Privacy notice
This page describes exactly what happens with the data this site handles: what you send through its forms, and how visits are counted. It is a plain description of how the site is built, not a legal formula: every statement here was checked against the code that runs it, and where something depends on what Google does, the page says so.
Who is responsible
Abraham Piano Studio — Justin Abraham Paul, 462 Bay Ridge Avenue, Brooklyn, NY 11220, United States. For anything on this page, write to contact@estudioabrahampiano.com.
What the site does NOT do
It is worth starting here, because it is the shortest part:
- It does not advertise: no Meta or TikTok pixel, no Google Ads tag, no remarketing, no session recording.
- It does not sell your data to anyone.
- Nothing you type in a form ever reaches the visit counter. It learns that a page was opened or a button was pressed, never what was written.
- There is no account and no login. Nothing to sign up for.
It does count visits, with Google Analytics, on the home page and the articles. That is not tucked away: it has its own section below, and the exact cookies are listed.
What you send, and only if you send it
The forms collect nothing until you fill one of the three in and press the button. (Counting visits is a separate matter, explained further down.)
| Form | What it sends |
|---|---|
| Trial lesson | Name, email, phone, neighborhood or ZIP code, the student’s age, preferred times, level, the hour you picked, and the page you sent it from. |
| Opinion | Name, email, rating and what you wrote. |
| Articles | Only your email address. |
Fill in only what you want to. The form needs a name and a way to reply — an email or a phone number — because without one there is no way to answer you. Everything else is optional.
It all travels over an encrypted connection (HTTPS) to this same domain. It does not pass through any third-party form service.
About the student’s age
The trial-lesson form asks for the student’s age, which in a piano studio is often a child’s. That form is meant to be filled in by an adult — a parent or guardian — on the child’s behalf. Nothing on this site invites a child to sign up on their own, and there is no account to create.
The age is used for one thing: to plan the lesson. A six-year-old and a sixty-year-old do not start the same way.
Who receives it
Each message is delivered to three mailboxes at the same time, in a single signed email:
- The studio mailbox, contact@estudioabrahampiano.com, hosted by Hostinger. This is the full record.
- A copy to the personal Google mailboxes of the teacher and the person who maintains the site, so that an enquiry is never missed because of a spam filter. Their addresses are not published here, for the same reason yours is not.
Nobody else receives it. It is not passed to an agency, a CRM, a mailing tool or an advertiser.
Companies that make the site work
These providers are involved, and it is only fair to name them:
- Hostinger — hosts the site and the studio mailbox. Its servers handle your message.
- Google — receives the copies described above, in Gmail, and runs Google Analytics, which counts the visits (next section).
- OpenStreetMap and unpkg — when the travel-time map draws itself, your browser asks them for the map tiles and the map library. That request carries your IP address, as any request on the internet does. They receive nothing you typed.
Counting visits: Google Analytics
On the home page and on the articles — not on the legal pages, this one included — the site counts visits with Google Analytics 4, a service of Google LLC. It is there to answer plain questions: how many people come, how they arrive (a search, a link, a message) and whether anyone gets in touch.
What Google receives when you open one of those pages:
- The page you opened and the site you came from, your browser and device type, your language, and the approximate place you are visiting from — country, region and city — worked out from your IP address. Google says it uses that address for the location and to filter spam, never links it to your identifier, and discards it afterwards (Google’s explanation).
- How you use the page, as Google Analytics measures it by default: how long it stays open, how far down you scroll and which links leading out of the site you follow.
- That you tapped the WhatsApp, phone or email link, and that the trial-lesson form was sent. Only that it happened: never your number, your address or anything you typed.
- A random identifier kept in two cookies, listed in the cookie policy. It tells one browser from another; no name, email or phone is attached to it.
The tag tells Google not to use this data to personalise advertising or for demographics and interests reports, and the site carries no advertising of its own.
You can switch it off whenever you like, and the site works exactly the same: if your browser sends the Global Privacy Control or Do Not Track signal, the site does not load Google Analytics at all. You can also install Google’s opt-out add-on, or block or delete this site’s cookies in your browser.
What is saved in your browser
Two kinds of thing. The first is yours to ask for: if you press the light/dark button in the header, the site remembers your choice so the next page does not come back in the wrong one. What it saves is a single word — “dark” or “light” — in your browser’s local storage.
- It is not a cookie: it never travels with a request, so the server never receives it. Nobody here can read it.
- It holds nothing about you — no identifier, no counter, nothing that could tell one visitor from another.
- It stays on that device and never reaches another one.
- If you never touch the button, this preference is never saved: the site simply follows whatever your system is set to.
The second kind is the two Google Analytics cookies, _ga and _ga_5DJWGY9WS4, set on the home page and the articles unless you switch the counting off. The tag asks for them to last thirteen months at most. Like any cookie they travel with each request to this site, but nothing that runs here reads them. The cookie policy has the full table.
To delete all of it, clear this site’s data in your browser. For the light/dark choice alone, switching back to the mode your system already uses is enough.
Your IP address
To stop a robot from flooding the form, the site counts how many messages have been sent from the same connection in the last hour. To do that it stores a one-way fingerprint of your IP — not the address itself — together with the times. It cannot be turned back into your IP, it holds nothing else, and it expires by itself after an hour.
Separately, on the pages that count visits, Google Analytics sees your IP address in order to estimate the approximate location, as described above.
How long it is kept
Enquiries that do not turn into lessons are deleted within twelve months. Correspondence with a current student is kept while the lessons last and for twelve months afterwards, so that a returning student does not have to start from scratch.
If you would rather it went sooner, say so and it is deleted.
The visit counts are kept by Google for the period the studio sets in its Analytics account, which can never be longer than fourteen months.
Asking to see it, correct it or delete it
Write to contact@estudioabrahampiano.com and say what you want: a copy of what was sent, a correction, or deletion. There is no form to fill in and no reason to explain. The answer comes from a person, usually the same day.
If the message was about a child, the request can come from the parent or guardian who sent it.
The visit counts carry no name and no contact detail, so the studio has no way to find “your” visits in them. If you do not want to be counted, the options in the section on counting visits switch it off.
Changes to this notice
If the site starts doing something different — advertising, another measuring tool, a new recipient, anything else stored in your browser — this page changes in the same update, not later. The date at the top says when it last changed.