Dolby

GDPR overview

The words GDPR and General Data Protection Regulation appear nowhere in the pages collected, and Dolby never claims compliance in so many words. European mechanisms are nonetheless described. Transfers to countries the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner's Office has not deemed adequate, the United States included, are covered by Standard Contractual Clauses. Visitors in the European Economic Area and Switzerland are told Dolby will meet applicable protection requirements. Subject to local law, users may request access, correction, amendment, erasure or restriction, exercise data portability, withdraw consent, object on legitimate grounds and complain to a regulator. EU residents are given a dedicated postal contact, Dolby Europe Limited in London, and privacy@dolby.com. There is a US state addendum for California and Texas, but no European addendum, no Article 27 representative and no named data protection officer.

Who owns the data?

The terms of use state that you keep ownership of any copyright and other proprietary rights in the User Content you upload, submit, store or send through the site. In exchange, you grant Dolby, its affiliates and its licensees a worldwide, non-exclusive, royalty-free, irrevocable, perpetual and fully paid licence, with the right to sublicense, to host, store, reproduce, modify, translate, publish, publicly perform and distribute that content in any media, in whole or in part. Everything else on the site — text, graphics, interfaces, photographs, trademarks, logos, sounds, music, artwork and code — is owned, controlled or licensed by Dolby. The privacy policy adds that Dolby does not sell personal information.

Reuse rights

The terms give visitors no reuse rights over Dolby material. The site and its content may not be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, publicly displayed, encoded, translated, transmitted or distributed to another server, website or medium — for publication, distribution or any commercial purpose — without Dolby's express prior written consent. Site features, products and services must be used for their intended purpose, namely supporting licensed Dolby technologies and formats. Reverse engineering, scraping and data mining of users or content are explicitly forbidden. In the other direction, content you post yourself remains yours, but Dolby may screen, edit, block or remove it at any time and without notice, and may terminate the account of a repeat copyright infringer.

Data retention & training

Hosting summary

The site names no data centre, hosting region or infrastructure provider. What it does say is that personal information may be transferred to the United States, which may have different data protection laws from the country where it was provided, and that visitors outside the United States should expect their information to reach Dolby there. Where a recipient country has not been recognised as adequate by the European Commission or the UK Information Commissioner's Office, the United States included, Dolby says it puts Standard Contractual Clauses or equivalent measures in place. Visitors in the European Economic Area and Switzerland are told applicable protection requirements will be met. One technical note worth separating from all this: the public website resolves to an Optimizely node in Stockholm, which reflects content delivery rather than where user data is stored.