reh | privacy policy
Welcome to https://www.ruthellenhoag.com (the “Site”). Ruth Ellen Hoag values your support and is committed to protecting your privacy. We maintain strict privacy policies and take great care to ensure that unauthorized persons do not access or compromise your information. This statement governs our privacy policies with respect to those users of the Site (“Visitors”), those who sign up for our email list (“Contacts”), and those who register for classes from the Site (“Students”).
Personally Identifiable Information
“Personally Identifiable Information” refers to any information that identifies or can be used to identify, contact, or locate the person to whom such information pertains, including, but not limited to, name, address, phone number and email address. Personally Identifiable Information does not include information that is collected anonymously (that is, without identification of the individual user) or demographic information not connected to an identified individual.
What Personally Identifiable Information is collected?
Ruth Ellen Hoag does not collect any Personally Identifiable Information when you merely visit our Site. When you sign up for our email list you become a Contact. We collect the following Personally Identifiable Information from our Contacts: names and email addresses. When you register for a class, you become a Student. We collect the following Personally Identifiable Information from our Students: names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.
How does the Site use Personally Identifiable Information?
We use Personally Identifiable Information to communicate with our Contacts and Students. We email Contacts with updates on events and other information related to our products. We contact Students with specific information on the courses they have registered for, as well as other information about our organization’s activities. We may also use Personally Identifiable Information to correspond with our Contacts and Students in response to specific inquiries, or to provide requested information.
What organizations are collecting Personally Identifiable Information?
In addition to our direct collection of information, our third-party services (such as other artists and educators), may collect this information from our Students. We do not control how these third parties use such information, but we do ask them to disclose how they use personal information provided to them from Students. We ask that they do not share or sell Personally Identifiable Information to other parties.
How do we share your information?
We do not share or sell Personally Identifiable Information to any outside commercial party. We offer the opportunity to “opt out” of receiving information or being contacted by us.
How is Personally Identifiable Information stored?
Personally Identifiable Information collected by Ruth Ellen Hoag is securely stored in a database, and is not accessible to third parties or anyone other than direct employees with a relevant need for the information.
What choices are available to Visitors regarding collection, use and distribution of the information?
No Personally Identifiable Information is collected from Visitors. Contacts have opted to be contacted by Ruth Ellen Hoag to receive offers, information, or news related to Ruth Ellen Hoag via email. Students, by registering for a course, consent to being contacted by Ruth Ellen Hoag, but can opt to have their Personally Identifiable Information removed from the Contacts email list.
Cookies
A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a Visitor’s computer, and that the Visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the Visitor returns.
Are cookies used on the Site?
Our Site is built in WordPress. WordPress sites use two basic types of cookies – one to track admin logins, and one to track comments left on the Site. Other cookies may be added through plugins used to build the Site. Aside from this, our site does not generate cookies.
How does Ruth Ellen Hoag keep Personally Identifiable Information secure?
The Personally Identifiable Information of our Contacts and Students is kept in a secure database that is only accessible to essential employees who are given a password to gain access to the information. Sensitive information, such as credit card numbers, is not collected through our Site. Ruth Ellen Hoag implements assertive and reasonable measures to maintain a secure Site and database. However, electronic communications and databases are subject to errors, tampering, and break-ins, and cannot guarantee or warrant that such events will not take place. Ruth Ellen Hoag will not be liable to Visitors, Contacts or Students for any such occurrences.
How can Contacts or Students correct any inaccuracies in Personally Identifiable Information?
Contacts and Students may contact us to update Personally Identifiable Information about them or to correct any inaccuracies by emailing us at ruth@ruthellenhoag.com.
Can a Contact or Student delete or deactivate Personally Identifiable Information collected by the Site?
Contacts and Students can delete/deactivate Personally Identifiable Information from our database by contacting us. However, because of backups and records of deletions, it may be impossible to delete a database entry without retaining some residual information. An individual who requests to have Personally Identifiable Information deactivated will have this information functionally deleted. We will not sell, transfer or use Personally Identifiable Information relating to that individual in any way moving forward.
Your rights
These are summarized rights that you have under data protection law:
- The right to access
- The right to rectification
- The right to erasure
- The right to restrict processing
- The right to object to processing
- The right to data portability
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority
- The right to withdraw consent
What happens if the Privacy Policy changes?
We will inform our Visitors, Contacts and Students of material changes to our Privacy Policy by posting such changes on the Site, or via email.
Links
https://www.ruthellenhoag.com contains links to other websites. Please note that when you click on one of these links, you are moving to another website. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of these linked sites, as their privacy policies may differ from ours.