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Kootenay Dance Academy Policies
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-A non-refundable registration fee is due and payable at the time of registration. This guarantees your child a spot in class and a Year End show video. (10 week sessions do not incur this fee)

-A $75.00 + GST costume deposit is required at time of registration for each yearly class registered in. This deposit is 100% refundable if the student/parent chooses to withdraw from the class prior to Nov 15th. (10 week sessions do not incur this fee)

-Please ensure you have read all relevant registration and class information contained in the website. (www.kootenaydance.com)

-Parents must have all fees and post-dated cheques submitted to the studio office on or before the deadline of September 30th, or agree to pay a $20 late fee.

-Fees are assessed on a yearly basis (36 week dance year) and pro-rated to take into consideration holidays, Christmas break and Spring break. They have been broken down into several convenient payment options. These fees include all class and instructional time as well as extra year-end production and technical rehearsal times. This payment system is for convenience only and bears no relationship to the number of classes in any given month.

-Written notice submitted to the studio is required to withdraw from any class, otherwise billing to your account will continue. If a student discontinues classes, the full months fee will still be charged. There is no refund for missed classes. Verbal notification or non-attendance is not considered automatic withdrawal. Withdrawals for medical reasons must be accompanied by a Valid Doctors note.

-Refunds will only be available until Nov 15th. After that point, refunds will cease unless it is injury or illness related. Please remember that when a dancer joins a class, they take up a spot that is now no longer available to anyone else. If they choose to leave the class after Nov 15th, we can no longer fill that space as the class will have progressed too far to allow any new students to participate. Please bare this in mind if you have any questions or concerns heading into the second term of the dance year.

-Since class costuming is ordered early, a costume deposit fee will be collected during the fall registration process for all yearly classes. Dancers/parents will be responsible for the cost in full of all costumes ordered on their behalf. Costume deposits are non-refundable once costumes are ordered. (Nov 15th) If a child chooses to discontinue their classes before costumes have been ordered, your deposit will be returned.

-Notices to parents for students involved in competitions or festivals are issued generally between October and December. Once a dancer has been entered in a competition or festival, they are responsible for the cost of their entry fee. Entries for LOCAL competitions are submitted and paid for on your behalf in December and will be invoiced mid January. Entry fees not paid by the deadline on the invoice (Jan 31st), are subject to a late fee.

-Competitive dance team members and those travelling to any out of town competitions will be invoiced at a much earlier date (Oct-Dec) as entry deadlines fall much sooner in the season. Deadlines for each will vary from year to year depending on which competition we enter. You will be given one month notification for fee payment.

-All students 7yrs and up will have their group recital routines entered in either the local Performing Arts Festival in Cranbrook or the Danceworks Competition in Kimberley. Only HIVE Team members will be entered in out of town competitions . Please ensure you are aware of the dates and weekends involved. (They are all listed in the calendar on the website). It is extremely discouraging for both the students and parents when their fellow dance team-mates do not show up for their festival times or year end shows.

-Parents who do not wish for their child to participate in this learning experience or who are unable to attend festivals or Year-end production, must notify the studio prior to costume ordering and entry fee deadlines as this will affect class participation during the 2nd term.

-Why is there a ticket fee to watch the performance? The studio incurs numerous added expenses to bring year end performances to a professional venue like Key City Theatre which are not covered through yearly tuition fees. There are added costs for theatre rental, props, school district rental fees for change rooms, the list is long! Ticket fees help to pay for these added costs and also enable the studio to cover operating expenses during the off season when regular classes are unable to be held.

-Kootenay Dance Academy pays many fees in advance for students, such as entry fees and costuming. We ask that you ensure your account is kept up to date. Costumes will only be given out to students if their account is paid in full.

-There will be a $15.00 service charge on all NSF cheques.

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Privacy Policy

Kootenay Dance Academy takes seriously the privacy of those that visit our site. We have established this Privacy Policy to communicate what information we collect and how that information is used and safeguarded.
By accessing this website www.kootenaydance.com, you acknowledge the terms and conditions expressed herein. We reserve the right to change this policy at our sole discretion and without notice.

What information is collected, and why?
When a user visits our website, we collect information about the visit that does not identify the user personally. We track information such as the domain from which the user is visiting and the user's browser type. We also collect specific information regarding the user's session on our website. This includes items such as the date and time of the visit and the pages viewed.
Sometimes we ask a user to voluntarily provide personally identifiable information (PII). This information generally includes, but is not limited to, name, e-mail address, postal address, and telephone number. We request this information when the user requests one of the following:
To register to attend an on-line seminar or demonstration
To receive specific information from us such as a whitepaper or code sample
To sign up for a mailing list
To correspond with us
Or any other such activity that we deem necessary
Kootenay Dance Academy does not collect any personally identifiable financial or health-related information. We do not intentionally collect information from children under the age of 13.

How is the information used?
Non-personally identifiable information (non-PII) is collected to allow us to analyze how our website is used and to improve the content and service the website provides.
Personally identifiable information is collected for analysis to improve the content of the website and the services we provide the user.
Kootenay Dance Academy owns the collected information and will not sell, trade, or rent the information to others. We may use the information to continue contact with the user. This may include contact such as follow-up calls, e-mail correspondence, or mail correspondence to follow-up on the contact or to provide marketing information about promotions, new services, or important website changes. Kootenay Dance Academy may share this information with its business partners for the specific purpose of a promotion or service offering.

Are "Cookies" used on the website?
"Cookies" are small pieces of information that are placed on a web user's hard drive. We may use cookies to provide you with better service. Cookies are pieces of information that a Web site transfers to your computer's hard disk for record-keeping purposes. Cookies can make the Web more useful by storing information about your preferences for a particular site. The use of cookies is an industry standard, and many major Web sites use them to provide useful features for their customers. Cookies in and of themselves do not personally identify users, although they do identify a user's computer. Most browsers are initially set to accept cookies. If you prefer, you can set your browser to refuse cookies. However, you may not be able to take full advantage of the functionality of the Kootenay Dance Academy site if you do so.

How is personally identifiable information safeguarded?
Kootenay Dance Academy utilizes industry standard methods and mechanisms such as firewalls, intrusion monitoring, and passwords to protect electronic information. Multiple physical security methods such as locking devices and 24 hour premise monitoring are also employed. Finally, access to PII is limited to a small number of personnel and on a need-to-know basis.

Links to other web sites
Kootenay Dance Academy web site may contain links to other internet web sites. Kootenay Dance Academy neither controls nor endorses external sites and is not responsible for the content of such sites. This policy does not cover the privacy policies and data collection practices of non-KDA web sites.

How to opt out of correspondence
Based on the information a user has provided, Kootenay Dance Academy may send e-mail correspondence to the user. Each correspondence will contain an easy means to opt out of further correspondence.

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