Effective Date: January 2026
Lake Geneva Humanities Festival values the trust you have placed in us. As part of our relationship, we recognize and respect your privacy. We are committed to protecting your privacy and using the information you share responsibly. Our Privacy Policy describes the information we collect about you, why and how we use it, and your choices regarding such information.
The Lake Geneva Humanities Festival website (https://lghumanities.org) is owned and operated by the Lake Geneva Humanities Festival, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization, located at PO Box 262, Lake Geneva, WI 53147. By visiting the Site, you confirm your agreement to the policies described here. If you do not agree or consent, please discontinue using our services. The Lake Geneva Humanities Festival encourages you to periodically review our Privacy Policy to understand our privacy practices.
COLLECTION OF INFORMATION
We obtain, store, use and transfer different kinds of personal information you provide via various channels and other automated means (such as cookies, web beacons, pixels, tags, web server logs and other technologies). These get captured when you visit our website, register for events, make donations, update your profile, access our content, interact with our emails, participate in a survey, contact customer support, volunteer with us, and interact with other Lake Geneva Humanities Festival-related content, tools, widgets or plug-ins. We may also receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources.
Information Provided By You
Identity Data: Information such as your first name, last name, username, gender, date of birth and similar identifiers.
Contact Data: Includes your name, email address, mailing address, contact number and other similar details provided via chat, customer support, event registration, donations, or volunteer inquiries.
Demographic Information: Details such as your age, gender, location and similar identifiers.
Login Credentials: Information related to your password, authentication and account access if you create an account on our website.
Donation Data: Information related to donations made to the organization, including donation amount, date, and payment method. Financial account information (such as bank account or credit card details) is processed securely by third-party payment processors and is not stored on our systems.
Event Registration Data: Includes ticket purchases, event preferences, dietary restrictions, accessibility needs, and attendance information.
Volunteer Information: Information provided when you volunteer with us, including availability, skills, experience, and background information as appropriate.
Content: Includes all content you have shared with us, such as feedback, surveys, event reviews, photographs, communications or questions.
Information Collected Automatically
The Lake Geneva Humanities Festival automatically collects information about your device and how it interacts with us. Some examples include:
User Behavior Data: Includes information about pages visited, features used, emails viewed, the time of day you browse and other similar information.
Device Data: Includes information regarding the type of device or browser you use, your device’s operating software, your internet service provider, your device’s regional and language settings and other similar information. It also includes details regarding your device’s IP address.
Marketing and Communication Data: Comprises your preferences in receiving marketing content, event announcements, and organizational updates from us.
Information Collected Through Tracking Technologies
Web Logs: We automatically collect information, such as your IP address, browser type and language, and the date and time of your visit, which helps us track your movements around our site.
Cookies and Pixels: We use electronic images known as pixels and cookies. Cookies are bits of information automatically stored on your computer’s hard drive to recognize your preferences and make browsing easier. When you access our website or an email that contains a pixel, it may permit us to read cookies on your browser.
USE OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
The Lake Geneva Humanities Festival may use the information we collect about you for the following purposes:
- Manage your event registrations and provide requested services
- Confirm your registration and send ticket information
- Process donations and provide donor recognition
- Respond to your comments, questions and inquiries
- Review your information for accuracy
- Prevent or take action regarding illegal activities, including suspected fraud
- Improve our services and event offerings, and develop new programs
- Improve marketing and promotional efforts and overall attendee experience
- Identify your interests and event preferences
- Offer you personalized event recommendations
- Understand attendee demographics and behavior
- Administer and fulfill contests and other promotions
- Contact you regarding events and programming that we believe may be of interest to you
- Fulfill any other purpose disclosed to you and with your consent
SHARING OF INFORMATION COLLECTED
We may share your information as follows:
Service Providers: We may use third-party service providers to perform certain services, including event ticketing, payment processing, email communications, website hosting and analytics.
Analytics Providers: We use analytics services to understand how visitors use our website and to improve our online services. Personal information is anonymized or pseudonymized before transmission to these providers.
Compliance With Law and Fraud Protection: We may disclose your information as we deem necessary, in our sole discretion, to comply with any applicable law, regulation, legal process or governmental request. We also may share your information in order to investigate illegal activities, including suspected fraud, or as otherwise required by law.
Business Transfer: We reserve the right to transfer personal information we have about you, if we decide to sell or transfer all or a portion of our organization or assets (including in the event of a merger, acquisition, reorganization, or dissolution).
DATA SECURITY
We use a combination of administrative, physical and electronic security technologies, procedures and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use or disclosure. While we strive to safeguard your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you disclose to us. The security of your personal data is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee its complete protection against all threats.
CHILDREN’S PRIVACY
This website is not intended for use by children. We are committed to protecting the privacy of children and do not knowingly collect any personal information from children below the age of 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 years of age, we will promptly delete the information.
DURATION OF INFORMATION RETENTION
We retain your information for as long as it takes to accomplish the goals for which we gathered it, such as to provide services you request, to meet legal, accounting, or reporting requirements, to prove or refute legal claims, to prevent fraud and for other purposes allowed by law. When we no longer need your personal information, we will either securely destroy it, delete it, anonymize it or take other steps to de-identify it.
LINKS TO NON-LGHF SITES AND SERVICES
Our website may contain links to non-Lake Geneva Humanities Festival websites, apps and services that may be operated by other organizations. These organizations may have their own privacy policies and we recommend that you review these policies. We are not responsible for the privacy policies and practices of non-Lake Geneva Humanities Festival websites, apps or services.
UPDATES TO THE PRIVACY POLICY
We will revise and update this Privacy Policy whenever deemed necessary and the changes will be posted on the website along with an updated Effective Date, and we reserve the right to do so at any time. For any significant updates, we will take appropriate measures to inform our website visitors and program participants.
CONTACT US
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, or if you would like us to update the information we have about you, please contact us via the following:
By Email: info@LGHumanities.org
By Phone: 630.244.1486
By Mail: Lake Geneva Humanities Festival PO Box 262, Lake Geneva, WI 53147