Privacy Policy

This statement covers the services provided by the Dot to Dot Drama Limited and Great Big Dance Off websites.
The purpose of this statement is to inform users of our websites about what information is collected about them when they visit this site, how this information is used if it is disclosed and the ways in which we protect users’ privacy.

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Information we collect from visitors

If you choose to supply us with your personal information (using registration or contact forms), we may use it in the following ways:

To process your request/enquiry made via this website
To keep you informed about the event you have enquired about.
To register you for any events or competitions you have entered.
To keep you informed about future events.
To fulfil orders of our merchandising.*
For internal record keeping.
To improve our products and services.

*You have the right to ask us to remove your personal data from these systems at any time – but you may need to provide other forms of payment for merchandise. Hardcopy order forms are automatically destroyed on completion of financial transactions and dispatch of merchandise.

Controlling your personal information

Data supplied to us for event registration is retained solely for administrative purposes and sending you alerts to our future events. Data stored electronically will be removed upon request.

You may at any time, request details of personal information which we hold about you.

If you would like a copy of the information held please contact (by email or letter):

Dot to Dot Drama / The Great Big Dance Off, Madison Cottage, Roman Road, Birdlip Gloucestershire Gl48JH
Email: info@dottodotdrama.co.uk

If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the above address. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect. You may also ask us to delete information we hold about you at any time.
We will endeavour to respond within 48 hours.

Where your data is stored

Our Service is hosted by Weebly, Inc. (“Weebly”). Weebly provides us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to provide the Service to you. Your information, including Personal Information, may be stored through Weebly’s servers. By using the Service, you consent to Weebly’s collection, disclosure, storage, and use of your Personal Information in accordance with Weebly’s privacy policy available at https://www.weebly.com/privacy.

Keeping Your Data Secure

Sending information over the Internet without encryption is not completely secure and we can’t guarantee the security of your data while it is transit. Any data you send is at your own risk. We have procedures and security features in place to keep your data secure once we receive it.

Contacting us and withdrawing consent

If you have any questions regarding this Privacy Policy or the practices of this site, or wish to withdraw your consent for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your Personal Information, please contact us by sending an email to info@dottodotdrama.co.uk.
We will remove your personal information from our website order system after 60 days.

Retention Period

Where we hold data from people with whom we have not had contact with for 7 years, that data will be deleted.

Links to other websites

Our websites do not contain links to third-party sites although as part of the services we offer, we may occasionally provide you with links to other websites or applications. However, we are not responsible for the privacy practices employed by those websites or the information or content they contain. This Privacy Policy applies solely to information collected by us through the service. Therefore, this Privacy Policy does not apply to your use of a third-party website accessed by selecting a link via our service. We encourage our users to read the privacy statements of other websites before proceeding to use them.

Disclosing your information

We may pass on your personal information if we have a legal obligation to do so. This would normally include exchanging information with:
the police, government departments local health and education authorities. This is chiefly to address safeguarding concerns or in compliance with child employment/performance licencing regulations. In no other way will information be requested or shared by us.

Third Party Data Disclosure

We do not share information about you, your school or pupils with any third party. We won’t share your information with any other organisations for marketing, market research or commercial purposes.
From time to time we may ask that photographs of your school performance groups as supplied by you or taken at our events may be included in our programmes and websites. Such images will only be published with your express permission and where schools have obtained parental/guardian consent to release them. Identifiers (names, addresses and other specific personal details) pertaining to the children in the images will never be requested or published by us.
Personal data will never be shared with photographers or film companies contracted by Dot to Dot Drama ltd/ The Great Big Dance Off at any stage during the recording, editing or final distribution of our event DVDs. We will always notify you if photography or image recording will take place at an event.

Data Breach

In the unlikely event of a data breach, you will be informed as soon as possible and you will be asked to change your password on our website, our online learning area and our portfolio system.

Changes to this privacy policy

If this privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances if any, we will share it with other parties.

Copyright

Any redistribution or reproduction of part or all of the contents in any form is prohibited other than the following:
You may print or download to local hard disk extracts for Your personal and non-commercial use only
You may copy the content to individual third parties for their personal use, but only if you acknowledge the website as the source of the material

You may not, except with our express written permission, distribute or commercially exploit the content. Nor may you transmit it or store it in any other website or another form of the electronic retrieval system.

Data Protection:

The Great Big Dance Off operates in accordance with the Data Protection Act. If you have opted to receive information from us we will use your details for these purposes: mailing or market research. If you have opted to allow your data to be shared, we will disclose your details to third parties for the purposes of market research or mailing. If you wish to alter your data protection preferences, please email us at info@thegreatbigdanceoff.com and quote “data protection” in the subject line

Cookies:

The Great Big Dance Off would like to use cookies to store information on your computer to improve the functionality available to you through our website. Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

The cookies that we use are essential for parts of the site to operate and have already been set. Without these cookies, you will not be able to enter your school for the competition online as they are necessary to make the shopping basket part of the site work and to remember, for example, what you have put in your shopping basket. You may delete and block all cookies from this site, but parts of the site will not work and to purchase tickets, you would need to email us thegreatbigdanceoff@gmail.com and quote “cookies” in the subject line.

The Great Big Dance Off website also uses cookies for analytics reasons and may use Google Analytics tracking code. To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, please visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout
Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org/manage-cookies

Last updated 01/06/2023