LAST UPDATED 04/11/2024
Who we are
Our website address is: https://dancemodelclub.com. Dance Model Club™ (“we” or “us”) is committed to safeguarding any personal information that may be collected through our website (“Site”) and the services that we offer through our third party vendors. This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) describes our practices of processing data from our clients once they register an account on our site for the purpose of scheduling, as well as visitors to the client galleries or fine art gallery (all, collectively the “Service”). This privacy policy is an integral part of Terms of Service which govern your use as the Site or Service (collectively the “Agreement”).
We would like to explain why we collect your data and how we process and use it. Below is information on the data collected.
i) Where you sign up for any of our services, we process your personal data in order to perform our services;
ii) If we have a legitimate interest in processing data, such as for direct marketing or online identifiers when you access our Site; or
iii) We will also process your personal data where you have provided us with consent to do so.
1. What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Depending on your interaction with us (meaning, if you are just browsing our Site, or if you have registered to our Services and opened an account, etc.), we may collect two types of information from you, as follows:
(i) Non-Personal Data: The first type of information is non-identifiable information which may be made available or gathered through your use of the Services. To clarify, we are not aware of your identity due to such information (“Non-Personal Information”). The Non-Personal Information which is being collected may include your aggregated usage information and technical information transmitted or automatically (but not limited to): the time and date you access our Site or a Gallery (e.g., pictures used, pages viewed, etc.) and approximate geo-location.
(ii) Personal Data: The second type of information is individually identifiable information, namely information that identifies an individual or may with reasonable effort identify an individual (“Personal Information”). Personal Information includes either: (a) contact information such as your name, email address, etc., which you have submitted voluntarily; or (b) your Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses (the addresses of computers on the Internet). Note that, while IP is considered personally identifiable information in many jurisdictions (such as the EEA), there are some jurisdictions in which such data is not considered as Personal Information. Therefore, we treat such information as Personal Information, in accordance with applicable laws. The IP is collected by our third party analytic partners that offer ways to opt-out, all as detailed below. You are not required by law to provide us with any information. You can always avoid from providing us certain Personal Information; however, you acknowledge that it may prevent you from engaging in certain Services. In the event we combine Personal Information with Non-Personal Information, the combined information will be treated as Personal Information for as long as it remains combined.
2. How we Collect Information
Depending on the nature of your interaction with the Services, we may collect information as follows:
(i) Automatically – we may use Cookies (as elaborated in the Section below) to gather some information automatically.
(ii) Provided by you voluntarily – we will collect information if and when you choose to provide us with the information, such as through a registration process, newsletter registration, contact us communications, etc.
3. Disclosure of Information
We make every effort to preserve user privacy; we may need to disclose Personal Information only if required to do so by law or when necessary to comply with a current judicial proceeding, a court order, or legal process served on our Site. We may also share your information with:
(i) A third party performing services on our behalf, such as a payment processor who has agreed to keep your information confidential (for example, when processing your credit card payment).
4. Securing the Information
Our servers hold no personal information about you other than your name, email address, and contact information and we hold no financial information on our web server at any time. We take reasonable technical measures to guard against unauthorized or unlawful processing of the information collected against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, your personal data.
5. Information You Share
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.
(i) 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.
6. Cookies
We may make use of “cookies” on our website. A cookie is a small text file that can be placed and stored on your computer’s hard disc when you visit a website for record keeping purposes. A cookie itself is not designed or intended to read any information from a user’s computer (other than the contents of the cookie); rather, it is an identifier used by the website that originally placed it on your hard drive. The actual contents of the cookie information can be retrieved by the same server to identify the computer and subsequently to customize, monitor, or regulate the use of a site based on information stored on the host server. Therefore, cookies only identify the user’s computer to the website which may correlate other information, including personally identifying information, with the cookie. We use cookies to allow us to automate access and the data entry functions of our website such as to correlate online ordering information for purchases you may make while at the website (if any), tailor our website to your preferences or interests, or customize promotions or marketing. In addition, cookies allow us to track use of our Site to determine those areas which are useful or popular and those that are not thereby enabling us to improve and update our Site effectively. Most web browsers can either alert you to the use of cookies or refuse to accept cookies entirely. If you are not sure how to do this or whether you have this option you should consult the documentation that accompanied your web browser. You should be aware that if you elect not to accept cookies, some parts of our site may not function properly or permit access. We may permit third parties to use cookies or other technology to collect information about your online and application usage activities across our Site, such as:
(i) Google Analytics. This cookie is placed in order to track and analyze the use of our Services, for internal purposes. To learn more about how Google uses data from our use of Google Analytics Cookies, we recommend you review Google’s policies located at: https://www.google.com/policies/privacy/partners. We also encourage you to review the Google Analytics’ currently available opt-outs for the web tool available at: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
(ii) Afterclick. This cookie is used to internally analyze and better understand how our users use the website itself. We do not make the information available to any outside parties. If you wish to opt out of the use of this cookie you may do so by clicking the link here which will disable the cookie and return you to the homepage: https://dancemodelclub.com/?pixel_optout=true
(iii) 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.
Visitor comments also may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
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.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
7. Links & Embeded Content
We may offer links from our website to other websites which may be hosted by our partners or by unrelated companies which we think may be of interest to you. Such websites are not governed by this privacy policy and we make no representation as to their practices for dealing with your personal information. We recommend that you check the privacy policy of any website at the beginning of your visit.
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.
8. Children
You represent and warrant that, (i) if you are located in the US, you are at least 13 years of age; or if you are located in any other GEO, you are above the age defined as “child” under applicable laws in your jurisdiction (collectively “Child” or “Children”); and (ii) you are of legal competence to enter into this Privacy Policy. If you are under 18, please be sure to read the terms of this Privacy Policy with your parents or legal guardians. The Services are not directed or intended for Children, as defined under applicable law, and we do not knowingly collect or solicit information from children. If we obtain actual knowledge that a user is considered as a Child under applicable law, we will take steps to immediately delete such user’s accounts.
9. Retention and Storage of the Information We Collect
We will retain your information for a reasonable time to permit us to use it for the purposes that we have communicated to you. We may use the services of third party companies to physically collect and store your information on our behalf. Any such companies will have to comply with the terms of this policy. We never sell our users private information!
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.
10. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may change the terms of this privacy policy from time to time without notice in order to reflect our practices and provide greater protection for your information. Information collected by us will be dealt with in accordance with the provisions of our policy which were in effect at the time of collection. If we change this privacy policy, we will change the “last updated” date at the top of the page.
11. Data Transfer
We may store or process your Personal Information in the United States or in other countries. Please note that any information you provide to us through your use of our Site or Service may be transferred to and processed in countries other than the country from which you accessed our Site or Service, including the United States. If you are a resident of the European Economic Area (“EEA”) we will take appropriate measures to ensure that your personal data receives an adequate level of data protection upon its transfer outside of the EEA. If you are a resident of a jurisdiction where transfer of your personal data requires your consent, then your consent to this Privacy Policy evidenced by the use of any of our services also includes your express consent for such transfer of your data.
12. Contacting Us
Any requests for modification of your information or questions in respect to this policy should be addressed on our Contact Page.