Asheville Music Professionals Privacy Policy

Last updated: June 2026

Asheville Music Professionals, the provider of the Asheville Music Professionals website, is committed to protecting the privacy of the users of our website. This privacy policy (the “Policy”) discloses Asheville Music Professionals’s information privacy practices for the website and is intended to inform users of Asheville Music Professionals’s data collection and use practices.

Your Consent. By using Asheville Music Professionals’s website, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

How and What Information We Collect. In order to use certain services associated with the website, you may be required to register with Asheville Music Professionals. When you register as a website user or otherwise voluntarily contact or share information with Asheville Music Professionals, including through use of the website, Asheville Music Professionals will collect certain personally identifiable information from you. This information may include your name, email address, mailing address, telephone number, and other information volunteered by you, such as your member profile, links, biography, and other electronic submissions sent by you to Asheville Music Professionals.

To operate your account securely, we also store sign-in and security data, including your hashed password and, if you enable it, two-factor authentication settings.

Asheville Music Professionals may also automatically collect non-personally identifiable information from you, directly or indirectly, when you access the website, including but not limited to your Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, the type of browser you use to access our website, and basic analytics about which member profiles are viewed (such as visit counts and referring pages).

What We Do With Your Information. Asheville Music Professionals will not sell, trade, or rent your personally identifiable information to any third parties. Asheville Music Professionals will share your personally identifiable information if required to do so by law, court order, subpoena, or other legal process, or in the event you violate the terms of use. Asheville Music Professionals may use your information to provide you with the services you request, notify you about the status of changes to its services, and improve the website.

Your Public Member Profile. Asheville Music Professionals operates a public, searchable directory. If you create a member profile, the information you choose to publish on that profile — which may include your name, biography, links, and any contact details you choose to display — is visible to anyone who visits the website, not just other members. Please do not publish information on your profile that you do not wish to be public. You can edit or remove your profile information at any time from your member dashboard.

A Note for Parents. The website and any other affiliated forums are not directed to children under eighteen (18) years of age except as required for activities with Asheville Music Professionals and with the permission and supervision of a parent or legal guardian. Asheville Music Professionals does not knowingly directly solicit or collect personal information from children under eighteen (18) years of age through its website. In the event Asheville Music Professionals becomes aware that personal information relating to a child under the age of eighteen (18) has been collected or shared without proper authorization, we will make reasonable efforts to remove such information from our database.

Service Providers. We provide some of our services through contractual arrangements with third-party service providers who process data on our behalf and only as needed to deliver our services. For example, we use Stripe to process membership payments, Amazon Web Services to host the site and store uploaded images and files, Sentry to monitor and diagnose errors, and Cloudflare Turnstile to protect our sign-up forms from automated abuse. We also use an email delivery provider to send transactional email, such as sign-in and confirmation links. These providers have their own privacy and data-handling practices, and we encourage you to review them.

Other third-party websites that may be linked from our website have their own privacy and data collection policies and practices. Asheville Music Professionals is not responsible for any actions or privacy policies of such third parties. You should check the applicable privacy policies of those third parties when providing personally identifiable information through linked websites.

Payments. Membership payments are processed by Stripe. Your full payment card details are entered directly with Stripe and are never stored on Asheville Music Professionals’s servers. Stripe’s handling of your payment information is governed by Stripe’s own privacy policy.

Security. To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed. Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we work to safeguard your information using generally accepted industry standards.

Cookies. We use a small number of cookies that are essential to operating the website — for example, to keep you signed in to your account and to protect our forms from abuse. These cookies are necessary for the site to function.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy. Changes to this Asheville Music Professionals Privacy Policy will be posted on the website. Such changes will be effective when posted to the website, so please check this page periodically. Your continued use of the website constitutes your acceptance of any changes to the Privacy Policy.

If you have any questions about our Privacy Policy or wish to request removal of your personal data from our records, please contact support. You may also close your account at any time from your account settings.