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Since Aloha Dance Studio is committed to presenting a rich Internet experience, we have prepared this Privacy Policy to disclose our information collection, utilization, and dissemination practices for this website. Any questions or comments about this policy please contact us.

Introduction

Children's Privacy Policy

Uses of Photographs, Video, and Other Media

Types and Uses of Information Collected from You

Access to Personal Information for Reviewing, Editing, and/or Removing

Financial Information Security

Acceptance of Term

Contacting Us

Introduction

We want to build on the loyal relationship Aloha Dance Studio has with its visitors and customers. Our commitment to you begins with respecting your privacy. As you choose to share your interests and preferences with us, we will be able to make your online experience with us more enjoyable and rewarding.

By registering for classes, students and guardians of students provide certain personal information necessary to conduct business. We will protect your privacy as explained in this policy. If you choose to provide us with additional personal information, we will be better able to reciprocate by providing you a more personalized experience over time. But, it's your choice.

Aloha Dance Studio's website will strive to add more interactive features to serve students and visitors better. We will ask you to tell us what you like and what we should add or change. If you choose, we may contact you regularly by e-mail. You will be able to select the goods and services you tell us are of interest to you. If you don't want to participate, just tell us. If you request that we not contact you for marketing purposes, we will not. However, if you are interested, we may keep you informed of special offers.

Children's Privacy Policy

At Aloha Dance Studio, children's safety is paramnount. We will never publish personal information for students of any age. Information provided during class registration will be kept completely confidential. We will never publish a student's first and last name, with the exception of event programs, without receiving prior permission. An example of this case is a student receiving special recognition for excellence. There may be occasions where a student's first name may be used for editorial reasons or to caption a photograph.

We welcome family participation. We will be adding more interactive features, such as photo galleries, videos, newsletter subscriptiions, etc. Children under 13 should not access any interactive portion of this website without first obtaining parental permission. If a child under 13 years of age wants to participate on our website, we encourage the child's parents to participate in his/her experience on our site.

Uses of Photographs, Video, and Other Media

We respect your right to privacy. While we hope you allow images to be used for the aforementioned uses, Students may opt out of print publication, inclusion in website content, or both. The registration form revised on 4/5/2007 provides opt-out options. A photo release is also provided for students who registered before 4/5/2007 and for others.

We will never sell, share, or distribute photographs to any third parties or publish a photograph in print without express prior permission.

Aloha Dance Studio reserves the right to publish photographs of students and occasionally others (who have given permission), on the website and possible print media. Specifically, we limit the use of photographs and video media to the following :

Editorial content within the website..
Certain existing and future website features, such as photo galleries and video clips.
Print media, such as a. brochure or newspaper item

Types and Uses of Information Collected from You

Aloha Dance Studio collects a variety of information in several ways.

Personal Information - Generally, you can visit our site without revealing any personal information about yourself. At times, though, we may need information about you. Unless otherwise indicated, the information we request is optional. We will specify which information is mandatory at the appropriate data entry points.

Aloha Dance Studio will never sell, rent, lease, or otherwise distribute any information we obtain on or from you to third parties.

If you chose to provide us with personal information that we may need (for example, to register for class), we will use such information, in accordance with this policy. If you ask us to not use this information as a basis for further contact with you for marketing purposes, we will respect your request.

Our site will collect information from our registration form, and may also include order forms, online surveys, and other contest or subscription registration forms. At these places, we ask you to give us contact information (like name, email address, and personal interests). On certain occasions our website will provide online shopping functionality. While it's necessary to provide your credit card information at the time you make a purchase, we will never store your credit card information on our servers.

We may use contact information to (i) send you information about our company, and promotional material from the businesses doing business with us; (ii) contact you when necessary; (iii) share with other companies who may want to contact you; and/or (iv) send orders to you. As stated below, you may opt-out of being contacted in the future.
We may use unique identifiers to verify your identity, for use in our record system, and for marketing purposes.
We may use financial information to check your qualifications and bill you for products ordered and services used. When you transmit credit card information to us, the credit card information is encrypted with SSL (secure socket layer) encryption.
We may use profile data to tailor your experience at our site. This data allows us to show you content that we think you might be interested in and to display content according to your preferences. Aggregated profile data may also distributed to our dance supplier partner Dancewear Etc of Lihue, HI to provide them with information about our visitors, but you may opt out by contacting us.

We may perform statistical analyses of your behaviors and characteristics in order to measure interest in and use of the various areas of the site and to, as well as the number of visitors.

Aloha Dance Studio reserves the right to contact you regarding account status, changes to policies, and other matters relevant to the underlying service and/or the information collected. We also reserve the right to use the information that you give us and to disclose it to our dancewear supply partner Dancewear Etc of Lihue, HI products and services. If you do not want to receive correspondence related to Aloha Dance Studio or Dancewear Etc., please indicate your preference by opting-out as described below.

Information From Your Computer - Our site recognizes information about your computer, such as the browser, operating system, IP address, and the home server from which you access the Internet. We keep track of the domains from which people visit our site. Your IP address is used to help identify you and your shopping cart, gather broad demographic data, identify trends and statistics, help diagnose problems with our server, and to administer our website. We normally do not link IP addresses to any personally identifiable information; however, when we feel it is necessary to enforce compliance with our terms of service or to protect our service, site, customers, visitors, or others, we may use IP addresses to identify a visitor.

Cookies - Our site uses "cookies" to provide information on your computer. Cookies are pieces of data that a website can send to your browser, which may then be stored on your hard drive. Cookies save your preferences while you are at our site, and we may use them to provide you with tailored information. Our site may use cookies to deliver content specific to your interests, track visitor trends and practices, to save your password so you do not have to enter it every time you visit our site, to store visitor names and passwords, store and retrieve log-in information, track your shopping cart, and to otherwise customize your experience. In addition, cookies allow us to measure and report aggregate information to advertisers such as the number of people who see their ad and the number of times people see their ad. Also, cookies help us determine which areas of our site are popular by tracking hits to those areas. With the exception of your password, we may share this information with third parties. By modifying your browser preferences, you have the choice to accept cookies, to be notified when a cookie is sent, or to reject cookies.

Outside advertising companies display advertisements on our site, some of which may contain cookies. We do not control these cookies. Cookies received with banner advertisements are collected by the advertising companies and we do not have access to this information.

As indicated above, we share some customer data with advertising companies.

Other Information Practices.

In addition to the situations described above, we may disclose visitor information in special instances when we have reason to believe disclosing this information is necessary to identify, contact, or bring legal action against someone who may be causing injury to or interfering with Aloha Dance Studio 's rights or property, students, other AlohaDanceStudio.com visitors, or anyone else. We may disclose visitor information when subpoenaed, for government investigations, and when we otherwise believe in good faith that the law requires it.

This website contains links to other websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or the content of these other sites. You should check the privacy policies of these other websites when providing personally identifiable information.

Access to Personal Information for Reviewing, Editing, and/or Removing

You may, at any time, review, edit, and/or remove any information we have stored on you by contacting Aloha Dance Studio. We will promptly comply with any request to review, edit, or remove information.

Financial Information Security

Aloha Dance Studio cannot and does not ensure or warrant the security of any information you transmit to us or from our online products or services. You transmit information to us at your own risk. However, when you transmit credit card information to us, the credit card information is encrypted with SSL (secure socket layer) encryption. Once we receive your transmission, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.

Acceptance of Terms

Aloha Dance Studio reserves the right to amend this policy at any time by notifying visitors of the existence of a new privacy policy. This privacy policy is not intended to and does not create any contractual or other legal rights in or o n behalf of any party. By using this site, you signify that you understand the terms of the Aloha Dance Studio Privacy Policy. If you do not agree with this policy, please do not use our site. Your continued use of the Aloha Dance Studio website following the posting of changes or amendments to these terms constitutes acceptance of such changes and amendments.