Our Privacy Policy

The American Opera Society of Chicago protects the privacy of our visitors and donors. We do not sell or share our mailing list or divulge donor/donation information to parties outside of The American Opera Society of Chicago. However, we must collect some information to be able to run the website and accept donations to the American Opera Society Scholarship Fund. This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of your information when you visit our site and/or make a donation through our site.

Our website is hosted by Squarespace, which needs the following data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services. Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalized form.

ANALYTICS

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

COOKIES

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app.

The functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

The analytics and performance cookies are used on this site to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

DONATIONS

If you make a donation on this website, we collect personal information, which may include your:

  • Name

  • Email address

  • Billing address

  • Details about your donation

  • Phone

We share this information with Squarespace, our website hosting provider, and with DonorBox, our donation services provider, so they can provide services to us.

EMAILS

We may send you emails, which you can unsubscribe from by clicking the link at the bottom of the email. If you make a donation on this website, you have the option of choosing to receive emails about the organization. We share your contact information with Squarespace, our email marketing provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

We may email you with messages about your donation. It’s not possible to unsubscribe from these messages. We share your contact information with DonorBox, our donation services provider, so they can send these emails on our behalf.

QUESTIONS

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, you can contact us by email at: info@americanoperasocietyofchicago.org