Shining Stars Dance Academy | Privacy Policy

Protecting your private information is our Priority.  This Statement of Privacy applies to ssdanceacademy.com and Dancing Dolphin Designs, Inc (dba Shining Stars Dance Academy and governs data collection and usage. For the purpose of this Privacy Policy, unless otherwise noted, all references to Dancing Dolphin Designs, Inc (dba Shining Stars Dance Academy) include https://www.ssdanceacademy.com/ and Shining Stars. By using the Shining Stars Dance Academy website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

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Collection of your Personal Information

We do not collect any personal information about you unless you voluntarily provide it to us. However, you may be required to provide certain personal information to us when you elect to use certain products or services available on the Site including, but not limited to full name, business name, phone number and email address.  This information may be used for communicating with you in relation to services and/or products you have requested from us. Examples include: (a) registering for an account on our Site; (b) entering a sweepstakes or contest sponsored by us or one of our partners; (c) signing up for special offers from selected third parties; (d) sending us an email message; (e) submitting your credit card or other payment information when ordering and purchasing products and services on our Site. We also may gather additional personal or non-personal information in the future.

Opt-In for Communications with Dancing Dolphin Designs, Inc (dba Shining Stars Dance Academy)

 

You may opt-in for email or SMS messaging by completing a form on our website or by texting the word “START” to ( 757) 204-1954. You may opt-out at any time by replying STOP. Messaging frequency varies. Message & data rates may apply. Text HELP for assistance, reply STOP to opt out.

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• Message & Data Rates may apply.

• Dancing Dolphin Designs, Inc (dba Shining Stars Dance Academy) is not responsible for delayed, lost, or undelivered messages and is not responsible for damages resulting from technical malfunctions, network errors, or Service unavailability.

• Certain carriers may not support the service, and the service may be limited.

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How We Use Information We Obtain (Types of Messages You Will Receive)

• To process your requests and provide you with services, including, as permitted by applicable law, to deliver and develop new and customized content or recommendations.

• To learn about users of the Shining Stars Dance Academy dance services and analyze how you and others interact with and respond to the Shining Stars Dance Academy Dance services.

• To communicate with you, including to send you marketing and promotional communications (as permitted by law).

• For contextual advertising purposes and to analyze the performance of such advertising and marketing activities (as permitted by law).

• We may leverage AI, machine learning, and algorithmic tools for any of the above purposes in providing you with the Shining Stars Dance Academy Dance services

• To protect our rights and the rights of others.

 

Sharing Information with Third Parties

Shining Stars Dance Academy does not sell your phone number to any third party. Additionally, Shining Stars Dance Academy does not rent or lease your phone number, data, communication or transaction history to any third parties.

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Shining Stars Dance Academy may share data with trusted partners to help perform statistical analysis, send you email or post mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to Shining Stars Dance Academy, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information.

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Shining Stars Dance Academy may disclose your personal information, with our notice, if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or comply with legal process served on Shining Stars Dance Academy or the site; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of Shining Stars Dance Academy; and/or (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of Shining Stars Dance Academy or the public.

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Tracking User Behavior

Shining Stars Dance Academy may keep track of the websites and pages our users visit within Shining Stars Dance Academy, in order to determine what Shining Stars Dance Academy dance services are the most popular. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within Shining Stars Dance Academy to customers whose behavior indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area.

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Automatically Collected Information

Information about your computer hardware and software may be automatically collected by Shining Stars Dance Academy. This information can include: your IP address, browser type, domain names, access times and referring website addresses. This information is used for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service and to provide general statistics regarding use of the Shining Stars Dance Academy website.

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Use of Cookies

The Shining Stars Dance Academy website may use “cookies” to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hand disk by a web page server. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the Web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize Shining Stars Dance Academy pages, or register with Shining Stars Dance Academy site or services, a cookie helps Shining Stars Dance Academy to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same Shining Stars Dance Academy website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the Shining Stars Dance Academy features that you customized.

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Shining Stars Dance Academy services or websites you visit.

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Links

This website contains links to other sited. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the content or privacy practices of such other sites. We encourage our users to be aware when they leave our site and to read the privacy statements of any other site that collects personally identifiable information.

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Security of your Personal Information

Shining Stars Dance Academy secures your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Shining Stars Dance Academy uses the following methods for this purpose:

 

SSL protocol 

When personal information (such as a credit card number) is transmitted to other websites, it is protected though the use of encryption, such as the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol.

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We strive to take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized access to or alteration of your personal information. Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet or any wireless network can be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, you acknowledges that: (a) there are security and privacy limitations inherent to Internet which are beyond our control; and (b) security, integrity, and privacy of any and all information and data exchanged between you and us through this Site cannot be guaranteed.

 

Right to Deletion

Subject to certain exceptions set out below, on receipt of a verifiable request from you, we will:

Delete your personal information from our records; and

Direct any service providers to delete your personal information from their records.

Please note that we may not be able to comply with requests to delete your personal information if it is necessary to:

Complete the transaction for which the personal information was collected, fulfill the terms of a written warranty or product recall conducted in accordance with federal law, provide a good or service requested by you, or reasonably anticipated within the context of our ongoing business relationship with you, or otherwise perform a contract between you and us;

Detect security incidents, protest against malicious, deceptive, fraudulent, or illegal activity; or prosecute those responsible for that activity;

Debug to identify and repair errors that impair existing intended functionality;

Exercise free speech, ensure the right of another consumer to exercise his or her right of free speech, or exercise another right provided for by law;

Comply with the California Electronic Communications Privacy Act;

Engage in public or peer-reviewed scientific, historical, or statistical research in the public interest that adheres to all other applicable ethics and privacy laws, when our deletion of the information is likely to render impossible or seriously impair the achievement of such research, provided we have obtained your informed consent;

Enable sole internal uses that are reasonably aligned with your expectations based on your relationship with us;

Comply with an existing legal obligation; or

Otherwise use your personal information, internally, in a lawful manner that is compatible with the context in which you provided the information.

 

Children and Minors

Shining Stars Dance Academy does not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children and minors under the age of eighteen. If you are under the age of 18, you must ask your parent or guardian to use this site.

 

E-mail Communications

From time to time, Shining Stars Dance Academy may contact you via email for the purpose of providing announcements, promotional offers, alerts, conformations, surveys, and/or other general communication. In order to improve our Services, we may receive a notification when you open an email from Shining Stars Dance Academy or click on a link therein.

If you would like to stop receiving marketing or promotional communications via email from Shining Stars Dance Academy, you may opt out of such communications by clicking on the UNSUBSCRIBE button.

External Data Storage Sites

We may store your data on servers provided by third party hosting vendors with whom we have contracted.

 

Changes to this Statement

Shining Stars Dance Academy reserves the right to change this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you about significant changes in the way we treat personal information by sending a notice to the primary email address specified in your account, by placing a prominent notice on our site, and/or by updating any privacy information on this page. Your continued use of the site and/or Services and/or available through this Site after such modifications will constitute your: (a) acknowledgment of the modified Privacy Policy ; and (b) agreement to abide and be bound by that Policy.

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Contact Information

Shining Stars Dance Academy welcomes your questions or comments regarding this Statement of Privacy. If you believe that Shining Stars Dance Academy has not adhered to this Statement, please contact Shining Stars Dance Academy at:

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Dancing Dolphin Designs, Inc (dba Shining Stars Dance Academy)

805 Battlefield Blvd N Suite 115-116
Chesapeake, VA 23320

Email Address:  office@ssdanceacademy.com
Telephone number: 757-204-4102

Effective as of 01/01/2026