PRIVACY POLICY - COMMITMENT TO YOUR PRIVACY
This site is owned and operated by
U4ria Dance Studio. Your privacy on the Internet is of
the utmost importance to us. At U4ria, we want to make
your experience online satisfying and safe.
Because we gather certain types of
information about our users, we feel you should fully
understand our policy and the terms and conditions
surrounding the capture and use of that information.
This privacy statement discloses what information we
gather and how we use it.
INFORMATION U4RIA DANCE STUDIO
GATHERS AND TRACKS
U4ria Dance Studio gathers two
types of information about users:
• Information that users provide
through optional, voluntary submissions. These are
voluntary submissions to receive our electronic
newsletters, to participate in our message boards or
forums, to email a friend, and from participation in
polls and surveys:
• Information U4ria gathers through
aggregated tracking information derived mainly by
tallying page views throughout our sites. This
information allows us to better tailor our content to
readers' needs and to help our advertisers and sponsors
better understand the demographics of our audience.
Because U4ria derives its revenue mainly from
sponsorships and advertising, providing such aggregated
demographic data is essential to keeping our service
free to users. Under no circumstances does U4ria divulge
any information about an individual user to a third
party.
U4ria Dance Studio Gathers User Information In The
Following Processes:
Optional Voluntary Information
We offer the following free services,
which require some type of voluntary submission of
personal information by users:
- Electronic newsletters policy
(Dispatches)
We will offer a free electronic newsletter to users.
U4ria gathers the email addresses of users who
voluntarily subscribe. Users may remove themselves
from this mailing list by following the link
provided in every newsletter that points users to
the subscription management page. Users can also
subscribe to the newsletters at the time of
registration.
- Schedule Sign in
Users of the site's Online Schedule Signup must
register separately for these services (it is free
of charge) in order to register for a class or check
their schedule, although they needn't register to
view the general class schedule. During registration
the user is required to supply a username, password,
and email address.
Children
Consistent with the Federal Children's
Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998 (COPPA), we will
never knowingly request personally identifiable
information from anyone under the age of 13 without
requesting parental consent.
Usage tracking
U4ria Dance Studio tracks user traffic
patterns throughout all of our sites. However, we do not
correlate this information with data about individual
users. U4ria Dance Studio does break down overall usage
statistics according to a user's domain name, browser
type, and MIME type by reading this information from the
browser string (information contained in every user's
browser).
U4ria Dance Studio sometimes tracks
and catalogs the search terms that users enter in our
Search function, but this tracking is never associated
with individual users. We use tracking information to
determine which areas of our sites users like and don't
like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a
better service for you.
Cookies
We may place a text file called a
"cookie" in the browser files of your computer. The
cookie itself does not contain Personal Information
although it will enable us to relate your use of this
site to information that you have specifically and
knowingly provided. But the only personal information a
cookie can contain is information you supply yourself. A
cookie can't read data off your hard disk or read cookie
files created by other sites. U4ria Dance Studio uses
cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described
above). Our advertising system delivers a one-time
cookie to better track ad impressions and click rates.
You can refuse cookies by turning them
off in your browser. If you've set your browser to warn
you before accepting cookies, you will receive the
warning message with each cookie. You do not need to
have cookies turned on to use this site. However, you do
need cookies to participate actively in message boards,
forums, polling and surveys.
Privacy Policy Use
USE OF INFORMATION
U4ria Dance Studio uses any
information voluntarily given by our users to enhance
their experience in our network of sites, whether to
provide interactive or personalized elements on the
sites or to better prepare future content based on the
interests of our users.
As stated above, we use information that users
voluntarily provide in order to send out electronic
newsletters and to enable users to participate in polls,
surveys, message boards, and forums. We send out
newsletters to subscribers on a regular schedule
(depending on the newsletter), and occasionally send out
special editions when we think subscribers might be
particularly interested in something we are doing. U4ria
Dance Studio never shares newsletter mailing lists with
any third parties, including advertisers, sponsors or
partners.
When we use tracking information to
determine which areas of our sites users like and don't
like based on traffic to those areas. We do not track
what individual users read, but rather how well each
page performs overall. This helps us continue to build a
better service for you. We track search terms entered in
Search function as one of many measures of what
interests our users. But we don't track which terms a
particular user enters.
U4ria Dance Studio creates aggregate
reports on user demographics and traffic patterns for
advertisers, sponsors and partners. This allows our
advertisers to advertise more effectively, and allows
our users to receive advertisements that are pertinent
to their needs. Because we don't track the usage
patterns of individual users, an advertiser or sponsor
will never know that a specific user clicked their ad.
We will not disclose any information about any
individual user except to comply with applicable law or
valid legal process or to protect the personal safety of
our users or the public.
SHARING OF THE INFORMATION
U4ria Dance Studio uses the
above-described information to tailor our content to
suit your needs and help our advertisers better
understand our audience's demographics. This is
essential to keeping our service free. We will not share
information about individual users with any third party,
except to comply with applicable law or valid legal
process or to protect the personal safety of our users
or the public.
SECURITY
U4ria Dance Studio operates secure
data networks protected by industry standard firewall
and password protection systems. Our security and
privacy policies are periodically reviewed and enhanced
as necessary and only authorized individuals have access
to the information provided by our customers.
OPT-OUT POLICY
We give users options wherever
necessary and practical. Such choices include:
• Opting not to register to receive
our electronic newsletters.
• Opting not to participate in certain
interactive areas, which completely alleviates the need
to gather any personally identifiable information from
our users
YOUR CONSENT
By using this site, you consent to the
collection and use of this information by U4ria Dance
Studio. If we decide to change our privacy policy, we
will post those changes on this page so that you are
always aware of what information we collect, how we use
it, and under what circumstances we disclose it.
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