Last updated: 15 October 2026. This notice covers our website, app, courses and community, and includes our Privacy and data protection policy.

In short

• We collect only what we need to run the site, your account, your courses and your certificate.
• We never sell your data.
• Analytics cookies run only if you agree.
• Marketing emails go to you only if you agree, or, if you’re a customer, about similar courses, and you can unsubscribe at any time.
• Learner films are held privately by Bunny Stream (BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia), stored in Frankfurt, Germany, with a copy in London, and seen only by your assessor and quality assurers.
• You can ask to see, correct or delete your data. We reply within one month.
• Questions: [email protected] (our Data Protection Officer is Chris Porter).

1. Who we are

Teach.Dance is a trading name of Teach Dance Ltd, registered in England and Wales (company number 15135896). Registered office: 10 Churchill Way, Nelson, England, BB9 6RT. We are the data controller for the personal data described here.

• Data Protection Officer: Chris Porter, [email protected].
• Safeguarding: Jess Porter, Designated Safeguarding Lead, [email protected]. Deputy: Jackie Sanderson, via [email protected].

This notice covers our website, mobile app, community spaces, courses (including partner courses) and memberships.

2. What we collect

• Identity and contact: name, title, date of birth (to check you’re 16 or over, and to apply our protections for 16- and 17-year-olds), a parent or guardian’s details if they buy for you, email, postal address and phone.
• Account: username, password (stored encrypted), and your preferences.
• Payment: billing address and order history. Card details are handled by our payment provider; we don’t see full card numbers.
• Course data: enrolments, progress, quiz and assessment results, feedback, certificates, and any adjustment or special consideration you ask for.
• Assessment films and uploads, which may show the people you teach, including children.
• Community content: posts, comments, messages, photos, videos, documents, profile details and points or leaderboard activity in groups and forums.
• Communications: support messages, feedback and survey answers.
• Technical data: IP address, browser and device type, operating system, and how you use the site and app. Some of this is collected through cookies (see section 9).
• Health or disability information, only if you choose to share it for an adjustment.
• Optional equality monitoring answers.

3. Why we use it, and our lawful basis

4. Marketing, photos and testimonials

We’ll only use your name, photo, video or testimonial in our marketing if you agree separately, and you can withdraw at any time by emailing [email protected]. Buying a course or a Mini Movers Dance subscription does not give us that permission. We never use images of children from your classes, or assessment films, in marketing.

5. Who we share it with

• Your assessor and our quality assurers, including our external quality assurer.
• The British DanceSport Association (BDSA): we share your name and course results with the BDSA so it can issue your certificate. The BDSA is a separate controller and uses your data under its own privacy policy (bdsassociation.com).
• Other course partners: UKAdance and All Nations Dance. Where you take a partner-recognised course, we share the details needed to issue certificates or awards. Each partner is a separate controller under its own privacy policy.
• NCFE: only if a course becomes an NCFE Customised Qualification. We’ll update this notice first.
• Professional advisers (lawyers, accountants, insurers) and authorities, where the law requires or to protect someone’s safety.
• Service providers. “Processor” means the provider acts on our instructions under a written contract. “Controller” means the provider decides how it uses the data, under its own privacy policy.

We never sell your data. Social media links (Facebook and Instagram) don’t send data unless you click them.

5A. AI tools

We use AI assistants for admin tasks only, such as help with our website and day-to-day running of the business. They are never given learner films, and never given data about anyone under 18. They work on our instructions under business terms, and we choose terms that don’t allow our data to be used to train their models. We don’t use AI to make decisions about you or to mark your work.

6. International transfers

Some providers are outside the UK. When data leaves the UK, it’s protected in one of three ways:

• the destination has UK adequacy (for example the EEA, including Levamo in Ireland, Brevo in France, Bunny Stream in Slovenia and Germany, Akismet in Ireland and Patchstack in Estonia);
• the US company is certified to the UK Extension to the EU-US Data Privacy Framework (for example Cloudflare, Google, Vimeo, SureCart, Stripe and Brevo, Inc.);
• UK-approved contract terms are in place (the International Data Transfer Agreement, or the UK Addendum to the standard contractual clauses).

Learner films are stored in Frankfurt (EEA), with a copy in London. Our website is hosted in Dublin, Ireland, which has UK adequacy. Where a provider is a controller (for example YouTube, or the app stores), its own privacy policy and transfer terms apply.

7. How long we keep it

8. Your rights

You can ask for a copy of your data, a correction, a deletion, a restriction, or a copy to move elsewhere. You can object to how we use it (including to marketing, at any time), and withdraw consent at any time. Some records must be kept (section 7). Email [email protected] and we’ll reply within one month. We don’t make decisions about you by automated means that have legal or similarly significant effects. Quizzes are marked automatically, but certificates are only issued after a person has assessed and quality-assured your work.

If you’re unhappy with our answer, you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office: ico.org.uk, 0303 123 1113 (Monday to Friday, 9am to 5pm).

9. Cookies

We use essential cookies to run the site, for example to keep you logged in, remember your basket and protect the site (Cloudflare’s __cf_bm). These don’t need consent. We also treat Google reCAPTCHA v3 on the login and registration pages as strictly necessary, because it protects your account from bots; it runs only on those pages. Other cookies run only if you agree in our cookie banner (Complianz):

• Statistics: Google Analytics 4, through MonsterInsights, runs only if you accept statistics cookies.
• Marketing: embedded YouTube and Vimeo videos load only if you accept marketing cookies. Until then you’ll see a placeholder.

Fonts: our website fonts (Fraunces and Inter) are hosted on our own site, so nothing is sent to Google.

Change your choice at any time through “Cookie settings” in the footer. Full details are in our Cookie policy.

10. If you’re 16 or 17

This part is for you if you’re 16 or 17 and using any of our courses or our community. We follow the ICO’s Children’s Code (Age appropriate design code).

• We only use your data to give you your courses, the community and your certificate, and to keep you safe.
• Your account starts with the most private settings: your profile is visible to members only, and we don’t show your location or contact details. You can choose to share more, and we’ll explain what that means first.
• Your account is marked as under 18, so our moderators can look out for you. Other members can’t see this.
• You can share photos inside groups, but not on your profile, in messages, in the main feed or in forums outside groups. Photos of anyone under 18 need written consent from a parent or carer and the young person.
• Adults can’t send you private messages, except your tutor or assessor about your course. Those messages are logged and can be seen by our moderators and our Designated Safeguarding Lead, to keep you safe.
• We don’t send you marketing unless you choose to opt in, and you can change your mind at any time.
• We don’t use your data to build a profile of you, and we don’t show you targeted adverts. Analytics cookies stay off unless you turn them on.
• If a parent or guardian buys for you, we use their details only for that purchase.
• If you take a BDSA course, we share your name and result with the British DanceSport Association so it can issue your certificate.
• You can ask to see or delete your data, or ask any question, by emailing [email protected]. You can also ask a parent, carer or teacher to help you.
• If you’re ever worried about your safety, or someone else’s, contact Jess Porter at [email protected]. In an emergency, call 999.
• If you’re unhappy with how we’ve used your data, you can complain to the ICO (ico.org.uk).

11. Children in your films

Our learners are aged 16 and over. Films you upload may show children you teach. You must have written consent from a parent or carer and from the young person before filming. Only your assessor and our quality assurers see the films; they’re held by Bunny Stream (BunnyWay d.o.o., Slovenia), stored in Frankfurt, Germany, with a copy in London, never used in marketing, and deleted on schedule. A parent or young person can ask us to delete footage by emailing [email protected].

12. Security and breaches

We use encryption, access controls and expiring private links, and we limit who can see your data. If a breach is likely to put your rights at risk, we report it to the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of it, and we tell you without undue delay where the risk to you is high.

13. Changes

We’ll post changes here and email you about significant ones. This notice informs you; it isn’t a contract you agree to.

Contact: [email protected] · DPO: Chris Porter · Teach Dance Ltd, 10 Churchill Way, Nelson, BB9 6RT