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Your Local Vamp Studios (YLVS) Privacy Policy

Effective Date: June 4, 2025

At Your Local Vamp Studios (YLVS), we’re passionate about creating unforgettable horror, comedy, and everything in between. We also happen to care about the privacy of your data, even if we sometimes joke about “sucking the life” out of things. This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information. It’s less thrilling than our films, but arguably more important for keeping us all out of trouble.

1. The Information We Collect (And Why We Don’t Just Use ESP)

We collect certain information to keep Your Local Vamp Studios running smoothly, creating our content, and keeping you in the loop. We promise not to use it for summoning ancient evils (unless explicitly agreed upon for a project).

A. Information You Voluntarily Provide: This is data you explicitly give us, often when you’re interacting directly with our site or services:

  • Contact Information: Names, email addresses, phone numbers (e.g., when you fill out our contact form, subscribe to our newsletter, sign up for “The Groove,” or inquire about our services).
  • Payment Information: If you purchase tickets, merchandise, or services directly from our site, we (or our secure third-party payment processors) collect necessary transaction details. Don’t worry, your credit card number won’t be turned into a prop.
  • Project Details: Information you provide when discussing potential collaborations, film projects, or event needs.
  • Performer Submissions: Data submitted by individuals looking to perform at “The Groove” (e.g., names, contact info, performance details).
  • Communications: Records of your correspondence with us (emails, messages).

B. Information We Collect Automatically (The Silent Stalkers): Like any good horror villain, our website also passively observes certain data about your visit. This is generally technical information:

  • Usage Data: Your IP address, browser type and version, operating system, pages you visited, the time and date of your visit, and how long you lingered on certain pages. This helps us understand what scares you (or makes you laugh) most on our site.
  • Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies (small data files stored on your device) and similar technologies (like web beacons) to:
    • Keep Things Working: Essential cookies help our website function properly.
    • Analyze Traffic: Understand how users navigate our site, which helps us improve your experience.
    • Remember You: For instance, if you visit us again, it might remember your preferences (though we can’t promise to remember your deepest fears).
  • Information from Other Sources: We may also receive information from third-party services like analytics providers or social media platforms if you interact with us through them.

2. How We Use Your Information

We use the collected information for various purposes, all aimed at enhancing your experience with YLVS:

  • To Provide and Maintain Our Services: This includes running our website, managing events like “The Groove,” and delivering our podcast, “Curlz & The Vamp.”
  • To Communicate with You: Responding to your inquiries, sending you updates about our films, shows, and podcast, or notifying you about upcoming events and special offers (if you’ve opted in).
  • To Process Transactions: Handling payments for tickets, merchandise, or services.
  • To Improve YLVS: Analyzing how our site is used to make it more user-friendly, entertaining, and perhaps, even more terrifying.
  • For Marketing and Promotion: Sending you relevant information about YLVS content, services, and events. You can opt-out of these communications at any time – we won’t take it personally (much).
  • To Comply with Legal Obligations: When the law calls, we answer.
  • For Security and Fraud Prevention: Protecting YLVS and our users from malicious activities.

3. How We Share Your Information (Sometimes, Even Vampires Need Allies)

We generally don’t go around selling your personal data to shady characters. However, there are instances where we share information:

  • Service Providers: We engage trusted third-party companies to perform functions on our behalf (e.g., web hosting, email service providers, payment processors, analytics providers). These entities are bound by confidentiality agreements and are only permitted to use your data for the specific services they provide to us.
  • Legal Requirements: If compelled by law, subpoena, or other valid legal processes, we may disclose your information.
  • Business Transfers: In the unlikely event of a merger, acquisition, or sale of YLVS assets (imagine our crypt being bought out!), your data may be part of the transferred assets.
  • With Your Consent: We may share your information for other purposes if you provide your explicit consent.
  • Aggregated or Anonymized Data: We may share aggregated or anonymized data (which cannot identify you personally) for various purposes, such as reporting on audience demographics.

4. Your Rights (The Silver Stakes of Your Data)

You have rights regarding your personal data, and we respect them. If you wish to exercise any of these, please contact us using the details below. We’ll do our best to respond faster than a monster chasing its victim.

  • Right to Access: You can request a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
  • Right to Rectification: If you believe any data we hold is inaccurate, you can ask us to correct it.
  • Right to Erasure (“Right to Be Forgotten”): You can request that we delete your personal data, subject to certain legal exceptions (e.g., if we need it for legal compliance).
  • Right to Object to Processing: You can object to certain ways we process your data, especially for direct marketing.
  • Right to Data Portability: You can request your data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format.
  • Opt-Out of Communications: You can unsubscribe from our marketing emails at any time by clicking the “unsubscribe” link in the email.

5. Data Security (Guarding Our Digital Coffin)

We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your personal data from unauthorized access, accidental loss, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. While no internet transmission is 100% secure, we strive to protect your data with the diligence of a vampire guarding their favorite blood type.

6. Data Retention (How Long We Keep Your Digital Dust)

We retain your personal data only for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected, including for legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. When it’s no longer needed, we’ll dispose of it responsibly, often by turning it into digital mist.

7. Children’s Privacy (No Child’s Play)

Our services are not directed to individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are a parent or guardian and believe your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us, and we will take steps to remove that information.

8. Changes to This Privacy Policy (The Ever-Evolving Tome)

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time as our practices evolve or as legal requirements change. We will post the updated policy on this page with a new “Effective Date.” We encourage you to review this policy periodically. Your continued use of our services after any changes signifies your acceptance of the updated policy.

9. Contact Us

If you have any questions, concerns, or requests regarding this Privacy Policy or your personal data, please don’t hesitate to contact us. We’re here to help, not to harvest your soul (unless it’s for a compelling character arc).

Email: @ylvstudios@gmail.com