Privacy Policy

Effective Date: August 8, 2026

Red Phoenix Ballroom and Melinda Piekstra (“Red Phoenix Ballroom,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) respect your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains what information we collect, how we use it, when and how it may be disclosed, and the measures we use to safeguard it.

This policy applies when you visit www.melindapiekstra.com, submit an inquiry, purchase a service, schedule a lesson, communicate with us, or otherwise interact with Red Phoenix Ballroom.

1. Information We Collect

Depending on how you interact with us, we may collect the following information:

Information You Provide

This may include:

• Your name

• Email address

• Telephone number

• Billing address

• Preferred method of contact

• Scheduling preferences

• Whether you are learning individually or as a couple

• Dance interests, goals, and experience

• Information included in messages or inquiry forms

• Purchase, lesson-package, and appointment information

• Information you voluntarily provide concerning injuries, physical limitations, accessibility needs, or other circumstances relevant to your dance instruction

• Photographs, videos, testimonials, or reviews when provided or authorized by you

Please do not submit sensitive medical information through a general website form. Relevant health or accessibility information may be discussed directly with your instructor when reasonably necessary for safe participation.

Payment Information

Payments may be processed by third-party payment providers such as Stripe.

Red Phoenix Ballroom does not directly receive or store your complete credit-card number, bank-account number, or card security code. Payment providers collect and process that information according to their own privacy policies and security practices.

We may receive limited transaction information, such as:

• Your name and contact information

• The service or package purchased

• The amount and date of payment

• Payment status

• A transaction or receipt number

• Limited payment-method details, such as the card brand and last four digits

Information Collected Automatically

When you visit our website, Wix and other authorized technology providers may automatically collect certain information, including:

• Internet Protocol address

• Browser and device type

• Operating system

• Approximate geographic location

• Pages viewed

• Referring website or advertisement

• Date and time of access

• Website interactions

• Cookie and similar technology identifiers

• Information about whether an advertisement resulted in a website visit, inquiry, or purchase

2. Cookies and Similar Technologies

Our website and authorized service providers may use cookies, pixels, tags, and similar technologies to:

• Operate and secure the website

• Remember visitor preferences

• Understand how visitors use the website

• Measure website and advertising performance

• Identify technical problems

• Attribute inquiries or purchases to an advertisement

• Improve our services and marketing

These technologies may be provided by Wix, Google, Meta, Stripe, or other services we use.

Where required, you may be given the opportunity to manage nonessential cookies through a cookie-consent banner. You may also restrict cookies through your browser settings. Disabling cookies may affect the operation of certain website features.

3. How We Use Information

We may use the information we collect to:

• Respond to questions and inquiries

• Provide information about dance lessons and services

• Process purchases and send receipts

• Schedule and manage appointments

• Maintain lesson-package balances and customer records

• Personalize instruction according to a student’s goals and needs

• Communicate about appointments, purchases, policies, or service updates

• Provide customer support

• Send promotional communications when permitted

• Measure the effectiveness of our website and advertising

• Improve our website, services, and customer experience

• Detect fraud, misuse, or security threats

• Maintain financial, tax, and business records

• Enforce our Terms and Conditions

• Comply with legal and regulatory obligations

• Establish, exercise, or defend legal claims

We will use health, accessibility, or physical-limitation information provided by a student only as reasonably necessary to communicate about and adapt dance instruction, promote safe participation, maintain appropriate records, or comply with legal obligations.

4. How and With Whom Information Is Disclosed

We may disclose information to third parties only as reasonably necessary for the purposes described in this policy.

Website and Technology Providers

Information may be disclosed electronically to Wix and other companies that provide website hosting, forms, customer-management tools, analytics, communications, security, or related technology services.

Payment Processors

When you make a purchase, information is transmitted securely to payment providers such as Stripe. The payment provider processes your payment and returns transaction status and limited purchase information to us.

Scheduling and Business-Service Providers

Information may be disclosed to appointment-scheduling, email, customer-management, accounting, document-storage, or other providers that help us operate the business.

Advertising and Analytics Providers

Limited device, cookie, website-interaction, and conversion information may be disclosed electronically to analytics and advertising providers, such as Google or Meta, to measure advertising results and improve marketing.

These providers may process information according to their own privacy policies and settings. You may be able to limit advertising cookies through our cookie banner, your browser, or the privacy settings offered by the applicable provider.

Studios, Venues, and Event Organizers

When necessary to provide a requested lesson, workshop, competition, performance, or other service, limited information may be shared with a host studio, venue, event organizer, or related service provider.

Professional Advisers

Information may be disclosed to accountants, attorneys, insurers, financial institutions, or other professional advisers when reasonably necessary for business, legal, tax, insurance, or risk-management purposes.

Legal and Safety Disclosures

We may disclose information when we reasonably believe disclosure is necessary to:

• Comply with a law, regulation, subpoena, court order, or other legal process

• Respond to a lawful government request

• Protect the rights, property, safety, or security of Red Phoenix Ballroom, our students, or others

• Investigate fraud, abuse, policy violations, or security incidents

• Establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim

Business Transfers

If Red Phoenix Ballroom is involved in a sale, merger, reorganization, or transfer of business assets, relevant information may be disclosed to the parties involved, subject to appropriate confidentiality protections.

We do not disclose complete payment-card information because it is collected and processed directly by the applicable payment provider.

5. Sale and Sharing of Personal Information

Red Phoenix Ballroom does not sell personal information for money.

Certain advertising or analytics technologies may be legally considered “sharing” or targeted advertising in some jurisdictions. Where applicable, visitors may manage nonessential advertising cookies through the website’s cookie-consent options or contact us to request information about available privacy choices.

We do not knowingly sell or share the personal information of anyone under 18 years old.

6. Marketing Communications

We may send service-related communications concerning purchases, appointments, policies, or inquiries.

With your consent or as otherwise permitted by law, we may also send promotional emails or messages about lessons, workshops, events, or special offers.

You may unsubscribe from promotional emails by using the unsubscribe link included in the message or by contacting us. Opting out of promotional communications will not prevent necessary communications about an existing purchase, appointment, or customer-service matter.

Consent to receive marketing communications is not a condition of purchasing dance instruction.

7. Data Retention

We retain personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary to:

• Provide the requested services

• Maintain customer and lesson-package records

• Complete transactions

• Comply with tax, accounting, insurance, and legal requirements

• Resolve disputes

• Enforce agreements

• Protect against fraud or misuse

Retention periods may vary according to the type of information and the reason it was collected. When information is no longer reasonably required, we may delete it, anonymize it, or securely retain it when deletion is not immediately practical.

Third-party providers may maintain information according to their own retention policies.

8. Security Practices

We use reasonable administrative, technical, and organizational safeguards designed to protect personal information from unauthorized access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.

These safeguards may include:

• Using an HTTPS-encrypted website connection

• Using established third-party payment processors instead of directly storing complete card information

• Restricting access to personal information to those who reasonably need it

• Using password-protected accounts

• Using access controls and authentication features offered by our service providers

• Keeping website and service-provider accounts reasonably updated

• Reviewing suspicious account or transaction activity

• Using reputable website, payment, and business-service providers

Information is transmitted to service providers electronically through their websites, embedded tools, secure checkout pages, application integrations, or other protected systems.

No website, electronic transmission, or storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. While we take reasonable precautions, we cannot guarantee absolute security.

 

9. Your Privacy Choices and Rights

 

Depending on where you live and subject to applicable law, you may have the right to:

• Request access to personal information we maintain about you

• Request correction of inaccurate information

• Request deletion of certain information

• Request information about how your information has been used or disclosed

• Withdraw consent when processing is based on consent

• Opt out of promotional communications

• Manage certain cookies or advertising technologies

• Request that we not sell or share personal information, where that right applies

To submit a privacy request, contact us using the information at the bottom of this policy. We may need to verify your identity before completing a request.

Certain information may be retained when required for transactions, accounting, taxes, fraud prevention, legal compliance, dispute resolution, or other lawful purposes.

We will not unlawfully discriminate against you for exercising an applicable privacy right.

10. California Privacy Rights

California residents may have additional privacy rights under applicable California law. The availability of particular rights depends on the law and whether it applies to Red Phoenix Ballroom based on factors such as business size and data-processing activity.

California residents may contact us to request information about the personal information we maintain or to exercise an applicable right. If required, we will provide additional notices or methods for submitting requests.

California’s “Shine the Light” law may allow residents to request information concerning certain disclosures of personal information for third parties’ direct-marketing purposes. Red Phoenix Ballroom does not disclose personal information to third parties for their own direct marketing without authorization.

11. Third-Party Websites and Services

Our website may link to or use services operated by third parties, including Wix, Stripe, scheduling providers, social-media platforms, analytics providers, or advertising services.

Those companies maintain their own privacy policies and security practices. This Privacy Policy does not control how an independent third party collects, uses, or protects information after you interact directly with its service.

You should review the privacy policy of any third-party service you use.

12. Children’s Privacy

Our website and services are not directed to children under 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information online from children under 13.

A parent or legal guardian should contact us if they believe a child has submitted personal information without appropriate authorization. We will take reasonable steps to delete it when required.

Lessons for minors must be arranged or authorized by a parent or legal guardian.

13. Photographs, Videos, and Testimonials

We will not use an identifiable student’s photograph, video, testimonial, or personal story for advertising without permission or another lawful basis.

Consent for promotional media may be requested through a separate media release or written authorization. A person who has granted permission may contact us regarding future use, although withdrawal may not apply retroactively to materials already lawfully produced or distributed.

14. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy periodically to reflect changes in our practices, services, technology, or legal obligations.

The updated policy will be posted on this page with a revised effective date. Material changes may also be communicated through the website or another reasonable method.

15. Contact Us

For questions about this Privacy Policy or to submit a privacy request, contact:

Red Phoenix Ballroom
Melinda Piekstra
Laguna Hills, California
Email: melindapiekstra@gmail.com
Website: www.melindapiekstra.com