Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how personal information is collected, used, disclosed, and protected when you visit or interact with www.theoearlymusic.com, referred to as the "Site."

The Site is operated by Theo Early, an independent music artist based in Toledo, Ohio, United States. In this Privacy Policy, "Theo Early," "we," "us," and "our" refer to the operator of the Site.

1. Scope

This Privacy Policy applies to information collected through:

• The Site;
• Newsletter and email-subscription forms;
• Contact, booking, collaboration, press, and similar forms;
• Site analytics;
• Communications sent directly to us; and
• Future merchandise or other Site features that link to this Privacy Policy.

This Policy does not govern independent third-party websites, streaming services, social networks, ticket sellers, payment processors, or storefronts.

2. Information We Collect

The information we collect depends on how you interact with the Site.

Information You Provide

You may provide information such as:

• Your email address when subscribing to updates;
• Your name, email address, subject, and message when using a contact form;
• Booking, media, collaboration, business, or professional information included in an inquiry;
• Information contained in emails or other communications you send to us;
• Subscription preferences and unsubscribe requests; and
• Order, delivery, or customer-service information if merchandise becomes available.

Please do not send sensitive information through the Site, including passwords, Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, financial-account credentials, or medical information.

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit the Site, we and our service providers may automatically receive information such as:

• Internet Protocol address;
• Browser type and version;
• Device type and operating system;
• Approximate geographic location;
• Referring page or website;
• Pages visited;
• Date and time of visits;
• Session and interaction information;
• Link clicks and navigation activity;
• Site-performance and error information; and
• Cookie, consent, or similar technical identifiers.

We do not use this information to attempt to determine your precise physical location.

Information from Third Parties

We may receive limited information from providers that support the Site, such as:

• Email-delivery and subscription status information;
• Analytics reports;
• Website-performance reports;
• Spam and security signals;
• Payment or transaction status from a future payment processor; and
• Publicly available information included in business, booking, or media communications.

3. How We Use Information

We may use personal information to:

• Operate, maintain, secure, and improve the Site;
• Process newsletter subscriptions;
• Send updates about music, videos, merchandise, events, news, and promotions;
• Manage subscription preferences and unsubscribe requests;
• Respond to contact, booking, press, collaboration, and support inquiries;
• Measure Site traffic, performance, and engagement;
• Diagnose technical problems;
• Prevent spam, fraud, abuse, and security incidents;
• Maintain business and communication records;
• Process and support purchases if products become available;
• Comply with legal obligations;
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal rights; and
• Carry out other purposes disclosed when information is collected.

We do not use information submitted through a general inquiry to enroll you in marketing emails unless you separately request or consent to receive those emails.

4. Email Subscriptions and Resend

We use Resend, operated by Plus Five Five, Inc., to help collect and manage subscriber email addresses and to deliver email communications.

When you subscribe, information provided through the subscription form may be transferred to and processed by Resend. This may include:

• Your email address;
• Subscription status;
• Subscription source;
• Signup date or time;
• Email-delivery information;
• Email engagement information, such as delivery, opens, or link interactions, where enabled; and
• Unsubscribe or preference information.

We use this information to administer the mailing list, send requested updates, evaluate email performance, prevent abuse, and honor unsubscribe requests.

You may unsubscribe at any time by selecting the unsubscribe link in an email or by contacting theoearly36@gmail.com.

Unsubscribing from promotional emails does not prevent us from responding to a message you sent or providing a requested transactional communication.

5. Analytics

Vercel Web Analytics

The Site is hosted on Vercel and may use Vercel Web Analytics and Vercel Speed Insights.

These tools may process information concerning page visits, routes, browser type, device type, operating system, approximate country, network performance, Site-performance measurements, and similar technical information.

Vercel Web Analytics is designed to provide aggregated or anonymized traffic information without placing traditional analytics cookies on your device.

Google Analytics

We may use Google Analytics to understand how visitors find and use the Site.

Google Analytics may collect information such as:

• Page views and sessions;
• Approximate geographic location;
• Browser and device information;
• Referring sources;
• Site interactions and events; and
• A client identifier stored in a first-party analytics cookie.

Google Analytics commonly uses cookies such as _ga and _ga_<measurement-id> to distinguish visitors and maintain session information.

Where required by applicable law, Google Analytics and other nonessential analytics technologies will not be activated until you provide consent.

We will not intentionally send names, email addresses, contact-form messages, or other directly identifying information to Google Analytics.

6. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Cookies are small files placed on a browser or device. Similar technologies include local storage, tags, pixels, and software-development tools.

The Site may use the following categories.

Strictly Necessary Technologies

These technologies support essential operations such as:

• Site security;
• Network routing;
• Fraud and spam prevention;
• Form operation;
• Remembering privacy choices; and
• Maintaining a shopping cart or checkout session if commerce features are added.

Necessary technologies may operate without optional consent where permitted by law.

Preference Technologies

These may remember choices such as display preferences, cookie selections, or other settings.

Analytics Technologies

Google Analytics may use first-party cookies to measure visitors, sessions, and Site activity.

Vercel Web Analytics is designed to operate without analytics cookies.

Third-Party Media

Pages may contain links to or embedded content from services such as Spotify, YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, X, or Facebook.

Those services may place cookies or collect device and interaction information when their content is loaded or when you interact with it. Their activities are governed by their own privacy policies.

Managing Cookies

You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings.

Where the Site provides a cookie-preference tool, you may also use that tool to accept, reject, or change your choices concerning optional cookies.

Blocking cookies may affect certain Site features. Blocking Google Analytics cookies should not prevent ordinary access to the Site.

7. How We Disclose Information

We may disclose information to the following categories of recipients.

Service Providers

Information may be processed by providers that perform services on our behalf, including:

• Resend for newsletter subscriptions and email delivery;
• Vercel for website hosting, infrastructure, performance, and analytics;
• Google Analytics for Site measurement;
• Google or another email provider for receiving and storing correspondence;
• Security, spam-prevention, and technical-support providers;
• Content-delivery and domain providers; and
• Future payment, commerce, fulfillment, or customer-support providers.

These providers may process information under their own contractual and legal obligations.

Professional Representatives

Information may be disclosed to attorneys, accountants, managers, agents, booking representatives, technical contractors, or other professional advisers when reasonably necessary.

Legal and Safety Purposes

We may disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable law, legal process, or governmental requests;
• Protect the rights, safety, security, or property of Theo Early, visitors, or others;
• Investigate fraud, abuse, security incidents, or violations of our Terms;
• Enforce agreements; or
• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims.

Business Transfers

Information may be transferred in connection with a reorganization, merger, financing, asset sale, management transition, or similar business transaction involving the Site or Theo Early's business operations.

With Your Direction or Consent

We may disclose information when you direct us to do so, consent to the disclosure, or request an interaction involving another party.

8. Sale and Targeted Advertising

We do not sell personal information for money.

We do not currently use information collected through the Site for cross-context behavioral advertising or to create advertising profiles across unrelated websites.

Google Analytics is used for standard Site measurement rather than personalized advertising. If targeted-advertising features are introduced, this Privacy Policy and applicable consent or opt-out controls will be updated.

9. Legal Bases for Processing

For visitors in the European Economic Area, United Kingdom, Switzerland, or another jurisdiction that requires a legal basis, we may process information based on:

• Consent: for newsletter subscriptions and optional analytics cookies;
• Legitimate interests: for operating, securing, measuring, and improving the Site;
• Contract or requested steps: when responding to a booking, purchase, collaboration, or service inquiry;
• Legal obligations: when processing is required by law; and
• Legal claims: when necessary to protect or exercise legal rights.

Where processing is based on consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal does not affect processing that occurred before consent was withdrawn.

10. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Policy.

Generally:

• Subscriber information is retained while you remain subscribed;
• Limited suppression information may be retained after unsubscribing so that we can honor your request;
• Contact and business inquiries may be retained while the inquiry remains active and afterward when reasonably necessary for records, follow-up, or legal purposes;
• Transaction records may be retained as required for tax, accounting, fraud-prevention, and legal obligations;
• Analytics information is retained according to our configured settings and the applicable provider's retention practices; and
• Security logs may be retained for a reasonable period to detect and investigate threats.

When information is no longer reasonably necessary, we may delete, anonymize, or aggregate it.

11. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards intended to protect personal information.

These measures may include encrypted connections, access restrictions, account-security controls, service-provider security features, spam prevention, monitoring, and software maintenance.

No website, network, storage system, or transmission method is completely secure. We therefore cannot guarantee absolute security.

12. International Data Processing

The Site is operated from the United States.

Information may be processed in the United States or other countries where our service providers operate. Those countries may have privacy laws that differ from the laws where you live.

Where legally required, service providers may use approved transfer mechanisms, contractual safeguards, or recognized data-transfer frameworks.

13. Your Privacy Rights

Depending on where you live and applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request confirmation of whether we process your personal information;
• Request access to personal information;
• Request correction of inaccurate information;
• Request deletion of information;
• Request a portable copy of certain information;
• Object to or restrict certain processing;
• Withdraw consent;
• Opt out of certain sales, sharing, or targeted advertising;
• Appeal a decision concerning a privacy request; and
• Lodge a complaint with an applicable privacy regulator.

These rights may be subject to legal exceptions. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

To submit a privacy request, email theoearly36@gmail.com with the subject line Privacy Request.

Please describe your request and provide the email address or other information reasonably needed to locate the relevant records.

Authorized agents may submit requests where permitted by law, but we may require evidence of authorization and identity verification.

You will not be unlawfully discriminated against for exercising an applicable privacy right.

14. Email Choices

You may stop promotional emails by:

• Using the unsubscribe link included in an email; or
• Emailing theoearly36@gmail.com.

We will take reasonable steps to process the request promptly.

You may still receive messages that you specifically request, direct responses to your communications, or legally required transactional notices.

15. Children's Privacy

The Site is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13.

We do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13. If we learn that such information has been collected, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.

A parent or guardian who believes a child has provided personal information may contact theoearly36@gmail.com.

16. Third-Party Websites and Services

The Site may link to music platforms, social networks, ticket sellers, stores, venues, payment providers, or other external services.

We do not control those services or their data practices. Visiting or interacting with them is subject to their own privacy policies and terms.

We encourage you to review those policies before providing information.

17. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in the Site, service providers, business practices, or legal requirements.

The updated Policy will be posted on this page with a revised "Last Updated" date. Material changes may also be communicated through the Site, email, or another appropriate method.

18. Contact Us

Questions, requests, or concerns about this Privacy Policy may be directed to:

Theo Early
Toledo, Ohio, United States
Website: www.theoearlymusic.com
Email: theoearly36@gmail.com