Privacy policy
This privacy policy sets out how CoDa Dance Company uses and protects any information that you provide when using this website or signing up to our mailing list.
CoDa Dance Company is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide personal information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.
In disclosing your personal information you agree to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information by us. It will only be disclosed to third parties in order to provide the services you have requested. The information we hold about you will be accurate and up to date. You can contact us to check this information. If you find any inaccuracies we will delete or correct them promptly.
CONTROLLING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION
What information do we hold?
Information that you provide to us such as your name, address, telephone number, email address and, rarely, payment details.
Where gathered, information for the services we provide you, for example the date and location of the workshop and/or performance attended.
Your contact details and details of the emails and other electronic communications you receive from us, including whether that communication has been opened and if you have clicked on any links within that communication. We want to make sure that our communications are useful for you, so if you don’t open them or don’t click on any links in them, we know we need to improve our services.
Non-identifiable information about your activity on our website, for example length of time and behaviour on site, browser or IP address.
Whenever you provide personal information to us, we are legally obliged to use this information in accordance with all laws concerning the protection of personal information including the UK Data Protection Act 1998 and the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) 2018.
How do we use your information?
The information we collect may be used to:
- To keep you informed
- To tailor communications to your interests or needs.
- Help answer your questions and solve any issues you have.
- To improve our website and services
- Conduct market research or for statistical analysis
- Provide for the safety and security of our colleagues and customers
- Help us ensure that our customers are genuine and to prevent fraud
Where you have consented to us doing so, we would like to contact you from time to time with information that we think you might be interested in. This includes details of upcoming performances and workshops, as well as news and great offers. We may do this by email, online, using social media, or by other electronic means.
We won’t send you marketing messages if you tell us not to. If you wish to amend your marketing preferences, you can do so by changing preferences after receiving emails from us or contacting us at admin@codadance.com
Your rights
Access and correction of your personal information
Your data protection rights
Under data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.
Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing – You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.
Please contact us at admin@codadance.com if you wish to make a request.
How long do we keep your information?
We will retain a record of your personal information. This is done in order to provide you with a high quality and consistent service. We will always retain your personal information in accordance with law and regulation and never retain your information for longer than is necessary.
Links to other websites
We sometimes provide you with links to other websites, but these websites are not under our control. Therefore we will not be liable to you for any issues arising in connection with their use of your information, the website content or the services offered to you by these websites. We advise you to consult the privacy policy and terms and conditions on each website to see how each supplier may process your information.
We do not “share” your information with any third parties.
Sharing your thoughts
When using one of our websites, you may be able to share information through social networks like Facebook, Instagram and Twitter. For example when you ‘like’, ‘share’ or review our Services. When doing this your personal information may be visible to the providers of those social networks and their other users. Please remember it is your responsibility to set appropriate privacy settings on your social network accounts so you are comfortable with how your information is used and shared on them.
Security
We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.
Our security measures include:
- Limiting access to our office to those that we believe are entitled to be there.
- Implementing access controls to our information technology, such as firewalls, ID verification.
We do not disclose, share, sell, or trade information about your individual visits to our websites or any personal information that you may give us such as your name, address, email address or telephone number, to or with any outside companies or organisations without your express permission.
We will verify that you have given us a functioning email address by sending a confirmation message to you at that address. You must respond to that message so we can verify your email address. You may choose to unsubscribe from our newsletters at any time by clicking on ‘unsubscribe’.
HOW WE USE COOKIES
Cookies
CoDa Dance Company puts small files (known as ‘cookies’) onto your computer to collect information about how you browse the site.
Cookies are used to:
- Measure how you use the website so it can be updated and improved based on your needs;
- Collect information about your browsing habits and allow us to show you adverts while you are browsing our site and other sites on the internet.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
We try to give you as much information as possible in relation to Cookies on our site so you can make an informed decision about how to manage them when you visit us.
In addition to our main Cookies policy we also have a 3rd party Cookie policy. This is because some of the pages on our site contain embedded content from third-party websites – like a video from YouTube for example. Please see below for information about the specific 3rd party Cookies used on our site.
Because this content is from another website, we don’t control the setting of these cookies. If you want to change your cookie preferences, check the third-party websites for information on how to manage their cookies.
For more information on how to manage, delete and control Cookies on your computer: www.aboutcookies.org
Google Analytics
We use Google Analytics software to collect information about how you use our websites. We do this to help make sure the site is meeting the needs of its users and to help us make improvements, for example reviewing the navigation.
Google Analytics stores information about:
- the pages you visit
- how long you spend on each page
- how you got to the site
- what you click on while you’re visiting the site
We don’t collect or store your personal information (for example your name or address) so this information can’t be used to identify who you are.
Click here for an overview of privacy at Google
To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit the Google site.
YouTube cookies
We embed videos from YouTube. This mode may set cookies on your computer once you click on the YouTube video player, but YouTube will not store personally-identifiable cookie information for playbacks of embedded videos using the privacy-enhanced mode.
Click here for an overview of privacy at YouTube.
MailChimp
We use a third-party service to send out our e-newsletter and administer our mailing list, called MailChimp. You can access their privacy policy here
Information you submit to subscribe for our newsletter will be stored outside the European Economic Area on MailChimp’s servers in the United States of America.
We keep this privacy policy under regular review and CoDa Dance Company may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page regularly to ensure that you are happy with any changes. This policy is effective from January 2021.
