Privacy and Cookies

This website is published by Patrons of Exceptional Artists, Inc., a 501(c)(3) publicly supported foundation established in 1997, which presents the Miami International Piano Festival. In this policy, “we” and “the Festival” mean that organization.

You can write to us at 20191 E. Country Club Drive, Suite 709, Aventura, FL 33180, United States, or by email at info@miamipianofest.com. Email is the quickest way to reach us about anything in this policy.

It covers miamipianofest.com and nothing else. When you follow a link from here to buy a ticket, make a donation or visit us on social media, you leave this site and the privacy policy of that other company applies. Those companies are named further down.

If you sign up for our newsletter, we keep what you type into the form — your name, your ZIP code and your email address — together with the fact that you ticked the consent box, the date and time you did it, and which page of the site you signed up from. Nothing else, and nothing is required beyond those three fields.

When you simply read the site, our server records the request, as any web server does: your IP address, the date and time, the page you asked for, the page you came from, and which browser you used. We use these records to keep the site running securely and to count how many people visit and what they read. We look at them in aggregate; we do not use them to build a profile of you.

There is no account to create on this site, no payment is taken here, and nothing you do is tracked from one visit to the next.

This website sets no cookies. Not one — not for analytics, not for preferences, not for anything. There is no cookie banner here because there is nothing to consent to.

We know how many people visit and what they read from the records our own server keeps, described above. Those need no cookie and identify nobody. Until August 2026 this site used Google Analytics; we removed it, because our own server records tell us what we need to know without following anyone around.

One exception, on one page. Close Encounters with our Artists has a video embedded from YouTube. If you open that page, YouTube and the service that frames it, Embedly, may set cookies of their own, under their policies and not ours. No other page on this site loads anything from another company.

We keep your newsletter details because you asked us to — you filled in the form and ticked the box, and you can undo that whenever you like.

We keep server records because we have a legitimate interest in keeping the site secure and in knowing how it is used. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom, those are the legal bases under the GDPR.

We do not sell, rent or trade your information. It is seen by:

• The company that hosts this website for us. The server is in Germany, which means information about your visit is handled outside the United States.
• Constant Contact, the service we use to send the newsletter. If you sign up, your name and email address are added there so that we can write to you.
• YouTube and Embedly, but only if you open the one page that has a video on it, as explained under Cookies.

And, when you choose to follow a link, by the company on the other side of it: Ticketmaster for concert tickets, PayPal for donations, Eventbrite for some events, and YouTube, Facebook and Instagram for our channels. We never see your card details.

Newsletter details: until you ask us to remove them. Every email we send includes a link to unsubscribe, and you can also just write to us — we will then remove you both from our own records and from Constant Contact.

Server records: kept for up to 400 days, so that a year can be compared with the year before, and then deleted.

Write to info@miamipianofest.com and we will:

• tell you what we hold about you;
• correct anything that is wrong;
• delete it;
• take you off the newsletter.

We answer within a month. If you are in the European Union or the United Kingdom you also have the right to object to how we use your information, to ask for a copy of it in a portable form, and to complain to your national data protection authority.

This site is not directed at children under 13 and we do not knowingly collect their information. If you believe a child has signed up, write to us and we will remove the record.

If we change it, we will change the date at the top of this page. If the change is significant — a new service that collects something new — we will say so on the site.