Chicago Heights Drama Group Privacy Policy
Effective Date: November 15, 2025
This Privacy Policy explains how the Chicago Heights Drama Group collects, uses, and discloses personal information about our members, subscribers, sponsors, and visitors to our website at https://dramagroup.org/.
COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
Information collected directly from you: We may collect personal information directly from you, for example through a web form, during registration for events, during the audition process, through mobile messaging, when you contact us with questions, or at checkout at BookTix. Personal information we collect directly from you may include first and last name, address, email address, and phone number.
Information collected from your device: Our website may use technologies such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information from your device including, for example, your IP address, date and time of your visit, browser and operating system information, referring website address, and other information about how you interact with the website. Our website may also use cookies and similar technologies to enhance your user experience (for event registrations and sponsorship forms) or save to return to later. Our email campaigns may also use tracking technologies such as web beacons, pixels and other similar technologies to automatically collect certain information such as your IP address, browser type and version, and email engagement statistics.
Information collected from our partners: We may collect personal information about you from our third-party partners and combine it with other information that we collect. Personal information we collect from our partners may include, for example, demographic information and geographic location.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may use information collected about you for any lawful purpose, including the following:
● To provide you with service and support regarding auditions, participation in productions and other relevant information about them including any and all related events;
● To notify you and update you regarding campaign efforts, including by email and text message subject to your consent;
● To provide our website to you, to optimize our website, and to assist with our advertising and marketing efforts;
● To send notifications or reminders regarding your saved scholarship application pages; [1]
● To comply with the law and to maintain the security of our website; or
● With your consent, or as otherwise disclosed at the time information is collected.
DISCLOSURE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may share the information we collect with other parties, including the following:
● To help facilitate communication with applications and their processing, payment processors in furtherance of the charitable purpose, data platforms, analytical services, online support, advertising partners, and email service providers.
● With MailerLite and ClickSend Constant Contact, to send email marketing and text message communications. For more information about how we may use your information with MailerLite and ClickSend Constant Contact and the information that may be collected through our email campaigns, see MailerLite and ClickSend’s Constant Contact’s Customer Data Notice available at ?https://www.constantcontact.com/legal/customer-contactdata-notice.
● With any affiliates or joint venture partners that we may have in the future related to productions and charity campaigns and events the scholarship endeavors.
● If necessary to comply with applicable laws and regulations, to respond to a subpoena, search warrant or other lawful request for information we receive, or to otherwise protect our rights or the rights of third parties including the party who the information pertains to, or to protect the safety or security of any person or entity.
● With your consent or as otherwise disclosed at the time of data collection or sharing.
Our website may offer interactive features, such as the ability to leave reviews, that you can use to communicate with other website visitors or to submit and post your own content. If you disclose information in one of these forums, this information can be viewed, collected, and used by others.
ANALYTICS
We may also work with third parties that collect data about your use of our website and other sites or apps over time for non-advertising purposes. We may use Google Analytics and other third-party services to improve the performance of the website and for analytics and marketing evaluation purposes. For more information about how Google Analytics collects and uses data when you use our website, visit www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners, and to opt out of Google Analytics, visit tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.
Your web browser may allow you to block or disable cookies; however, parts of our website may not function properly if you do so.
EMAIL AND TEXT MESSAGE COMMUNICATIONS If you wish to unsubscribe from our email campaigns, please click on the Unsubscribe link at the bottom of any marketing email sent from us. If you opt out of our email marketing, we will still send you non-marketing related messages, such as included but not limited to registration confirmations, receipts, or notifications.
If you wish to stop receiving text messages from us, reply STOP, QUIT, CANCEL, OPT-OUT, or UNSUBSCRIBE to any text message sent from us. For more information, see our Mobile Messaging Terms and Conditions available at ???? https://mjbf.org/mobile-messaging-terms.
SMS
Prohibited use and content
MailerLite prohibits any SMS messaging that includes the following:
● Illegal substances
● Sex, hate, alcohol, firearms, and tobacco (SHAFT)
● Third-party lead generation
● High-risk financial services
● Debt collection and forgiveness
● Gambling
● Multi-level marketing
UPDATING YOUR INFORMATION
When you have an account with us, you may review, change, or update your contact information at any time by logging into your scholarship application or contacting us utilizing the contact information below.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY
We may update this Privacy Policy at any time. Please review it frequently.
CONTACT INFORMATION
If you have any questions about this policy or our privacy practices, please contact us at questions@dramagroup.org or (708) 755-3444.