1) (f) GDPR.
Further information about handling user data can be found in the data protection declaration of Spotify orApple Music respectively under https://www.spotify.com/us/legal/privacy-policy/ andhttps://www.apple.com/legal/privacy/en-ww/.
What Other Information Do You Provide to Us?
In Short: You provide us information if you sign up for our Forum, and we also collect some information if you
sign up for our Newsletter.
The Newsletter:Through our Newsletter, we send our fans information about events, music, merchandise, band members’
side projects, and other Beastie Boys related material. If you choose to be on our mailing list, all we ask for isyour name and email address.
Personal Information of Children
In Short: We do not knowingly collect data from or market to children under 16 years of age.
We do not knowingly collect or solicit Personal Data from anyone under the age of 16. If you are under 16,
please do not attempt to register for the Services or send us any of your Personal Data. If we learn that we havecollected Personal Data from a child under age 16, we will delete that information as quickly as possible. If you
believe that a child under 16 may have provided us Personal Data, please contact us at info@sammusicbiz.com.
How, and with Whom, Is My Information Shared or Transferred?
In Short: We only share information either with your consent, to comply with laws, to protect your rights, or tofulfill business obligations.
We may process or share data based on the following legal basis:▪ Consent: We may process your data if you have given us specific consent to use your Personal Information
in a specific purpose.
▪ Legitimate Interests: We may process your data when it is reasonably necessary to achieve our legitimate
business interests.
▪ Performance of a Contract: Where we have entered into a contract with you, we may process your Personal
Information to fulfill the terms of our contract.
▪ Legal Obligations: We may disclose your information where we are legally required to do so in order tocomply with applicable law, governmental requests, a judicial proceeding, court order, or legal process,such as in response to a court order or a subpoena (including in response to public authorities to meetnational security or law enforcement requirements).
▪ Vital Interests: We may disclose your information where we believe it is necessary to investigate, prevent,or take action regarding potential violations of our policies, suspected fraud, situations involving
potential threats to the safety of any person and illegal activities, or as evidence in litigation in which
we are involved.
Additionally, we may need to process your data or share your Personal Information in the following
situations:▪ Service Providers. We may share your data with our Service Providers. We may allow Service Providers to
use tracking technology on the Site, which will enable them to collect data about how you interact with
the Site over time. This information may be used to, among other things, analyze and track data,
determine the popularity of certain content and better understand online activity. Unless described inthis Policy, we do not share, sell, rent or trade any of your Personal Information with any Third Party or
Service Provider for their promotional purposes.
▪ Business Transfers. We may share or transfer your Personal Information in connection with, or duringnegotiations of, any merger, sale of company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of ourbusiness to another company.
What Public Information About You and Your Activity on the Site Can Others View?
In Short: Information you post about you on our Site may be viewed by others who access the Site.
Information you choose to include in your profile, or any Personal Information you share about yourself on
our Forum may be viewed by others who access the Site. This includes information you choose to provide
openly, including your username, contact name, information about yourself, and links to your website orsocial media profiles, which may be displayed to other users to facilitate user interaction within the Site. We
will not directly reveal user email addresses to other users.
Some of your activity on and through the Site is public by default. This may include, but is not limited to,content you have posted publicly on the Site or otherwise through the Site. Please remember that if you
choose to provide Personal Information using certain public features of the Site, then that information isgoverned by the privacy settings of those particular features and may be publicly available. Individuals reading
such information may use or disclose it to other individuals or entities without our control and without yourknowledge, and search engines may index that information. We therefore urge you to think carefully about
including any specific information you may deem private in content that you create or information that you
submit through the Site.
What Information Is Disclosed for Our Protection and the Protection of Others?
In Short: We may have to share your Personal Information if legally required to do so.

We reserve the right to access, read, preserve, and disclose any information as we reasonably believe isnecessary to (i) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request, (ii) enforce thisPrivacy Policy, (iii) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security or technical issues, (iv) respond to user
support requests, or (v) protect our rights, property or safety, our users and the public. This includes
exchanging information with other companies and organizations for fraud protection and spam/malware
prevention.
What Choices Do You Have Regarding Your Information?
In Short: You have several options to control and manage the amount of Personal Information you share withus.
EU Residents
If you are a resident of the European Union (“EU”), United Kingdom, Lichtenstein, Norway, or Iceland, you may
have additional rights under the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) with respect to your
Personal Information, as outlined below.
•A) Access:You can request more information about the Personal Information we hold about you and request
a copy of such Personal Information.
B) Rectification:
If you believe that any Personal Information we are holding about you is incorrect or incomplete,
you can request that we correct or supplement such data. You can also correct some of thisinformation directly by updating any of the information contained in your user profile.
C) Erasure:
You can request that we erase some or all of your Personal Information from our systems.
E) Withdrawal of Consent:
If we are processing your Personal Information based on your consent (as indicated at the time ofcollection of such data), you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. Please note,however, that if you exercise this right, you may have to then provide express consent on a caseby-case basis for the use or disclosure of certain of your Personal Information, if such use or
disclosure is necessary to enable you to utilize some or all of our Services.
F) Portability:
You can ask for a copy of your Personal Information in a machine-readable format. You can also
request that we transmit the data to another controller where technically feasible.
G) Objection:
You can contact us to let us know that you object to the further use or disclosure of your Personal
Information for certain purposes.
H) Restriction of Processing:
You can ask us to restrict further processing of your Personal Information.
I) Right to File Complaint:
You have the right to lodge a complaint about Beastie Boys’ practices with respect to your
Personal Information with the supervisory authority of your country or EU Member State.
J) Transfers of Personal Information:
The Services are hosted and operated in the United States (“U.S.”) through our Service Providers,and if you do not reside in the U.S., laws in the U.S. may differ from the laws where you reside. By
using the Services, you acknowledge that any Personal Data about you is being provided to Beastie
Boys in the U.S. and will be hosted on U.S. servers, and you authorize us to transfer, store andprocess your information to and in the U.S., and possibly other countries.
Please note that whenever we transfer your personal data outside of the EEA, we ensure a similar
degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring, where required by law, at least one of the following
safeguards is implemented:·

transferring personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequatelevel of protection for personal data by the European Commission;··using specific contracts approved by the European Commission which give personal
data the same protection it has in Europe; ortransferring personal data to the United States to an entity if they are part of thePrivacy Shield which requires them to provide similar protection to personal data
shared between the Europe and the US.

You may be entitled, in accordance with applicable law, to request a copy of relevant safeguards bycontacting us at info@sammusicbiz.com.

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California Privacy Rights:

If you are a California resident and you have provided us with your Personal Information, you have the right torequest that we:
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Disclose the categories and specific pieces of Personal Information we have collected;
Disclose the categories of sources from which the Personal Information is collected;
Disclose the purpose for collecting or selling your Personal Information;
Disclose the categories of third parties with whom we share your Personal Information;
Delete any Personal Information about you that we have collected from you, subject tocertain exceptions; andNot sell your Personal Information.

Such requests must be submitted to us in writing at info@sammusicbiz.com.
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Nevada Privacy Rights:

If you are a Nevada resident and you have provided us with your Personal Information, you have the right torequest that we allow you to opt-out of the sale of your Personal Information.
Such requests must be submitted to us in writing at info@sammusicbiz.com.
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Opt-Out of Targeted AdvertisingThrough the Digital Advertising Alliance (“DAA”) and Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI”), several
media and marketing associations have developed an industry self-regulatory program to give
consumers a better understanding of and greater control over ads that are customized based on their
online behavior across different websites. To make choices about interest-based ads from participating
third parties, please visit the DAA’s or NAI’s consumer opt out pages, which are locatedat http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ or www.aboutads.info/choices.
Reset your mobile device’s advertising identifier or set it to opt out of targeted advertising.
• iOS: You can opt-out of targeted advertising by choosing “Limit Ad Tracking” in your device’s
settings menu.
• Android: You can reset your advertising ID at any time from the Ads section under Settings on
your device, or you can also opt-out of targeting advertising in this same section.

How Long Do We Retain Your Personal Information?
In Short: We keep your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in thisPrivacy Policy unless otherwise required by law.

We will only keep your Personal Information for as long as it is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy
Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting or other legal
requirements). When we have no ongoing legitimate business need to process your Personal Information, we
will either delete or anonymize it, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your Personal Information has
been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your Personal Information and isolate it from any
further processing until deletion is possible.
Is the Information About You Secure?
In Short: We aim to protect your Personal Information through a system of organizational and technical security
measures, including encryption as required by law.
As required by Nevada law, we encrypt any Personal Information during transfers or any movement of it to ourService Providers are whenever otherwise required contractually, by law or order. In addition, we have
implemented appropriate technical and organizational security measures designed to protect the security of
any Personal Information we process.
Please also remember that we cannot guarantee that the internet itself is 100% secure. Although we will do ourbest to protect your Personal Information, transmission of Personal Information to and from our Site is at yourown risk. You should only access the Site; within a secure environment.
What Happens When There Are Changes to this Privacy Policy?
In Short: We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time, so you should review it periodically for updates
or review it if you receive a notice of update from us.
The effective date of this Privacy Policy appears at the top of this page. However, we may update this Privacy
Policy from time to time. It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If wemake material changes to how we treat your Personal Information, we will notify you by email to the email
address specified in your account or through a notice on the Site home page. The date the privacy policy waslast revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active
and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Site and this Privacy Policy to check forany changes.
What If I Have Questions or Concerns?
If you have any questions or concerns regarding privacy using the Site, please send us a detailed message to
info@sammusicbiz.com or 7095 Hollywood Blvd. # 1190, Hollywood, CA 90028. We will make every effort toresolve your concerns.