The Church Studio respects your privacy and is committed to handling your personal information responsibly. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit www.thechurchstudio.com, purchase merchandise, reserve a tour or ticket, become a member, make a donation, register for an event, subscribe to our communications, submit an inquiry, or otherwise interact with us.
By using our website, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
We may collect information that you provide directly to us, including:
Your name
Email address
Mailing or billing address
Telephone number
Payment and transaction information
Membership information
Tour, ticket, event, or reservation details
Donation information
Merchandise order information
Recording studio, venue rental, volunteer, educational program, or other inquiry information
Communications and messages you send to us
Any other information you voluntarily provide
Payment card information is generally collected and processed by our third-party payment providers. The Church Studio may not directly receive or retain your complete payment card number.
Information Collected Automatically
When you use our website, we and our service providers may automatically collect information such as:
Internet Protocol address
Browser and device type
Operating system
Referring website
Pages viewed
Links selected
Dates and times of visits
Approximate geographic location
Website interactions and performance information
Cookie and similar technology identifiers
This information helps us operate, secure, evaluate, and improve the website.
We may use personal information to:
Process purchases, payments, donations, memberships, tickets, tours, and reservations
Fulfill merchandise orders
Provide confirmations, receipts, notices, and customer service
Respond to questions and inquiries
Administer events, programs, recording sessions, venue rentals, tours, and educational activities
Manage membership benefits and records
Send newsletters, event announcements, fundraising messages, and promotional communications
Maintain and improve our website, services, exhibits, and programs
Understand how visitors use our website
Detect fraud, misuse, security incidents, or technical problems
Enforce our agreements, policies, and legal rights
Comply with legal, accounting, tax, and regulatory requirements
Carry out any other purpose described when the information is collected
When you subscribe to our newsletter, purchase from us, become a member, register for an event, or otherwise provide your contact information, we may send you service-related or promotional communications where permitted by law.
You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by selecting the unsubscribe link included in the message. Even after unsubscribing from promotional communications, we may still send transactional or administrative messages concerning purchases, memberships, donations, tickets, reservations, account activity, or other interactions with us.
Our website may use cookies, pixels, tags, local storage, and similar technologies. These technologies may be used to:
Keep the website operating properly
Remember preferences
Support shopping and checkout functions
Measure website traffic and performance
Understand visitor activity
Improve our communications and advertising
Detect security threats and prevent fraud
Some cookies are placed by third parties that provide website hosting, analytics, payment processing, e-commerce, ticketing, embedded media, social media, advertising, or other services.
You may adjust your browser settings to block or delete cookies. Blocking certain cookies may cause parts of the website to function incorrectly.
Where required, we will provide additional choices through a cookie consent banner or privacy preference tool.
We may use third-party analytics services to understand how visitors interact with our website. These providers may collect information about your device, browser, approximate location, pages visited, and website activity through cookies and similar technologies.
We may also use advertising or social media tools that help us measure campaigns, reach interested audiences, or understand whether someone interacted with an advertisement. Information collected through these technologies is governed partly by the privacy practices of the applicable provider.
We may disclose personal information to organizations that perform services on our behalf, including:
Website hosting and maintenance providers
E-commerce and merchandise platforms
Payment processors and financial institutions
Ticketing and reservation platforms
Email and newsletter providers
Analytics and advertising providers
Customer relationship and membership systems
Shipping and fulfillment providers
Information technology and cybersecurity providers
Professional advisers, including attorneys and accountants
These providers may access personal information only as reasonably necessary to perform their services, subject to their contractual obligations and privacy practices.
We may also disclose information:
With your direction or consent
To complete a transaction or provide a service you requested
To comply with a subpoena, court order, law, or governmental request
To protect the rights, property, safety, or security of The Church Studio, our visitors, employees, volunteers, customers, or others
To investigate fraud, unlawful conduct, misuse, or security incidents
In connection with a merger, restructuring, financing, sale, transfer, or similar organizational transaction
We do not sell personal information for money. Certain analytics or advertising activities, however, may be legally considered “selling,” “sharing,” or targeted advertising under some state privacy laws.
Our website may contain links to ticketing services, payment processors, social media platforms, lodging providers, partner organizations, embedded videos, maps, or other third-party websites and services.
We do not control these third parties or their privacy and security practices. Information you provide directly to a third party is governed by that party’s privacy policy. We encourage you to review the applicable policy before providing personal information.
The Church Studio is a museum, recording facility, performance venue, educational space, and event location. Photographs, audio recordings, or video recordings may be taken during public events, programs, tours, performances, festivals, classes, or other activities.
When appropriate, event notices, releases, posted signage, ticket terms, or separate agreements may provide additional information concerning photography and recording.
This Privacy Policy does not replace any applicable event release, recording agreement, performer agreement, venue agreement, or other contract.
When you make a donation, we may collect information necessary to process the contribution, issue a receipt, maintain financial and tax records, communicate with you, and administer donor recognition or fundraising activities.
You may contact us to discuss whether your name should be withheld from public donor recognition. Legal and financial recordkeeping requirements may still require us to retain certain information.
We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to:
Complete the purpose for which it was collected
Maintain membership, transaction, donation, reservation, and program records
Provide services and customer support
Meet legal, accounting, tax, insurance, and contractual obligations
Resolve disputes
Prevent fraud and abuse
Enforce our agreements and policies
Retention periods may vary depending on the nature of the information and the reason it was collected. We may retain aggregated or de-identified information that no longer reasonably identifies an individual.
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical measures designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
No website, electronic transmission, payment system, or data storage method can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use caution when transmitting information online.
Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have the right to request that we:
Confirm whether we process your personal information
Provide access to certain personal information
Correct inaccurate information
Delete certain information
Provide a portable copy of certain information
Restrict or object to certain processing
Opt you out of targeted advertising or certain forms of data sharing
Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
Review an appeal relating to a denied privacy request
These rights are not absolute and may be subject to legal exceptions. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.
To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information in the Contact Us section below. Please write “Privacy Request” in the subject line and describe your request clearly.
You may also use an authorized agent where permitted by law. We may require proof that the agent is authorized to act for you.
We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.
Our website is intended for a general audience and is not directed specifically to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13 without appropriate parental or legal guardian consent.
Educational programs or events involving minors may be governed by separate registration materials, releases, or parental consent forms.
A parent or guardian who believes that a child has provided personal information to us without appropriate consent should contact us so that we can review and, where appropriate, delete the information.
The Church Studio is located in Oklahoma, United States. If you access our website from another country, your information may be transferred to, stored in, or processed in the United States or other jurisdictions where our service providers operate.
Privacy and data protection laws in those locations may differ from the laws in your country.
We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our services, technology, business practices, or legal obligations.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised “Last Updated” date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or by other appropriate means.
Your continued use of the website after an updated policy becomes effective constitutes acknowledgment of the revised policy.
For questions about this Privacy Policy or requests concerning your personal information, contact:
The Church Studio
304 S. Trenton Avenue
Tulsa, Oklahoma 74120
United States
Email: info@thechurchstudio.com
Telephone: (918) 894-2965
Website: www.thechurchstudio.com
Please include “Privacy Request” in the subject line of privacy-related correspondence.
