Privacy Policy
Effective Date: July 24, 2024
1. Introduction
Welcome to Appel Farm Arts & Music Center (referred to as “Appel Farm,” “we,” “us,” or “our”). We are committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website appelfarm.org or interact with us online and offline. Please read this policy carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.
2. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following data about you:
- Personal Identification Information: Name, email address, phone number, postal address, etc.
- Demographic Information: Age, gender, interests, and preferences.
- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views, and website navigation paths.
- Financial Data: Payment information, credit card details (processed securely), and donation records.
- Communications: Records of your correspondence with us, including email communications and customer service interactions.
- Usage Data: Information collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies, including information about your interaction with our website, and data collected via marketing tools such as Meta (Facebook) and Google Analytics.
3. How We Use Your Information
We use the information we collect in the following ways:
- To Provide Services: To fulfill your requests for programs, events, services, and information.
- To Process Transactions: To process your donations, ticket purchases, and other transactions.
- To Improve Our Services: To understand how users interact with our website and to improve our offerings.
- To Communicate: To send you updates, newsletters, marketing materials, and other information that may be of interest to you.
- To Comply with Legal Obligations: To comply with applicable laws and regulations.
- Marketing and Advertising: To serve relevant advertisements to you and to analyze the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns using tools like Meta (Facebook) and Google Analytics.
4. Disclosure of Your Information
We may share your information with:
- Service Providers: Third-party vendors who provide services on our behalf, such as payment processing, data analysis, email delivery, hosting services, and marketing tools.
- Legal Requirements: When required by law, such as to comply with a subpoena or similar legal process, or to protect the rights, property, or safety of Appel Farm, our users, or others.
- Business Transfers: In the event of a merger, acquisition, or any form of sale of some or all of our assets.
5. Use of Cookies and Similar Technologies
We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on our website and hold certain information. Technologies we use may include:
- Cookies or Browser Cookies: A cookie is a small file placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent.
- Web Beacons: Certain sections of our website and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email.
6. Third-Party Services
We may use third-party services to monitor and analyze the use of our website, including:
- Google Analytics: A web analytics service that tracks and reports website traffic. Google uses the data collected to track and monitor the use of our website. This data is shared with other Google services. Google may use the collected data to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. Google’s Privacy Policy
- Meta (Facebook) Advertising: We use Meta’s advertising services to deliver personalized ads to users. Meta collects information about your interaction with our website and other websites to provide relevant advertisements. Meta’s Privacy Policy
7. Security of Your Information
We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your personal information. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
8. Your Data Protection Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the following rights regarding your personal information:
- Access: The right to access the personal data we hold about you.
- Rectification: The right to correct any inaccuracies in your personal data.
- Erasure: The right to request the deletion of your personal data.
- Restriction: The right to request the restriction of processing your personal data.
- Portability: The right to receive your personal data in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format.
- Objection: The right to object to the processing of your personal data.
If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at info@appelfarm.org.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy practices. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.
10. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us at:
Appel Farm Arts & Music Center
457 Shirley Rd.
Elmer, NJ 08318
Email: info@appelfarm.org
Phone: 856-358-2472