We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

• Name

• Email address

• Mailing or billing address

• Telephone number

• Ticket purchase and event information

• Donation information

• Membership or sponsorship information

• Rental or event inquiry information

• Volunteer information

• Communication preferences

• Information submitted through contact forms, surveys, registrations, applications, or other forms

• Other information you choose to provide to us

When you make a payment, purchase tickets, donate, or complete another financial transaction, payment information may be processed by a third-party payment or ticketing provider. The Martin may not directly receive or store your complete credit or debit card information.

When you visit our website, certain information may be collected automatically through cookies, website analytics, and similar technologies.

This information may include:

• Internet Protocol (IP) address

• Browser type

• Device type

• Operating system

• Pages viewed

• Referring website

• Date and time of your visit

• General geographic information

• How you interact with our website

We may use this information to understand how visitors use our website, improve its performance, measure the effectiveness of our communications and marketing, and provide a better online experience.

The Martin may use information we collect to:

• Process ticket purchases, donations, memberships, sponsorships, rentals, registrations, and other transactions

• Communicate with you about events, programs, purchases, donations, rentals, or inquiries

• Send newsletters, event announcements, fundraising communications, and other updates when permitted

• Maintain patron, donor, sponsor, member, renter, and volunteer records

• Provide customer service

• Coordinate events and facility rentals

• Recruit and coordinate volunteers

• Improve our website, programming, services, and communications

• Understand attendance, engagement, and community impact

• Maintain the security and operation of our website and systems

• Meet financial, tax, grant, nonprofit, insurance, contractual, or other legal requirements

• Protect the rights, safety, property, and interests of The Martin, our patrons, and others

If you subscribe to our mailing list, purchase tickets, donate, become a member, or otherwise provide your contact information, we may communicate with you regarding The Martin.

Marketing emails will include a way to unsubscribe or update your preferences. You may unsubscribe from promotional email communications at any time.

Even if you unsubscribe from marketing communications, we may still send necessary transactional or administrative messages related to a purchase, donation, rental, membership, registration, or other interaction you have initiated with us.

Our website may use cookies and similar technologies to remember preferences, understand website traffic, improve functionality, and measure the effectiveness of our communications and advertising.

A cookie is a small file stored on your device by a website. Most web browsers allow you to control or disable cookies through your browser settings.

Disabling cookies may affect the functionality of certain portions of our website.

The Martin may use trusted third-party companies and platforms to help operate our organization and provide services such as:

• Website hosting

• Ticketing and event registration

• Payment processing

• Email communications

• Donations and fundraising

• Website analytics

• Membership management

• Advertising and marketing

• Forms and surveys

• Customer or patron management

These third parties may collect or process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.

We encourage you to review the privacy policies of third-party websites and services you use. The Martin is not responsible for the privacy practices, security, or content of websites or services operated by third parties.

The Martin does not sell or rent your personal information or our patron, donor, member, or mailing lists to third parties for their own marketing purposes.

We may share information with trusted service providers when reasonably necessary to operate our website, process transactions, communicate with you, provide services, analyze our operations, or conduct the work of the organization.

We may also disclose information when reasonably necessary to:

• Comply with applicable laws, regulations, court orders, or legal processes

• Protect the rights or property of The Martin

• Prevent fraud or misuse of our services

• Protect the safety of our patrons, employees, volunteers, artists, partners, or the public

• Meet legitimate nonprofit, financial, insurance, grant, audit, or reporting requirements

When you make a donation to The Martin, we may collect information necessary to process and acknowledge your gift, maintain appropriate financial records, provide tax documentation when applicable, and communicate with you about your support.

Donor information may also be used for internal fundraising, stewardship, and reporting purposes.

We will not sell or rent our donor lists.

If donor recognition is offered publicly, donors may be given an opportunity to request anonymity where reasonably possible.

When you purchase tickets or register for an event, information related to your transaction may be collected by The Martin and/or the ticketing or payment provider used for that transaction.

We may use this information to administer your purchase, communicate important event information, provide customer service, maintain attendance records, understand audience trends, and communicate about future programs when permitted.

If you submit information related to a facility rental, volunteer opportunity, sponsorship, membership, partnership, or similar relationship with The Martin, we may retain information reasonably necessary to administer that relationship and maintain appropriate organizational records.

Some records may need to be retained after the relationship ends for financial, insurance, grant, legal, historical, or administrative purposes.

We take reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

However, no website, electronic transmission, or information storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should use reasonable care when providing personal information online.

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected and to meet legitimate organizational, financial, tax, grant, insurance, contractual, historical, or legal requirements.

Retention periods may vary depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.

The Martin serves families, schools, students, and young people through performances, educational opportunities, volunteer programs, and community events.

Our general website is not intended to knowingly collect personal information directly from children under 13 without appropriate parental or guardian involvement or consent.

If you believe a child under 13 has provided personal information to us improperly, please contact us so that we can review the situation and take appropriate action.

Our website may contain links to websites operated by artists, sponsors, community partners, ticketing providers, payment processors, social media platforms, and other third parties.

The Martin does not control these websites and is not responsible for their privacy practices or content. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party website you visit.

You may contact us to:

• Update or correct contact information you have provided to us

• Change your email communication preferences

• Unsubscribe from marketing communications

• Ask questions about information we maintain about you

• Request deletion of certain personal information, when reasonably possible and when we are not required to retain it for legal, financial, contractual, grant, insurance, or administrative purposes

The Martin may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our website, services, technology, organizational practices, or applicable laws.

When we make changes, we will update the “Last Updated” date at the top of this page.

We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically.