Privacy Policy
Last updated: June 8th, 2026
Who we are
Our website address is: https://lessonswithshana.com.
Lessons With Shana provides music education resources, blog posts, videos, digital products, and related educational content for music teachers, singers, pianists, and students.
Comments
When visitors leave comments on this site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, as well as the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help with spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address, also called a hash, may be provided to the Gravatar service to see whether you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available at https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture may be visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to this website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data, such as EXIF GPS data. Visitors to the website may be able to download and extract location data from images on the website.
Cookies
This website may use cookies to improve your experience, remember preferences, analyze site traffic, prevent spam, and display advertising.
If you leave a comment on this site, you may opt in to saving your name, email address, and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so you do not need to fill in your details again when leaving another comment. These cookies may last for one year.
If you visit the login page, a temporary cookie may be set to determine whether your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When a user logs in, additional cookies may be used to save login information and screen display choices. Login cookies usually last for two days, and screen options cookies may last for a year. If “Remember Me” is selected, the login may persist for two weeks. When a user logs out, login cookies are removed.
If an article is edited or published, an additional cookie may be saved in the browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article that was edited. It expires after one day.
Advertising and Google AdSense
This website may use Google AdSense and other advertising services to display ads.
Third-party vendors, including Google, may use cookies to serve ads based on a user’s previous visits to this website and/or other websites. Google’s use of advertising cookies enables Google and its partners to serve ads to users based on their visits to this site and other sites on the internet.
Users may opt out of personalized advertising by visiting Google’s Ads Settings. Users may also learn more about how Google uses data from partner sites by visiting Google’s Privacy & Terms pages.
Where required by law, visitors may be shown a consent message asking them to accept, decline, or manage advertising cookies and related privacy choices.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content, such as videos, images, articles, or links. Embedded content from other websites behaves in the same way as if the visitor had visited the other website directly.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content. This may include tracking your interaction with embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Email lists, forms, and purchases
If you sign up for an email list, complete a form, register for an event, or purchase a product or service through this website, we may collect information such as your name, email address, billing details, and any information you choose to provide.
This information is used to communicate with you, provide the product or service requested, process payments, send updates, and manage customer support.
Payment information may be processed by third-party payment providers. This website does not store full credit card details.
Who we share your data with
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Information may also be shared with trusted third-party services used to operate this website, process payments, deliver email newsletters, analyze traffic, display ads, or provide embedded content. These services only receive the information necessary to perform their functions.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata may be retained indefinitely. This helps recognize and approve follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users who register on the website, if any, we store the personal information they provide in their user profile. Users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time, except they cannot change their username. Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
Information submitted through forms, purchases, or email sign-ups may be retained as long as necessary for business, legal, tax, administrative, or communication purposes.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, have left comments, signed up through a form, or made a purchase, you may request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including data you have provided.
You may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include data we are required to keep for administrative, legal, tax, security, or compliance purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Data may also be processed through third-party services used for website hosting, analytics, email delivery, advertising, embedded content, payment processing, and spam protection.
Contact
For privacy-related questions, you can contact us at:
