Privacy Policy

Who we are

British DanceSport Association is a not-for-profit company limited by guarantee, registered in England & Wales (Company No. 14812869), 80 The Strand, London WC2R 0DT. Email: info@bdsassociation.com.

Privacy Policy

This privacy policy discloses the privacy practices for the National Dance Safe Register (www.bdsadancesaferegister.co.uk).

This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.

It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information, collection, use and sharing

We are the sole owners of the information collected on the site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent or give this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organisation, other than as necessary to fulfil your request, e.g. to contact you.

We only use your email for BDSA news and opportunities where you have separately opted in, or where another lawful basis applies. You can unsubscribe at any time. We may still contact you about your account, a request you made, or important service and policy changes.

Your access to and control over information

You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. You can do this by contacting us via email, which is given on our website. You can ask us the following:

1. See what data we have about you, if any.
2. Change/correct any data we have about you.
3. Have us delete any data we have about you.
4. Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
5. Control what your data is used for.

Lawful base for holding data

We request information from you and rely on the lawful bases of contract and legitimate interest. This means under the England and Wales data protection laws, you are entitled to ask to be erased from our database and the right to object to being included on the database.

We rely on the lawful base of consent for children under the age of 16, and children using our site must have the express permission of their legal guardian to access the site.

Purpose of processing data

We process your data for the sole purpose of your effective use of the National Dance Safe Register website.

Duration of holding information

The information you have given us is retained and will only be utilised as per our policies for the duration of your use of our website.

Security

We take precautions to protect information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.

Wherever we collect sensitive information, that information is encrypted and transmitted to us in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon in your web browser or for 'https' at the beginning of the address of the web page.

While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Cookies

This Register page does not yet have its own cookies policy. Until one is published, see the BDSA cookies policy.

Register annex

In addition to information you send us by email or form, the Register publishes school listings drawn from public sources (marked unverified), holds school-owner accounts when a school claims or adds a listing, takes assessment fees through Stripe on the paid assessment path only, and may hold copies of the evidence submitted for a school assessment.

We may also hold safeguarding reports and case files received through appropriate reporting channels. Those uses are not covered by the voluntary-email wording above. See Data and your listing for public-source listings, and contact info@bdsassociation.com for access or deletion requests about accounts, fees, assessment evidence or safeguarding files.

Updates

We reserve the right to amend/change our policy at any time and all updates will be posted on this page.

Complaints

If you feel we are not using your data in the way in which you are agreeing, you have the right to make a complaint. Please contact us in the first instance, but you can also visit https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ for further information.

If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy you should contact us immediately via email at info@bdsassociation.com.

These policies shall be governed by and construed in accordance with the laws of England and Wales. Disputes arising here shall be exclusively subject to the jurisdiction of the courts of England and Wales.