You must be over 18 to register for an account.

A member of our staff will be in contact within 24 hours of your account creation. Please don't hesitate to reach out to us with any questions before then.

By registering for or participating in any class, program, or activity, the student and/or parent/guardian agrees that a) A Step Above Dance Academy may use any photograph or video taken of the student/parent/guardian at ASA or any performance for promotional or news media purposes, b) he/she acknowledges and assumes any risks of participation in any ASA class, program, or activity, c) ASA, its faculty, employees and volunteers, and any performance space vendor shall be indemnified, defended, released, and held harmless by students and parents/guardians for, against and/or from any expenses, damages, loss, claim, injury or action arising out of or related to, caused by, or suffered by such student while at ASA or participating in any ASA class, program or activity, and d) ASA is not responsible for any lost misplaced or stolen items.
Limit 3 class credits, per quarter, will be issued for absences.
Students must be registered for each quarter to participate. If they are not registered they will not be allowed to take class, even if they attended the previous quarter.
Tuition is non-refundable unless classes are cancelled for an entire quarter by A Step Above Dance Academy. Classes cancelled due to weather may be made up as a missed class.
All fees are payable in advanced and must accompany registration. Any payment made 7 or more days after classes have started or payment was due will be charged a $10.00 late fee.
Payment plans are available upon request. There will be an additional $5.00 charge due with each payment. Families who request a payment plan must keep an up-to-date credit card on file with ASA or enroll in Auto-Pay.
There will be a $15.00 fee for any checks that bounce. Any credit card kept on file with ASA that is denied on a charge will be charged a $15.00 fee.
There is an annual registration fee of $35 per family. This may be invoiced separately and is due within 14 days of online registration.

*ASA General Waiver & Release
By registering for or participating in any class, program or activity, the student and/or parent/guardian agrees that (a) A Step Above Dance Academy may use any photograph or video taken of the student/parent/guardian at ASA or any performance for promotional or news media purposes, (b) he/she acknowledges and assumes any risks of participation in any ASA class, program or activity, (c) ASA, its faculty, employees and volunteers, and any performance space vendor shall be indemnified, defended, released and held harmless by students and parents/guardians for, against and/or from any expenses, damages, loss, claim, injury or action arising out of or related to, caused by, or suffered by such student while at ASA or participating in any ASA class, program or activity, and (d) ASA is not responsible for any lost, misplaced or stolen items.

*ASA COVID Waiver & Release

I acknowledge the contagious nature of COVID-19 and voluntarily assume the risk that I may be exposed to or infected by COVID-19 by my mere presence within this establishment and that such exposure or infection may result in personal injury, illness, permanent disability, and death. I understand that the risk of becoming exposed to or infected by COVID-19 may result from actions, omissions, or negligence of myself and others, including, but not limited to, employees, volunteers, and program participants and their families. I hereby release ASA from any and all claims arising from or in connection with any direct COVID-19 impact while visiting. All standard ASA policies, tuition, and waivers pertain to COVID events.

*ASA Policies
1. Registration:
A seasonal registration fee ($25 fall/winter season, $15 summer) is due upon enrollment of each season. This fee is per family only.

2. Tuition:
**Tuition is NON-REFUNDABLE.**

Tuition is based on a 37 week year and broken into 10 equal monthly installments. Studio closings have been calculated into these equal installments.

The first installment and seasonal registration fee are due upon enrollment and must be paid before the start of the season. Consecutive installments are charged to credit cards on file on the 15th of each month, September - May.

Multi-class discounts are available for dancers in 3+ classes.

Families who wish to pay tuition in full will receive a 5% discount. (Basic levels and above only.)

Tuition is prorated on a weekly basis for students who register within the dance year.

3. Class Placements/Evaluations
Tip Toe Discovery - Pre-Ballet III/Jr. Level classes are based specifically on age. Basic levels &^ -dancers are placed based on age and technical ability and will not be moved into a new level based solely on age.

Teachers reserve the right to move a dancer up or down a level at any point throughout the year.

Dancers should expect to spend a minimum of 2 years in each level.

Dancers will receive written evaluations in their online portal from each teacher 2x/year.

4. Dress Code
Students must be dressed in appropriate attire for each class. Dress code can be found on our website & printed material.

Required leotards, shoes, tights, and more can be purchased at the ASA Boutique or our online store - www.shopASAdance.net

5. Annual Concert
*NEW this year - annual concert sign up will be automatic for all registered students. Families will have the chance to opt out of concert participation and/or select individual classes in early Fall. Additional fees are associated with participation and will be charged to accounts as laid out in concert details.

6. Absences/Make Up Classes
Missed classes may be made up within the same dance year only, in the same or lower level class.

ASA reserves the right to cancel classes for any reason. Make-up class policies apply.

7. Policies
Credit Cards - all families must keep a valid credit card on file and will be charged a 3% processing fee. Checks/Cash are accepted and must be turned in by the 5th of each month, before 8:00 pm. Returned checks will be issued a $35 fee.

Tuition is non-refundable. No exceptions.

Late fees - $10/day beginning 24 hours after due date.

Pick Up - please pick up your dancer in a timely fashion after their class.

Referral Discount - refer a friend and if they register, you both receive a $50 tuition credit.

8. Cancellations
Students who wish to drop must provide written notice via email by the 5th of the month prior. Drops after the 5th of the month must pay the tuition fee associated with the following month’s installment.

Privacy Policy
Last updated: July 25, 2023

This Privacy Policy describes Our policies and procedures on the collection, use and disclosure of Your information when You use the Service and tells You about Your privacy rights and how the law protects You.
We use Your Personal data to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, You agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. This Privacy Policy has been created with the help of the Privacy Policy Generator.

Interpretation and Definitions
Interpretation
The words of which the initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined under the following conditions. The following definitions shall have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in singular or in plural.
Definitions
For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:
Account means a unique account created for You to access our Service or parts of our Service.
Affiliate means an entity that controls, is controlled by or is under common control with a party, where "control" means ownership of 50% or more of the shares, equity interest or other securities entitled to vote for election of directors or other managing authority.
Company (referred to as either "the Company", "We", "Us" or "Our" in this Agreement) refers to A Step Above Academy, LLC, 129 Flinn St. Batavia, IL 60510.
Cookies are small files that are placed on Your computer, mobile device or any other device by a website, containing the details of Your browsing history on that website among its many uses.
Country refers to: Illinois, United States
Device means any device that can access the Service such as a computer, a cellphone or a digital tablet.
Personal Data is any information that relates to an identified or identifiable individual.
Service refers to the Website.
Service Provider means any natural or legal person who processes the data on behalf of the Company. It refers to third-party companies or individuals employed by the Company to facilitate the Service, to provide the Service on behalf of the Company, to perform services related to the Service or to assist the Company in analyzing how the Service is used.
Usage Data refers to data collected automatically, either generated by the use of the Service or from the Service infrastructure itself (for example, the duration of a page visit).
Website refers to A Step Above Dance Academy, accessible from Www.astepaboveacademy.net
You means the individual accessing or using the Service, or the company, or other legal entity on behalf of which such individual is accessing or using the Service, as applicable.
Collecting and Using Your Personal Data

Types of Data Collected
Personal Data
While using Our Service, We may ask You to provide Us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify You. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
Email address
First name and last name
Phone number
Address, State, Province, ZIP/Postal code, City
Usage Data
Usage Data
Usage Data is collected automatically when using the Service.
Usage Data may include information such as Your Device's Internet Protocol address (e.g. IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that You visit, the time and date of Your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
When You access the Service by or through a mobile device, We may collect certain information automatically, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device You use, Your mobile device unique ID, the IP address of Your mobile device, Your mobile operating system, the type of mobile Internet browser You use, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that Your browser sends whenever You visit our Service or when You access the Service by or through a mobile device.
Tracking Technologies and Cookies
We use Cookies and similar tracking technologies to track the activity on Our Service and store certain information. Tracking technologies used are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information and to improve and analyze Our Service. The technologies We use may include:
• Cookies or Browser Cookies. A cookie is a small file placed on Your Device. You can instruct Your browser to refuse all Cookies or to indicate when a Cookie is being sent. However, if You do not accept Cookies, You may not be able to use some parts of our Service. Unless you have adjusted Your browser setting so that it will refuse Cookies, our Service may use Cookies.
• Web Beacons. Certain sections of our Service and our emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single-pixel gifs) that permit the Company, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (for example, recording the popularity of a certain section and verifying system and server integrity).
Cookies can be "Persistent" or "Session" Cookies. Persistent Cookies remain on Your personal computer or mobile device when You go offline, while Session Cookies are deleted as soon as You close Your web browser. Learn more about cookies on the Privacy Policies website article.
We use both Session and Persistent Cookies for the purposes set out below:
Necessary / Essential Cookies
Type: Session Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies are essential to provide You with services available through the Website and to enable You to use some of its features. They help to authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these Cookies, the services that You have asked for cannot be provided, and We only use these Cookies to provide You with those services.
Cookies Policy / Notice Acceptance Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies identify if users have accepted the use of cookies on the Website.
Functionality Cookies
Type: Persistent Cookies
Administered by: Us
Purpose: These Cookies allow us to remember choices You make when You use the Website, such as remembering your login details or language preference. The purpose of these Cookies is to provide You with a more personal experience and to avoid You having to re-enter your preferences every time You use the Website.
For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please visit our Cookies Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.
Use of Your Personal Data
The Company may use Personal Data for the following purposes:
To provide and maintain our Service, including to monitor the usage of our Service.
To manage Your Account: to manage Your registration as a user of the Service. The Personal Data You provide can give You access to different functionalities of the Service that are available to You as a registered user.
For the performance of a contract: the development, compliance and undertaking of the purchase contract for the products, items or services You have purchased or of any other contract with Us through the Service.
To contact You: To contact You by email, telephone calls, SMS, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as a mobile application's push notifications regarding updates or informative communications related to the functionalities, products or contracted services, including the security updates, when necessary or reasonable for their implementation.
To provide You with news, special offers and general information about other goods, services and events which we offer that are similar to those that you have already purchased or enquired about unless You have opted not to receive such information.
To manage Your requests: To attend and manage Your requests to Us.
For business transfers: We may use Your information to evaluate or conduct a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of Our assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which Personal Data held by Us about our Service users is among the assets transferred.
For other purposes: We may use Your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our promotional campaigns and to evaluate and improve our Service, products, services, marketing and your experience.
We may share Your personal information in the following situations:
• With Service Providers: We may share Your personal information with Service Providers to monitor and analyze the use of our Service, to contact You.
• For business transfers: We may share or transfer Your personal information in connection with, or during negotiations of, any merger, sale of Company assets, financing, or acquisition of all or a portion of Our business to another company.
• With Affiliates: We may share Your information with Our affiliates, in which case we will require those affiliates to honor this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include Our parent company and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners or other companies that We control or that are under common control with Us.
• With business partners: We may share Your information with Our business partners to offer You certain products, services or promotions.
• With other users: when You share personal information or otherwise interact in the public areas with other users, such information may be viewed by all users and may be publicly distributed outside.
• With Your consent: We may disclose Your personal information for any other purpose with Your consent.
Retention of Your Personal Data
The Company will retain Your Personal Data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use Your Personal Data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (for example, if we are required to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.
The Company will also retain Usage Data for internal analysis purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, except when this data is used to strengthen the security or to improve the functionality of Our Service, or We are legally obligated to retain this data for longer time periods.
Transfer of Your Personal Data
Your information, including Personal Data, is processed at the Company's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved in the processing are located. It means that this information may be transferred to — and maintained on — computers located outside of Your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where the data protection laws may differ than those from Your jurisdiction.
Your consent to this Privacy Policy followed by Your submission of such information represents Your agreement to that transfer.
The Company will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that Your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy and no transfer of Your Personal Data will take place to an organization or a country unless there are adequate controls in place including the security of Your data and other personal information.
Delete Your Personal Data
You have the right to delete or request that We assist in deleting the Personal Data that We have collected about You.
Our Service may give You the ability to delete certain information about You from within the Service.
You may update, amend, or delete Your information at any time by signing in to Your Account, if you have one, and visiting the account settings section that allows you to manage Your personal information. You may also contact Us to request access to, correct, or delete any personal information that You have provided to Us.
Please note, however, that We may need to retain certain information when we have a legal obligation or lawful basis to do so.
Disclosure of Your Personal Data
Business Transactions
If the Company is involved in a merger, acquisition or asset sale, Your Personal Data may be transferred. We will provide notice before Your Personal Data is transferred and becomes subject to a different Privacy Policy.
Law enforcement
Under certain circumstances, the Company may be required to disclose Your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g. a court or a government agency).
Other legal requirements
The Company may disclose Your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:
• Comply with a legal obligation
• Protect and defend the rights or property of the Company
• Prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
• Protect the personal safety of Users of the Service or the public
• Protect against legal liability
Security of Your Personal Data
The security of Your Personal Data is important to Us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While We strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect Your Personal Data, We cannot guarantee its absolute security.
Children's Privacy

Our Service does not address anyone under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under the age of 13. If You are a parent or guardian and You are aware that Your child has provided Us with Personal Data, please contact Us. If We become aware that We have collected Personal Data from anyone under the age of 13 without verification of parental consent, We take steps to remove that information from Our servers.
If We need to rely on consent as a legal basis for processing Your information and Your country requires consent from a parent, We may require Your parent's consent before We collect and use that information.
Links to Other Websites

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by Us. If You click on a third party link, You will be directed to that third party's site. We strongly advise You to review the Privacy Policy of every site You visit.
We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies or practices of any third party sites or services.
Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may update Our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify You of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page.
We will let You know via email and/or a prominent notice on Our Service, prior to the change becoming effective and update the "Last updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.
You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.
Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, You can contact us:
• By email: Info@astepaboveacademy.net