PRIVACY POLICY

Last Modified: January 25, 2021.

Welcome to the Preservation Hall Lessons website. The Preservation Hall Foundation’s primary activity is to serve the next generation of New Orleans musicians and listeners through hands-on education and community engagement programs. Our programming serves youth in schools, detention and community centers in the Greater New Orleans area. The core constituency of our music students are elementary and secondary schoolers for whom we subsidize or completely underwrite the cost of weekly music classes, field trips and educational resources.

While you visit the Preservation Hall Foundation’s (“Foundation”, “we”, “our”, “us”) website, this Privacy Policy applies. We value your privacy and we will treat all information regarding any transaction you engage in with the Foundation as highly confidential. Our collection, retention and usage of information that the users provide on our website available at the domain https://www.preshallfoundation.org/education (“Website”) is completely ethical. Our privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) explains the personal data or information that the Foundation collects and the usage and sharing of such data when you visit the Website or use the services of the Foundation. The Privacy Policy also elaborates on the measures that we take to protect the security of the data collected. The options which you have with respect to our usage of information or data shared by you on the Website will also be described.

Reach out to us at Info@preshallfoundation.org for purposes of updating your contact information, removing your name from our mailing lists, or for general enquiries related to our privacy practices.

Information We collect and how We use It.

We will not use or disclose (share, sell or divulge) any of your personal information to third parties unless we have been authorized by you, or are required or authorized to do so by law. We may use your personal information: a) for purposes related to our research, planning, program development and management; b) for purposes connected with the operation, administration, development or enhancement of the our services and the Website; and c) where we suspect that fraud or unlawful activity has been, is being or may be engaged in.

Donations

When you make a donation through our Website, we may ask you to submit certain personal information that is necessary for us to process the transaction (“Donor Data”). We will not make any other use of Donor Data other than as prescribed below. Donor Data may be used for the following purposes: a) Distributing receipts and thanking donors for donations Version 1.1 b) Informing donors about upcoming fundraising and other activities of our organization c) Internal analysis, such as research and analytics d) Record keeping e) Reporting to applicable governmental agencies as required by law f) Surveys, metrics, and other analytical purposes g) Other purposes related to the fundraising operations.

Cookies and Web Beacons

 We use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Website. We may combine this information with other personal information we collect from you. Cookies are pieces of electronic information which will be sent by the Foundation to the user for record-keeping purposes when you log onto our Website. These will be placed in your computer’s hard disk and enable us to recognize you as a user when you next visit. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Website, while others are used to enable a faster login process or to allow us to track your activities on our Website.

Third Party Cookies

We use cookies and other tracking mechanisms to track information about your use of our Site or Services. We may combine this information with other personal information we collect from you. Cookies are pieces of electronic information which will be sent by the Foundation for record-keeping purposes when you log onto our web site. These will be placed in your computer’s hard disk and enable us to recognize you as a user when you next visit. Some cookies allow us to make it easier for you to navigate our Site and Services, while others are used to enable a faster login process or to allow us to track your activities at our Site and Service.

Disabling Cookies

Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but if you prefer, you can edit your browser options to block them in the future. The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your computer from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie or how to disable cookies altogether. Visitors to our Website who disable cookies will be able to browse certain areas of the Website, but some features may not function.

Information We Share

 The Foundation does not sell, rent, trade or otherwise disclose personal information about our Website visitors (nor our offline donors), except as described herein. We share information provided by our Website visitors with service providers that we have retained to perform services on our behalf ― for example, to process donations, send direct mails, emailers, greeting cards, making phone calls, and others. We may share your information like phone numbers, email address, etc. with these agencies so that they can perform these activities efficiently. These service providers are not authorized by us to use or disclose the information Version 1.1 except as necessary to perform services on our behalf or to comply with legal requirements. However, since we do not have complete control over these third parties, such third parties’ usage of your data/info shall be governed by the terms of their privacy policy, over which the Foundation has no control.

We reserve the right to transfer any information we have about you in the event we sell or transfer all or a portion of our ownership or assets. Should such a sale or transfer occur, we will use reasonable efforts to try to direct the transferee to use personal information you have provided through this Website in a manner that is consistent with this Privacy Policy.

Other Disclosures

In addition, we may disclose information about you (i) if we are required to do so by law; (ii) in response to a request from law enforcement authorities or other government officials; (iii) when we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to prevent physical harm or financial loss or in connection with an investigation of suspected or actual illegal activity; (iv) as needed to protect our rights, interests, privacy, safety, property, donors, or users; or (v) to our affiliates or subsidiaries.

Security

We are committed to protecting Donor Data and other personal information from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. Amongst other things, we undertake a range of security practices, including measures to help secure web access to sensitive data and undertake efforts to address security vulnerabilities for various tools and databases. The Foundation has the necessary security mechanisms in place and only designated employees have access to your personal information. We maintain administrative, technical and physical safeguards to protect against unauthorized disclosure, use, alteration or destruction of the personal information in our possession. All online transactions are done on a secure server. You’ll know that you’re in a secure area of our Website when a “lock” icon appears on your screen and the “http” portion of our URL address changes to “https.” The “s” stands for “secure.