LEGAL TERMS & PRIVACY POLICY

The MiamiInternational Piano Festival Academy and its parent institution, the non-profit foundation Patrons of Exceptional Artists, is committed to honoring your privacy and to protecting the integrity of our website. We want to ensure that your visits to our site are free of unwelcome intrusions. Therefore we will notcollect any personal information from you that you do not volunteer to give tous. We will never willfully disclose your personal information to any thirdparties without your prior consent.

The circumstances under which you may be given the opportunity to provide personal information will be exclusively in the registration process and the purchase of any digital goods that you make through our secure website. We may just  disclose personal information if we are required to do so by law or to protect against the misuse of our website oragainst other violations of our rights or the rights of our users or thepublic.

By accessing miamipianofestacademy.com, you are agreeing to be bound by these website Terms of Use, allapplicable laws and regulations, and agree that you are responsible forcompliance with any applicable local laws. The Website is the sole property of Patrons of Exceptional Artists. If you do not agree with any of these terms, you areprohibited from using or accessing this site.

For more questions contact our Client & Support Service at info@miamipianofest.com

cookies

A cookie is a small text file that a website can place on your computer's hard drive for record-keeping or other administrative purposes. Our website may use cookies to help to personalize your experience on it. You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Although most web browsers accept cookies automatically, usually you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies. If you decide to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully use the features of miamipianofestacademy.com. Cookies may also be used at certain sites accessible through links on our website.

TERMS OF USE

By accessing miamipianofestacademy.com (MIPFA), you (“you” or “your”) agree to abide by the following Terms of Use to the extent permitted by applicable law. If you do not agree to abide by the Terms, you maynot access or use the Website.

MIPFA & Patrons of Exceptional Artists reserve the right to make changes tomiamipianofestacademy.com and to the Products and to modify these Terms at anytime at its sole discretion. By your access to or use of the Website, you agree to abide by the Terms, including without limitation any changes or modifications.

MIPFA provides a personalized subscription service that allows our members to access pre-recorded lessons (Masterclasses Series), live lessons with our artists (Live.Courses), and audiovisual archival material belonging to Patrons of Exceptional Artists and the Miami International Piano Festival. All of it, streamed over the Internet to certain Internet-connected TV's, computers and other devices.

When accessing our website, you accept these Terms of Use, which govern your use of our service. Personally identifying information is subject to our Privacy Statement, the terms of which are incorporated herein.

user license

Permission is granted to visualize all the audiovisual and documental materials showcased onmiamipianofestacademy.com for personal, non-commercial usage. This is the grantof a license, not a transfer of title, and under this license you may not:

I. modify or copy the materials;

II. use the materials for any commercial purpose, or for any public display (commercial or non-commercial);

III. attempt to decompile or reverse engineer any software contained on miamipianofestacademy.com

IV. remove any copyright or other proprietary notations from the materials;orv. transfer the materials to another person or “mirror” the materials on any other server.

This license shall automatically terminate if you violate any of these restrictions and may be terminated by MIPFA at any time. Upon terminating your viewing of these materials or upon the termination of this license, you must destroy any downloaded materials in your possession whether in electronic or printed format.

In case the user may have an educational purpose on the usage ofmiamipianofestacademy.com content, it may be previously consented by the Miami International Piano Festival Academy & Patrons of Exceptional Artists.Please contact support@miamipianofestacademy.com for further inquiries on this matter.

your privacy

Wetake reasonable precautions to protect your sensitive personal information. When you submit sensitive personal information via the website of MIPFA or an Affiliate’s website, we take reasonable steps to protect such information. If we collect sensitive personal information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser, or looking for "https" at the beginning of the address of the web page (SSL Certificate). In addition, we do not collect sensitive data within our own servers but through 3rd party vendors. Your authentication information is securely stored with Memberstack Inc., and your credit card information is solelyrouted to our payment providers, Paypal Inc. or Stripe Inc. No paymentinformation touches miamipianofestacademy.com’s internal servers at any pointin time.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also make reasonable efforts to protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing orcustomer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. We take reasonable efforts to require that any third party provider we contract with stores personally identifiable information in a secure environment.

Considering this specific encryptionin payments data, we outlines our general privacy policy through the following statements:

I. Before or at the time of collecting personal information, we willidentify the purposes for which information is being collected.
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II. We will collect and use of personal information solely with the objectiveof fulfilling those purposes specified by us and for other compatible purposes,unless we obtain the consent of the individual concerned or as required by law.
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III. We will only retain personal information as long as necessary for thefulfillment of those purposes.
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IV. We will collect personal information by lawful and fair means and, whereappropriate, with the knowledge or consent of the individual concerned.

donations and patronage

The Miami International Piano Festival Academy & Patrons of Exceptional Artists will not sell, share or trade its donors' names or personal information with anyother entity, nor send mailings to our donors on behalf of other organizations.

This policy applies to all information received by Miami International Piano Festival Academy & Patrons of Exceptional Artists, as well as any electronic, written, or oral communications.

To the extent any donations are processed through a third-party service provider (such as Give Miami Daydonations), our donors’ information will only be used for purposes necessary to process the donation.

For more information about donations to MIPFA as a 501(C)(3) foundation and the benefitsit may bring to your entity, please contact us through support@miamipianofestacademy.com

Donation packs

When donating to MIPFA Virtual Platform, you will be considered as part of one of our Donation Groups (calledin the website “Donation Packs”), which will grant you access to privileged and special content in our website.

You will be automatically consider as part of one of these groups once you make your donation through our payment platform. Therefore, your accessibility to this content will be granted automatically —delays of 12 hours from themaking of the donation and the implementation of these privileges.

membership and payments

When registering through miamipianofestacademy.com’s registration form, you will be considered a “MIPFA Member”. By accepting that consideration, you willcommit to the respect of these Terms of Use and User License.

Your registration to MIPFA will be completely free. You can cancel your subscriptionto the platform at any time, through the user panel once logged in.

Registered members will be able to acquire premium pre-recorded content through in-platform payments (Masterclasses Series), as well as accessing privileged materials from the institution thanks to their donations, described in the lines above and miamipianofestacadem.com/support-us.

All the payed content that you buy through the website will be remain inyour personal dashboard for as long as the platform of MIPFA is online.

Payments through miamipianofestacademy.com will be non-refundable, unless a mistake by any of the platform employees is made when processing the payment or content delivery. At any time, and for any reason, we may provide a refund, discount, or other consideration to some or all of our members .The amount and form of such discount, and the decision to provide them, are at our sole and absolute discretion. The provision of these offers or discounts in one instance does not entitle you to discounts in the future for similar instances, nor does it obligate us to provide credits in the future, under any circumstance.

live events

Live educational events will be hosted in miamipianofestacademy.com, as intensive courses starring MIPFA artists. These events are called live.courses.

MIPFA & Patrons of Exceptional Artists will grant the respect of both virtual attendees and faculty members at all time. MIPFA reserves the right of admission to those participants that will not abide these rules, or somehow un-honor any of the MIPFA staff personas.

When necessary, MIPFA and the board of Patrons of Exceptional Artists will screen user’s participation request to any live.course, grounding their decision of acceptance merely on artistic and professional records.

newsletter

With your prior permission, the Miami International Piano Festival Academy & Patrons of Exceptional Artists will send you messages from time to time on behalf of athird party. In all cases, the message we send will be clearly identified ascoming to you from MIPFA. With each e-mail, you will be given an opportunity to opt out from receiving such future messages by utilizing an "unsubscribe" link at the bottom of each e-mail message.

links

MIPFA & Patrons of Exceptional Artists have not reviewed all of the sites linked to its Internet web site and is not responsible for the contents of any such linked site. The inclusion of any link does not imply endorsement by The Provider of the site. Use of any such linked web site is at the user’s own risk.

MIPFA is not responsible for any information you choose to provide to those third parties or third party websites or applications; any information, products or services you acquire from those third parties or third party websites or applications; or any damages arising from your access to or use of such information, services or products or such third party websites or applications. Any links are provided as a convenience to the visitors of the Website and any inclusion of any such links in the Website does not imply an endorsement or warranty of the third parties or third party websites or applications or their security, content, products, offerings or services. You are cautioned that anythird parties or third party websites or applications are governed by their own terms of use and privacy policies, so when linking or otherwise accessing third party information, products or services, or websites or applications, you should make sure to visit the appropriate pages to determine what terms of use and privacy policies will apply to your use.