​Privacy Policy

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Introduction

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Frederick Dance Studio (“we”, “our”, or “us”) is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy describes how we collect, use, disclose, and protect your information when you visit our website or interact with us in any other manner.

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​The Frederick Dance Studio respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. We do not share, sell, or disclose any information obtained through SMS text messages to any third party, except as required by law. All information you provide via SMS will be kept confidential and used solely for the purpose of communicating with you regarding our services, updates, or transactions. Your trust is important to us, and we take appropriate measures to safeguard your information.

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Also, please review our SMS Privacy and Terms & Conditions page https://fskevents.wixsite.com/fsk-events/terms-of-service

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Information We Collect

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We may collect the following types of information from you:

• Personal Information: When you contact us through our Website, phone, or email, we may collect personal information that you provide, including your full name, phone number, email address, and mailing address.

• Automatically Collected Information: When you visit our Website, we may automatically collect certain information about your device and usage, including IP address, browser type, operating system, referring URLs, and pages viewed.

 

How We Use Your Information

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We use the information we collect for the following purposes:

• To Communicate with You: We use your contact information to respond to your inquiries, provide legal services, send administrative information, and keep you informed about your case or our services.

• Marketing and Promotional Communications: With your consent, we may use your information to send you updates, newsletters, or marketing communications via email, phone, or text message. You can opt out of receiving these communications at any time by following the instructions provided in the communication or contacting us directly.

• Legal Compliance: We may use your information to comply with applicable laws, regulations, or legal obligations, including responding to subpoenas, court orders, or legal requests.

 

Consent to Receive Text Messages

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You are not required to consent to receiving text messages from Us. By providing your phone number and opting in, you consent to receive text messages from Us regarding your inquiry, our services, or related legal matters. Message and data rates may apply. You can opt out of receiving text messages at any time by replying “STOP” to any text message your receive from us. Please note that opting out may limit our ability to communicate with you regarding your case or services.

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Information Sharing and Disclosure

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We do not sell or rent your personal information to third parties. We do not sell, rent, release, or transfer your SMS consent or phone number to any third party for any third party marketing purposes. We may share your information in the following circumstances:

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• Service Providers: We may share your information with our service providers who perform services on our behalf, such as marketing, customer services, or technical support. These service providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and use it only for services they provide.

• Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law, regulation, or legal process, or if we believe disclosure is necessary to protect our rights, property, or the safety of our users or others.

 

Data Security

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We implement reasonable security measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

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Your Rights and Choices

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• Opting Out: You may opt out of receiving marketing communications from us by following the instructions in those communications or contacting us directly. If you opt out, we may still send you non-promotional communications related to your legal services or our ongoing business relationship.

• Access and Update Information: You have the right to access, update, or correct your personal information. To do so, please contact us using the information provided below.

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Third-Party Websites

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Our Website may contain links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of these third-party sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of any third-party websites you visit.

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Children’s Privacy

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Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have inadvertently collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information.

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Changes to This Privacy Policy

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We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any changes will be posted on this page with an updated “Last Updated” date. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any updates.

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Contact Us

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If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or  our privacy practices, please contact us at:

 

Frederick Dance Studio

5500 Buckeystown Pike

spc 615

Frederick, Maryland 21703

240-232-2329

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Website Privacy

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Introduction

 

This privacy policy sets out the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit our Website or otherwise contact us for dance lessons (our “Services”); how we collect, use, share, store, process, transfer, and retain such information and/or data that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context (“personal information”); and information regarding our use of cookies and similar technologies. This privacy policy also sets out your rights with respect to your personal information.

 

This policy applies to information we collect on our Website; in email and other electronic messages between you and our Website; or in other communication with us regarding our Services.

 

It does not apply to information collected by:

• Use offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by us or any third party; or

• any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising or payment services) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

 

Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, your choice is not to use our Website or Services. By accessing or using this Website or our Services, you are accepting and consenting to the practices described in this privacy policy.  This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this Website and our Services after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates.

 

Children Under the Age of 18

 

Our Website is not intended for children under 18 years of age and we do not intend to collect personal information from children under 18. If you become aware that a child has provided us with personal information without appropriate consent, then please contact us using the details below so we can take appropriate steps in accordance with our legal obligations and this privacy policy.

 

Information We Collect About You and How We Collect It

 

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

• by which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, or any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline;

• that is about you but individually does not identify you; and/or

• about your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website and usage details.

 

We collect this information:

• Directly from you when you provide it to us.

• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may  include usage details, IP addresses, and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.

 

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

• Information  that you provide by filling in form(s) on our Website. This includes, but  is not limited to, information provided at the time of requesting further services and/or other contact from us, including but not limited, use of a contact form to request contact from us and submitting your resume through our Website. We may also ask you for information if/when you report a problem with our Website.

• Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses) if you contact us.

• Details  of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment  of your orders. You may be required to provide financial information  before placing an order through our Website. Payment services are provided through a third party and as such, we do not maintain or store your financial information.

• Your  search queries on the Website.

 

Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

 

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment (hardware and software), browsing actions, and patterns, including:

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• Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and  use on the Website.

• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

 

The information we collect automatically is statistical data, but it may include personal information, and we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

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• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.

• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests.

• Speed up your searches.

• Recognize you when you return to our Website.

 

Third-Party Use of Cookies [and Other Tracking Technologies]

 

Some content or applications, including advertisements, on the Website are served by third parties, including advertisers, ad networks and servers, content providers, and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our Website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based (behavioral) advertising or other targeted content.  We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about an advertisement or other targeted content, you should contact the provider responsible directly.

 

How We Use Your Information

 

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:

• To present our Website and its contents to you.

• To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us.

• To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.

• To notify you about changes to our Website.

• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website, including but not limited to contact forms and links for uploading your resume.

• In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.

• For any other purpose with your consent.

 

We may use the information we have collected from you to enable us to display advertisements to our advertisers’ target audience. Even though we do not disclose your personal information for these purposes without your consent, if you click on or otherwise interact with an advertisement, the advertiser may assume that you meet its target criteria.

 

How Long We Maintain Your Information

 

Your personal data will not be kept for longer than is necessary to fulfill the specific purposes outlined in this policy, and to allow us to comply with our legal requirements.

 

Disclosure of Your Information

 

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction.

 

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

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• To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal  information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.

• To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by us about our Website users is among the assets transferred.

• To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it. For example, if you provide us an email address in the “contact form” feature of our Website, we will transmit the contents of that “contact form” to our team.

• For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information with your consent.

 

We may also disclose your personal information:

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• To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.

• To enforce or apply our terms of use or contracts and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.

• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Us, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

 

Choices About How We Use and Disclose Your Information

 

We do not control third parties’ collection or use of your information to serve interest-based advertising. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads from members of the Network Advertising Initiative (“NAI“) on the NAI’s website.

 

Your California Privacy Rights

 

California Civil Code Section 1798.83, also known as the “Shine The Light” law, permits our users who are residents of the State of California in the United States to annually request and obtain, at no charge, information about the personal information (if any) we have disclosed to third parties for direct marketing purposes in the preceding calendar year. This information would include a list of the categories of personal information that was shared and the names and addresses of all third parties with which we shared information in the immediately preceding calendar year. If you are a California resident and would like to make such a request, please submit your request to info@fskevents.com

 

Data Security

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

 

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

 

We may update this privacy policy from time to time and so you should review this web page periodically. When we change this privacy policy in a material way, we will update the “last modified” date at the beginning of this privacy policy. Changes to this privacy policy are effective when they are posted on this page. Your continued use of the Website constitutes your agreement to be bound by such changes to the privacy policy. Your only remedy, if you do not accept the terms of this privacy policy, is to discontinue use of the Website.

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Contact Information

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or  our privacy practices, please contact us at:

 

Frederick Dance Studio

5500 Buckeystown Pike

spc 615

Frederick, Maryland 21703

240-232-2329