Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 8/18/25

At CMR Comedy, LLC, d/b/a Gotham Comedy Club (“Club”, “we”, “our”, “us”), your privacy isn't just important to us—it’s part of our setlist. Whether you're joining us for a night of laughter or browsing our website from the comfort of your couch, we want you to feel confident about how your personal information is handled.‍

1. Information We Collect‍

We collect information to make your experience smooth, secure, and personalized:

- Personal Information: Name, email address, phone number, and any other details you share during ticket purchases, newsletter sign-ups, reservations, or special event registrations.

- Payment Information: Payment and billing details submitted through our secure, third-party payment processors.

- Technical Data: IP address, browser type, operating system, device identifiers, and approximate location data to optimize and personalize your browsing experience.

- Cookies & Tracking: We use cookies and similar technologies to analyze performance, measure marketing effectiveness, and enhance user experience.

2. How We Use Your Personal Information

We use your personal information to:

- Send show confirmations, ticketing details, other information you have requested and promotional updates.

- Improve website usability and customer support.

- Detect and prevent fraud and ensure compliance with legal obligations.

- Provide personalized marketing (you can opt out anytime as provided below).

3.  How We Share Your Personal Information
We may share your personal information as necessary with:

- Trusted Partners and Third-Party Service Providers: We disclose personal information to third parties as needed to fulfill your requests and to provide smooth operation of our services to you.  For example, we may share your personal information with third party providers of ticketing systems, email platforms, marketing and promotion of our services, analytics, web hosting, customer service, IT services, infrastructure provisioning, fraud detection and payment gateways and providers—but only what’s necessary to serve you and to enhance your use of our website and services.

- Legal Authorities: If required by law or to protect our rights and your safety.

-Consent: We may disclose your personal information to other third parties with your consent.

- Business Transaction:  If another company acquires our company, business, or our assets, that company may then possess the personal information collected and stored by us, however, such company will assume the rights and obligations regarding your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy.

- Provide, Personalize, Measure and Improve Advertising and Marketing: We may use personal information to provide, personalize, measure and improve our advertising and marketing. For example, we may: (i) inform you of our shows, products, programs, services, and promotions that we believe may be of interest to you, including through emails to you, (ii) allow you to participate in surveys, and (iii) determine the effectiveness of our services and our promotional campaigns. 

-Hosted Events and Shows: Sometimes our events and shows are hosted by a third parties, e.g., charity events held at the Club.  When you purchase tickets or donate to events or shows sponsored by our third-party hosts, you may be asked to provide your consent to our providing your personal information to the hosts of such events so that they may contact you regarding past and current events that may be of interest to you. You agree that we are not responsible for the actions of these hosts regarding your personal information and it is important that you review the privacy policies of the applicable host before providing any personal information in connection with that event.

-Other Purposes Disclosed at the Time of Collection: From time to time, we may use personal information for a specific purpose not contemplated by this Privacy Policy. In such an event, we will specifically disclose that use to you.

4. Data Retention & Security 

We keep your information only as long as needed for the purposes outlined above.  The security of your personal information is important to us, but no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security. We employ appropriate administrative, physical, and technical safeguards designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access. Your personal information will be kept on our servers or on those of our service providers and only those persons that require it for the purposes of their duties will have access to your personal information. If we learn of a systems security breach, we may attempt to notify you electronically or through another applicable channel so that you can take appropriate protective steps. By using our services, you agree that we may communicate with you electronically. We may post a notice on the website if a security breach occurs. We may also send an email to you at the email address you have provided to us. Depending on where you live, you may have a legal right to receive notice of a security breach in writing.

5. Your Choices & Rights 

You are in control of your personal information:

- Opt-Out: Unsubscribe using the links at the bottom of our emails or by contacting us below.

- Correct, Delete or Access Data: Email us to request data correction, deletion or a copy of your stored personal information.  Following any such request, we will take all reasonable steps to provide, modify and/or delete your personal information as soon as is practicable, but some information may remain in archived/backup copies for our records or as otherwise required by law. Where you have consented to our use of your personal information, you may withdraw that consent at any time and opt-out to further use by contacting us as provided below and letting us know what use of your personal information you wish to opt-out of.

-Cookie Preferences:  If you would like to opt-out of the tracking technologies we employ by providing services to you, you may do so by blocking, deleting or disabling them as your browser or device permits. Please note that blocking, deleting, or disabling these technologies will affect the functionality of our services, and may prevent you from being able to access certain features. Please note that we do not alter our data collection or use practices when a user enables a ‘Do Not Track’ signal from their browser.

-ADA: Our website utilizes a third-party American Disabilities Act software, “UserWay,” to power digital accessibility compliance on our website.

6.  International Users 

Our website and services are based in the United States of America (“U.S.”), and, regardless of where you use our services from or otherwise provide personal information to us, your personal information may be transferred to and maintained on servers located in the U.S.  Please note that any personal information we obtain about you will be stored in accordance with U.S. privacy laws, regulations and standards, which may not be equivalent to the laws in your country of origin or residence. By using the website, our services or by providing us with your personal information, you consent to this collection, transfer, storage, and processing of your personal information to and in the U.S.

7.  California Residents’ and Other State Privacy Rights  

If you are a California resident, or if you reside in one of several other states that have data privacy laws, we are required to tell you certain things about your personal information and your rights regarding your personal information that we have collected in the last twelve (12) months. You have several rights regarding your personal information. We will explain those rights to you and how you may exercise them:

-Right to Opt-Out of the Selling or Sharing of Your Personal Information:  You have the right to opt-out of us selling or sharing your personal information with third parties for valuable consideration or for certain targeted advertising (as “selling” and “sharing” are defined by relevant data privacy law). We do not “sell” personal information. 

-Right to Know and Access:  This means you have the right to know and request information about what personal information we have collected about you, the categories of this personal information, the categories of sources from which the personal information was collected, the business or commercial purpose for collecting, selling, or sharing your personal information, the categories of third-parties to whom we disclose personal information, and the specific pieces of personal information we have collected about you.

-Right to Delete:  You have the right to request that we delete personal information we have collected from you. However, keep in mind that this right is subject to certain exceptions as described above.

-Right to Correct:  You can request that we correct inaccurate personal information we maintain about you.

-Right to Data Portability:  You have the right to have us provide your personal information in a portable and ready to use format.

-Right Not to Receive Discriminatory Treatment:  We will not discriminate against you based on your personal information, or for exercising your rights under California law.

-Exercising Your Rights:  To exercise the rights described above, please submit a request to us using one of the methods set forth below.

8.  Children’s Information 

 Children under the age of majority are not allowed to use our services. We do not knowingly collect personal information directly from any person under the age of majority years of age, and we will not knowingly link to any third-party website that solicits or collects personal information from any person under the age of majority years of age. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under the age of majority without verification of parental consent, we will delete that data. If you believe we might have any data from or about a child under the age of majority, please contact us.

9.  Third-Party Links  

We may link to external third-party websites—like our comedians' social pages, press coverage, or affiliate platforms. This Privacy Policy only applies to information collected by our website and services. We are not responsible for the privacy and security practices of those other websites or social media platforms, or the data they may collect (which may include your IP address). You should refer to such third parties’ privacy policies on their sites to determine their respective privacy practices. Links to any other websites or content do not constitute or imply an endorsement or recommendation by us of the linked website, social media platform, and/or content.

10.   Updates to This Policy  

We may occasionally update this Privacy Policy to reflect changes in law, technology, or our practices. If we make significant updates, we'll post a notice on our homepage.  If the changes are significant, we may provide a more prominent notice or obtain your consent, if required by law.

Last Updated: 8/18/2025

11.   Contact Us.

Have questions? Need to make a privacy request? Reach out:

Gotham Comedy Club 
208 W 23rd St, New York, NY 10011 
212 367-9000

e-mail: info@gothamcomedyclub.com
🌐 www.gothamcomedyclub.com