Shapeshifter Art School - Privacy Policy
At Shapeshifter Art School, we deeply value your creativity and individuality, and we are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your personal information when you interact with our school, whether through our website, in-person classes, workshops, or any other services we offer. By engaging with Shapeshifter Art School, you consent to the practices described in this policy. We encourage you to read it carefully, and if you have any questions, please don't hesitate to reach out to us.
1. Information We Collect
We collect different types of information depending on how you interact with us. This may include:
- Personal Identification Information: This includes your name, email address, phone number, postal address, date of birth, and other similar identifiers you provide when enrolling, registering for events, subscribing to our newsletter, or contacting us.
- Enrollment and Educational Information: If you enroll in our classes or workshops, we may collect information related to your educational background, artistic interests, skill levels, and progress within our programs. This might include artwork you create as part of your studies (with your consent for specific uses, as outlined below).
- Payment Information: When you make payments for classes or services, we collect necessary billing information, such as your credit card details or other payment method information. Please note that we utilize secure third-party payment processors, and we do not directly store your full credit card information on our servers.
- Website Usage Information: When you visit our website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity. This may include your IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages visited, and the dates/times of your visits. We may use cookies and similar tracking technologies to collect this information (please see our Cookie Policy below for more details).
- Communication Information: If you contact us via email, phone, or other means, we may kee
- Photographic and Video Information: During classes, workshops, or school events, we may take photographs or videos for promotional or archival purposes. We will always seek your explicit consent before using images or videos where you are clearly identifiable for promotional materials.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for various purposes, including:
- Providing and Managing Our Services: To process your enrollment, manage your participation in classes and workshops, provide you with course materials, track your progress, and deliver the educational services you have requested.
- Communication: To communicate with you about your enrollment, upcoming classes, events, newsletters, important updates, and respond to your inquiries.
- Payment Processing: To process payments for tuition fees and other services.
- Improving Our Services: To analyze website usage, understand student needs and preferences, and enhance our curriculum, facilities, and overall educational experience.
- Marketing and Promotion (with consent): To inform you about new courses, workshops, exhibitions, and other opportunities at Shapeshifter Art School. We will only send you promotional materials if you have explicitly consented to receive them, and you can opt-out at any time.
- Internal Operations: For administrative purposes, record-keeping, and to ensure the smooth operation of Shapeshifter Art School.
- Legal Compliance: To comply with applicable laws, regulations, and legal processes.
- Showcasing Student Work (with consent): With your explicit consent, we may showcase your artwork created within our programs on our website, social media, or in school exhibitions to celebrate student achievements and promote the school. You will always have the right to refuse or withdraw your consent for such uses.
3. How We Share Your Information
We are committed to protecting your privacy and will only share your personal information in the following limited circumstances:
- Service Providers: We may share your information with trusted third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website, processing payments, sending emails, conducting analytics, or providing other services on our behalf. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for the purposes we specify.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, or other legal process, or if we believe in good faith that such disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or safety, or the rights, property, or safety of others.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or other business transaction involving Shapeshifter Art School, your information may be transferred to the acquiring entity. However, your information will remain subject to the terms of this Privacy Policy.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties for other purposes with your explicit consent. For example, if you agree to participate in a joint exhibition with another organization.
We will never sell your personal information to third parties for marketing purposes.
4. Data Security
We comply with industry best practices to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. These measures include:
- Using secure server environments and encryption technologies for sensitive data.
- Implementing access controls to limit who can access your information.
- Regularly reviewing and updating our security practices.
- Training our staff on data privacy and security procedures.
- Please remember that no method of data transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure.
5. Data Retention
We will retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required by law, including tax regulations, or accounting requirements.
6. Your Rights
You have certain rights regarding your personal information, including:
- Access: You have the right to request access to the personal information we hold about you.
- Correction: You have the right to request that we correct any inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold about you.
- Erasure: In certain circumstances, you have the right to request that we delete your personal information.
- Objection: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances, such as for direct marketing purposes.
- Restriction of Processing: You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
- Data Portability: In certain circumstances, you have the right to receive your personal information in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and to transmit it to another controller.
- Withdrawal of Consent: If we are processing your personal information based on your consent, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact information provided below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable data protection laws. We may need to verify your identity before fulfilling your request.
7. Links to Other Websites
Our website may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these third-party websites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any website you visit.
8. Updates to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or applicable laws. We will post any changes on our website and, if the changes are significant, we may provide more prominent notice. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates. The "Last Updated" date at the top of this policy indicates when it was last revised.