Our privacy policy for Australia

You can visit our websites without providing personal information. Whenever you access our website, usage data is transmitted to us or our web host / IT service provider by your internet browser and stored in log files (so-called server log files). These stored data include, for example, the name of the page accessed, date and time of access, IP address, transmitted data volume, and the requesting provider. The processing is based on Article 6(1)(f) of the GDPR, our predominant legitimate interest in ensuring the smooth operation of our website and improving our offering.

User Account When opening a user account, we collect your personal data to the extent specified there. The data processing serves the purpose of improving your user experience on the website and simplifying the booking process. The processing is carried out based on Art. 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) with your consent. You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent before the revocation. Your user account will then be deleted.

Collection, Processing, and Transmission of Personal Data for Bookings During the booking process, we only collect and process your personal data to the extent necessary for the fulfillment and processing of your booking, as well as for handling your inquiries. Providing the data is necessary for the conclusion of the contract. Failure to provide the data will result in the inability to conclude a contract. The processing is carried out based on Art. 6(1)(b) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) and is necessary for the performance of a contract with you.

Your data may be disclosed, for example, to the dance schools you have selected and IT service providers. In all cases, we strictly adhere to legal requirements. The scope of data transmission is limited to the minimum necessary.

Collection and Processing When Using the Contact Form

When using the contact form, we only collect your personal data (name, email address, message text) to the extent provided by you. The data processing serves the purpose of establishing contact. By submitting your message, you consent to the processing of the transmitted data. The processing is carried out based on Art. 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) with your consent.

You can revoke your consent at any time by notifying us, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent before the revocation. We use your email address only to process your inquiry. Your data will be deleted thereafter, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Use of the Email Address for Newsletter Distribution

We use your email address, regardless of contract processing, exclusively for our own advertising purposes, specifically for sending newsletters, provided you have explicitly consented to it. The processing is carried out based on Art. 6(1)(a) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) with your consent. You can revoke the consent at any time, without affecting the lawfulness of the processing carried out based on the consent before the revocation. You can unsubscribe from the newsletter at any time by using the corresponding link in the newsletter or by notifying us. Your email address will be removed from the distribution list thereafter.

Your data will be passed on to a service provider for email marketing as part of order processing. No further disclosure to other third parties occurs.

Your data will be transferred to a third country for which the European Commission has issued an adequacy decision.

"Data We Collect from Third Parties. When you sign up or register for your Lets-Dance profile through third-party services (e.g., Facebook), these services transmit profile data from the respective service to us. In order to sign up or register with Lets-Dance through these services, user ID, email, name, and profile picture data stored in the service are requested. If you have connected your Lets-Dance profile with a third-party application like Facebook, you can revoke the permission for the app by changing your account settings in the respective service."

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are small text files that are stored in the internet browser or by the internet browser on the user's computer system. When a user accesses a website, a cookie may be stored on the user's operating system. This cookie contains a characteristic string that enables a unique identification of the browser when the website is accessed again. We use these cookies to make our offer more user-friendly, effective, and secure. Furthermore, cookies allow our systems to recognize your browser even after a page change and to offer you services. Some functions of our website cannot be offered without the use of cookies. For these, it is necessary that the browser is recognized even after a page change. The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) from our predominant legitimate interest in ensuring the optimal functionality of the website as well as a user-friendly and effective design of our offer. Cookies are stored on your computer. Therefore, you have full control over the

use of cookies. By selecting the appropriate technical settings in your internet browser, you can be notified before cookies are set and decide on a case-by-case basis whether to accept them, as well as prevent the storage of cookies and the transmission of the data they contain. Already stored cookies can be deleted at any time. However, we would like to point out that in this case, you may not be able to use all functions of this website to their full extent. You can find information on how to manage (including disable) cookies on the most popular browsers at the following links: Chrome Browser: https://support.google.com/accounts/answer/61416?hl=de Internet Explorer: https://support.microsoft.com/de-de/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies Mozilla Firefox: https://support.mozilla.org/de/kb/cookies-erlauben-und-ablehnen Safari: https://support.apple.com/de-de/guide/safari/sfri11471/mac

The data processing activities outlined in this section, particularly the setting of cookies, are carried out based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) due to our predominant legitimate interests:

1. In the needs-based and targeted design of the website, for example, through analysis and statistics tools.
2. In addressing site visitors with interest-based advertising, for example, through conversion tracking.

You have the right, for reasons arising from your particular situation, to object at any time to these processing activities concerning your personal data based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the DSGVO.

We use the web analytics service Google Analytics provided by Google LLC on our website (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; 'Google'). If your usual place of residence is in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the responsible entity for your data. Therefore, Google Ireland Limited is the affiliated company with Google, responsible for processing your data and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. The data processing serves the purpose of analyzing this website and its visitors. Google, on behalf of the operator of this website, will use the information obtained to evaluate your use of the website, compile reports on website activities, and provide other services related to website usage and internet usage to the website operator. The IP address transmitted by your browser as part of Google Analytics will not be merged with other Google data. Google Analytics uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookies about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. IP anonymization is enabled on this website. This means that your IP address will be truncated by Google within member states of the European Union or in other contracting states of the Agreement on the European Economic Area before being transmitted. Only in exceptional cases will the full IP address be transmitted to a Google server in the USA and truncated there. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, committing to comply with European data protection guidelines. You can prevent the collection of data generated by the cookie and related to your use of the website (including your IP address) to Google, as well as the processing of this data by Google, by downloading and installing the browser plugin available at the following link (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout?hl=en). To prevent data collection and storage by Google Analytics across devices, you can set an opt-out cookie. Opt-out cookies prevent the future collection of your data when visiting this website. You must perform the opt-out on all devices and systems used for it to take full effect. If you delete the opt-out cookie, requests to Google will be transmitted again. Clicking on here will set the opt-out cookie: Disable Google Analytics. For more information on terms of use and privacy, please visit https://www.google.com/analytics/terms/en.html or https://www.google.com/intl/en/policies.

We use the remarketing or 'Similar Audiences' function of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; 'Google') on our website. If your usual place of residence is in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the responsible entity for your data. Therefore, Google Ireland Limited is the affiliated company with Google, responsible for processing your data and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. The application serves the purpose of analyzing visitor behavior and interests. To carry out the analysis of website usage, which forms the basis for creating interest-based advertisements, Google uses cookies. The cookies capture visits to the website as well as anonymized data about the usage of the website. No personal data of visitors to the website is stored. If you subsequently visit another website in the Google Display Network, you will see advertisements that likely take into account previously visited product and information areas. Your data may be transmitted to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, committing to comply with European data protection guidelines. You can permanently disable the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the provided plug-in: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=en Alternatively, you can prevent the use of cookies by third parties by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) deactivation page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the opt-out information provided there. For more information on Google Remarketing and its privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/privacy/ads/

We use the AdSense function of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; 'Google') on our website. If your usual place of residence is in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the responsible entity for your data. Therefore, Google Ireland Limited is the affiliated company with Google, responsible for processing your data and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. The data processing serves the purpose of renting advertising space on the website and addressing visitors to the website with interest-based advertising. With this function, personalized, interest-based advertising ads from the Google Display Network are displayed to visitors of the provider's website. Google uses cookies that enable an analysis of your use of the website. The information generated by the cookie about your use of this website is usually transmitted to a Google server in the USA and stored there. Google may transfer this information to third parties if required by law or if third parties process this data on behalf of Google. Google will never associate your IP address with other data from Google. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, committing to comply with European data protection guidelines. You can permanently disable the use of cookies by Google by following the link below and downloading and installing the provided plug-in: https://support.google.com/ads/answer/7395996?hl=en. Alternatively, you can prevent the use of cookies by third parties by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative's (NAI) deactivation page at https://www.networkadvertising.org/choices/ and implementing the opt-out information provided there. For more information and Google's privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/, https://www.google.de/policies/privacy/

We use Smartlook to better understand the needs of our users and optimize the offering on this website. With Smartlook, it is possible to measure and analyze user behavior (clicks, mouse movements, scroll heights, etc.) on our website. The information generated by the 'Tracking Code' and cookies about your visit to our website is transmitted to and stored on Smartlook servers in Frankfurt. The information is neither used by Smartlook nor by us to identify individual users or merged with further data about individual users. The legal basis is Art. 6(1) sentence 1 lit. f GDPR. The following information can be recorded by your device and browser: the IP address of your device (collected and stored in an anonymized format), your email address including your first and last name, to the extent you have provided it to us via our website, the screen size of your device, device type and browser information, geographic location (only the country), the preferred language to display our website, log data. The following data is automatically generated by our servers when Smartlook is used: referring domain, visited pages, geographic location (only the country), the preferred language to display our website, date and time of access to the website.

Our website integrates a third-party widget provided by GetYourGuide to offer travel and tour booking services directly from our platform. Please note the following regarding your interaction with the GetYourGuide widget: Data Collection: When you interact with the GetYourGuide widget (e.g., by booking a tour or viewing travel options), certain personal information such as your IP address, location, and browsing behavior may be collected by GetYourGuide. This data is subject to the privacy practices of GetYourGuide, which are outside of our control. Use of Information: Any personal information you provide while interacting with the GetYourGuide widget is transmitted directly to GetYourGuide. We do not have access to or collect this data ourselves. The use of this information is governed by GetYourGuide's Privacy Policy, which we encourage you to review at GetYourGuide Privacy Policy. Affiliate Relationships: In some cases, we may earn commissions on bookings made through the GetYourGuide widget. However, your data is solely handled by GetYourGuide and we do not receive any personal information as part of the booking process. For more information about how your data is handled, please refer to GetYourGuide’s Privacy Policy. If you have any concerns or questions regarding the use of your data in relation to this widget, we recommend contacting GetYourGuide directly.

We use the function for embedding YouTube videos from Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland; 'YouTube') on our website. YouTube is an affiliate company of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; 'Google'). The function displays videos stored on YouTube in an iFrame on the website. The 'Enhanced Privacy Mode' option is enabled. This means that YouTube does not store information about visitors to the website. Only when you watch a video, information about it is transmitted to YouTube and stored there. Your data may be transmitted to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, committing to comply with European data protection guidelines. For more information on the collection and use of data by YouTube and Google, your related rights, and options to protect your privacy, please refer to YouTube's privacy policy (https://www.youtube.com/t/privacy).

"We use the function to embed Google Maps maps from Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; 'Google') on our website. If your usual place of residence is in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the responsible entity for your data. Therefore, Google Ireland Limited is the affiliated company with Google, responsible for processing your data and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. The function allows for the visual representation of geographical information and interactive maps. Google collects, processes, and uses data of visitors to the websites when pages with embedded Google Maps maps are accessed. Your data may also be transmitted to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, committing to comply with European data protection guidelines. The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) out of the legitimate interest in the needs-based and targeted design of our website. For more information on the collection and use of data by Google, please refer to Google's privacy policy at https://www.google.com/privacypolicy.html. There, you also have the option to change your settings in the Privacy Center, allowing you to manage and protect your data processed by Google."

"We use the reCAPTCHA service of Google LLC (1600 Amphitheatre Parkway, Mountain View, CA 94043, USA; 'Google') on our website. If your usual place of residence is in the European Economic Area or Switzerland, Google Ireland Limited (Gordon House, Barrow Street, Dublin 4, Ireland) is the responsible entity for your data. Therefore, Google Ireland Limited is the affiliated company with Google, responsible for processing your data and ensuring compliance with applicable data protection laws. The query serves the purpose of distinguishing input by a human from automated, machine processing. For this purpose, your input is transmitted to Google and used there. Additionally, the IP address and, if necessary, other data required by Google for the reCAPTCHA service are transferred to Google. This data is processed by Google within the European Union and may also be transmitted to the USA. Google has certified itself under the US-EU Privacy Shield agreement, committing to comply with European data protection guidelines. The processing is based on Art. 6(1)(f) of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO) from the legitimate interest in protecting our website against automated espionage, abuse, and spam. For more information on Google reCAPTCHA and its privacy policy, please visit: https://www.google.com/recaptcha/intro/android.html and https://www.google.com/privacy."

After complete contract processing, the data will initially be stored for the duration of the warranty period and then, taking into account legal retention periods, especially tax and commercial law, stored and deleted after the expiry of the deadline, unless you have consented to further processing and use.

Rights of the data subject Subject to the legal requirements, you have the following rights according to Articles 15 to 20 of the General Data Protection Regulation (DSGVO): the right to information, the right to correction, the right to deletion, the right to restriction of processing, and the right to data portability. Furthermore, according to Art. 21(1) DSGVO, you have the right to object to processing based on Art. 6(1) f DSGVO.

Feel free to contact us if you wish. You can find the contact details in our imprint.

According to Art. 77 GDPR, you have the right to complain to the supervisory authority if you believe that your personal data is not being processed lawfully.

If the processing of personal data listed here is based on our legitimate interest according to Art. 6(1)(f) DSGVO, you have the right to object to these processes at any time for reasons arising from your particular situation, with effect for the future. After objection, the processing of the affected data will be terminated, unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing that override your interests, rights, and freedoms, or if the processing serves the assertion, exercise, or defense of legal claims.