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Privacy Policy

Effective date: May 6, 2026

This Privacy Policy explains how Daniel Fries Music collects, uses, and protects information from visitors and clients who use Background Music Pros at backgroundmusicpros.com, including contact forms and related online services.

Live background music for corporate events, dinners, and professional gatherings.

For privacy questions or privacy-rights requests, please use the contact form or contact link on this website.

Information We Collect

Information you provide directly

When you contact us, request availability, ask for a quote, or submit an event inquiry, we may collect information such as your name, email address, phone number, event date, start time, event type, desired musical format, venue name, city, address or general location, guest count, message content, planning details, and follow-up communication.

Please do not submit sensitive personal information unless it is necessary for your inquiry.

Information collected automatically

When you visit this website, some information may be collected automatically by our web servers, hosting providers, analytics tools, anti-spam tools, and browser technologies. This may include IP address, browser and device information, operating system, referring page or search source, pages visited, date and time of visit, approximate location derived from IP address, cookie identifiers or similar browser identifiers, and security or anti-spam signals.

Contact Forms and Event Inquiries

This website uses contact forms so prospective clients can inquire about music for weddings, corporate events, private parties, winery events, memorials, cultural programs, and other performances. Information submitted through a contact form may be sent to Daniel Fries Music by email and may be reviewed in internal tools used to respond to inquiries, estimate availability, plan logistics, and prepare quotes.

To help prepare appropriate quotes and logistics, we may consider information such as event location, venue type, travel distance, event timing, desired ensemble size, guest count, phone area code, approximate IP-derived location, and publicly available location or market context. Quote recommendations are reviewed by Daniel Fries Music; we do not use these tools to make fully automated legally significant decisions about you.

How We Use Information

We do not use contact-form information to send unrelated mass marketing emails.

Cookies, Analytics, and Similar Technologies

Some Daniel Fries Music websites use cookies, scripts, pixels, or similar technologies to operate forms, protect against spam, measure site traffic, and understand how visitors find and use our pages.

Current known categories include essential form, session, CSRF, and security technologies; analytics technologies, including Google Analytics on many sites; spam-prevention technologies, including Google reCAPTCHA on some forms and pages; and embedded third-party content or widgets, such as YouTube videos, Yelp badges, maps, or Facebook/Meta page widgets on pages where those are included.

We do not intend to use advertising pixels, retargeting pixels, or behavioral advertising cookies on the Daniel Fries Music guitar-business sites unless they are specifically disclosed and any legally required notice, consent, or opt-out mechanism is provided.

Google Analytics

Many of our websites use Google Analytics. Google Analytics helps us understand website traffic, including pages visited, approximate location, device/browser information, and referral sources. Google Analytics may use cookies or similar technologies to collect information about website activity. We do not intentionally send names, email addresses, phone numbers, or contact-form message contents to Google Analytics.

You can learn more about how Google uses information from sites and apps that use Google services at policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites. Google also provides a browser add-on for opting out of Google Analytics at tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

Google reCAPTCHA

Some forms and pages use Google reCAPTCHA to help protect against spam and abuse. reCAPTCHA may collect hardware, software, browser, device, and interaction information and send it to Google for analysis. Use of reCAPTCHA is subject to Google's Privacy Policy and Terms of Service.

Other embedded services

Some pages may include embedded or linked third-party content, such as maps, videos, booking/contact tools, review links, music platforms, or social/media websites. Pages with YouTube videos, Yelp review badges, Google Maps, or Facebook/Meta page widgets may cause those third parties to receive information such as your IP address, browser/device information, the page you visited, and interactions with the embedded content.

Cookie Choices and Browser Privacy Signals

You can usually configure your browser to block, delete, or limit cookies. Blocking some cookies or scripts may affect contact forms, spam protection, maps, videos, or other site features.

Where legally required, and where technically supported by the tools on a site, we will honor applicable browser-based opt-out preference signals, such as Global Privacy Control, for activities that constitute a sale or sharing of personal information under applicable privacy law.

At this time, our intent is not to sell personal information or share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. If we add advertising pixels, retargeting technologies, or similar tools in the future, we will update this policy and provide any legally required opt-out or consent mechanism before using them.

Service Providers

We may use trusted service providers to operate the websites and business systems, including providers for website hosting and security, domain and DNS services, contact-form processing, email delivery and hosting, analytics, spam prevention and security, embedded media/maps/social/review widgets, customer inquiry review, business operations, and contract, scheduling, or payment administration when applicable.

Sharing of Information

We may share information with musicians, contractors, or collaborators when needed to plan or perform an event; with service providers who help operate our websites and business systems; with venues, planners, or other event contacts when you ask us to coordinate with them or when coordination is necessary for the event; to comply with legal obligations or valid legal process; or to protect our rights, safety, property, clients, websites, or business operations.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising as that term is commonly used in California privacy law.

Text Messages and Phone Calls

If you provide a phone number, we may call or text you about your inquiry, quote, booking, event logistics, or related follow-up. Message and data rates may apply. You can ask us to stop texting you at any time.

Data Retention

We keep information for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy, including responding to inquiries, maintaining business records, resolving disputes, managing contracts, complying with legal and tax obligations, and improving our services. Inquiry emails and related business records may be retained for an extended period because event planning, repeat bookings, tax records, insurance, contract history, and client service sometimes require historical context. We may delete or de-identify information when it is no longer needed.

Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information. No website, email system, or internet transmission is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security. If you believe you sent information to us in error or have a security concern, please use the contact form or contact link on this website.

Your Choices

You may choose not to submit a contact form, contact us by phone or email instead of using a web form, ask us to update or correct your contact information, ask us to delete inquiry information subject to legal and legitimate business record needs, use browser settings to block or delete cookies, and use Google's Analytics opt-out browser add-on. To make a privacy request, please use the contact form or contact link on this website.

California Privacy Notice

This section applies to California residents. Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect identifiers, customer records information, internet or network activity information, approximate geolocation information, commercial information, and inferences or business context used for quoting and logistics.

We collect this information from you directly, from your device/browser, from service providers, from event planners or other contacts you ask us to work with, and from publicly available sources when useful for event planning or quoting. We use this information for the business purposes described above, including responding to inquiries, preparing quotes, providing event music services, preventing spam, maintaining security, and keeping business records.

We do not sell personal information. We do not share personal information for cross-context behavioral advertising. California residents may have the right to request access to, correction of, or deletion of personal information, and the right not to be discriminated against for exercising privacy rights. To make a request, please use the contact form or contact link on this website. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

Visitors from the EEA, UK, or Switzerland

If you visit from the European Economic Area, the United Kingdom, or Switzerland, privacy and cookie laws may give you additional rights. Where legally required, we will rely on your consent for non-essential cookies or similar technologies. You may withdraw consent or control cookies through your browser settings or any consent tools made available on the website.

Children's Privacy

Our websites are intended for adults planning events and are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you believe a child provided personal information to us, contact us and we will take appropriate steps to delete it.

Links to Other Websites

Our websites may link to third-party websites, including venues, review platforms, music platforms, social media sites, maps, videos, and related resources. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those third-party websites.

Changes to This Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The effective date at the top of the policy indicates when it was last updated. Material updates will be posted on this privacy-policy page.