Introduction

Piano League is committed to protecting the privacy of its users and visitors to our website, https://thepianoleague.com. This Privacy Policy outlines the types of personal information we collect and how we use it.

Information Collection and Use

Piano League collects information from its users and visitors in various ways, including through comments, media uploads, and other interactions with our website. This information may include your name, email address, IP address, and browser user agent string.

Comments: When visitors leave comments on our website, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to help with spam detection.

Media: If you upload images to our website, we advise that you avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS), as visitors to our website can download and extract any location data from images on the site.

Cookies: We may use cookies to store your name, email address, and website for your convenience, so you do not have to enter your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies will last for one year. We may also use temporary cookies when you visit our login page to determine if your browser accepts cookies, and set up several cookies to save your login information and screen display choices if you log in. Login cookies last for two days, screen options cookies last for one year, and 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.

Embedded Content: Our website may contain embedded content from other websites, such as videos, images, articles, etc. Interactions with this embedded content may result in the collection of data by the other website, including your IP address, use of cookies, and other tracking mechanisms.

Retention of Data

If you leave a comment on our website, the comment and its metadata will be retained indefinitely, so that we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For registered users, we will store the personal information they provide in their user profile, which can be viewed and edited by the user and website administrators.

Data Access and Control

If you have an account on our website or have left comments, you have the right to request an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, or request that we erase any personal data we hold. This does not include any data that we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Spam Detection

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

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

Piano League reserves the right to update this Privacy Policy at any time to reflect changes in our practices or to comply with legal requirements. If we make any changes, we will post the revised policy on our website and update the effective date accordingly.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about our Privacy Policy, please contact us at info@thepianoleague.com.