Effective Date: Updated March 28, 2024                                                                    Boston School of Music Arts - Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Boston School of Music Arts collects, uses, and discloses personal information about our customers, prospective customers, and visitors to our website at www.bostonmusicarts.com.
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For a better experience while using our Service, we may require you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information, including but not limited to your name, phone number, and postal address. The information that we collect will be used to contact or identify you.

‍COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:
Information collected directly from you: We may collect personal information directly from you, for example through a web form, during registration, while making a reservation, while setting up an account with us, when you contact us for customer support, or at checkout. Personal information we collect directly from you may include first and last name, address, email address, and phone number, along with any information regarding those you wish to obtain services on behalf of, and if you are legally authorized to do so. In addition, financial data required, and authorized by you for purchases will kept with the highest level of compliance by our financial processing partners.

Your data will never be sold. Information collected from your device:   Our website may use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information from your device including, for example, your IP address, date and time of your visit, browser and operating system information, referring website address, and other information about how you interact with the website. Our website may also use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your user experience and enable certain features such as keeping track of items you put in your shopping cart, or other service exchange. Our website uses these “cookies” to collect information and to improve our Service. You have the option to either accept or refuse these cookies, and know when a cookie is being sent to your computer. If you choose to refuse our cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Service. Our email campaigns may also use tracking technologies such as web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information such as your IP address, browser type and version, and email engagement statistics.
Information collected from our partners: We may collect personal information about you from our third party partners and combine it with other information that we collect. Personal information we collect from our partners may include, for example, your demographic information, shopping history, and geographic location. 

‍USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We may use information collected about you for any lawful purpose, including the following:  
             To provide you with our products and services, customer service and support, and other relevant information;      
             To market our products and services to you, including by email and text message subject to your consent;     
              To provide our website to you, to optimize our website, and to assist with our advertising and marketing efforts;     
              To send you abandoned cart reminders if you added items to your shopping cart but did not complete check out;     
              To comply with the law and to maintain the security of our website; or,
              With your consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is collected. 

DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION:
We may share the information we collect with other parties, includingthe following:·     

With third-party service providers to assist us with providingand marketing our products and services, such as payment processors, data hosting services, analytics services, online store       
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With Constant Contact, or other secure Email provider, to send email marketing and text message communications. For more information about how we may use your information with Constant Contact and the information that may be collected through our email campaigns, see Constant Contact’s Customer Data Notice available at https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/customer- contact data-notice.    

With any affiliates or joint venture partners that we may have in the future. If necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights or the rights of third parties, or to protect the safety or security of any person or entity.     

With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing. We may share information that has been de-identified or aggregated without limitation. Our website may offer interactive features, such as the ability to leave reviews, that you can use to communicate with other website visitors or to submit and post your own content. If you disclose information in one of these forums, this information can be viewed, collected, and used byothers. 

DIGITAL ADVERTISING & ANALYTICS:
We may authorize our advertising partners to use cookies and similar technologies on our website to automatically collect certain information from your device, and we may share information about you, your purchases, and your interactions with our website with our advertising partners. These partners may also collect information from other websites or apps over time, including information about relationships among different browsers and devices. Such information can be used by us or our advertising partners to serve more relevant targeted ads. For more information about this type of advertising and how to opt out of targeted advertising from our advertising partners, go to www.aboutads.info. We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of our website and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. We use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the website and for analytics and marketing purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our website, visitwww.google.com/policies/privacy/partners,and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit: tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Yourweb browser may allow you to block or disable cookies; however, parts of our website may not function properly if you do so.

EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS:
If you wish to unsubscribe from our email campaigns, please click on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email sent from us. If you opt out of our email marketing, we will still send you messages related to our transactions and relationship with you, such as order confirmations. If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply STOP, QUIT, CANCEL, OPT-OUT, or UNSUBSCRIBE to any text message sent from us. You can update any email information or phone (text) contact by texting us at (617) 690-3391, with Your name, and the words "Contact Update", along with the new information. When you have an account with us, you may review, change, or update your contact information by logging into your account.

LINKS TO OTHER SITES:
Our Service may contain links to other sites. If you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that site. Note that these external sites are not operated by us. Therefore, we strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of these websites. We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.

CHILDREN's PRIVACY:
Our services do not directly address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal identifiable information from children under 13. In the case that we discover that a child under 13 has provided us with personal information, we immediately delete this from our servers. If you are a parent or guardian and you are aware that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us so that we will be able to take necessary actions to keep your child safe.

SECURITY:
We value your trust in providing us your Personal Information, thus we are striving to use the highest level of commercially acceptable means of protecting it. But please remember that no method of transmission over the internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure and reliable, and we cannot guarantee its absolute security. Our third-party service providers may have access to your Personal Information. This is for the sole purpose to perform the tasks assigned to them on our behalf. However, they are legally obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY:
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. These changes are effective immediately, after they are posted on this page. Please review it frequently.

CONTACT INFORMATION:
If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at info@bostonmusicarts.com, or
Text, (617) 690-3391.
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