GDPR

1. When this applies to you

If you are in the European Union, the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom when you use DanceInfo — as a resident, or as a visitor to the UAE — the GDPR and UK GDPR apply to our processing of your data alongside the UAE Personal Data Protection Law. Where the two differ, we apply the stronger protection.

It also applies when a school on DanceInfo markets to dancers in the EU or UK, or when you buy a pass or ticket from the EU or UK.

2. Our legal bases

Every use of your data rests on one of these:

• Contract — running your account, bookings, passes, attendance and receipts.
• Legitimate interests — keeping the Service secure, preventing fraud, improving it, and listing organizers’ public event information on DanceInfo.
• Consent — WhatsApp, email and push reminders; analytics cookies; the weekly what’s-on email. You can withdraw consent at any time.
• Legal obligation — keeping payment and tax records.

3. Your rights

Under the GDPR you have the right to:

• Access — a copy of the personal data we hold about you.
• Rectification — correction of inaccurate or incomplete data.
• Erasure — deletion, where we have no overriding legal reason to keep it.
• Restriction — pausing processing while a dispute is resolved.
• Portability — your data in a machine-readable format.
• Objection — to processing based on legitimate interests, and to any direct marketing.
• Withdraw consent — at any time, without affecting earlier processing.
• Not to be subject to automated decisions with legal or similarly significant effects. DanceInfo makes none.

4. How to exercise them

Contact DanceInfo support from the address on your account to make a request. We respond within one month — extendable by two months for complex requests, and we tell you if we extend. We may ask you to confirm your identity first.

Email DanceInfo support about a privacy request

5. Data protection contact

Data protection contact: dpo@[domain pending]. If we are required to appoint an EU or UK representative under Article 27, their details will be published here.

6. International transfers

DanceInfo is operated from the UAE, which has no EU or UK adequacy decision. Transfers of EU and UK personal data to us and to our providers are covered by the European Commission’s Standard Contractual Clauses and the UK International Data Transfer Addendum, supported by a transfer impact assessment and additional safeguards — encryption at rest and in transit, and access limited by role — where required.

7. Complaints

You may complain to the supervisory authority where you live or work — for example the Irish Data Protection Commission, the CNIL, or the UK Information Commissioner’s Office. We would appreciate the chance to resolve the matter first.

8. Retention and children

Retention periods are the same for everyone and are set out in the Privacy Policy. The Service is not for children under 16 to use alone; where an EU member state sets a lower age of digital consent, we still apply 16.

9. GDPR and the UAE PDPL

They are not the same law. The Privacy Policy is written to satisfy both: the PDPL governs everyone who uses DanceInfo; the GDPR adds the specific rights and remedies above for people in the EU, EEA and UK. Where they differ, you get the stronger protection.