Privacy Policy

Privacy policy for the Virginia Beach International Carnival Association

The Virginia Beach International Carnival Association (VBICA) is devoted to preserving and promoting multiculturalism through its annual celebration of the Carnival. As an organization committed to ensuring the privacy and security of its participants, performers, employees, and website users, VBICA recognizes the significance of an effective privacy policy.

This privacy policy outlines the types of personal information collected by VBICA and the measures taken to protect such information. It also encapsulates how the collected data is utilized, shared, and stored. The policy adheres to both state and federal privacy laws. VBICA is committed to maintaining the confidentiality and security of all personal information gathered during registration, ticket purchases, and event participation.

Certain information is collected during the registration process, including names, contact details, and demographic information. This data is essential for communication purposes and to ensure a personalized experience for our participants and attendees. Rest assured that we will never share personal data with any unauthorized individuals or third parties, except as required by law.

VBICA employs technological measures to protect the personal information collected and actively strives to maintain its security and integrity. Any unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction of data is strictly prohibited, and VBICA regularly reviews and updates its security practices and systems.

The information we collect is used to improve the content of our web page, to customize the content and/or layout of our page for each individual visitor, to notify consumers about updates to our website, disclosed when legally required to do so, at the request of governmental authorities conducting an investigation, to verify or enforce compliance with the policies governing our website and applicable laws or to protect against misuse or unauthorized use of our website.

COOKIES – HOW WE USE THEM

A cookie is a small file sent to your browser from our web server to be stored temporarily on your computer. A cookie cannot grant access to your computer. We use cookies to store visitors preferences, record session information, customize web page content based on visitors’ browser type or other information that the visitor sends. You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies to provide you with the best possible web browsing experience. You can modify your browser settings to decline cookies at any time by visiting your settings on your preferred browser.

ONLINE ADVERTISING

We may also use these cookies to display ads to you. We utilize Google Adwords Remarketing to advertise to you across the internet. Adwords Remarketing will display relevant ads specifically made for you based on the information you have chosen to share with us. It is important to note that these cookies do not provide us with any identifiable information or grant us access to your computer.

In its simplest terms, a cookie says “This person visited this page/item, so show them an ad relating to this page.”

HOW TO OPT OUT

If you do not want to 

participate in our Remarketing campaigns, you can opt out by visiting 

Google Ads Preferences Manager (https://www.google.com/settings/ads/onweb/)

. You can also opt out of any third-party vendor’s use of cookies by visiting 

Network Advertising Choices (http://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/)

Read more about the

AdWords requirements on the AdWords support page. (https://support.google.com/adwords/answer/2549063)