PRIVACY POLICY

When you access the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you during your visit.

INFORMATION YOU PROVIDE TO US.  The Website provides various places for users to provide information. We collect information that users provide by filling out forms on the Website, in person or via phone, communicating with us via contact forms, responding to surveys, search queries on our search feature, providing comments or other feedback, and providing information when ordering a product, registering for an event or service via the Website.
We use information you provide to us to deliver the requested product and/or service, to improve our overall performance, and to provide you with offers, resources, promotions, and additional information.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT THROUGH AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION TECHNOLOGY. As you navigate through our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies including Google Analytics to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns. This will generally include information about your location, your traffic pattern through our website, and any communications between your computer and our Website. Among other things, we will collect data about the type of computer you use, your Internet connection, your IP address, your operating system, and your browser type.

The information we collect automatically is used for statistical data and will not include personal information. We use this data to improve our Website and our service offerings. To the extent that you voluntarily provide personal information to us, our systems will associate the automatically collected information with your personal information.

Similar to other commercial websites, our website utilizes a standard technology called “cookies” and server logs to collect information about how our site is used. Information gathered through cookies and server logs may include the date and time of visits, the pages viewed, time spent at our site, and the websites visited just before and just after our own, as well as your IP address.

A cookie is a very small text document, which often includes an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website, that site’s computer asks your computer for permission to store this file in a part of your hard drive specifically designated for cookies. Each website can send its own cookie to your browser if your browser’s preferences allow it, but (to protect your privacy) your browser only permits a website to access the cookies it has already sent to you, not the cookies sent to you by other sites.

The Studio reserves the right to use technological equivalents of cookies, including social media pixels. These pixels allow social media sites to track visitors to outside websites so as to tailor advertising messages users see while visiting that social media website. The Studio reserves the right to use these pixels in compliance with the policies of the various social media & e-mail marketing sites.​

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third-parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies
alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.

We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the responsible provider directly.

If you choose to correspond with us through email, or provide us your contact information, we may retain the content of your email messages together with your email address and our responses. We provide the same protections for these electronic communications that we employ in the maintenance of information received online, mail, and telephone. This also applies when you register for our website, sign up through any of our forms using your email address, attend an event either online or in-person, or make a purchase on this site. For further information see the email policies below.

We are committed to keeping your e-mail address confidential. We do not sell, rent, or lease our subscription lists to third parties, and will not disclose your email address to any third parties except as allowed in the section titled Disclosure of Your Information.

We will maintain the information you send via e-mail in accordance with applicable federal & CA state law.

In compliance with the CAN-SPAM Act, all e-mails sent from our organization will clearly state who the e-mail is from and provide clear information on how to contact the sender. In addition, all e-mail messages will also contain concise information on how to remove yourself from our mailing list so that you receive no further e-mail communication from us. Certain important class information may be sent to a class or even already underway from a designated, approved, and previously announced email address belonging to a studio representative or designee ie. a stage manager. All other official communications will originate from howardfine.com or from an @howardfine.com email address.

Our emails provide users the opportunity to opt-out of receiving communications from us and our partners by reading the unsubscribe instructions located at the bottom of any e-mail they receive from us at anytime, or by written request to info@howardfine.com. Users who no longer wish to receive our newsletter or promotional materials may opt-out of receiving these communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in the e-mail.

Howard Fine Acting Studio is committed to protecting the security of your personal information. We implement industry-standard security measures to safeguard your data against unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. However, it is also your responsibility to protect the confidentiality of your account information and any passwords associated with your use of our services.

You agree to notify Howard Fine Acting Studio immediately of any unauthorized use of your account or any other security breach. Howard Fine Acting Studio will not be liable for any loss or damage arising from your failure to protect your account or personal information adequately. By using our services, you acknowledge and accept that no data transmission over the Internet or mobile networks can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, and therefore, you use our services at your own risk.

2. PRIVACY POLICY

Howard Fine Acting Studio collects personal information from you when you interact with our services, including when you sign up, make purchases, or communicate with us via text messages. The types of information we collect may include your name, contact details, payment information, and any other information you voluntarily provide.

We use this information to provide, maintain, and improve our services, process transactions, communicate with you, and comply with legal obligations. Your information may be shared with trusted third-party service providers solely for the purpose of operating our business and fulfilling our commitments to you. We do not sell, rent, or share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.

You have the right to access, correct, or delete your personal information at any time, and we are committed to handling your data in a secure and transparent manner.

3. DATA PROTECTION

Howard Fine Acting Studio takes the security of your personal information very seriously. We employ industry-standard security measures, including encryption and secure servers, to protect your data from unauthorized access, alteration, disclosure, or destruction. We continuously monitor our systems to ensure your information is safe and secure, and we are committed to maintaining the highest levels of data protection to safeguard your privacy.

4. EXPLICIT NON-SHARING OF INFORMATION

Howard Fine Acting Studio is committed to upholding the highest standards of privacy for all personal information collected through our text messaging services. We do not share, sell, rent, distribute, or trade your personal data to third parties unless legally required to do so. Any information shared with third parties is exclusively for the purpose of delivering our services to you. We assure you that your data will never be shared/sold with third parties for marketing purposes.

5. OPT-OUT INSTRUCTIONS

If you no longer wish to receive text messages from us, you can opt out at any time by replying with the word ‘STOP’ or ‘UNSUBSCRIBE’ to the number from which you received the message. Upon receiving your request, we will promptly remove you from our messaging list, and you will no longer receive further text communications from us.

6. CHANGES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY

Howard Fine Acting Studio may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or legal requirements. When we make changes, we will notify you by updating the “Last Updated” date at the top of this policy. In the event of significant changes, we will provide a more prominent notice, such as sending an email notification or displaying a notice on our website.

By continuing to use our services after these changes, you agree to the revised Privacy Policy. We encourage you to periodically review this policy for the latest information on our privacy practices.

8. CONTACT INFORMATION

For any privacy inquiries, please contact us at info@howardfine.com or call us at 323-965-1488.

The Company collects your information in order to record and support your interest & participation in the events and activities you select. If you register attend a class or event, subscribe to a service, request more information, sign up for our newsletter, and/or purchase a service/product from us, we collect your information. We use this information to track your preferences and to keep you informed about the products and services you have selected to receive and any related products and/or services. The studio also reserves the right to use any contact information we’ve collected as a means on contacting you with regard to matters of payment/non-payment, pausing or canceling of services, or any issues related to a product/service purchased. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to enroll, inquire, or download resources and/or register for services that you are required to provide information.

If you are outside the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, participate in any free training programs/lectures, register for a live or online event, or purchase any products/services sold by the Studio on this Website, we may automatically enroll ​you to receive our free email newsletter or future targeted promotional emails. If you do not wish to receive the newsletter, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, or you receive an email from a list of which you do not wish to be a part, you can send an email to info@howardfine.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.

If you are in the European Union and opt to receive any free resources, participate in any free training programs, register
for a webinar, register for a live event, register for a seminar, or purchase any products sold by the Company on this
Website, we will only enroll ​you to receive our free email newsletter if you affirmatively consent to it. If you do not wish
to receive this newsletter, you can unsubscribe anytime. We include an “unsubscribe” link at the bottom of every email
we send. If you ever have trouble unsubscribing, you can send an email to info@howardfine.com requesting to
unsubscribe from future emails.

We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing our approved faculty with means to contact you in order to deliver studio services, providing studio services to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your events, classes, subscriptions, and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Studio, administering our business activities, providing customer service, to resolve any account/payment discrepancies/disputes, and making available other items and services to our customers and prospective customers.

From time-to-time, we may use the information you provide to us to display advertisements to you that are tailored to your personal characteristics, interests, and activities.

As a general rule, we do not sell, rent, lease or otherwise transfer any information collected whether automatically or through your voluntary action.

We may disclose your personal information to our subsidiaries, faculty & class designees, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you.

We may disclose your personal information to a third party, including a business manager, lawyer, or collection agency, or government body when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the
Studio.

We may provide your information to any successor in interest in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of the Company’s assets and/or business.

We may disclose information when legally compelled to do so, in other words, when we, in good faith, believe that the law requires it or for the protection of our community, property, services, legal rights or when compelled by a court or other governmental entity to do so.

We employ commercially reasonable methods to ensure the security of the information you provide to us and the information we collect automatically. This includes using standard security protocols and working only with reputable third-party vendors and developers. Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. Additionally, our Studio devices employ reasonable security measures, anti-virus & anti-malware/ransomware software, and encrypted backups.

For this reason, we request that you do not send private information to us by email. However, doing so is allowed, but at your own risk. Some of the information you may enter on our website may be encrypted or transmitted securely via a secure medium known as Secure Sockets Layer, or SSL. Credit Card information and other sensitive information is never transmitted via email. For sensitive transactions, we employ the secure services of companies like Stripe for all invoicing
& payments.

The Company may use software programs to create summary statistics, which are used for such purposes as assessing the number of visitors to the different sections of our site, what information is of most and least interest, determining technical design specifications, and identifying system performance or problem areas.

For site security purposes and to ensure that this service remains available to all users, the Studio takes commercially reasonable measures (such as two-step verification for all authorized users), and uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users’ personal information, we will notify you by email to the email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the bottom of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

If you are within the European Union, you are entitled to certain information and have certain rights under the General Data Protection Regulation. Those rights include:
We will retain the any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information, (b) our decision to cease using our existing data providers, or (c) the Company decides that the value in retaining the data is outweighed by the costs of retaining it.

You have the right to request access to your data that the Company stores and the rights to either rectify or erase your personal data.

You have the right to seek restrictions on the processing of your data.

You have the right to object to the processing of your data and the right to the portability of your data.

To the extent that you provided consent to the Company’s processing of your personal data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of processing based upon consent that occurred prior to your withdrawal of consent.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority that has jurisdiction over issues related to the General Data Protection Regulation.

We require only the information that is reasonably required to enter into a contract with you. We will not require you to provide consent for any unnecessary processing as a condition of entering into a contract with us.

For any additional questions concerning these policies, please e-mail info@howardfine.com or call (323) 965-1488