Privacy Policy

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Site visitors

If you sign up for more information, the information you provide in the form will be sent to us. We use that information to respond to you and provide ongoing information about our services. In the future, we plant to implement technology to track statistics in aggregate across our site, in order to provide better quality of service, and we may sometimes share that data in aggregate. We will update the privacy policy once we have implemented the analytics system and also communicate the policy updates to our customers. We make use of third-party software to do so but we do not provide such third-party software providers with any of your personal information.

Cookies

We also use cookies (a small text file placed on your computer to identify your computer and browser) and Web beacons (a file placed on a website that monitors usage) to improve the experience of our site. You can reset your Web browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.

Log Files. As with most websites and technology services delivered over the Internet, our servers automatically collect information when you access or use the website or platform and record such information in log files. This log data may include the Internet Protocol (IP) address, the address of the web page visited before using the website, browser type and settings, the date and time the website was accessed, information about browser configuration and plugins, language preferences and cookie data.

Contact forms

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Do Not Track

We do not respond to Do-Not-Track signals.

Your California Privacy Rights

California has recently passed legislation known as the California Consumer Privacy Act regarding privacy rights. That law is still evolving and the terms of this section will be updated to reflect changes in the law. Currently, if you are a California resident, you can request information regarding the disclosure of your personal information by us to third parties for the third parties’ direct marketing purposes or as provided under any other applicable regulation. To make such a request, please send an email to [email protected].

If the California Consumer Privacy Act is applicable to you, you have the right to:

1. 1. know the categories of personal information collected about you, and obtain a copy of your personal information
   2. know whether your personal information is sold or disclosed, and to whom;
   3. opt out of the sale of your personal information;
   4. access and then delete your personal information; and
   5. equal service and price (non-discrimination) if you exercise your privacy rights. “Personal Information” is defined to include information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with a particular consumer or household. This includes (among other types of personal information) IP addresses, geolocation data, biometric information, and “unique identifiers” such as device and cookie IDs, Internet activity information like browsing history, commercial information such as products or services purchased or consuming histories or tendencies, and characteristics concerning an individual’s race, color, sex (including pregnancy, childbirth, and related medical conditions), age (40 or older), religion, genetic information, sexual orientation, political affiliation, national origin, disability or citizenship status. Inferences drawn from personal information “to create a profile about a consumer reflecting the consumer’s preferences, characteristics, psychological trends, preferences, predispositions, behavior, attitudes, intelligence, abilities, and aptitudes” are also considered “personal information.”

Security

We try our best to provide you with leading security practices, such as:

• • We currently host the website at bluehost and so, we inherit all the benefits of the bluehost infrastructure.

However, no data transmission on the internet or on a network is 100% secure, so we cannot make a guarantee. Take care to manage access to the computers and devices where you are logged in to our Services.

Who we share your data with

In the future, we will use third-party services to store and manage our relationships with donors, beneficiaries and potential beneficiaries. We will update our privacy policy and also notify customers when we implement such a third-party service.

We contract with third-party service providers to host our servers and databases and to provide other services to us. Currently, we use Bluehost, whose terms of service can be found here: https://www.bluehost.com/terms/user-agreement and privacy policy can be found here: https://newfold.com/privacy-center. Our policy is to require our service providers to agree not to access or use any information or data they may have access to while providing services to MusicThrives.org other than as specified by us.

GoFundMe – We will be using goFundMe to collect donations. Please review their privacy policy to understand what data they collect. GoFundMe’s privacy policy is here: https://www.gofundme.com/c/privacy.

Third Party Tracking: We do not permit third party advertising networks to collect information about your use of our website and Service over time and across websites for the purpose of serving targeted advertising and we will never use Student, Donor or Beneficiary Data for targeted advertising.

How long we retain your data

MusicThrives.org retains data only for so long as needed for the uses we identify above. If you wish to no longer wish to receive emails from MusicThrives.org, you can request deletion below. Otherwise, we retain account information for active accounts.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Data Access, Correction, Deletion

You may access, correct, and/or delete your personal information to the extent provided by applicable law. To make a request, please email [email protected]. We will retain that data as needed for legal, archival, and security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

What Data Is Sent Outside the EU and Where

We currently operate in the United States and store and transfer data outside of the EU.

Government Requests

Notwithstanding anything to the contrary in this policy, we may preserve or disclose your information if we believe that it is reasonably necessary to comply with a law, regulation, or legal request or to protect the safety, property, or rights of MusicThrives.org or others. However, nothing in this policy is intended to limit any legal defenses or objections that you may have to a third party or government request to disclose your information.

Change of Control

If MusicThrives.org is ever involved in a bankruptcy, merger, acquisition, reorganization, or sale of assets, your information may be sold or transferred as part of that transaction. The promises in this policy will apply to your information as transferred to the new entity, including your right to delete your information.

Changes and Contact Info

From time-to-time, we need to make changes to our Privacy Policy to account for new features or for other reasons. When such changes occur, we will post a notice on this webpage and within the app. If we make a change to our practices with respect to the Services, we will provide a notice through the platform or email you directly (using the email address we have on file). By continuing to visit our Sites or use our Services, you are consenting to the revised policy. If you have concerns about our policy, please forward them to [email protected] and [email protected] and we’ll try our best to respond promptly.