PRIVACY POLICY

Project DC Events (“Company,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respects your privacy and is committed to protecting the personal information you provide to us.

This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and protect information when you visit our website(s), purchase tickets, register for or attend our events, subscribe to our email or SMS communications, participate in promotions, or otherwise interact with us.

Our events may include bar crawls, beer and wine festivals, nightlife events, social events, and other entertainment experiences.

1. Information We Collect

We may collect information that you voluntarily provide to us, including:

-Name
-Email address
-Mobile telephone number
-Mailing or billing address
-Date of birth or age-related information
-Ticket and event registration information
-Payment and transaction information
-Communications you send to us
-Marketing preferences
-Contest, giveaway, or promotional entries

When you purchase tickets, payment information may be processed directly by a third-party payment processor or ticketing provider. We may not directly receive or store your complete credit or debit card information.

We may also automatically collect certain information when you visit our website, including your IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, referring website, approximate location, and interactions with our website.

We may collect this information through cookies, pixels, analytics tools, and similar technologies.

2. How We Use Your Information

We may use information we collect to:

-Process ticket purchases and event registrations
-Provide information about events you have purchased or registered for
-Send confirmations, reminders, updates, cancellations, or other event-related communications
-Provide customer service
-Send promotional emails or text messages where permitted
-Advertise upcoming events, promotions, discounts, and special offers
-Administer contests, giveaways, and promotions
-Improve our website, advertising, events, and customer experience
-Analyze attendance and marketing performance
-Prevent fraud, abuse, or security incidents
-Comply with applicable laws and legal obligations

3. Email Marketing

If you subscribe to our mailing list or otherwise consent to receive promotional emails, we may send you information regarding upcoming events, ticket sales, discounts, promotions, and other Company news.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails at any time by clicking the “Unsubscribe” link contained in our marketing emails.

You may continue to receive non-promotional communications relating to transactions or events for which you have purchased tickets or registered.

4. SMS/Text Message Marketing

If you separately opt in to receive SMS/text messages from us, we may send you promotional and informational text messages regarding upcoming events, ticket sales, event reminders, discounts, promotions, and special offers.

Consent to receive marketing text messages is not a condition of purchasing tickets, goods, or services.

Message frequency may vary. Message and data rates may apply.

You may opt out of marketing text messages at any time by replying STOP to a message.

We may use third-party service providers, including SMS marketing platforms, to deliver messages on our behalf.

Your SMS consent applies only to communications from Project DC Events and its authorized service providers acting on our behalf.

Mobile information will not be shared with third parties or affiliates for marketing or promotional purposes. Information may be shared with subcontractors that provide support services (such as customer service). Text messaging originator opt-in data and consent will not be shared with any third parties, excluding aggregators and providers of the text message services.

5. Cookies and Advertising Technologies

Our website may use cookies, pixels, and similar technologies to operate the website, remember preferences, understand website traffic, measure advertising effectiveness, and provide relevant advertising.

Third-party services such as Google, Meta/Facebook, Instagram, or other advertising and analytics providers may use cookies or similar technologies in accordance with their own privacy policies.

You may be able to limit cookies through your browser settings or through cookie-management tools made available on our website.

6. Event Photography and Video

Our events may be photographed, filmed, or otherwise recorded.

Photos and videos taken at our events may be used for legitimate business and promotional purposes, including our websites, social media accounts, advertisements, and future event marketing, subject to applicable law.

7. Age Restrictions

Many of our events involve alcoholic beverages and may be restricted to individuals 21 years of age or older. Attendees may be required to present valid government-issued identification before entering an age-restricted event or receiving alcoholic beverages.

Purchasing a ticket does not guarantee admission if an attendee cannot satisfy applicable age or identification requirements.

8. Data Security

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information.

However, no method of transmitting or storing information electronically can be guaranteed to be completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

9. Data Retention

We retain personal information for as long as reasonably necessary to fulfill the purposes described in this Privacy Policy, maintain appropriate business and transaction records, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our agreements.