Effective Date: July 30, 2024
Last Updated: October 1, 2025
At Funkara Fest and Retreat at Hope Farm, we value your trust. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, and protect your information when you use our websites, subscribe to our newsletters, engage with our social media feeds, or purchase tickets, products, or services.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect the following types of information when you interact with our websites or social media feeds:
- Personal Information: Name, email, phone number, billing/shipping address, and payment details when you purchase tickets, apply as a vendor, sponsor, or artist, or subscribe to our newsletter.
- Account & Profile Information: If you create an account, we store your login details and profile preferences.
- Usage Data: IP address, browser type, device information, location (general), pages visited, and time spent on site.
- Social Media Interactions: When you engage with us on TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, X/Twitter, or other platforms, we may receive publicly available information such as your username, profile photo, and interactions (likes, comments, shares).
- Cookies & Tracking Technologies: We use cookies, pixels, and tracking scripts to improve user experience and for marketing/advertising purposes.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the information collected to:
- Process ticket purchases, vendor applications, sponsorship agreements, and artist submissions.
- Send newsletters, updates, and marketing communications (with your consent).
- Provide customer service and respond to inquiries.
- Improve our websites, event experience, and online content.
- Run advertising and retargeting campaigns on platforms such as TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, Google, and others.
- Track engagement across social feeds and optimize content delivery.
3. Sharing of Information
We do not sell your personal data. However, we may share your information with:
- Service Providers: Payment processors, ticketing systems (WooCommerce, Eventbrite), email marketing tools, and hosting services.
- Advertising Partners: Platforms such as TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and Google may collect or receive information to deliver targeted ads and measure campaign performance.
- Legal Requirements: If required by law or to protect our legal rights, event safety, or comply with government regulations.
4. Social Media Feeds & Integrations
Our websites may display live feeds or plugins from TikTok, Pinterest, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and X/Twitter.
- By interacting with these feeds, your data may also be processed by those platforms under their own privacy policies.
- These platforms may use cookies and tracking technologies, even if you don’t actively engage with the feed.
- Please review the privacy policies of each platform for details:
5. Cookies & Tracking
We use cookies and tracking pixels to:
- Improve site functionality and user experience.
- Measure performance of social media campaigns.
- Run retargeting ads on TikTok, Pinterest, and other platforms.
- Provide analytics to better understand audience behavior.
You can manage or disable cookies in your browser settings, but certain website features may not function properly.
6. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have rights including:
- Accessing the personal data we hold about you.
- Requesting corrections or deletion of your data.
- Opting out of marketing communications at any time (unsubscribe link provided in all emails).
- Managing cookie and tracking preferences through browser or ad settings.
To exercise these rights, contact us at: [Insert Contact Email]
7. Data Security
We take appropriate technical and organizational measures to safeguard your data against loss, theft, or unauthorized access. However, no online transmission is 100% secure.
8. Children’s Privacy
Our websites and events are not intended for children under 13 without parental consent. We do not knowingly collect personal data from minors.
9. Updates to This Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as our services evolve or in response to legal requirements. Changes will be posted here with a new effective date.
10. Contact Us
If you have questions about this Privacy Policy or how your data is used, please contact us:
Funkara Fest / Retreat at Hope Farm
Email: [email protected]
Website: https://funkarafest.com
