Privacy Policy

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General information

We are grateful for your interest in our website. The web pages under the www.idancecontemporary.gallery URL (hereinafter "website") are operated by I Dance Contemporary represented by CEO Vlad Merariu.

Protecting your right to privacy is very important to us. We strictly adhere to data protection regulations regarding the collection, processing and use of your personal information. We would like to inform you here about what personal data we collect and for which purposes so that you are aware of the personal information being recorded while you are visiting our web pages and utilizing the services offered there.

These policies apply exclusively to the website, including its subpages. They do not apply to third-party web pages you may be referred to via a link.

When you purchase something from our store, as part of the buying and selling process, we collect the personal information you give us such as your name, address and email address.

When you browse our store, we also automatically receive your computer’s internet protocol (IP) address in order to provide us with information that helps us learn about your browser and operating system.

Email marketing (if applicable): With your permission, we may send you emails about our store, new products and other updates.

How do you get my consent?
When you provide us with personal information to complete a transaction, verify your credit card, place an order, arrange for a delivery or return a purchase, we imply that you consent to our collecting it and using it for that specific reason only.
If we ask for your personal information for a secondary reason, like marketing, we will either ask you directly for your expressed consent, or provide you with an opportunity to say no.

How do I withdraw my consent?
If after you opt-in, you change your mind, you may withdraw your consent for us to contact you, for the continued collection, use or disclosure of your information, at anytime, by contacting us at idancecontemporary@gmail.com.

We may disclose your personal information if we are required by law to do so or if you violate our Terms of Service.

Our store is hosted on Shopify Inc. They provide us with the online e-commerce platform that allows us to sell our products and services to you.

Your data is stored through Shopify’s data storage, databases and the general Shopify application. They store your data on a secure server behind a firewall.

Payment:
If you choose a direct payment gateway to complete your purchase, then Shopify stores your credit card data. It is encrypted through the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). Your purchase transaction data is stored only as long as is necessary to complete your purchase transaction. After that is complete, your purchase transaction information is deleted.

All direct payment gateways adhere to the standards set by PCI-DSS as managed by the PCI Security Standards Council, which is a joint effort of brands like Visa, Mastercard, American Express and Discover.

PCI-DSS requirements help ensure the secure handling of credit card information by our store and its service providers.
For more insight, you may also want to read Shopify’s Terms of Service (https://www.shopify.com/legal/terms) or Privacy Statement (https://www.shopify.com/legal/privacy).

In general, the third-party providers used by us will only collect, use and disclose your information to the extent necessary to allow them to perform the services they provide to us.

However, certain third-party service providers, such as payment gateways and other payment transaction processors, have their own privacy policies in respect to the information we are required to provide to them for your purchase-related transactions.
For these providers, we recommend that you read their privacy policies so you can understand the manner in which your personal information will be handled by these providers.

In particular, remember that certain providers may be located in or have facilities that are located a different jurisdiction than either you or us. So if you elect to proceed with a transaction that involves the services of a third-party service provider, then your information may become subject to the laws of the jurisdiction(s) in which that service provider or its facilities are located.

As an example, if you are located in Canada and your transaction is processed by a payment gateway located in the United States, then your personal information used in completing that transaction may be subject to disclosure under United States legislation, including the Patriot Act.

Once you leave our store’s website or are redirected to a third-party website or application, you are no longer governed by this Privacy Policy or our website’s Terms of Service.

Links
When you click on links on our store, they may direct you away from our site. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of other sites and encourage you to read their privacy statements.

To protect your personal information, we take reasonable precautions and follow industry best practices to make sure it is not inappropriately lost, misused, accessed, disclosed, altered or destroyed.

If you provide us with your credit card information, the information is encrypted using secure socket layer technology (SSL) and stored with a AES-256 encryption.  Although no method of transmission over the Internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, we follow all PCI-DSS requirements and implement additional generally accepted industry standards.

We use cookies on various pages of our website in order to make it more attractive to visitors and to enable the use of certain functions.

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer for this purpose. No association of information stored in a cookie is made with personal data identifying you.

Most of the cookies used by us are deleted from your hard drive at the end of your browsing session (these are called session cookies).

Other cookies (persistent cookies) remain on your computer and enable us to identify your computer on your next visit. These cookies mean that you will not have to re-enter your details for future orders and make it easier for you to complete forms.

Idancecontemporary.gallery also uses Google Analytics Demographics Reports and Remarketing to advertise online. Third-party vendors, including Google, may show idancecontemporary.gallery ads on sites across the Internet. Idancecontemporary.gallery and third-party vendors, including Google, use first-party cookies and third-party cookies together to inform, optimize, and serve ads based on past visits to the idancecontemporary.gallery website and to report how ad impressions, other uses of ad services, and interactions with these ad impressions and ad services are related to visits to the I Dance Contemporary website.

You may opt-out of the use of cookies by visiting Google's Advertising and Privacy page: http://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/.

The information generated by the cookie regarding your use of the website will not be transferred to third parties. You have the option of deleting cookies from your computer or adjusting your browser settings so that you are warned about cookies, and you may decide to accept cookies on a case-by-case basis or not at all. Doing so, however, may lead to restricted use of certain functions on the website.

Here is a list of cookies that we use. We’ve listed them here so you that you can choose if you want to opt-out of cookies or not.
 _session_id, unique token, sessional, Allows Shopify to store information about your session (referrer, landing page, etc).
 _shopify_visit, no data held, Persistent for 30 minutes from the last visit, Used by our website provider’s internal stats tracker to record the number of visits
 _shopify_uniq, no data held, expires midnight (relative to the visitor) of the next day, Counts the number of visits to a store by a single customer.
cart, unique token, persistent for 2 weeks, Stores information about the contents of your cart.
 _secure_session_id, unique token, sessional
 storefront_digest, unique token, indefinite If the shop has a password, this is used to determine if the current visitor has access.

The following notes on the creation of pseudo-anonymous user profiles pertain if and when this website makes use of any of the following analysis tools:
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc. ("Google"). Google Analytics uses "cookies," which are text files placed on your computer, to help the website analyze how visitors use the site.

The information generated by cookies about your use of the website is usually transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. If IP anonymization is activated on this website, within EU Member States or in other member states of the European Economic Area, Google will shorten your IP address before transmitting it.

Your full IP address will only be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and shortened there in exceptional cases. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for the website operator and providing other services for the website operator relating to website activity and internet usage.

Google will not associate your browser’s IP address transmitted for Google Analytics purposes with any other data held by Google. You may refuse the use of cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser; however, please note that if you do this you may not be able to use the full functionality of this website.

Furthermore, you can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) and its processing by Google by downloading and installing the browser plug-in provided under this link:
http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

In addition, there is the option of setting an opt-out cookie that will prevent the future acquisition of your data by Google Analytics while visiting our website by activating this link.
You can find further information on the terms of use and privacy policy of Google Analytics at https://support.google.com/analytics/answer/6004245?hl=en.

This website may employ so-called "social plugins" from the Facebook, Instagram, Pinterest and Google+ social networks, the Twitter microblogging service, as well as the AddThis bookmarking service.

To the extent that such services are used, the following remarks apply:

These services and plugins are operated by the providers Facebook, Pinterest, Google Inc., Twitter Inc., and AddThis, LLC.

For EU citizens, the social network Facebook.com is operated by Facebook Ireland Ltd., 4 Grand Canal Square, Grand Canal Harbour, Dublin 2, Ireland, and outside the EU by Facebook Inc., 1601 S. California Ave, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA ("Facebook").

Facebook plugins can be recognized by one of the Facebook logos (white "f" over a blue tile or a "thumbs up" icon) or by the words "Facebook Social Plugin".

The list and the appearance of the Facebook Social plugins can be seen at: https://developers.facebook.com/docs/plugins.

Instagram is operated by Instagram LLC., 1601 Willow Road, Menlo Park, CA 94025, USA ("Instagram"). Click here for an overview of the Instagram plugin and its appearance: http://blog.instagram.com/post/36222022872/introducing-instagram-badges.

Google+ is operated by Google Inc., 1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA ("Google"). Google+ plugins can be recognized by the logo "+1" on a white or colored background. Click here for an overview of the Google+ plugin and its appearance: https://developers.google.com/+/web.

Twitter is operated by Twitter Inc., 1355 Market St, Suite 900, San Francisco, CA 94103, USA ("Twitter"). Twitter plugins can be recognized by the Twitter logo, a blue "Twitter Bird." Click here for an overview of the Twitter plugin and its appearance: https://twitter.com/about/resources/buttons.

AddThis is operated by AddThis LLC, Inc. 8000 West Park Drive, Suite 625, McLean, VA 2210 USA.  AddThis plugins are recognizable by AddThis logo, in the form of a plus sign on an orange background. You can find an overview of the AddThis plugin and its appearance here: https://www.addthis.com/get/sharing.


Pinterest is operated by Pinterest Inc., 635 High Street, Palo Alto, CA, 94301, USA ("Pinterest"). Click here for Pinterest's data protection policy: https://about.pinterest.com/en/privacy-policy.

When you open a webpage on our site that contains one of these plugins, your browser will establish a direct connection with the corresponding servers.

The contents of the plugin are transferred directly to your browser from the corresponding servers and is then integrated into the website.

Through linking plugins, the provider receives the information that you have accessed a particular page on our website. Your visit will be recorded by the respective social media platform provider even if you are not a member or are not currently logged into the respective network or website.

AddThis stores the identity of your browser in a cookie on your computer. This information (including your IP address) is transmitted directly to the relevant provider’s server in the USA and stored there. AddThis uses this data to create anonymous user profiles which serve as the basis for the personalized and interest-based advertising addressed to visitors of web pages with the AddThis plugin.



If you are logged in to any of these social networks, they can assign your visit on our website to your profile immediately. When you interact with the plugins (for example, press the Facebook "Like" button), or make a comment, this information is also transmitted directly to a Facebook, Google+ or Twitter server and stored there. The information will also be posted on your Facebook, Google+ or Twitter profile and shown to your contacts.

Even if you are not a member or else currently logged into the respective network or website, there is still a chance that they will obtain your IP address and store it.

For the purpose and scope of data collection and further processing and use of data by the different networks and providers as well as their rights in this regard and options for settings, please refer to their respective privacy policies.

Facebook data use policy:
http://www.facebook.com/policy.php

Google data use policy:
http://www.google.com/intl/de/+/policy/+1button.html

Twitter data use policy:
https://twitter.com/privacy

AddThis data use policy:
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/privacy-policy

Instagram data use policy:
http://help.instagram.com/155833707900388

Pinterest data use policy:
http://pinterest.com/about/privacy

If you do not wish Google, Facebook or Twitter to assign the data collected on our website to your profile, you will need to log out from the respective service prior to visiting our site.

In order to revoke your consent to any future data collection through AddThis, you can download an opt-out cookie by following this link:
http://www.addthis.com/privacy/opt-out.

In order to completely disable selected social plugins from loading in your browser, you may refer to script blockers like "NoScript" (http://noscript.net) or "FacebookBlocker" (http://webgraph.com/resources/facebookblocker).

By using this site, you represent that you are at least the age of majority in your state or province of residence, or that you are the age of majority in your state or province of residence and you have given us your consent to allow any of your minor dependents to use this site.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

If our store is acquired or merged with another company, your information may be transferred to the new owners so that we may continue to sell products to you.

If you would like to: access, correct, amend or delete any personal information we have about you, register a complaint, or simply want more information contact our Privacy Compliance Officer at idancecontemporary@gmail.com.
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