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Privacy Policy

Last Updated: October 4, 2025

Scope. This Privacy Policy applies to the course site mct.hestaprynn.com and related course communications. For the main site hestaprynn.com please see the policy posted there. This course is educational and coaching content. It is not therapy and this policy is not a HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.

1. Who We Are

Julie Potash Slavin, LMFT, also known as DJ Hesta Prynn, operates the Music Connection Therapy course site at mct.hestaprynn.com ("we," "us," "our"). We are the data controller for personal information collected through this site.

2. Information We Collect

A. You Provide

  • Account and Profile Data: Name, email, password, timezone, and preferences when you create a course account.
  • Purchase and Billing Data: Billing name, email, and payment details processed by our payment partners. We do not store full card numbers on our servers.
  • Course Activity: Progress, lesson views, quiz responses, worksheet uploads, notes you save, completion dates, and certificates.
  • Community and Support: Comments you post, messages you send to us, help requests, and testimonials you submit.
  • Marketing Choices: Opt-ins to email or SMS, and your communication preferences.

B. Automatically Collected

  • Usage Data: IP address, device and browser type, pages viewed, referring URLs, session duration, and clicks within the course platform.
  • Cookies and Similar Technologies: Essential cookies for sign-in and security, analytics cookies to improve the site, and marketing pixels if you consent. See Section 5.

3. Where the Data Comes From

  • The course platform: We host the course on a third-party learning platform that provides account, video, and progress features.
  • Video and audio hosting: We embed players that may set their own cookies.
  • Music embeds: We may embed playlists or tracks. These services may collect data per their policies.
  • Payment processing: Your payment is handled by a secure processor.
  • Email and SMS: We may send course emails or texts through our platform provider or an integrated tool.

4. How We Use Your Information

  • Provide the course: Create and manage your account, deliver content, track progress, issue completions, and provide support.
  • Process transactions: Handle purchases, receipts, refunds, and fraud prevention.
  • Improve the experience: Diagnose issues, analyze lessons that perform well, and enhance features.
  • Communicate: Send transactional emails about your account and course. If you opt in, send tips and offers that support your learning.
  • Safety and compliance: Enforce terms, protect our rights, and comply with legal obligations.

5. Cookies, Analytics, and Advertising

We use essential cookies so the site works, plus analytics and marketing technologies to understand usage and, if you consent, to personalize communications.

  • Essential: Required for sign-in, security, and core features.
  • Analytics: Helps us understand which lessons and pages are most useful.
  • Marketing: Email performance tracking and pixels for our own advertising. These run only with your consent where required.

You can manage preferences using the site’s cookie banner and your browser settings.

6. Lawful Bases for Processing

  • Contract: To provide the course you purchased or registered for.
  • Consent: For non-essential cookies, marketing emails or SMS. You can withdraw consent at any time.
  • Legitimate Interests: To run, secure, and improve the site, and to understand course performance.
  • Legal Obligation: To keep records for tax, accounting, and compliance.

7. Sharing and Disclosure

We do not sell your personal information. We share it only with:

  • Service Providers: Course platform, payment processors, email and SMS tools, video and analytics providers. They may access personal data to perform services for us under contract.
  • Legal and Safety: If required by law, court order, or to protect our rights or users.
  • Community Visibility: If you post comments or share content in community areas, other enrolled users may see what you post.

8. Data Retention

  • Account and Course Data: Kept while your account is active and for a reasonable period after, so you can access purchases and we can maintain records.
  • Purchase Records: Kept as required for tax and accounting.
  • Marketing Data: Kept until you unsubscribe or request deletion.

9. Your Rights and Choices

  • Access, correct, delete: You may request a copy of your data, ask us to fix inaccuracies, or request deletion.
  • Opt out of marketing: Use the unsubscribe link in emails, reply STOP to SMS, or update preferences in your account.
  • Cookies: Adjust preferences in the banner and your browser settings.

California Residents (CCPA/CPRA)

You have the right to know, delete, correct, and to opt out of cross-context behavioral advertising that qualifies as “sharing.” We do not sell personal information. If we use advertising technologies that qualify as “sharing,” you can opt out through the cookie banner.

EEA, UK, and Switzerland (GDPR)

You may request data portability and lodge a complaint with your local supervisory authority. We will honor valid data subject requests within applicable timelines.

10. Children’s Privacy

This site is not directed to children under 13, or under 16 in the EEA or UK. We do not knowingly collect data from children. If we learn we have collected such data, we will delete it.

11. Health Information

This course is not a clinical service and this policy does not cover Protected Health Information. Do not submit sensitive health details in course comments or uploads. If you become a therapy client, you will receive a separate HIPAA Notice of Privacy Practices.

12. International Data Transfers

We are based in the United States. If you access the site from another region, your data may be transferred to and processed in the United States and other countries where our providers operate.

13. Security

We use reasonable safeguards to protect personal information. No method of transmission or storage is fully secure. Keep your password private and use a unique password for this site.

14. Changes to This Policy

We may update this policy to reflect changes to our practices or the law. We will post a revised date and, if changes are material, we will provide additional notice.

15. Contact Us

To exercise your rights or ask questions, contact us through the help or contact link inside your course account or via the contact page at hestaprynn.com. Include “Privacy Request” in your message and the email address tied to your course account.