THREE RIVERS YOUNG PEOPLES ORCHESTRAS (TRYPO) Privacy Policy

Effective Date: December 8, 2025

Three Rivers Young Peoples Orchestras (“TRYPO”, “company”, “our”, “we”, or “us”) respects your privacy and is committed to protect it through our compliance with this Privacy Policy (“Policy”).

This Policy applies to information we collect on the TRYPO website (the “Site”).

Please read this Policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, you may choose not to use our Site. By accessing the Site, you agree to this Policy.

This Policy may change from time to time. All changes are effective immediately when we post them. Your continued use of the Site after we make changes is deemed to be an acceptance of those changes, so please check the Policy periodically for updates.

CHILDREN’S PRIVACY

TRYPO is committed to protecting the privacy of minors. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 18 without the consent of the child’s parent or guardian.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT AND HOW WE COLLECT IT

We may collect several types of information from and about users of our Site, including:

personal identifying information such as name, gender, postal address, email address, telephone number (including mobile devices) and date of birth (”Personal Information”);
information about you that does not identify you individually (“Aggregate Information”).

We may collect this information from you in the following ways:

Voluntarily from you when you submit (1) requests for information about our services; (2) registration/participation details/payment information (e.g., student name, instrument, emergency contact); (3) donation information (e.g., name, age, payment information); and (4) requests for our Newsletter or other communication preferences;
As described in the section immediately below, as you navigate through our Site, information is collected automatically, which may include, but is not limited to: usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons and other tracking technologies.

AGGREGATE INFORMATION COLLECTED AUTOMATICALLY

As you use our Site, we may use automatic data technologies to gather and log information about your equipment and navigation patterns, including:

Details of your visits to our Site including the resources that you access and use;
Your IP address, browser type, operating system and internet service provider.

The technologies used for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies. Cookies are small bits of data written to your hard drive when you visit our Site that contain information such as a user or session ID to track the pages you have visited so you do not have re-enter your ID information throughout your visit;
Web Beacons. Pages on our Site may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit, for example, statistics on the number of users who have visited those pages and the popularity of certain content on our Site.
Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analysis service provided by Google that utilizes the data collected to track and examine your online activity and prepare reports; it may use the data collected to contextualize and personalize the ads of its own advertising network.

We do NOT collect Personal Information automatically. Information and data collected automatically is collected and used in aggregate form only.

HOW YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION IS USED

Where TRYPO collects Personal Information from you, it does so for a number of reasons, including:

To respond to your inquiry about our services;
To manage our services and programs, including processing payments and donations;
To provide you with information about TRYPO events, programs, updates, rehearsals, registrations, and other important notices;
to contact you to secure additional information that is needed to better serve you;
to notify you about changes to our Site;
to detect or resolve problems with our Site, assist with customer support, provide security, and protect against fraud.

We do not sell, rent, or trade your information to unaffiliated third-parties.

WITHDRAWAL OF CONSENT

TRYPO acknowledges that even though you may initially consent to our processing and use of your Personal Information, you may want to withdraw your consent at a later time. You may withdraw your consent for the processing or use of your Personal Information entirely or in part at any time by contacting us at staff@trypo.org or call us at 412-391-0526.

HOW AGGREGATE INFORMATION IS USED

for system maintenance, to perform surveys, and to gain a better understanding of how our Site is used;
to help us improve our services, develop new services, and improve our marketing and promotional efforts.

WHEN WE SHARE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We may disclose Personal Information that we collect about you as follows:

to affiliates and related entities of TRYPO;
to contractors and service providers that we use to perform specific functions for our Site. Such third-parties are authorized to use your Personal Information only for the purpose of providing the specific services requested by us;
to comply with a court order, law, or legal process, including any government or regulatory request;
to enforce our Terms of Service;
where such disclosure is needed to protect the rights, property or safety of TRYPO and/or the users of our services.

Aggregate Information may be shared with third-parties for research or marketing purposes. You understand that Aggregate Information does not identify you individually and can be used and shared by us without restriction

LINKS TO OTHER SITES

Our Site may contain links to sites that are owned and operated by third-parties. These other sites may have their own privacy policies and are not governed by this Policy. We are not responsible for the privacy practices owned and operated by these third parties. These sites may collect and treat information differently, so we encourage you to carefully review and read the privacy policy for any site you visit.

DATA RETENTION AND SECURITY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

TRYPO will retain and store your Personal Information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which the Personal Information was collected and processed, including any legal, tax, or regulatory reason. Following said period, we will either delete the Personal Information or anonymize it. We follow commercially reasonable and generally accepted industry practices to protect the Personal Information you provide through our Site and maintain administrative, physical, and technical safeguards for all user information collected. However, because no method of data transmission over the internet is 100% secure, we cannot guarantee that Personal Information may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by a breach of these safeguards.

HOW TO CONTACT US

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, please write to us at: 212 Ninth Street, Suite 601, Pittsburgh, PA 15222; staff@trypo.org; or call 412-391-0526.