Protecting your private information is our priority. This Statement of Privacy applies to www.theauctiondivas.com and www.liveeventfundraising.com. The Music Education Initiative governs data collection and usage through our payment processing vendor, Stripe, and our fundraising campaign vendor, FundraiseUp.

For this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to https://musiceducationinitiative.org and any subdomains created for fundraising through FundaiseUp.

The Music Education Initiative includes https://musiceducationinitiative.org, known as The Music Education Initiative. The Music Education Initiative websites are informational and fundraising sites for nonprofit programs and fundraising. By using The Music Education Initiative website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

Collection of your Personal Information
The Music Education Initiative may collect anonymous demographic information which is not unique to you, such as your:
– Age
– Gender

We do not collect your personal information 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 available on the Site. 

These may include (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) donating to The Music Education Initiative or other 501(c)3 nonprofit organizations for the purposes of serving the community; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when donating to a campaign. To wit, we will use your information for, but not limited to, communicating with you in relationship to donations you have made through our site. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Sharing Information with Third Parties
The Music Education Initiative does not sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties, although each fundraising campaign sponsoring organization will be provided with your name, contact and donation amounts for their records, and they may contact you as a thank you for participating.

The Music Education Initiative 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 The Music Education Initiative, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

THE MUSIC EDUCATION INITIATIVE 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 The Music Education Initiative or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of The Music Education Initiative; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of The Music Education Initiative, or the public.

Tracking User Behavior
The Music Education Initiative may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within The Music Education Initiative in order to determine what services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within The Music Education Initiative to donors whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

Automatically Collected Information
The Music Education Initiative may automatically collect information about your computer hardware and software. This information can include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times, and referring website addresses. This information is used for the service's operation, to maintain service quality, and to provide general statistics regarding use of The

Music Education Initiative website.

When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form and the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

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.

Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its user information are retained indefinitely. This is so we can automatically recognize and approve any follow-up comments instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Security of your Personal Information
The Music Education Initiative secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. The Music Education Initiative uses the following methods for this purpose:
– SSL Protocol

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.

Payment Gateway
Our payment gateways are STRIPE and FundraiseUp and all privacy with credit card information is stored on their secure server, no personal credit card information is stored on any The Music Education Initiative website. You can access the STRIPE security policy here: https://stripe.com/privacy and the FundraiseUp policy here: https://fundraiseup.com/privacy/.

Children Under Thirteen
The Music Education Initiative does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under the age of thirteen. If you are under the age of thirteen, you must ask your parent or guardian for permission to use this website.

E-mail Communications
From time to time, The Music Education Initiative 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 The Music Education Initiative, you may opt out of such communications by All third party vendors that we use for email have an opt-out or unsubscribe feature.

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
The Music Education Initiative 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 site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the Site and/or Services available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

Contact Information
The Music Education Initiative welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that The Music Education Initiative has not adhered to this Statement, please contact The Music Education Initiative at:

The Music Education Initiative
Orson C. Weems

Executive Director & Co-Founder

Phone:  501-838-5461 

Effective as of October 21,2024