Legal & Privacy Policy
Effective August 7, 2025
Thank you for visiting the Privacy Policy page of FatChanceBellyDance, Inc. (“FCBD”). FCBD values your right of privacy and wants you to feel comfortable and secure using any of our websites at www.fatchancebellydance.org, www.fcbd.com, and all other FCBD websites (the “FCBD Websites”). This page describes our policy with regard to online privacy and explains how you can opt-out of certain uses and disclosures of your personal information. As a courtesy, this page also provides a number of useful links to third party information regarding privacy protection. However, FCBD does not assume any responsibility for the accuracy and/or completeness of such third party information.
Your Acceptance
By visiting, using, and/or registering on any of the FCBD Websites, you signify your agreement to the terms and conditions of this Privacy Policy. If you do not so agree, you should not use the FBCD Websites. Should we make any substantial changes in the way we collect and/or use any personal information we will amend this Privacy Policy.
FCBD Websites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the FCBD Websites. Links within these sites could direct you to third party websites that are not owned or controlled by FCBD. FCBD has no control over, and assumes no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites, which may employ cookies and/or collect personal information. In addition, FCBD will not and cannot censor or edit the content of any third party site. We encourage you to be aware when you leave the FCBD Websites, and to read the privacy policy of each website that you visit.
What Type of Personal Information Do We Collect and Use?
Whenever you register for FCBD instruction or other services, send us an email, purchase products from a FCBD Website, register on one of the FCBD Websites, subscribe to one of our newsletters, or otherwise transmit information via any of the FCBD Websites, FCBD may obtain and collect personally identifiable contact information (expressed herein generally as “personal information”) such as your name, email address, payment information and/or mailing address.
How Do We Use Personal Information?
Personal information is used by FCBD to identify customers and provide them with support, services, mailings, sales and marketing actions, billing, and to meet contractual obligations. FCBD will never disclose your name, address, email address or phone number to third parties for any purpose. If you wish to stop receiving a FCBD newsletter that you have previously subscribed for, please follow the “unsubscribe” instructions contained at the bottom of each newsletter.
The legal basis for our processing of your data is consent or that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are a party or to take steps at your request prior to entering into a contract.
FCBD may always use personal information in the following ways:
To enable us to respond to you generally, or to process, validate and verify requests and/or purchase orders. To perform any services requested by you. To compile and/or distribute aggregate – never individual – information about our website users and aggregate usage patterns.
Aggregate Information
FCBD may share aggregate statistical information with business partners, sponsors or other third parties, but none of them receive individual identifying information about you. For example, we may tell an advertiser that a certain number of visitors visited a certain area on a website, or that a certain number of men and a certain number of women filled out registration forms, but we would not disclose anything that uniquely identifies those individuals.
Unsolicited Emails Received by You
FCBD does not send unsolicited bulk emails to anyone who has requested that we do not contact them. We send our newsletters only to those who have taken affirmative steps to subscribe. If you have inadvertently received one of our newsletters, or if you simply wish to stop receiving them, please follow the “unsubscribe” instructions contained in each newsletter or send a request through “safeunsubscribe” which can be accessed at the newsletter registration page of the FCBD Websites.
Chat Rooms and Forums
The FCBD Websites may now or in the future include chat rooms, forums, message boards, and/or news groups. Any information that is disclosed in these areas becomes public information. You should exercise caution before disclosing your personal information via these public venues, which you do at your own risk. If you do so, you may receive unsolicited emails or “spam” from others. FCBD cannot safeguard the privacy of personal information that is disclosed online in this manner.
Our Cookies
Your browser software includes a feature called “cookies.” If enabled, cookies may store small amounts of data on your computer about your visit to any of the FCBD Websites. However, cookies tell us nothing about you personally unless you specifically give us additional information. Cookies assist us in tracking which of our features you like best and what content you may have viewed during past visits. When you re-visit the FCBD Websites, cookies can enable us to customize our content according to your preferences. We may use cookies to: Deep count of return visits to the FCBD Websites, accumulate and report anonymous, aggregate, statistical information, deliver content specific to your interests or past viewing history,save your password so you don’t have to re-enter it each time you visit our websites. You can also disable cookies. By modifying your browser preferences, you can accept or reject all cookies, or request a notification when a cookie is set.
Children’s Online Privacy Protection
The FCBD Websites comply with the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act of 1998, which protects the privacy of children using the Internet. FCBD does not knowingly collect contact or personal information from children under 13. The FCBD Websites are not intended to solicit information of any kind from children under 13. It is possible that by fraud or deception we may receive information pertaining to children under 13. If we are notified of this, as soon as we verify the information, we will immediately obtain parental consent or otherwise delete the information. If you want to notify us of our receipt of information by children under 13, please do so by emailing us at fcbd@fcbd.com.
IP Addresses
FCBD does not store or record the Internet Protocol (“IP”) addresses of visitors to the Website for marketing purposes. An IP address is a number assigned to your computer whenever you access the Internet. An Internet Service Providers (“ISP”) typically assigns a random IP addresses at the time of your dial-up. For local area network (“LAN”), DSL, or cable modem users, an IP address may be permanently assigned to a particular computer. We cannot determine your identity solely based upon your IP address. Your IP address can, however, reveal what geographic area you are connecting from, or which ISP you are using.
Your Rights
Your principal rights under data protection law are:
- The right to access;
- The right to rectification;
- The right to erasure;
- The right to restrict processing;
- The right to object to processing;
- The right to data portability;
- The right to complain to a supervisory authority; and
- The right to withdraw consent.
Access to Information
You have the right to request access to the information we have on you. You can do this by contacting us at fcbd@fcbd.com. We will make sure to provide you with a copy of the data we process about you. In order to comply with your request, we may ask you to verify your identity. We will fulfil your request by sending your copy electronically, unless the request expressly specifies a different method.
Information Correction & Deletion
If you believe that the information we have about you is incorrect, you are welcome to contact us so we can update it and keep your data accurate. Any data that is no longer needed for the purposes specified above will be deleted. If at any point you wish for us to delete information about you, please contact us at fcbd@fcbd.com.
Personal data that we process for any purpose shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose.
Changes to Our Policy
We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website. Please check this page occasionally to ensure that you are happy with any changes to our policy. We may notify of significant changes to this policy by e-mail.
Contact Information
If you have questions or concerns regarding this Privacy Policy, please contact us at fcbd@fcbd.com.