Privacy Policy
Effective date: July 12, 2026
Belly Dance Practice Studio respects your privacy and is committed to handling personal information responsibly.
This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect through bellydancepracticestudio.com, how we use it, when it may be shared, and the choices available to you.
Who we are
Belly Dance Practice Studio offers belly dance classes, workshops, events, educational resources, and related services.
Questions about this policy or your personal information may be sent to:
Belly Dance Practice Studio
hello@bellydancepracticestudio.com
Information you provide directly
We may collect information that you choose to provide when you:
Register for an event, workshop, class, or program
Complete a contact form
Subscribe to email updates
Make a purchase
Request a cancellation, credit, refund, or registration transfer
Communicate with us by email or another approved channel
Provide feedback, testimonials, survey responses, or reviews
This information may include:
Your name
Email address
Phone number
Billing information
The event, class, or service purchased
The names of people included in a registration
Parent or guardian information when applicable
Questions or messages you send
Optional accessibility, movement, injury, or participation information
Marketing preferences and consent records
Please provide only information that is reasonably necessary for your inquiry or participation.
Information collected automatically
When you visit the website, Squarespace and related service providers may automatically collect certain technical and usage information, including:
Internet Protocol address
Browser and device information
Pages viewed
Referring website or link
Date and time of the visit
General interaction with the website
Cookie and analytics information
Squarespace uses necessary, functional, analytics, and other cookies depending on the features enabled on a site.
How we use personal information
We may use personal information to:
Process registrations and purchases
Confirm your event date, class, or order
Provide event instructions, reminders, updates, and location information
Respond to questions and contact-form submissions
Provide reasonable participation support when requested
Manage cancellations, credits, transfers, and refunds
Maintain attendee and customer records
Send newsletters and promotional emails when you have opted in
Improve the website, classes, events, and customer experience
Prevent spam, fraud, misuse, or security problems
Comply with legal, tax, accounting, and operational obligations
Enforce our policies and protect the safety and rights of participants and the business
Email marketing
Email marketing and subscriber forms are managed through Kit.
When you subscribe, Kit may process information such as your name, email address, consent status, signup source, date and time of signup, Internet Protocol address, and engagement with emails.
We send marketing emails only when you have provided the appropriate permission. Every marketing email will include a way to unsubscribe.
Unsubscribing from marketing does not prevent us from sending necessary transactional messages about a purchase, registration, cancellation, schedule change, safety issue, or other service you requested.
Kit processes subscriber information according to its own privacy and data-processing terms.
Payments and purchases
Purchases are processed through Squarespace and Squarespace Payments or their payment-processing partners.
Belly Dance Practice Studio receives information needed to manage the order, such as:
Customer name
Contact information
Purchased item
Payment status
Order total
Limited transaction details
We do not directly receive or store your complete payment-card number.
Payment providers process payment information according to their own privacy, security, and legal requirements.
Contact forms and registration forms
Information submitted through Squarespace forms may be stored through Squarespace and delivered to Belly Dance Practice Studio by email or another connected storage service.
Registration-form responses remain connected to the applicable customer order and may be used to prepare attendee lists, provide event communication, and support participation.
Please do not submit detailed medical records, diagnoses, or other unnecessary sensitive information through a general website form.
Accessibility, injury, and participation information
You may voluntarily provide information about an accessibility need, injury, movement concern, or other circumstance that may affect participation.
We use this information only to:
Respond to your question
Discuss reasonable adjustments
Assess whether an activity appears appropriate within the limits of our services
Prepare for your participation
Protect participant safety
Belly Dance Practice Studio is not a medical provider, and information submitted through the website does not create a medical or healthcare relationship.
Cookies and analytics
The website may use cookies and similar technologies for:
Essential website operation
Security
Shopping-cart and checkout functions
Form operation
Website preferences
Analytics and performance measurement
Marketing features, when enabled
You may be able to control nonessential cookies through the website’s cookie banner or through your browser settings.
Disabling certain cookies may affect how some website features function. Squarespace provides tools for cookie notices and consent settings, including links to a privacy or cookie policy.
Service providers
We may use trusted service providers to operate the business and website, including:
Squarespace for website hosting, forms, commerce, analytics, and related services
Squarespace Payments and associated payment partners for payment processing
Kit for newsletter subscriptions and email marketing
Google Workspace for business email, communication, and document storage
Other providers reasonably required for accounting, security, scheduling, legal compliance, or business operations
These providers may process information only as needed to perform their services, subject to their own privacy policies and contractual obligations.
Social-media links
The website may link to social-media platforms such as Instagram and Facebook.
When you click one of these links, the platform may collect information according to its own privacy policy. Belly Dance Practice Studio does not control the data practices of third-party social-media platforms.
How information may be shared
We do not sell or rent your personal information to third-party marketers.
Information may be shared:
With service providers necessary to operate the website and business
When you direct us or provide consent
To process a registration, payment, refund, or other requested service
To comply with a valid legal requirement
To investigate fraud, abuse, safety concerns, or policy violations
To protect the rights, property, or safety of Belly Dance Practice Studio, participants, customers, or others
In connection with a future sale, transfer, restructuring, or closure of the business, subject to applicable law
Children’s privacy
The website is intended for a general audience and is not directed to children under 13.
Students age 12 may be eligible for certain in-person activities when a parent or guardian is also registered and participating. However, online registration, payment, newsletter signup, and communication for anyone under 13 must be completed by a parent or legal guardian.
We do not knowingly request that a child under 13 submit personal information directly through the website.
If we learn that personal information was submitted directly by a child under 13 without appropriate parental involvement, we will take reasonable steps to delete it.
Federal COPPA requirements apply when a website directed to children—or a general-audience website with actual knowledge—collects personal information online from a child under 13.
Data retention
We retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary for purposes such as:
Providing services
Maintaining registration and order records
Responding to inquiries
Managing customer relationships
Meeting tax, accounting, insurance, dispute-resolution, and legal obligations
Maintaining proof of marketing consent
Protecting the business and its participants
Retention periods may differ depending on the type of information and the reason it was collected.
Security
We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational measures to protect personal information.
However, no website, email account, storage platform, or internet transmission can be guaranteed completely secure. Please use care when deciding what information to submit online.
Your choices and requests
You may contact us to request that we:
Correct inaccurate contact information
Update your communication preferences
Remove you from marketing emails
Provide information about personal data we maintain about you
Delete information when we are not legally or operationally required to retain it
Some information may need to be kept to document purchases, refunds, consent, taxes, disputes, safety matters, or legal compliance.
To make a privacy request, email:
hello@bellydancepracticestudio.com
We may need to verify your identity before completing certain requests.
Visitors from outside the United States
Belly Dance Practice Studio is based in the United States.
If you access the website from another country, your information may be processed or stored in the United States or other locations used by our service providers. Privacy protections in those locations may differ from those in your country.
Changes to this policy
We may update this Privacy Policy as the website, services, technology, or legal requirements change.
The updated version will be posted on this page with a revised effective date.
Contact
Questions or requests concerning privacy may be sent to:
Belly Dance Practice Studio
hello@bellydancepracticestudio.com