Effective Date: 1st JaNuary 2025
Welcome to The Dance School Website. We are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring compliance with the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). This policy outlines how we collect, use, and protect your personal information when you use our website.
1. Information We Collect
We may collect and process the following information:
- Personal Data You Provide: This includes information you provide when filling out forms, subscribing to newsletters, or contacting us, such as your name, email address, and phone number.
- Automated Data Collection: We may collect data about your device, browsing behavior, and interactions with our site through cookies and similar technologies.
2. How We Use Your Data
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
- To provide and improve our services.
- To communicate with you, including responding to inquiries and sending newsletters (with your consent).
- To analyze website usage and enhance user experience.
- To comply with legal obligations.
3. Legal Basis for Processing
We process your data based on the following legal grounds:
- Your consent (e.g., when signing up for newsletters or our lessons).
- To perform a contract with you or take steps at your request before entering into a contract.
- Compliance with legal obligations.
- Legitimate interests, where applicable, and balanced with your rights.
4. Sharing Your Data
We may share your information with trusted third parties, such as:
- Service providers who assist us in website operations.
- Regulatory authorities or legal entities, if required by law.
We will never sell your personal information.
5. Your Rights
Under the GDPR, you have the following rights:
- Access: Request access to the personal data we hold about you.
- Correction: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
- Deletion: Request deletion of your data, subject to legal obligations.
- Restriction: Restrict how we process your data in certain circumstances.
- Data Portability: Request transfer of your data to you or another service provider.
- Objection: Object to processing based on legitimate interests or direct marketing.
- Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time.
To exercise these rights, please contact us at info@the-dance-school.co.uk.
6. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
We use cookies to improve your experience on our website. Cookies are small text files stored on your device. You can manage your cookie preferences through your browser settings.
7. Data Retention
We retain your personal data only as long as necessary for the purposes outlined in this policy or as required by law.
8. Data Security
We implement appropriate technical and organizational measures to protect your data against unauthorized access, loss, or misuse.
9. Third-Party Links
Our website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for their privacy practices. Please review their policies when visiting these sites.
10. Updates to This Policy
We may update this policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Effective Date.”
11. Contact Us
If you have any questions or concerns about this policy or how we handle your data, please contact us:
Email: info@the-dance-school.co.uk
Address: The Dance School, 65a Liverpool Road North, Burscough, Lancashire L40 0SA
Thank you for visiting The Dance School.
Using our website
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.
The dance school uses WhatsApp groups in order to share information between class members, such as class demonstration videos, class cancellations and general information regarding The Dance School and classes. It is an efficient way to communicate quickly to all members of individual classes. Please be aware that participating students’ mobile telephone numbers are visible to every member of a WhatsApp group. We ask that students respect each other’s privacy and do not use personal mobile telephone numbers to contact any member of the WhatsApp group for any reason without their express permission. Any student doing so will be removed permanently from all WhatsApp groups. Your mobile number will never be added to a WhatsApp group without your permission being sought in the first instance. Your mobile phone number will never be shared by The Dance School between other students, teachers or other agencies.
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.
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.
Password Resets
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.
Automated Spam Detection
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.