Privacy Policy

The Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts respects the privacy of those who visit us in person and on our website. We appreciate your interest and patronage.

This Privacy Policy applies to our website located at www.kauffmancenter.org  and the other applications and websites linked to this Privacy Policy (collectively the “Site”), regardless of how you use or access them. If you do not agree to this Privacy Policy or our Terms of Use, please do not use the Site or provide us with Personal Information.

Personal Information

“Personal Information” is data that identifies you or can identify you when combined with other data. Personal Information is usually your name in combination with another identifier, such as date of birth, postal address, email address, telephone number, or government-issued identification number. The specific definition of Personal Information varies from one country or jurisdiction to another.

Personal Information does not include anonymous or aggregated data that can no longer be used to identify a specific person, even if combined with other data.

Collection of Personal Information

Visitors may provide the Kauffman Center with Personal Information in any number of ways, including the completion of forms or expressions of interest on our Site, online surveys, and other interactions.

Personal Information collected may include contact information, interests in the performing arts, demographic information (such as zip code, age, or business type), user names and passwords for Kauffman Center accounts, and in some cases, financial information such as account or credit card numbers.

Use of Personal Information

The Kauffman Center uses your Personal Information for the purposes it is provided. For example, if you register for an event, we use the information you provide to process your registration or send you confirmations. If you subscribe to a newsletter, we use your Personal Information to mail or e-mail the newsletter to you. If you apply to volunteer, we use information about your background, interests, and skills to help you find the right volunteer opportunity. If you complete a poll or survey or send us comments or other information, we use that information to improve our programs, services, and communications.

We use unique identifiers like IP addresses to diagnose problems with our server, administer our Site, gather broad demographic information, and identify you when you return to the Site. We use financial information to complete transactions for products and services and donations. We also use your Personal Information to respond to your questions and comments and thank you for your donations.

We retain Personal Information for as long as the purpose for which the information was collected still applies, or as otherwise required by law.

If you decide you no longer want to receive a newsletter to which you have subscribed or other communication from us, please use the opt-out link contained at the bottom of the communication, or email us at contact@kauffmancenter.org.

Sharing of Personal Information

We share your Personal Information with our employees and volunteers who need it to provide you with services, assistance or communications in the course of their duties, and who are obligated to prevent against its unauthorized disclosure.

We also share Personal Information with third party vendors who act for us or on our behalf. For example, when you register for an event, a third party processes your registration and payment on our behalf. These third-party vendors may need information about you in order to perform their functions, and are contractually obligated to treat your Personal Information as confidential.

There may be other, limited circumstances in which we may share or transfer Personal Information to an unrelated third party, for example, to comply with a legal requirement or court order; in the event of a tax audit or other investigation; to investigate a possible crime, such as credit card fraud; to enforce our Terms of Use, to protect the security of our Site and the integrity of our databases; if we reorganize or merge with another organization, or in some similar event.

We may also share your Personal Information with certain arts organizations who may have offerings that may interest you. Whenever we share personal information with third parties, we take appropriate steps, by contract or otherwise, to limit the use and prevent the unauthorized disclosure of the Personal Information.

If you disclose any information on social media or open forum hosted by the Kauffman Center, others may collect that information to send you unsolicited information from outside the Kauffman Center or for other purposes.

Other Information

We collect information other than Personal Information when you visit our Site or otherwise provide it. We may collect or analyze user traffic patterns, page views on the Site, click-through rates, and search terms that users enter into our search utility. In addition, when a visitor arrives at our site, we may collect the device ID, operating system and browser software used. As a general matter, such Non-Personal Information allows us to analyze the use of our Site and the effectiveness of our promotional activities.

Links to Other Websites

This site contains links to other sites. The Kauffman Center is not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of such linked Web sites, nor is the Kauffman Center responsible for any marks used by those sites.

Cookies

A “cookie” is a small file stored on your computer by a website which contains certain information about your activity on the website. Some cookies only last for the session you are on the Website. Other cookies persist beyond that session, so, for example, you do not have to reenter contact information or items in your cart. We use cookies to transact with you, gather navigation information, enhance and personalize your experience, analyze usage patterns, and improve our Site, products and services.

We utilize Google Analytics. To learn more about the use of Cookies by Google for analytics and to exercise choice regarding those Cookies, please visit the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on or the Digital Advertising Alliance.

Do Not Track Policy

Some web browsers have a “Do Not Track” feature that tells websites you do not want to have your online activity tracked. These features are not uniform across browsers and at present, our Site will not operate any differently when a “do not track” signal is received.

Links to Other Websites

Our Site may may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by the Kauffman Center. This Privacy Policy does not apply to such third-party websites. We do not control or endorse them and are not responsible for their data practices. We urge you to review the privacy policy for any such website you visit before using the website or providing any Personal Information about yourself.

Information About Children

The Kauffman Center does not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13 through this Site. If you believe that a child has provided information to us through the Site, please contact us at contact@kauffmancenter.org or by writing us at our postal address provide below. Please give us enough information so that we can correctly identify the information provided by the child. We will use our best efforts to remove all of the information provided by the child from our system.

Security

When you provide information through this Site, the transmission is protected by secure socket layer (SSL) encryption. We maintain a variety of security measures, including physical, electronic and administrative safeguards. No system can be completely secure, so we do not promise, and you should not expect, that your Personal Information, searches, or other communications will always remain secure. You use this website at your own risk.

Questions about Personal Information or this Policy

If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or the way the Kauffman Center processes your Personal Information, please contact us by e-mail at contact@kauffmancenter.org (please put “Privacy” in the subject matter line) or by postal mail at Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts, 1601 Broadway Blvd., Kansas City, MO 64108, Attn: Privacy.

Changes to this Policy

We may change our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post those changes here and reflect the date they were updated below.

Last Updated: July 11, 2023