What we collect

michaelrainwatermusic.com is run by Michael Rainwater Music in Atlanta, Georgia, United States. We collect only what the site needs to work.

• When you buy sheet music: your name, email address, billing address and country, what you bought and what you paid, the payment processor's transaction reference, and the IP address and browser identifier of the device that placed the order. Your card number, expiry, and security code go directly to our payment processor, Helcim, over an encrypted connection. They never reach our servers and we never store them.
• When you open a download link: the time, the file, and the IP address and browser identifier, so we can tell that your music reached you and can send a replacement if it did not.
• When you write to us: your name, email address, and message through the contact form, or your name and email address when you ask to be told that a recording is available again.
• When you ask for a lost download link: the email address you enter and the IP address of the request.
• Server logs: like every website, our host records requests (address requested, time, IP address, browser) for a short period to keep the site secure and working.

Why we use it

• To deliver what you bought and email you the download links, and to send a fresh link when you ask for one. This is necessary to perform our contract with you.
• To confirm a payment with the processor before we release a file, and to spot forged or repeated requests. This is our legitimate interest in running the store safely.
• To reply to your inquiry.
• To keep the records of sales that tax and business law require us to keep.

We do not sell personal information, we do not share it for advertising, and we do not use it to build profiles. We do not send marketing email. Every email we send is either the order you placed, the link you asked for, or the reply you were waiting for.

Who handles it

A few companies process data on our behalf, each only for the purpose named:

Helcim

Card payments. Helcim sees your card and billing details; we see a transaction reference, the amount, and the status.

Vercel

Hosting for the site and its server functions, including short-lived request logs.

Neon

The database where orders, download activity, and lost-link requests are recorded.

Resend

Sends our email: download links, replacements, and replies.

All of them store data in the United States. If you are outside the United States, your data is transferred here to fulfil your order. Links to YouTube, Apple Music, Spotify, and other sites lead to services with their own privacy policies; nothing about you is sent to them until you follow a link.

Cookies and tracking

This site does not use analytics, advertising pixels, session recording, or tracking cookies of any kind, and we do not load fonts or scripts from advertising networks. Because we do not track visitors, we have nothing to change in response to a browser's Do Not Track signal. Your shopping bag is kept in your own browser's local storage so it is still there when you come back; it never leaves your device until you check out. The checkout page keeps your cart and progress in your browser's session storage for the length of that visit. The payment form loads Helcim's script, which is required to take your card securely.

How long we keep it

• Order records: seven years, because tax and accounting rules require it.
• Download activity and lost-link requests: two years, so we can help with a lost purchase.
• Contact messages and notify-me requests: until we have replied and for up to two years afterwards.
• Server logs: about thirty days.

Your rights

Wherever you live, you can ask us what personal information we hold about you, ask us to correct it, ask us to delete it (we will keep only what the law requires us to keep, such as the record of a sale), and ask for a copy in a portable form. If you are in the European Union, the United Kingdom, or another place with a data protection law, you also have the right to object to or restrict processing based on our legitimate interests, and to complain to your data protection authority. If you are a California resident, the California Consumer Privacy Act gives you the right to know, delete, and correct, and the right to opt out of the sale or sharing of personal information; we do not sell or share it, so there is nothing to opt out of. We will not treat you differently for exercising any of these rights.

To make a request, use the contact page and say what you would like. We will answer within thirty days, and we may ask you to confirm the email address the order or message came from before we act.

Children

The site is not directed at children under thirteen and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has given us personal information, contact us and we will delete it.

Security

The site is served only over HTTPS. Download links are signed so they cannot be guessed, and they expire after thirty days. Card details are handled by Helcim, a PCI DSS compliant processor.

Contact and changes

Michael Rainwater Music, Atlanta, Georgia. Questions about this policy go through the contact page or to Rick Kanfer at rickkanfer@me.com. If we change this policy we will change the date at the top; if a change affects how we use information you have already given us, we will email you first.

These terms apply to every purchase from The Editions on michaelrainwatermusic.com, sold by Michael Rainwater Music, Atlanta, Georgia, United States. By placing an order you agree to them. They are written to be read, not skimmed; if anything is unclear, ask before you buy.

The licence

What you buy is a licence to use a digital file, not the copyright in the music or the arrangement. Each arrangement is Michael Rainwater's work, sold under licence from the publishers of the original songs. The licence lets you:

• download the file, keep it, print it, and load it on your devices for your own use;
• learn, practise, teach from, and perform the arrangement, including in public performance and in recordings you make of your own playing;
• for an ensemble arrangement priced per part, print and use one copy for each part you paid for. The file always contains the full score and every part; the number of parts you buy is the number of players it covers.

The licence does not let you sell, give away, post, share, or otherwise distribute the file or copies of it, in whole or in part, or claim the arrangement as your own. Copies sold or shared beyond the licence are an infringement of copyright and the licence ends.

Delivery

Once the payment is confirmed, a download link for each item is emailed to the address you gave, normally within a minute, and the links are also shown on the confirmation page. Each link works for thirty days and can be used more than once in that time. If you lose it, the lost link page will send a fresh one to the email address the order was placed with. Please check a spam or promotions folder before writing to us; if the email is not there, contact us and we will send the file another way.

Prices and payment

All prices are in United States dollars. A price shown with a struck-through figure is a sale price; the struck-through figure is the previous price. Ensemble arrangements are priced per part with a stated minimum number of parts. A 10% discount applies when two or more different arrangements are in the same order. The price shown is the whole price: no fees or taxes are added at checkout. Payment is by card through Helcim; card details go directly to Helcim and are never stored by us. If a price is displayed in error and is obviously wrong, we may cancel the order and refund it in full.

Refunds

Because a digital file cannot be returned, all sales are final once the file has been delivered, and we do not refund a purchase because you changed your mind, bought the wrong arrangement, or found the music harder than expected. The free two-page preview and the fold-out preview on every product page are there so you can check before buying. If the file does not arrive, will not open, or is not the arrangement you ordered, tell us within thirty days and we will replace it or refund it in full. Nothing in these terms limits any right you have under the consumer law of the place you live.

General

Items may be withdrawn from sale at any time; a purchase made before an item is withdrawn keeps its licence. We are not responsible for losses that we could not reasonably have foreseen when you bought, and our total responsibility for any order is limited to the amount you paid for it, except where the law does not allow that limit. These terms are governed by the laws of the State of Georgia, United States, and any dispute will be dealt with by the courts of Georgia, unless the law where you live gives you the right to bring a claim at home. Questions go through the contact page or to Rick Kanfer at rickkanfer@me.com. Our privacy policy explains what we do with the information an order gives us.

Our commitment

Michael Rainwater Music wants everyone to be able to read about Michael's work, watch and listen to it, and buy his arrangements, whatever tools they use to browse. This site is built to the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG) 2.2 at level AA, published by the World Wide Web Consortium, and we treat that as the minimum, not the goal.

What that means in practice

• Every page works with a keyboard alone. A "Skip to content" link appears at the top when you press Tab, focus is always visible, and menus, the shopping bag, and the photo viewer keep focus inside them until you close them, which Escape always does.
• Photographs carry descriptions for screen readers. Score previews are described by title and page number, and the same two pages are available as a PDF.
• Text and background colours meet the AA contrast ratio throughout, including the smaller captions and prices.
• Animation on the site respects the "reduce motion" setting on your device: page transitions, the opening curtain, and the album carousel all switch off, and the short muted film clip in the gallery does not play on its own. Every moving image has a pause control.
• Forms have visible labels, describe errors in words, and announce success to screen readers. Nothing on the site flashes.
• The site is plain HTML and CSS built for accessibility from the start. It does not use an accessibility overlay or widget.

Known limitations

• Videos are hosted on YouTube and open there; captions depend on what YouTube provides for each video. Most of Michael's videos are instrumental performances.
• The album carousel on the Recordings page is decorative; the same albums, tracks, and links are listed in text beneath it.
• The sheet music itself is a PDF of an engraved score. Notation is a visual medium and the PDFs are not tagged for screen readers. If you need a score in another form, ask and we will do what we can.

Tell us about a barrier

If any part of this site is hard to use, we would like to know. Write through the contact page and choose "Other", or email Rick Kanfer at rickkanfer@me.com. Tell us the page and what happened. We aim to reply within five business days and to fix what we can within ten.

How this was checked

The site was tested with keyboard-only navigation in Chrome, Safari, and Firefox, with VoiceOver on macOS and iOS, with the browser zoomed to 200%, and with automated checks (axe-core) on every page. It is reviewed again whenever a page changes.