Ahlers Online Ltd (“Ahlers Online”) also trading as Ahlers Violin Studio, operates several websites including ahlersviolinstudio.mymusicstaff.com, as well as a mobile application. It is Ahlers Online’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating our Website and Application.
Your privacy is critically important to us. At Ahlers Online Ltd we have a few fundamental principles:
We don’t ask you for personal information unless we truly need it. (We can’t stand services that ask you for things like your gender or income level for no apparent reason.)
We don’t share your personal information with anyone except to comply with the law, develop our products, or protect our rights.
We don’t store personal information on our servers unless required for the on-going operation of one of our services.
In our mobile application products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.
Below is our privacy policy which incorporates these goals:
Like most website operators, Ahlers Online collects non-personally-identifying information of the sort that web browsers and servers typically make available, such as the browser type, language preference, referring site, and the date and time of each visitor request. Ahlers Online’s purpose in collecting non-personally identifying information is to better understand how Ahlers Online’s visitors use its website. From time to time, Ahlers Online may release non-personally-identifying information in the aggregate, e.g., by publishing a report on trends in the usage of its Websites and Applications.
Ahlers Online also collects potentially personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses for logged in users. Ahlers Online does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstance that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below. Anyone who comments on our blogs linked to our Website will notice that blog commenter IP addresses and email addresses are visible and disclosed to the administrators of the blog where the comment was left.
Certain visitors to Ahlers Online’s websites and users of our Applications choose to interact with Ahlers Online in ways that require Ahlers Online to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Ahlers Online gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, visitors who download an Application that requires a personal sign in, are required to provide a username and email address. Those who engage in transactions with Ahlers Online are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Ahlers Online collects such information only insofar as is necessary or appropriate to fulfill the purpose of the visitor’s interaction with Ahlers Online. Ahlers Online does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. And visitors can always refuse to supply personally-identifying information, with the caveat that it may prevent them from engaging in certain website-related activities.
Ahlers Online may collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to its Websites and users of its Applications. Ahlers Online may display this information publicly or provide it to others. However, Ahlers Online does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.
Ahlers Online discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations that (i) need to know that information in order to process it on Ahlers Online’s behalf or to provide services available at Ahlers Online’s websites, and (ii) that have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those employees, contractors and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using Ahlers Online’s websites, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Ahlers Online will not rent or sell potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its employees, contractors and affiliated organizations, as described above, Ahlers Online discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only in response to a subpoena, court order or other governmental request, or when Ahlers Online believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Ahlers Online, third parties or the public at large. If you are a registered user of an Ahlers Online Website or Application and have supplied your email address, Ahlers Online may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit your feedback, or just keep you up to date with what’s going on with Ahlers Online and our products. We primarily use our various product blogs to communicate this type of information, so we expect to keep this type of email to a minimum. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Ahlers Online takes all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.
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. Ahlers Online uses cookies to help Ahlers Online identify and track visitors, their usage of Ahlers Online website, and their website access preferences. Ahlers Online visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Ahlers Online’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Ahlers Online’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.
If Ahlers Online, or substantially all of its assets, were acquired, or in the unlikely event that Ahlers Online goes out of business or enters bankruptcy, user information would be one of the assets that is transferred or acquired by a third party. You acknowledge that such transfers may occur, and that any acquirer of Ahlers Online may continue to use your personal information as set forth in this policy.
Ads appearing on any of our websites may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time they send you an online advertisement to compile information about you or others who use your computer. This information allows ad networks to, among other things, deliver targeted advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This Privacy Policy covers the use of cookies by Ahlers Online and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.
Although most changes are likely to be minor, Ahlers Online may change its Privacy Policy from time to time, and in Ahlers Online’s sole discretion. Ahlers Online encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.This document is derived from the original work by Automattic Inc., San Francisco, California, authors of the world famous Wordpress.com.