Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.ccmsings.org, and Children’s Chorus of Maryland & School of Music and governs data collection and usage. For the purposes of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Children’s Chorus of Maryland & School of Music include www.ccmsings.org and CCM. The CCM website is a 501(C)(3) non-profit for music education and choral performance site. By using the CCM website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information

In order to better provide you with products and services offered, CCM may collect personallly identifiable information, such as your:

• First and Last Name
• Mailing Address
• E-mail Address
• Phone Number
• Employer
• Job Title
• Children’s First and Last Name
• Children’s Birthdates

If you enroll in the CCM Conservatory program, we collect billing and credit card information through a secure third party. This information is used to complete the purchase transaction. If you purchase other CCM products and services, billing and credit card information is handled by PayPal Gateway.

CCM may also collect anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your:

• Age
• Gender

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through CCM’s public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others.

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services. These may include (a) registering for an account; (b) sending us an email message; (c) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Use of your Personal Information

CCM collects and uses your personal information to operate and deliver the services you have requested.

CCM may also use your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from CCM and its affiliates.

Sharing Information with Third Parties

CCM does not sell, rent or lease its customer and subscriber lists to third parties.

CCM may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to CCM, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

CCM may disclose your personal information, without notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on CCM or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of CCM; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of CCM, or the public.

Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by CCM. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the CCM website.

Use of Cookies

The CCM website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and cam only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you register with CCM site or services, a cookie helps CCM to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same CCM website, the information you previously provided can be retrieves, so you cam easily use those customized CCM features.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the CCM services or websites you visit.

Links

This website contains links to other sites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

Security of your Personal Information

CCM secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. CCM uses SSL Protocol for this purpose.

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected through the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledge that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to the Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

• Delete your personal information from our records; and
• Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

• Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;
• Detect security incidents, protect against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;
• Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;
• Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;
• Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;
• Enable solely internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;
• Comply with an existing legal obligation; or
• Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

Children Under Thirteen

CCM collects personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. CCM collects this information for the following reasons: Our core Conservatory program accepts children under the age of thirteen, as do our early learning courses (Crickets) and Summer Camp program.

We provide information about our personal data practices for children on our home page and wherever we knowingly collect personal data from children on our website. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website. If you are a parent and you have questions regarding our data collection practices, please contact us using the information provided at the end of this Statement of Privacy.

E-mail Communications

From time to time, CCM may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, confirmations, surveys, and/or other general communication.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from CCM, you may opt out of such communications by clicking the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of the email.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

Changes to this Statement

CCM reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our website, and/or by updating any privacy information. Your continued use of the website and/or Services available after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgement of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information

CCM welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that CCM has not adhered to this Statement, please contact CCM at:

Children’s Chorus of Maryland & School of Music
320 E. Towsontown Blvd., Terrace Level
Towson, Maryland 21286

Email Address:
ccm@ccmsings.org

Telephone number:
(410) 494-1480

Effective as of July 22, 2022