Effective Date: April 1, 2024

Rising Stars, LLC and its affiliates and subsidiaries (“Company” “we” “us” or “our”) recognize the importance of protecting the privacy of our online visitors. The following privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes the way we handle information learned about you from your visits to all of the websites and mobile applications we operate (collectively, the “Site”).

PLEASE REVIEW THIS PRIVACY POLICY CAREFULLY. By accessing the Site and/or submitting information to or through the Site, you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and consent to our collection, use, disclosure and retention of your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

We also act as processors or service providers for our customers and maintain, store and/or process the personal information of our customer’s constituents and clients on our customers’ behalf when our customers use our products. Such information above is not subject to this Privacy Policy and is instead subject to the privacy policies of our customers. IF YOU USE OUR SITE OR SERVICES TO INTERACT WITH YOUR DANCE STUDIO, PLEASE CONTACT YOUR STUDIO IF YOU HAVE ANY QUESTIONS OR REQUESTS RELATING TO YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION.

Company collects personally identifiable information from you, which may include:

• Name
• Address
• Telephone number
• Email address
• Organization/company name
• Role within your organization/company
• Number of students
• Account credentials (i.e., username and password)
• Financial information.

Additionally, we may collect any personal information you provide us in communications you send or provide when you interact with any communications tools on the Site.

The information described above is collected and stored electronically when you access/visit the Site, purchase our products, use our products, request a demo of our products or sign up for a free trial, create an account with us, sign up to receive our newsletters and/or marketing communications, sign up for our webinars/events/forums or contact us.

Information about your computer hardware and software may automatically be collected by Company when you use the Site. This information may include:

• IP address
• Browser type
• Type of operating system
• Device type
• Access times and dates
• Geographic location
• Referring website addresses
• Other technical information such as protocol status and substatus, bytes sent and received, and server information

We may also collect information regarding the actions taken on our Site. This information is used by us for our business purposes, including without limitation for the operation and improvement of the Site, for technical troubleshooting, to maintain quality of the Site and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Site.

What are cookies? A cookie is a small file containing a string of characters that is sent to your computer when you visit a website or use an online service. When you visit the website or use the service again, the cookie allows that website or online service to recognize your browser or device. Cookies may store unique identifiers, user preferences and other information.

Duration of Cookies. We may use “session cookies” or “persistent cookies.” Session cookies are temporary and expire once you close your browser or once your session ends. Persistent cookies remain on your device for much longer or until you or your browser erase them. Persistent cookies have varying durations that are dependent on their expiration date.

What types of cookies do we use? Company uses:

• Necessary Cookies. These cookies are necessary for you to browse the Site and use its features, such as accessing secure areas of the Site. Without these cookies, certain aspects of the Site may not be available to you.
• Preferences Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you have used the Site in the past and allow the Site to remember the choices you have made. These cookies allow us to improve how the Site works for you and tailor the Site to your preferences.
• Analytics Cookies. These cookies collect information about how you use the Site, such as which pages you most often visit on the Site, the time you spend on the Site, which links you click on, and any issues encountered. These cookies help us understand how visitors interact with the Site. All information collected is aggregated and do not identify you.
• Marketing Cookies. These cookies track your online activity to help deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests and measure the effectiveness of the advertising campaigns. They also limit how many times you see a certain advertisement. We may share the information collected through these cookies with others, such as advertisers.

Why do we use them? Cookies help us improve the Site by providing us with information about which parts of the Site are most popular, what actions are taken by users and what content is viewed, enabling us to analyze technical and navigational information about the Site, and helping us to detect and prevent fraud. We also use cookies and other data collection tools (such as web beacons, pixels and embedded scripts) to help improve your experience with the Site. For example, we use Google Analytics and Google Tag Manager to help analyze how users use the Site. These tools use cookies to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the Site (including IP address) is transmitted to our data collection tool service providers. This information is then used by us to evaluate visitors’ use of the Site and to compile statistical reports on website activity for Company. If you would like to opt-out from the use of your information by Google Analytics, you may use Google Analytics opt-out browser add-on designed for this purpose.

How do I control cookies? Web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to manage and delete cookies, visit www.allaboutcookies.org. Some web browsers provide settings that allow a user to reject cookies or to alert a user when a cookie is placed on the user’s computer, tablet or mobile device. Most mobile devices also offer settings to reject mobile device identifiers. Although users are not required to accept cookies or mobile device identifiers, blocking or rejecting them may prevent access to some features available through the Site.

Web Beacons and Pixels

A pixel is an HTML code snippet embedded in a website or email that collects information about user behaviors and interactions with the website or email.

We may utilize pixels both on certain aspects of the Site and in HTML-formatted email messages to you. Pixels may be used for the purpose of, among other things, measuring the success of our marketing campaigns, compiling statistics about Site usage and tracking the activities of users of the Site and email recipients. For instance, we may use Meta Pixels on the Site to enable us to create targeted advertisements and measure the effectiveness of our advertisements. For additional information on interest-based advertising, please see the Interest-Based Advertising section below.

We may collect information about your online activities on our Site to provide you with advertising about products and services tailored to your individual interests. You may see certain ads on other websites because we work with advertising partners (including advertising networks) to engage in remarketing and retargeting activities. Our advertising partners allow us to target our messaging to users through demographic, interest-based and contextual means. These partners may track your online activities over time and across websites, including our Site, by collecting information through automated means, including through the use of third-party cookies and web beacons. The information our advertising partners may collect includes data about your visits to websites that participate in the relevant advertising networks, such as the pages or advertisements you view and the actions you take on the websites. This data collection takes place both on our Site and on third-party websites that participate in the ad networks.

We may use the information we collect for any of the following purposes:

• to provide the Site to you and to improve the Site;
• to provide, operate, improve, and personalize the products and services we offer, and to give each user a more consistent and personalized experience when interacting with us;
• to register your account;
• to determine trends in consumption of our products and determine where our products may be in demand;
• to provide you with information about products and services that we may provide that we think may be of interest to you;
• to help deliver advertisements that are relevant to you and your interests and measure the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns;
• to provide you with updates about our products and services and with transactional information;
• for customer service and/or support, security (including for authentication purposes), to detect fraud or illegal activities, and for archival and backup purposes in connection with the provision of the Site;
• for analytics purposes;
• to fulfill your requests, such as those related to ordering and payment;
• to communicate with you;
• to enforce our Privacy Policy or other applicable policies;
• to comply with applicable laws or respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process;
• to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others;
• as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions.

• With Third Party Service Providers Performing Services on Our Behalf. We may share your personal information with our service providers to perform the functions for which we engage them. For example, we may use third parties to host the Site or assist us in providing functionality on the Site, provide analytics on the Site, provide marketing and advertising services for us, to send out emails on our behalf or process payments.
• With Our Affiliates and Subsidiaries. We may share your information with our family of brands and corporate affiliates (e.g., parent company, sister companies, subsidiaries, joint ventures or companies under common control) for our internal business purposes. However, if we do so, their use and disclosure of your personal information will be subject to this Privacy Policy.
• For Legal Purposes. We also may share information that we collect from users as needed to enforce our rights, protect our property or protect the rights, property or safety of others, or as needed to support external auditing, compliance and corporate governance functions. We will disclose personal information as we deem necessary to respond to a subpoena, regulation, binding order of a data protection agency, legal process, governmental request or other legal or regulatory process. We may also share personal information as required to pursue available remedies or limit damages we may sustain.
• Changes of Control. We reserve the right to transfer or assign the information that we have collected from users in connection with a corporate transaction, such as a divestiture, merger, consolidation, or asset sale, or in the unlikely event of bankruptcy.

Company does not share your personal information with third parties for those third parties’ direct marketing purposes.

By providing your phone number and clicking submit online, you agree to our Privacy Policy and authorize us to make or initiate sales calls, text messages. Your agreement is not a condition of purchasing any products, goods or services and you may elect to do business with us over the phone. Message & data rates may apply.

You may opt out of receiving promotional e-mails and text messages from us by following the unsubscribe instructions provided in any such messages. Please note that if you opt out of receiving promotional messages from us, this does not impact other transactional and administrative messages which you will continue to receive (such as emails relating to billing and payment information or changes to this Privacy Policy). If you have registered for an account with us, you may delete the account at any time by contacting us at info@risingstarstheater.com.

If you have an account with us, you may access or modify some of your information and/or modify your preferences through your account or by contacting us at info@risingstarstheater.com.

Our Site may contain links to third-party websites and/or online services. Any access to and use of such third-party websites and/or online services is not governed by this Privacy Policy, but is instead governed by the privacy policies of those third parties, and we are not responsible for the information practices of such third-party websites and/or online services.

Some aspects of the Site may allow you to interface with social media, such as Facebook or Google Plus. We will attempt to identify these aspects of the Site to you, for example, by identifying them with the applicable third-party logos or trade names. By using these interfaces, you will allow us to access information about you from those other online services, including information and other content that you submit to those online services. If you interface with the Site through your social media account, we may contact you or enable you to share your experience and content via your social media account, which information may be publicly viewed by other users of those services.  For a description on how such social media services and other third-party platforms, plug-ins, integrations, and applications handle your information, please refer to their respective privacy policies and terms of use, which may permit you to modify your privacy settings with that service or platform.

Company uses reasonable security measures designed to prevent unauthorized intrusion to the Site and the alteration, acquisition or misuse of personal information. However, the security of information transmitted through the Internet can never be guaranteed. We are not responsible for any interception or interruption of any communications through the Internet or for changes to or losses of data. Users of the Site are responsible for maintaining the security of any password, user ID or other form of authentication involved in obtaining access to password protected or secure areas of any of our Site. In order to protect us, you and your data, we may suspend your use of the Site, without notice if any breach of security is suspected. Access to and use of password protected and/or secure areas of the Site are restricted to authorized users only. Unauthorized access to such areas is prohibited.

We do not knowingly collect or maintain personal information from any person under the age of eighteen. No parts of our Site are directed to or designed to attract anyone under the age of eighteen.

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or to request changes to your personal information, please contact us at info@risingstarstheater.com.

Any changes to our Privacy Policy will be posted to this page so users are always aware of the information we collect and how we use it. Accordingly, please refer back to this Privacy Policy frequently as it may change.