Effective date January 1, 2024

This Privacy Policy explains how Friends of Choral Music (also known as Meritáge Vocal Arts Ensemble) handles your personal information obtained while accessing its websites at Meritage-VocalArts.org and FoCMusic.org.

Data Collection
You may browse our websites without giving us any personal information about yourself.

If you choose to provide us with personal information, you are no longer anonymous to us. For example, if you send us an email, you will provide us your email address, and you may, at your sole discretion, choose to provide us with other information such as name, address, telephone number, and other information you convey in the text of your message.

Other computer usage information, such as cookies, may also be shared with us.

Cookies
Websites often use “cookies,” small amounts of data sent from a Web server to your internet browser and stored to your hard drive that may facilitate and track web traffic, personalize our services to you, and provide other limited functions. Most of these cookies are eliminated from your hard drive when you log off of our websites.

In most instances, you have the ability to set your browser to notify you when a cookie is sent, or to block cookies. However, some features of websites may not operate properly without them.

Third Party Websites
We do not sell your personal information or share it with third parties for their marketing purposes.

Our websites may contain links to other third party sites that are provided simply as a convenience to you. Meritáge Vocal Arts Ensemble does not control these sites, and is not responsible for their operation. We suggest you review their privacy policies which may differ from ours.

Security
Protecting your information is of the highest priority to us, and we use many methods in good faith to safeguard your personal information from unauthorized access. However, as you may be aware, third parties may illegally intercept or access transmissions over the Internet, and during your interactions on websites. Consequently, while we go to great lengths to safeguard your privacy, we cannot guarantee, and you should not have the expectation, that your personal data or exchanges of information over the Internet will always remain private. Here are a few notes about the security of your personal information.

• Email messages are not typically secure so we do not recommend sending us any critical financial information (such as credit cards numbers, bank account numbers, or similar information) via email. If you choose to provide this type of information via email, you do so at your own risk.
• It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

Opt-Out
At any time, you may opt out of any communications and remove your name from our mailing list by contacting us as directed below.

Contact
If you have questions about the privacy policy or wish to remove your name from our mailing list, please contact us by email at: info@Meritage-VocalArts.org

Policy Changes
If our privacy practices change, we will notify you by posting the changes on our websites.