2024 Privacy Policy

Who We Are: Dave Donoghue (doing business as The School of Guitar) – and operating at theschoolofguitar.com collects, uses, and is responsible for certain personal information about you.

Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act: This website and any products and services offered herein are not intended for persons under the age of 13. theschoolofguitar.com does not knowingly collect information from anyone under 13 years of age. theschoolofguitar.com prohibits children under the age of 13 from using all interactive portions of this website, including leaving any comments, filling out forms, or otherwise submitting information. theschoolofguitar.com will not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If theschoolofguitar.com learns it has any information or content from anyone under the age of 13, it will delete that information.

The Personal Information We Collect and Use- Information Collected by Us: May include your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information. We collect this data when you voluntarily sign up for e-mails or free gifts, register for a class or presentation, leave comments, order a service or product, fill out any type of form, access private membership pages, or otherwise contact theschoolofguitar.com via an online form or e-mail.

Information Collected from Other Sources: We may also obtain your name, e-mail, address, phone number, and/or billing information from other sources, such as Zoom, ConvertKit, Bucket, HighLevel, Searchie, ZohoMail, Stripe, Countdown Hero, Hot Jar, WebinarKit, Google Forms, Quickbooks.

How We Use Your Personal Information: theschoolofguitar.com collects such information to send e-mails, fulfill orders, deliver services and products, complete customer transactions, oversee contests and promotions, and improve website performance and customer service.

Cookies: We use cookies on theschoolofguitar.com to enhance your user experience, gather general visitor information, and track visits to our website. Cookies help us remember and process items in your shopping cart, understand and save your preferences for future visits, and compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions.

Who We Share Your Personal Information With theschoolofguitar.com respects your privacy and will never sell, trade, or transfer your personally identifiable information to third parties without your consent. We do share your information with trusted third parties who provide support in running this Website including any blog or newsletter, as well as those parties and services that help administer our business.

Whether Information Has to Be Provided by You and Why: The provision of name, address, email, delivery address, etc., is required from you to enable us to contact you for further communication, registration, or delivery of product, gifts, etc.

How Long Your Personal Information Will Be Kept: We will hold all non-client personal data until you let us know you would like for us to delete it or unsubscribe from our marketing contacts, which you are free to do at any time. We will hold all client and customer personal data in our files for six years, or until you are no longer a client or customer, whichever occurs last.

Reasons We Can Collect and Use Your Personal Information: theschoolofguitar.com collects and uses your personal information to send e-mails, fulfill orders, deliver services and products, complete customer transactions, oversee contests and promotions, and improve website performance and customer service.

Use and Transfer of Your Information Out of the EEA, UK: This website is operated in the Republic of Ireland, and third parties with whom we might share your personal information as explained above are located in the United States and Canada.

Your Rights: If you want to unsubscribe from receiving e-mails from theschoolofguitar.com, you may do so at any time. Each e-mail from theschoolofguitar.com includes instructions for unsubscribing from these e-mail communications.

Keeping Your Personal Information Secure: We have implemented generally accepted standards of technology and operational security in order to protect personally identifiable information from loss, misuse, alteration, or destruction.

Links to Other Sites: You may see advertising or other content on this website that links to the sites and services of our partners, suppliers, advertisers, sponsors, licensors, or other third parties.

Anti-Spam Policy: At theschoolofguitar.com, we have a strict anti-spam policy and comply with all regulations regarding unsolicited emails. We will not send you marketing communications unless you have explicitly opted in to receive them.

How to Complain: We hope that we can resolve any question or concern you raise about our use of your information.


Changes to This Privacy Notice: This policy is effective as of 1st January 2024. We may change, modify or update this Privacy Policy at any time and will notify you of any fundamental changes by email or postal mail. Otherwise, we will reflect any such modifications to this Privacy Policy on our website.

How to Contact Us: If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy, the information we hold about you, or you wish to change your personal information in our records, please contact Dave Donoghue at [email protected], or in writing to: Headford, Galway, Ireland.

Do You Need Extra Help? If you would like this notice in another format (for example: audio, large print, braille) please contact us.

Policy Last Updated: 1st January 2024.