At BlackBox Music & Arts, we collect and manage user data according to the following Privacy Policy.
DATA COLLECTED
We collect information you provide directly to us. For example, we collect information when you email us, register for our services, fill out a form, request customer support or otherwise communicate with us. The types of information we may collect include your name, email address, postal address, credit card information and other contact or identifying information you choose to provide.
We collect anonymous data from every visitor of the Website to monitor traffic and fix bugs. For example, we collect information like web requests, the data sent in response to such requests, the Internet Protocol address, the browser type, the browser language, and a time stamp for the request.
We also use various technologies to collect information, and this may include sending cookies to your computer. Cookies are small data files stored on your hard drive or in your device memory that helps us to improve our services and your experience, see which areas and features of our services are popular and count visits. We may also collect information using web beacons (also known as "tracking pixels"). Web beacons are electronic images that may be used in our services or emails and to track count visits or understand usage and campaign effectiveness.
EMAIL
You may decide to send us personally identifying information, for example, in an electronic mail message containing a question or comment, or by filling out a Web form that provides us this information. We use personally identifying information from email primarily to respond to your requests. We may forward your email to other employees who are better able to answer you questions. We may also use your email to contact you in the future about our programs that may be of interest.
We will not obtain personally identifying information about you when you visit our site, unless you choose to provide such information to us. Providing such information is strictly voluntary. Except as might be required by law, we do not share any information we receive with any outside parties.
If you sign up for one of our email lists, we will only send you the kinds of information you have requested. We won't share your name or email address with any outside parties.
THIRD PARTY LINKS
Occasionally, we may include or offer third party products or services on our website. These third party sites have separate and independent privacy policies.
USE OF DATA
We only use your personal information to provide you the BlackBox Music & Arts services or to communicate with you about the Website or the services.
We employ industry standard techniques to protect against unauthorized access of data about you that we store, including personal information.
We do not share personal information you have provided to us without your consent, unless:
Doing so is appropriate to carry out your own request
We believe it's needed to enforce our legal agreements or that is legally required
We believe it's needed to detect, prevent or address fraud, security or technical issues
SHARING OF DATA
We don't share your personal information with third parties. Aggregated, anonymized data is periodically transmitted to external services to help us improve the Website and service.
We may allow third parties to provide analytics services. These third parties may use cookies, web beacons and other technologies to collect information about your use of the services and other websites, including your IP address, web browser, pages viewed, time spent on pages, links clicked and conversion information.
We use social buttons provided by services like Twitter, Google+, LinkedIn and Facebook. Your use of these third party services is entirely optional. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and/or practices of these third party services, and you are responsible for reading and understanding those third party services' privacy policies.
We use third party registration and credit card services. We use Corzio to collect registration information and Stripe to process credit card information when you register for classes or services provided by us. When you register for a class, lessons or services, you are taken out of our website to the third party site. Each maintain their own privacy policies.
COOKIES
We may use cookies on our site to remember your preferences. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site’s or service provider’s systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. They are also used to help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services. We also use cookies to help us compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interaction so that we can offer better site experiences and tools in the future.
GOOGLE AND OTHER THIRD PARTY VENDORS
We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website. Google, and other third party vendors, use cookies to serve ads on our site. Google’s use of the DART cookie enables it to serve ads to our users based on their visit to our site and other sites on the Internet. Users may opt out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google ad and content network privacy policy.
OPT-OUT COMMUNICATION PREFERENCES
You may choose to receive only specific communications or none at all. You may also update your contact information previously provided to us through another online form. You can not remove yourself from our database, but you can prevent unwanted communication by contacting us at studio@blackboxmusicart.com asking us to remove you from our contact list.
SECURITY
We take reasonable steps to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, and unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. But, you should keep in mind that no Internet transmission is ever completely secure or error-free. In particular, email may not be secure.
CHILDREN AND PRIVACY
The Website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information via this Website from visitors in this age group.
We do collect voluntary information from you the parent or/guardian, about your child for the express purpose of registering a child for age appropriate classes or services through our registration process. If you, the parent or legal guardian consents, we may collect the child’s name, email address, age, music art or other liberal arts preferences directly from the child or his/her parent. We will use the information for purposes of tailoring curriculum to our students needs and interests, and for internal customer analysis/insights related work and will collect only such information as is reasonably necessary for those purposes. Consenting parents may, by sending an email to us at admin@blackboxmusicarts.com, or in person, review the information we have collected from his/her child, withdraw his/her consent to any further collection or use of the information, and ask that we delete the information we have collected.
CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
We may amend this Privacy Policy from time to time. Use of information we collect now is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is used.
If we make major changes in the way we collect or use information, we will notify you by posting an announcement on the Website or sending you an email.
QUESTIONS ABOUT OUR POLICY
If you have any questions about this privacy statement, the practices of this site, or your dealings with this Web site, you can contact us at: studio@blackboxmusicarts.com
updated 5/2020
