Policy:Privacy Policy

Introduction

Welcome

Kid Dancers Wiki was founded on a simple goal, to give competition kids a platform where they or others could post contest results, upload photos and videos of their dances and document their success as dancers and many more. We cannot work collectively without gathering, sharing, and analyzing information about our users as we seek new ways to make Kid Dancers Wiki more usable, safer, and more beneficial

We believe that information-gathering and use should go hand-in-hand with transparency. This Privacy Policy explains how Kid Dancers Wiki collects, uses, and shares information we receive from you through your use of Kid Dancers Wiki. It is essential to understand that when you use Kid Dancers Wiki, we collect, transfer, process, store, disclose, and use your information as described in this Privacy Policy. That means that reading this Policy carefully is important.

We believe that you should not have to provide nonpublic Personal Information to participate in the free knowledge movement. You do not have to provide things like your real name, address, or date of birth to sign up for a standard account or contribute content to Kid Dancers Wiki.

We do not sell or rent your Personal Information, nor do we give it to others to sell you anything. We use it to figure out how to make Kid Dancers Wiki more engaging and accessible, to see which ideas work, and to make learning and contributing more fun. Put simply: we use this information to make Kid Dancers Wiki better for you.

After all, it is people like you, the champions of free knowledge, who make it possible for Kid Dancers Wiki to not only exist, but also grow and thrive.

Definitions

Because everyone (not just lawyers) should be able to easily understand how and why their information is collected and used, we use common language instead of more formal terms throughout this Policy. To help ensure your understanding of some particular key terms, here is a table of translations:

When we say...	...we mean:
"Kid Dancers Wiki" / "we" / "us" / "our"	The Kid Dancers Wiki Administration team
"Kid Dancers Wiki Site" / "our services"	The Kid Dancers Wiki website and services (regardless of language), as well as mobile applications, Application Programming Interfaces (APIs), emails, and notifications; excluding, however, sites and services listed in the "What This Privacy Policy Does Not Cover" section below.
"you" / "your" / "me"	You, regardless of whether you are an individual, group, or organization, and regardless of whether you are using Kid Dancers Wiki or our services on behalf of yourself or someone else.
"this Policy" / "this Privacy Policy"	This document, entitled the "Kid Dancers Wiki Privacy Policy".
"contributions"	Content you add or changes you make on Kid Dancers Wiki
"Personal information" / "Personal data"	Information you provide us or information we collect that relates to you or could be used to personally identify you. To be clear, while we do not necessarily collect all of the following types of information, we consider at least the following to be included: (a) your real name, address, phone number, email address, password, identification number on government-issued ID, IP address, user-agent information, payment account number; (b) when associated with one of the items in subsection (a), any sensitive data such as date of birth, gender, sexual orientation, racial or ethnic origins, marital or familial status, medical conditions or disabilities, political affiliation, and religion; (c) your page visits by cookies on Kid Dancers Wiki only.
"standard account"	An account you can sign up for to browse or edit Kid Dancers Wiki. Typically you do not need to provide more than a username and password to create a standard account.
“temporary account”	An automatically generated account and identifier used to attribute edits made when you are not logged into a standard account. You do not provide a username or password to create a temporary account.
"third party" / "third parties"	Individuals, entities, websites, services, products, and applications that are not controlled, managed, or operated by Kid Dancers Wiki. This includes other Kid Dancers Wiki users and independent organizations or groups who help promote Kid Dancers Wiki such as Kid Dancers Wiki chapters, thematic organizations, and user groups as well as volunteers, employees, directors, officers, grant recipients, and contractors of those organizations or groups.

Collection & Use of Info

Your Public Contributions

When you make a contribution to Kid Dancers Wiki, including on user or discussion pages, you are creating a permanent, public record of every piece of content added, removed, or altered by you. The page history will show when your contribution or deletion was made, as well as your username (if you are signed in) or your temporary account username (if you are not signed in). We may use your public contributions, either aggregated with the public contributions of others or individually, to create new features or data-related products for you or to learn more about how the Kid Dancers Wiki Site is used, as further explained below in the "How We Use Information We Receive From You" section of this Privacy Policy.

Publicly Visible Information Unless this Policy says otherwise, you should assume that information that you actively contribute to Kid Dancers Wiki, including Personal Information, is publicly visible and can be found by search engines. Like most things on the Internet, anything you share may be copied and redistributed throughout the Internet by other people. Please do not contribute any information that you are uncomfortable making permanently public, like revealing your real name or location in your contributions.

You should be aware that specific data made public by you or aggregated data that is made public by us can be used by anyone for analysis and to infer further information, such as which country a user is from, political affiliation and gender. Especially in the age of artificial intelligence.

Account Information & Registration

Want to create an account? Great! Do not want to create an account? No problem!

You are not required to create an account to read or contribute to the Kid Dancers Wiki site, except under rare circumstances. However, if you contribute without signing in, your contribution will be publicly attributed to a temporary account associated with your browser.

If you want to create a standard account, in most cases we require only a username and a password. However, if you choose not to provide an email address, we cannot help you recover your password.

More on Usernames Your username will be publicly visible, so please be careful about revealing your real name or other Personal Information in your username. Your password is only used to verify that the account is yours. Your IP address is also automatically submitted to us, and we record it temporarily. This is to protect Kid Dancers Wiki users and site content; in the event of abuse, IP addresses may be associated with usernames as part of an investigation. No other Personal Information is required: no name, no email address, no date of birth, and no credit card information.

Once created, user accounts cannot be removed entirely (although you can usually hide the information on your user page if you choose to). This is because your public contributions must be associated with their author (you!). In some circumstances, the Kid Dancers Wiki administrators can assist users with removing additional information related to their account from the site.

IP Addresses

Finally, when you visit the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, we automatically receive the IP address of the device (or your proxy server) you are using to access the Internet, which could be used to infer your geographical location.

Information Related to Your Use of the Kid Dancers Wiki Site

We want to make the Kid Dancers Wiki Site better for you by learning more about how you use them. Examples of this might include how often you visit the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, what you like, what you find helpful, how you get to the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, and whether you would use a helpful feature more if we explained it differently. We also want this Policy and our practices to reflect our community's values. For this reason, we keep information related to your use of the Kid Dancers Wiki Site confidential, except as provided in this Policy.

Information We Receive Automatically

Because of how browsers work, we receive some information automatically when you visit the Kid Dancers Wiki Site. This includes when you use an online tool on a third-party site that loads information coming from the Kid Dancers Wiki Site. This information includes the type of device you are using (possibly including unique device identification numbers, for some beta versions of our mobile applications), the type and version of your browser, your browser's language preference, the type and version of your device's operating system, in some cases the name of your internet service provider or mobile carrier, the website that referred you to the Wikimedia Sites, which pages you request and visit, and the date and time of each request you make to the Kid Dancers Wiki Site.

Put simply, we use this information to enhance your experience with the Kid Dancers Wiki Site. For example, we use this information to administer the site, provide greater security, and fight vandalism; optimize mobile applications, customize content and set language preferences, test features to see what works, and improve performance; understand how users interact with the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, track and study use of various features, gain understanding about the demographics of the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, and analyze trends.

Information We Collect

We actively collect some types of information with a variety of commonly-used technologies. These generally include:

• JavaScript, which is used to enhance the security of our sites, provide analytic data, deliver our services, and ensure site reliability,
• Cookies, which are used to enhance the security of our sites and to deliver our services,
• Tracking pixels, which are used to deliver our services as requested and for analytic purposes only and are not given to third-parties, and
• A variety of "locally stored data" technologies, such as local storage and session storage, which are used to deliver our services as requested.

We realize that some of these technologies do not have the best reputation in town and can be used for less-than-noble purposes. So we want to be as clear as we can about why we use these methods and the type of information we collect with them.

Depending on which technology we use, locally stored data may include text, Personal Information (like your IP address), and information about your use of the Kid Dancers Wiki Site (like your username or the time of your visit). See below for more information.

We use this information to make your experience with the Kid Dancers Wiki Site safer and better, to gain a greater understanding of user preferences and their interaction with the Kid Dancers Wiki Site, and to generally improve our services. We will never use third-party cookies, unless we get your permission to do so. If you ever come across a third-party data collection tool that has not been authorized by you (such as one that may have been mistakenly placed by another user or administrator), please report it to us at privacy@kiddancers.wiki