Paul Davids Guitar ("Company," "we," "us" or "our") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting it through this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy governs your access to and use of https://pauldavidsguitar.com/ and https://learnpracticeplay.com/, including any content, functionality and services offered on or through https://pauldavidsguitar.com/ or https://learnpracticeplay.com/ (collectively, the "Website"), whether as a guest or a registered user.
When accessing the Website, the Company will learn certain information about you, both automatically and through voluntary actions you may take, during your visit. This policy applies to information we collect on the Website and in email, text, or other electronic messages between you and the Website.
Please read the Privacy Policy carefully before you start to use the Website. By using the Website or by clicking to accept or agree to the Terms of Use when this option is made available to you, you accept and agree to be bound and abide by the Privacy Policy. If you do not want to agree to the Privacy Policy, you must not access or use the Website.
01Children under the age of 18
Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age. No one under age 18 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18. If you are under 18, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use.
If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 18 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 18, please contact us at team@learnpracticeplay.com.
02Information we collect about you
When you access the Website, the Company will learn and/or collect 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, 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 or service via the Website.
Additionally, we collect data from the Guitar Accelerator cohort program through interactions such as Zoom calls and individual feedback sessions. Zoom recordings can be accessed by members of the same cohort group and service providers who deliver services and provide feedback. Service providers and group members are obligated not to disclose or use the information for any other purpose.
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, promotions, and 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.
03Email information
If you choose to correspond with us through email, 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 or make a purchase on this site. For further information, see the section titled "Email Policies," below.
06Analytics & tools
The services contained in this section enable the Company to monitor and analyze web traffic and can be used to keep track of User behavior.
We also use Google Tag Manager, a tag management service provided by Google, Inc., to manage the tags or scripts needed on this Website in a centralized fashion. This results in the Visitors' Data flowing through these services, potentially resulting in the retention of this Data.
Display Advertising extension for Google Analytics (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics on this Website might use Google's Interest-based advertising, 3rd-party audience data and information from the DoubleClick Cookie to extend analytics with demographics, interests and ads interaction data. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/policies/privacy/. Opt Out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout. Privacy Shield participant.
Google Ads conversion tracking (Google Inc.)
Google Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Google Inc. that connects data from the Google Ads advertising network with actions performed on this Website. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. Privacy Shield participant.
Google Analytics with anonymized IP (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google Inc. ("Google"). Google utilizes the Data collected to track and examine the use of this Website, to prepare reports on its activities and share them with other Google services. Google may use the Data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network. This integration of Google Analytics anonymizes your IP address. It works by shortening Users' IP addresses within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states to the Agreement on the European Economic Area. Only in exceptional cases will the complete IP address be sent to a Google server and shortened within the US. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. Opt Out: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en. Privacy Shield participant.
Facebook Ads conversion tracking (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Ads conversion tracking is an analytics service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects data from the Facebook advertising network with actions performed on this Website. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Privacy Shield participant.
Deadline Funnel Tracking (SMART FUNNEL SOFTWARE LLC)
Deadline Funnel Tracking is a service provided by SMART FUNNEL SOFTWARE LLC that create personalized marketing funnels for this Website's visitors. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://deadlinefunnel.com/tos. Privacy Shield participant.
Hotjar (Hotjar Limited)
We use Hotjar in order to better understand our users' needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don't like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users' behavior and their devices (in particular device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: Malta. Privacy Policy: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/policies/privacy. Opt Out: https://www.hotjar.com/legal/compliance/opt-out.
Google Tag Manager (Google Inc.)
Google Tag Manager is a tag management service provided by Google, Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/analytics/tag-manager/use-policy/.
07Displaying content from external platforms
This type of services allows you to view content hosted on external platforms directly from the pages of this Website and interact with them. This type of service might still collect web traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
This section also covers interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Website. The interaction and information obtained through this Application are always subject to the User's privacy settings for each social network. This type of service might still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.
YouTube video widget (Google Inc.)
YouTube is a video content visualization service provided by Google Inc. that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.it/intl/en/policies/privacy/. Privacy Shield participant.
Vimeo video widget (Vimeo, LLC)
Vimeo is a video content visualization service that allows this Website to incorporate content of this kind on its pages. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://vimeo.com/privacy. Privacy Shield participant.
Twitter Tweet button and social widgets (Twitter, Inc.)
The Twitter Tweet button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Twitter social network provided by Twitter, Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://twitter.com/privacy. Privacy Shield participant.
Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook, Inc.)
The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook, Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation. Privacy Shield participant.
08Hosting and backend infrastructure
This type of service has the purpose of hosting Data and files that enable this Website to run and be distributed as well as to provide a ready-made infrastructure to run specific features or parts of this Website. Some of these services work through geographically distributed servers, making it difficult to determine the actual location where the Personal Data are stored.
Cloudflare Content Delivery Network (Cloudflare, Inc.)
Cloudflare, Inc. is a U.S. company that provides content delivery network services, DDoS mitigation, Internet security and distributed domain name server services. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.cloudflare.com/privacypolicy/. Privacy Shield participant.
09Remarketing and behavioral targeting
This type of service allows this Website and its partners to inform, optimize and serve advertising based on past use of this Website by the visitor.
This activity is performed by tracking Usage Data and by using Cookies, information that is transferred to the partners that manage the remarketing and behavioral targeting activity.
In addition to any opt-out offered by any of the services below, the User may opt out of a third-party service's use of cookies by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative opt-out page.
AdWords Remarketing (Google Inc.)
AdWords Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the activity of this Website with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. Opt Out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout.
Remarketing through Google Analytics for Display Advertising (Google Inc.)
Google Analytics for Display Advertising is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Google Inc. that connects the tracking activity performed by Google Analytics and its Cookies with the Adwords advertising network and the Doubleclick Cookie. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy/. Opt Out: https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/optout. Privacy Shield participant.
Facebook Custom Audience (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Custom Audience is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Website with the Facebook advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies and email address. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Opt Out: https://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Privacy Shield participant.
Facebook Remarketing (Facebook, Inc.)
Facebook Remarketing is a remarketing and behavioral targeting service provided by Facebook, Inc. that connects the activity of this Website with the Facebook advertising network. Personal Data collected: Cookies and Usage Data. Place of processing: United States. Privacy Policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/. Opt Out: https://www.aboutads.info/choices/. Privacy Shield participant.
10How to provide or withdraw consent to the installation of cookies
In addition to what is specified in this document, the Visitor can manage preferences for Cookies directly from within their own browser and prevent – for example – third parties from installing Cookies.
Through browser preferences, it is also possible to delete Cookies installed in the past, including the Cookies that may have saved the initial consent for the installation of Cookies by this website.
Users can, for example, find information about how to manage Cookies in the most commonly used browsers at the following addresses:
- Google Chrome: https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en&p=cpn_cookies
- Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences
- Apple Safari: https://support.apple.com/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/
- Microsoft Internet Explorer: https://windows.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-vista/block-or-allow-cookies
With regard to Cookies installed by third parties, Users can manage their preferences and withdrawal of their consent by clicking the related opt-out link (if provided), by using the means provided in the third party's privacy policy, or by contacting the third party.
11Your choices
We strive to provide you with choices regarding the personal information you provide to us. We have created mechanisms to provide you with the following control over your information:
- Tracking Technologies and Advertising. Most browsers accept cookies automatically. You may be able to set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when cookies are being sent. For instructions, check your browser's technical information. To learn how you can manage your Flash cookie settings, visit the Flash player settings page on Adobe's Site. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this Site may then be inaccessible or not function properly. Please note that cookie-based opt outs must be performed on each device and browser that you wish to have opted out.
- Disclosure of Your Information for Third-Party Advertising. If you do not want us to share your personal information with unaffiliated or non-agent third parties for promotional purposes, you can also always opt-out by logging into the Site and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an e-mail stating your request to team@learnpracticeplay.com.
- Promotional Offers from the Company. If you do not wish to have your e-mail address/contact information used by the Company to promote our own or third parties' products or services, you can opt-out by logging into the Site and adjusting your user preferences in your account profile by checking or unchecking the relevant boxes or by sending us an e-mail stating your request to team@learnpracticeplay.com or clicking the unsubscribe link in the promotional email. If we have sent you a promotional e-mail, you may send us a return e-mail asking to be omitted from future e-mail distributions. This opt out does not apply to information provided to the Company as a result of a product purchase, warranty registration, product service experience or other transactions.
- Targeted or Interest-Based Advertising. We may work with third-party advertising companies that collect and use information about your online activities across sites over time, in order to deliver more relevant advertising when you are visiting the Site and elsewhere on the Internet. This practice is known as interest-based advertising. The online advertising industry also provides websites from which you may opt-out of receiving targeted ads from our advertising partners that participate in self-regulatory programs. You can access these, and also learn more about targeted advertising and consumer choice and privacy at: www.networkadvertising.org/managing/opt_out.asp, www.youronlinechoices.eu/ or www.youradchoices.ca/, and www.aboutads.info/choices/. Note that electing to opt out will not stop advertising from appearing in your browser or applications. It may make the ads you see less relevant to your interests. If you delete, block, or otherwise restrict cookies or use a different computer or Internet browser, you may need to renew your opt-out choice. If you do not want us to use information that we collect or that you provide to us to deliver advertisements according to our advertisers' target-audience preferences, you can opt-out by sending us an e-mail stating your request to team@learnpracticeplay.com.
- Google Analytics. We may use Google Analytics to improve our Site's functions. You can choose not to be included in Google Analytics by visiting https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
12How and why we collect information
The Company collects your information in order to record and support your participation in the activities you select. If you register to download a book or resources, sign up for our newsletter, and/or purchase a 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. As a visitor to this Website, you can engage in most activities without providing any personal information. It is only when you seek to 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, 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 automatically enroll you to receive our free email newsletter. 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 team@learnpracticeplay.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 team@learnpracticeplay.com requesting to unsubscribe from future emails.
13How do we use the information that you provide to us?
We use personal information for purposes of presenting our Website and its contents to you, providing you with information, providing you with offers for products and services, providing you with information about your subscriptions and products, carrying out any contract between you and the Company, administering our business activities, providing customer service, 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 make you offers to purchase products and services provided by third parties in exchange for a commission to be paid to us by such third parties. Should you opt to take part in such promotions, the third parties will receive your information.
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.
We may also use the information you provide to us to operate and improve the Website or to troubleshoot any issues with the Website. We may also use the information you provide to us to enforce an applicable Terms of Service and to detect and protect against error, fraud, and other unauthorized illegal activities.
14Disclosure of your information
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, affiliates, and service providers for the purpose of providing our services to you;
- a third party, including a lawyer or collection agency, when necessary to enforce our terms of service or any other agreement between you and the Company;
- 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; and
- to law enforcement and other government authorities such as legislatures, courts, agencies, and litigations if we reasonably believe such action is necessary to: (a) comply with the law and the reasonable requests of governmental authorities; (b) comply with legal process; (c) respond to requests from public or government authorities, including public or government authorities outside your country of residence; (d) protect the security or integrity of the Website's information systems; and/or (e) exercise or protect our rights, privacy, safety or those of affiliates, clients, you or others.
We may also disclose your information if we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of the Company or others.
15Email policies
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 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.
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 any time.
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.
16How do we protect your information and secure information transmissions?
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. However, no data protection procedures are entirely infallible. As a result, while we strive to protect Your Information, we cannot guarantee that it will be 100% secure. Your transmission of your data to our Platform thus is done entirely at your own risk.
Email is not recognized as a secure medium of communication. 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 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.
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 Company uses software programs to monitor network traffic to identify unauthorized attempts to upload or change information, or otherwise cause damage.
17Third-party websites
The Website may contain links to other websites, including those of third parties or business partners. While we seek to link only to websites that share our high standards and respect for privacy, we cannot be responsible for the privacy practices other websites use. By accessing other third-party websites or applications through our Website, including those of our Clients', you are consenting to the terms and privacy policies of those websites. It is possible that other parties may collect information about your online activities over time and across different websites when you use our Website.
18Policy changes
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.
19California visitors
California's "Shine the Light" law (Civil Code Section § 1798.83) permits users of our Website that are California residents to request certain information regarding our disclosure of your personal information to third parties for their direct marketing purposes. To make such a request, please send an email to team@learnpracticeplay.com or write us at Paul Davids Guitar, 453 S Spring St. Ste. 400 #318, Los Angeles, CA 90013, United States.
20European Union visitors
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 any information you choose to provide to us until the earlier of: (a) you asking us to delete the information or (b) we no longer have a need for the information.
- 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.
21Contact us
The Company welcomes your questions or comments regarding the Privacy Policy:
Paul Davids Guitar
453 S Spring St. Ste. 400 #318
Los Angeles, CA 90013
United States
Email Address: team@learnpracticeplay.com