Effective Date: November 15, 2025
This Privacy Policy describes how Black Volume (“we,” “us,” or “our”) collects, uses, and shares your personal information when you use our website, attend our events, purchase our products, or engage with our services.
1. Information We Collect
We collect information that identifies, relates to, describes, or is capable of being associated with you (“Personal Data”).
A. Information You Provide to Us:
- Contact Information: Name, email address, mobile number, and current location, primarily collected during membership registration, event sign-ups, or newsletter subscriptions.
- Demographic Data: Date of birth, used for age verification or segmentation for relevant events.
- Creative Profile: Your primary creative field, links to your portfolio or social media, and your stated creative goals, collected through the membership form.
- Transaction Data: Details of products or services you have purchased from our website or at our events (e.g., workshop tickets, merchandise).
B. Information Collected Automatically:
- Usage Data: Information about how you access and use our website, including your IP address, browser type, pages viewed, and the time and date of your visit.
- Cookies and Tracking Technologies: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to monitor activity and improve our service.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the Personal Data we collect for the following purposes:
- To Provide Services: To manage your Black Volume membership, process event registrations, and fulfill orders from our shop.
- Communication: To send you updates, event schedules, newsletters, and promotional materials related to Black Volume activities (if consent is given).
- Improvement: To analyze usage data to improve our workshops, events, products, and overall service offerings.
- Customization: To personalize content, products, and services based on your creative profile and interests.
3. Sharing Your Information
We do not sell your Personal Data. We may share your information in the following circumstances:
- With Service Providers: We may share data with third-party vendors who perform services on our behalf, such as payment processing, website hosting, and email delivery. These providers are obligated to protect your data.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a court or government agency).
- With Your Consent: We may share your information for any other purpose disclosed to you, provided we have obtained your consent.
4. Data Security and Retention
We implement commercially reasonable technical and organizational measures to protect your Personal Data from accidental loss and unauthorized access. We will retain your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy.
5. Your Rights
Depending on your location, you may have the right to:
- Access the Personal Data we hold about you.
- Correct inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Withdraw consent for marketing communications at any time by following the unsubscribe link in our emails or contacting us directly.
- Request Deletion of your Personal Data, subject to certain legal obligations.
BLACK VOLUME TERMS AND CONDITIONS
Effective Date: November 12, 2025
Welcome to Black Volume. These Terms and Conditions (“Terms”) govern your access to and use of Black Volume’s website, events, workshops, products, and services. By accessing or using our services, you agree to be bound by these Terms.
1. Acceptance of Terms
By becoming a member, registering for an event, or otherwise engaging with Black Volume, you confirm that you are at least 18 years old or, if a minor, have received parental or guardian consent to use our services. If you disagree with any part of the Terms, then you may not access the Service.
2. Services and Membership
A. Scope of Services: Black Volume provides services focused on redefining careers through creative endeavors, including:
- Workshops and educational content.
- Creative networking events, social gatherings, and art markets.
- Sale of creative merchandise and publications (“Shop”).
- Community platforms and online resources.
B. Membership: Membership may require the payment of a fee (if applicable, details will be provided separately). Membership grants access to certain benefits, including priority registration, discounts, or exclusive content, as defined by Black Volume. We reserve the right to approve, deny, or revoke membership at our sole discretion.
3. User Conduct
You agree to use Black Volume services and participate in our community in a lawful manner. You must not:
- Engage in harassment, bullying, discrimination, or any form of hate speech toward other members, attendees, or staff.
- Use the services for any illegal activities.
- Share or distribute any content that infringes upon the intellectual property rights of others.
- Attempt to disrupt or interfere with the security or operation of our website or events.
4. Intellectual Property
A. Black Volume Content: All content, including text, graphics, logos, event names, and the Black Volume brand itself, is the property of Black Volume and protected by copyright and intellectual property laws. You may not reproduce, distribute, or create derivative works from our content without express written permission.
B. Member Content: You retain all ownership rights to the creative works, portfolios, or content you submit or share at Black Volume events or on our platforms. By sharing content, you grant Black Volume a limited, royalty-free license to use, display, and promote that content solely in connection with the event or service for which it was submitted (e.g., promoting a vendor at an Art Mart).
5. Event and Workshop Policies
A. Registration: Event and workshop registrations are subject to availability and may require advance payment. B. Cancellations and Refunds: All cancellation and refund policies are specific to each event and will be stated on the registration page. Generally, payments for workshops and events are non-refundable unless specified otherwise. C. Liability: You acknowledge that participation in physical events may involve inherent risks. Black Volume is not liable for any injury, loss, or damage to personal property sustained while participating in our events, unless caused by gross negligence on our part.
6. Disclaimer of Warranties
Our services are provided on an “AS IS” and “AS AVAILABLE” basis. Black Volume makes no warranties, expressed or implied, regarding the operation or availability of the services, or the content provided therein.
7. Limitation of Liability
To the maximum extent permitted by applicable law, Black Volume, its affiliates, directors, and employees shall not be liable for any indirect, incidental, special, consequential, or punitive damages, including without limitation, loss of profits, data, use, goodwill, or other intangible losses, resulting from (i) your access to or use of or inability to access or use the services; (ii) any conduct or content of any third party on the services; or (iii) unauthorized access, use, or alteration of your transmissions or content.
8. Governing Law
These Terms shall be governed and construed in accordance with the laws of the Republic of the Philippines, without regard to its conflict of law provisions.
9. Changes to Terms
We reserve the right to modify or replace these Terms at any time. We will notify you of any material changes by posting the new Terms on this page or through other reasonable means. Your continued use of the services after the changes constitutes your acceptance of the new Terms.
Online Data
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All 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.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Where your data is sent
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
Contact Us
For any questions about these Terms, please contact us at:
Email: bvolumeproductions@gmail.com