Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 1, 2026
Last Updated: August 19, 2026

1. Introduction

Joe Metzer provides private trumpet instruction to students and adults in the Tulsa, Oklahoma area. This Privacy Policy explains how Joe Metzer, referred to as "Joe Metzer," "we," "us," or "our," collects, uses, shares, and protects information when you visit this website, contact us, or purchase a lesson package.

By using this website or submitting information through it, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.

2. Information We Collect

Information You Provide

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide, including:

  • Your first and last name
  • Your email address
  • Your telephone number
  • The name of the person who will take the lessons
  • The student's school, if you choose to provide it
  • Lesson-related notes or questions that you choose to provide
  • The lesson package selected, order date, order amount, and order status
  • Your selected offline payment method, such as Venmo, check, or cash
  • Messages and other information you provide when you contact us by website form, email, telephone, or another communication method

Please provide only information that is reasonably necessary for lesson planning, scheduling, payment coordination, or communication. Do not submit Social Security numbers, government identification numbers, account passwords, financial account numbers, medical records, or other highly sensitive information through this website or its optional notes field.

Information Collected Automatically

When you use the website, our website, hosting provider, and site software may automatically process limited technical information, such as:

  • Internet Protocol address
  • Browser type and device type
  • Operating system
  • Date and time of access
  • Referring page and pages requested
  • Shopping cart and checkout session information
  • Cookie or similar identifier information
  • Security, diagnostic, and server log information

This information is used to operate the website, maintain cart and checkout functions, prevent abuse, diagnose problems, and protect the website.

3. Payment Information

The website currently offers offline payment selections for Venmo, check, and cash. The website does not request or store payment card numbers, bank account numbers, Venmo passwords, or Venmo login credentials.

Selecting a payment method tells Joe how you intend to pay. Payment is coordinated separately after the lesson schedule is confirmed. If you use Venmo, your use of the Venmo service is governed by Venmo's own terms and privacy practices. The website does not automatically transmit your order information to Venmo.

4. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

  • Process and maintain lesson orders
  • Confirm lesson availability, schedule, and Tulsa-area meeting location
  • Communicate with students, parents, guardians, or adult customers
  • Coordinate the selected offline payment method
  • Provide trumpet instruction and related customer support
  • Maintain business, accounting, tax, and transaction records
  • Send order confirmations, service messages, and other necessary communications
  • Improve the website and lesson purchase experience
  • Detect, investigate, and prevent fraud, misuse, security incidents, or technical problems
  • Comply with legal obligations and protect our legal rights

We will not use a student's name, school, or lesson notes for unrelated advertising without appropriate permission.

5. Cookies and Similar Technologies

The website uses cookies and similar technologies that are necessary for core site functions. These may support shopping cart contents, checkout sessions, security, preferences, and website performance.

We do not currently intend to use personal information for targeted advertising, and we do not sell browsing information. If analytics, advertising, or additional tracking tools are added in the future, this Privacy Policy and any required cookie choices should be updated before those tools are enabled.

You can control cookies through your browser settings. Blocking necessary cookies may prevent the shopping cart, checkout, or other website features from working correctly.

6. How We Share Information

We may share information only as reasonably necessary with:

  • Website hosting, content management, ecommerce, checkout, email delivery, security, backup, and technical support providers
  • Professional advisers, such as accountants, attorneys, or insurers, when reasonably necessary
  • Government authorities, courts, or other parties when required by law, legal process, or a valid request
  • A successor or acquiring party in connection with a merger, sale, transfer, reorganization, or other change involving the business, subject to applicable law

Service providers may include the website host, WordPress, WooCommerce, FunnelKit, and the provider used to deliver website email. These providers may process information on our behalf to provide their services.

We do not sell or rent personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising.

7. Information About Students and Minors

This website is intended to be used by adults, including parents or legal guardians purchasing lessons for a minor. A parent or legal guardian should complete the checkout and provide information for any student under 18.

We do not knowingly request or collect personal information directly from children under 13. A parent or legal guardian may provide limited information about a child, such as the child's name, school, and lesson-related needs, for the purpose of arranging and providing instruction.

Children under 13 should not submit forms, place orders, or contact us through the website on their own. If we learn that personal information was submitted directly by a child under 13 without appropriate parental involvement, we will take reasonable steps to delete it. A parent or guardian may contact us using the information below to request access to, correction of, or deletion of information concerning their child.

8. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, including providing lessons, maintaining customer and order records, resolving disputes, meeting accounting and tax obligations, enforcing agreements, and complying with law.

Order records may be retained for applicable business, accounting, tax, and legal periods. Lesson notes and optional information should be deleted or anonymized when they are no longer reasonably needed. Information may remain for a limited time in secure backups before those backups are overwritten or deleted.

9. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and physical safeguards designed to protect personal information. These measures may include access controls, secure website connections, software updates, backups, and reputable service providers.

No website, transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed completely secure. You should avoid sending sensitive information that we do not request. If a security incident requires notice under applicable law, we will provide notice as required.

10. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

Depending on applicable law and where you live, you may have the right to:

  • Ask whether we maintain personal information about you
  • Request access to or a copy of your personal information
  • Request correction of inaccurate information
  • Request deletion of eligible information
  • Withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
  • Opt out of promotional email communications
  • Ask questions about how information is used or shared

We may need to verify your identity before completing a request. We may retain information when required or permitted for order records, taxes, fraud prevention, legal compliance, disputes, or other legitimate business purposes.

To make a privacy request, contact us at Dalton@Metzermarketing.com. Please include enough information for us to understand and respond to the request. We will respond within the period required by applicable law.

We do not discriminate against anyone for exercising an applicable privacy right.

11. External Websites and Services

The website may link to third-party websites or services. We are not responsible for the privacy, security, or content practices of those third parties. Review the privacy policy of any third-party service before providing information to it.

12. United States Processing

This website and the lesson business are based in the United States. Information may be stored or processed in the United States and in other locations where our service providers operate. Those locations may have different privacy laws than the location where you live.

13. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy when our services, website tools, payment options, or legal obligations change. The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised Last Updated date. Material changes may also be communicated by another reasonable method when required.

14. Contact Us

For questions, concerns, or privacy requests, contact:

Dalton Metzer
Dalton@Metzermarketing.com
918-231-7151
Tulsa, Oklahoma