Privacy Policy

To provide safe and appropriate riding instruction, we collect:

• Contact information: rider and parent or guardian name, email address, and phone number.
• Rider profile information: date of birth, weight, riding experience, and any medical or physical notes you choose to share that affect safe instruction.
• Account and booking information: lessons, programs, event registrations, and your signed liability waiver.

This information is used only to run the riding program: matching riders to suitable horses, keeping lessons safe, scheduling and confirming bookings, processing payments, and communicating with you about your account. We do not sell your information, and we do not use it for advertising.

For riders under 18, information is collected and stored with the consent of a parent or legal guardian. That consent is part of the liability waiver signed before the first lesson, which includes a clause permitting River Road Horsemanship to store the rider's personal information electronically for the purpose of providing instruction.

Your information is stored in a secure, access-controlled database hosted on Vercel infrastructure. All data is encrypted in transit between your browser and our servers. We take reasonable measures to protect your information against unauthorized access.

Rider and family information is accessible only to the administrator of River Road Horsemanship. It is not shared with other students or families or with third parties, except for the service providers needed to operate the business (such as our payment processor) as described below.

This section applies only to barn administrators, not to riders or families. An administrator may connect a Google account so that confirmed lessons appear automatically on their Google Calendar. When connected, River Road Horsemanship uses Google Calendar access (the calendar.events and calendar.readonly scopes) solely to create, update, and remove calendar events for confirmed lessons on the calendar the administrator selects, and to list the administrator's calendars so they can choose which one to write to. We do not read the administrator's existing personal events. River Road Horsemanship's use of information received from Google APIs adheres to the Google API Services User Data Policy, including the Limited Use requirements: this data is used only to provide the lesson-calendar feature, is never sold, is never used for advertising, and is never read by a human except as needed for support, security, or to comply with the law. An administrator can disconnect at any time from the admin settings page, or revoke access directly in their Google Account permissions; disconnecting stops all future calendar writes.

Payments are processed by Stripe. River Road Horsemanship never sees or stores your full card number. Card details are entered directly with Stripe, which is certified to industry security standards. We retain only records of what was paid and when. For details on how Stripe handles your data, see the Stripe Privacy Policy.

We keep rider and account information for as long as the account is active and for up to two years after the last lesson, after which it may be removed or anonymized. Business records such as payment history and signed liability waivers may be retained longer where required for legal, tax, or liability purposes.

You may request a copy of the information we hold about a rider, ask us to correct it, or ask us to delete it at any time. When an account is deleted, personal information is removed or anonymized; certain business and liability records may be retained as described above. To make a request, contact us using the details below.

For any question about this policy or your information, contact River Road Horsemanship: