Thanks for visiting GypsyArtClasses! GypsyArtClasses (“GypsyArtClasses”, “Site”, “we”, “us” or “our”) respects your privacy. When it comes to your personal information, we believe in transparency, not surprises. That’s why we’ve set out here what personal information we collect, what we do with it and your choices and rights.

By using any of GypsyArtClasses’s Services, you confirm you have agreed to the Terms of Service and read and understood this Privacy Policy and our Cookie Policy.

1. Some key terms

In our Privacy Policy, when we refer to “Users”, we mean our customers who use our Services, including visitors to our site.

2. How does this Privacy Policy apply?

This Privacy Policy describes what we do with personal information that we collect and use for our own purposes, such as your account information and information about how you use and interact with our Services. 

We use cookies and similar technologies.

3. Personal information we collect

We collect various personal information regarding you or your device. This includes the following:

• Information you provide to create an Account, specifically email address, first name and last name. If you sign up for Paid Services, we receive a portion of your payment information from our payment processor (such as the last four digits, the country of issuance and the expiration date of the payment card) and we ask you to select your jurisdiction.

• Your marketing preferences.

• The emails and other communications that you send us or otherwise contribute, such as customer support inquiries.

• Information you share with us in connection with surveys, contests or promotions.

• Information from your use of the Services or Sites. This includes: IP addresses, preferences, web pages you visited prior to coming to our or our Users’ sites, information about your browser, network or device (such as browser type and version, operating system, internet service provider, preference settings, unique device IDs and language and other regional settings), information about how you interact with the Services and our sites (such as timestamps, clicks, scrolling, browsing times, searches, transactions, referral pages, load times, and problems you may encounter, such as loading errors).

• Other information you submit to us directly or through Third Party Services if you use a Third Party Service to create an Account (based on your privacy settings with such Third Party Service).Other information you submit to us directly or through Third Party Services if you use a Third Party Service to create an Account (based on your privacy settings with such Third Party Service).

4. How we collect personal information

We obtain personal information from various sources. We do this in three main ways:

• You provide some of it directly (such as by registering for an Account).

• We record some of it automatically when you use our Services or Users’ sites (including with technologies like cookies).

• We receive some of it from third parties (like when you register for a class using a Third Party Service or when you make payments to us using our payment processor).

We’ve described this in more detail below.

a. Personal information you provide

When you use our Services, we collect information from you in a number of ways.  For instance, we ask you to provide your name and email address to register and manage your Account. We also maintain your marketing preferences and the emails and other communications that you send us or otherwise contribute, such as customer support inquiries. You might also provide us with information in other ways, including by responding to surveys or submitting a form.

We’ll normally let you know when information is required, and the consequences of failing to provide it. If you do not provide personal information when requested, you may not be able to use our Services if that information is necessary to provide you with the service.

b. Personal information obtained from your use of our Services

When you use our Services, we collect information about your activity on and interaction with the Services, such as your IP address(es), your device and browser type, the web page you visited before coming to our sites, what pages on our sites you visit and for how long and identifiers associated with your devices.

Some of this information is collected automatically using cookies and similar technologies when you use our Services and our sites. Some of this information is similarly collected automatically through your browser or from your device.

c. Personal information obtained from other sources

If you use a Third Party Service to register for a class, the Third Party Service will provide us with your Third Party Service account information on your behalf, such as your name, phone number, email address (we don’t collect or store passwords you use to access Third Party Services). Your privacy settings on the Third Party Service normally control what they share with us. Make sure you are comfortable with what they share by reviewing their privacy policies and, if necessary, modifying your privacy settings directly on the Third Party Service.

If you sign up for Paid Services directly with us, we obtain limited information about your payment card from our payment processor, such as the last four digits, the country of issuance and the expiration date. Currently, our payment processors are Stripe and PayPal. Stripe and PayPal use and processe your complete payment information in accordance with their privacy policies.

5. How we use your personal information

We use the personal information we obtain about you for the following purposes:

• Provision of the Services. Create and manage your Account, provide and personalize our Services, process payments and respond to your inquiries.

• Communicating with you. Communicate with you, including by sending you emails about your transactions and Service-related announcements.

• Promotion. Promote our Services and send you tailored marketing communications about our services, offers, programs and promotions of and measure the success of those campaigns. For example, we may send different marketing communications to you based on your previous engagement

We process your personal information for the above purposes when:

• Consent. You have consented to the use of your personal information in a particular way. When you consent, you can change your mind at any time.  

• Performance of a contract. We need your personal information to provide you with services and products requested by you, or to respond to your inquiries. In other words, so we can perform our contract with you or take steps at your request before entering into one.

• Legal obligation. We have a legal obligation to use your personal information, such as to comply with applicable tax and other government regulations or to comply with a court order or binding law enforcement request.

6. How we share your personal information

We share personal information in the following ways:

We don’t! Unless it is vital to providing you with services or completing a contract with you, such as payment processing we keep your information secure and confidential.

7. Your rights and choices

Where applicable law requires (and subject to any relevant exceptions under law), you may have the right to access, update, change or delete personal information.

You can access, update, change or delete personal information either directly in your Account or by contacting us at valerie@gypsyartclasses.com to request the required changes. You can exercise your other rights (including deleting your Account) by contacting us via your Account or at the same email address. Please note that we may need to verify your identity in connection with your requests, and such verification process may, if you do not have access to your Account, require you to provide us with additional information (e.g., government identification). Even if you have access to your Account, we may request additional information if we believe it’s necessary to verify your identity. If we are unable to verify your identity or request, we may not, in accordance with applicable law, be able to fulfill your request.

You can also elect not to receive marketing communications by following the unsubscribe instructions in such communications.

Please note that, for technical reasons, there is likely to be a delay in deleting your personal information from our systems when you ask us to delete it. We also will retain personal information in order to comply with the law, protect our and others’ rights, resolve disputes or enforce our legal terms or policies, to the extent permitted under applicable law.

Additionally, if we rely on consent for the processing of your personal information, you have the right to withdraw it at any time and free of charge. When you do so, this will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent withdrawal.

8. How to contact us

If you have questions, comments or complaints about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices or if you would like to exercise your rights and choices, please email us at valerie@gypsyartclasses.com