Blind Willie's Privacy Policy

Blind Willie'sPrivacy Policy

Summary in Plain English

In support of providing the best of Blues, booze and Cajun food, Blind Willie's will utilize usage data and analytics to better refine our website(s), social media presence, messaging, marketing and outreach to create a better and more effective experience for users. As a part of providing certain services, such as online merchandise sales, advance ticket sales, taking reservations, contact forms or mailing list signup, we will collect and store personal information provided by the user. It will be shared with those who need it in order to provide the requested and associated services.

On occasion we will run ads across web and mobile to let people know about things like upcoming events and the like. Those may be based on whether you interacted with us and should only appear in a spot where you would already see an ad if we were not running one.

We may be required to disclose personal data and identifying information to the legal authorities if they present a valid legal instrument.

If Blind Willie's gets transitioned to new proprietors, makes partial changes in owners, or merges with another entity, existing information will go with it.

Extended version

In the normal course of operation, users voluntarily submit personally identifying information to Blind Willie's through multiple avenues. These include, but are not limited to, online merchandise sales, advance ticket sales, taking reservations, mailing list signup, contact forms, feedback forms, emails sent to Blind Willie's, social media interactions, and other avenues. This information will be retained and used to provide the requested and associated services. It will be shared with those who need it in order to provide the requested and associated services. Blind Willie's may make use of third party providers to power the services where the user enters their personal information. Some of this personal data may reside with Blind Willie's while other personal data may reside on the third party service provider's systems. The personal information will have been freely provided by the user and the usage data is collected automatically as the visitor uses the site and interacts with us on social media. For any third party personal data provided by the user to Blind Willie's, the user affirms that they have the third party's consent to do so.

Blind Willie's uses third party payment processors to receive payments. User's personal and payment information will be known to those third party processors. Blind Willie's will not have access to, or store, the user's payment information when it is handled by the third party processor.

Blind Willie's utilizes usage data and multiple third party analytics services to better refine our website(s), social media presence, messaging, marketing and outreach to create a better and more effective experience for users. When we are doing something right, we want to be able to know this. Likewise, when we are doing something poorly, we need analytics to know what and how to improve it. In the course of doing so, cookies will be sent to the user's browser and usage data will be collected. Users always have the option of blocking cookies or opting-out with the individual analytics provider. Certain Blind Willie's website services may require cookies to function, so it is possible that if a visitor blocks cookies, that the website(s) may not function as intended.

Blind Willie's makes use of, or may make use of, the following Google Analytics features and integrations: Remarketing with Google Analytics, Google Display Network Impression Reporting, the DoubleClick Campaign Manager integration, and Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting.

We will not identify users or facilitate the merging of personally identifiable information with non-personally identifiable information collected through any Google advertising product or feature. We will not attempt to disaggregate data that Google reports in aggregate.

We may use Remarketing with Google Analytics and Facebook to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google and Facebook, may show our ads on sites across the Internet. We and third-party vendors, including Google and Facebook, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on someone's past visits to our website(s) and social media pages.

We and third-party vendors, including Google and Facebook, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to report how our ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to our site.

Google Analytics Demographics and Interest Reporting is used to help us better understand our audience so that we can better refine services, offerings and messaging to reach existing visitors as well as to inform outreach to those who have not previously engaged with us.

From time to time, Blind Willie's may allow a partner whose goals also fulfill the mission of supporting blues music to utilize an aggregated audience segment for web or mobile advertising. No personal or individual information will be conveyed to them during this process.

See Google's site "How Google uses data when you use our partners' sites or apps" for more information about how Google makes use of cookies and this information.

Visitors can opt-out of Google Analytics for Display Advertising and customize Google Display Network ads using the Google ads settings or installing Google's opt-out browser add-on.

Visitors can opt out of Facebook ad personalization in their Facebook ad settings.

You may also use the National Advertising Initiative's Consumer Opt Out console to opt out of interest-based advertising across a wide range of platforms.