Privacy Policy

American Youth Dance Theater is committed to protecting your privacy online. Our primary goal in collecting personalized and company information is to provide American Youth Dance Theater’s customers with superior online services. We use customer contact information to fill orders, contact purchasers to inform them of their order status, to send promotional information, to provide information about additional products and services, to enhance the operation of our site and to administer our system. By visiting American Youth Dance Theater, you are accepting the practices described in this Privacy Statement.

What personal information about you do we collect?

Information you give to us: We receive and store information that you supply to us via our web site and regular operations. This includes information regarding an order such as your name, company name, email address, billing address, mailing address, billing information, credit card number, credit card expiration date, shipping address, website usage password, E-Newsletters opt-in options, Third Party opt-in options. This may also include information provided by you to us via email, phone customer service, ordinary mail, or questionnaires.

Information about you given to us by third parties: We may work with certain companies who, in conjunction with their own customer incentive programs, may provide information about you including your account information and purchasing authorization.

Information automatically collected: We receive and store certain types of information whenever you come to our site. For example, as is common practice, we use “cookies” and similar technology, to obtain and determine certain information when your browser accesses our websites including, but not limited to, the Internet Protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the internet, email address, browser type and version, operating system and platform.

How is the personal information used?

Information about our customers is a very important part of our business, as a trade secret, and we are not in the business of selling such information to others. We share customer information only with the subsidiaries and affiliated companies of American Youth Dance Theater American Youth Dance Theater will only share such customer information with its partners who have agreed to be bound by the terms and conditions of our privacy policies as outlined herein and for which you have authorized disclosure to such partners. American Youth Dance Theater does not share customer information with any non-affiliated companies. We do not sell, trade or rent your personal information to others.

Should American Youth Dance Theater be sold or transferred to another entity, customer information is likely to be part of the sales or transfer. We may send offers to selected groups of American Youth Dance Theater customers on behalf of other businesses. When we do this, we do not give that business your name and address. If you do not want to receive such offers, please indicate that you are opting out of such notification in your user profile. Other than as set out above, you will receive notice when information about you might go to third parties, and you will have an opportunity to choose not to share the information.

What if I link to a third-party web site from American Youth Dance Theater?

When you click links and/or banners that take you to third party web sites, you will be subject to the third parties’ privacy policies. While we support the protection of privacy on the internet, we cannot be responsible for the actions of third parties and urge you to read and understand the privacy policies of such sites.

How does American Youth Dance Theater protect customer information?

American Youth Dance Theater uses the latest encryption technology to keep your personal information safe. All your ordering information-including your name, address and credit card number-is encrypted using a secure server for maximum security. Credit card transactions are handled by an authorized clearing company, which receives the credit card number and other personal identifying information in a fully secured environment only to verify the credit card numbers and process transactions. It is important for you to protect against unauthorized access to your password and to your computer. Be sure to sign off when finished using a shared computer.

What about cookies?

Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your Web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and to provide features for using American Youth Dance Theater’s websites. The “help” portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to prevent your browser from accepting new cookies, how to have the browser notify you when you receive a new cookie, or how to disable cookies altogether. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of some of American Youth Dance Theater’s website features, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.

Contacting American Youth Dance Theater about privacy questions or concerns and changes in Privacy Policies.

This Privacy Statement was last modified on September 12, 2005 and provisions may be changed, modified, added or removed at any time. Such changes will become effective immediately upon posting.

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us at:
American Youth Dance Theater
428 East 75th Street, New York 10021
Tel: 212-717-5419 :: Fax: 866-679-8943