Privacy Policy

This privacy policy is for this website (www.advancedisco.co.uk) and served by Advance Disco. It governs the privacy of its users who choose to use it. The policy sets out the different areas where user privacy is concerned and outlines the obligations & requirements of the users, the website, and website owners. Furthermore, the way this website processes, stores, and protects user data and information will also be detailed within this policy.

This website and its owners take a proactive approach to user privacy and ensure the necessary steps are taken to protect the privacy of its users throughout their visiting experience.
This website complies with all UK national laws and requirements for user privacy in accordance with GDPR Privacy Policy 2018. Furthermore, Advance Disco does not harvest or collect user data for advertising purposes.

This website has external links to social media and Google, both of which use tracking software to monitor site visitors to better understand how they use it.
This software is provided by Google Analytics, which uses cookies to track visitor usage. The software will save a cookie to your computer's hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save, or collect personal information.
You can read Google's privacy policy here for further information: www.google.com/privacy.html

Your personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required, as detailed in the GDPR Privacy Policy 2018. Every effort has been made to ensure a safe and secure form-to-email submission process, but we advise users using such form-to-email processes that they do so at their own risk. This website and its owners use any information submitted to provide you with further information about the products/services Advance Disco offers or to assist you in answering any questions or queries you may have submitted.
Your details submitted during a disco quotation are not given or sold to any third parties.

The owners of this website cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite their best efforts. Users should therefore note that they click on external links at their own risk, and this website and its owners cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Communication, engagement, and actions taken through external social media platforms that this website and its owners participate in are custom to the terms and conditions as well as the privacy policies held with each social media platform respectively. This website may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to the social media platform in question. Users are advised before using such social sharing buttons that they do so at their own discretion and note that the social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page respectively through your social media platform account.

Our karaoke web page states that we take video footage of karaoke performances. The purpose is to provide an edited video containing singing performances as a gift or a keepsake to the organiser of the event. We film children singing karaoke ONLY when they are singing with a parent (as a duo) and never solo. The duration of filming is always under 1 minute; the resulting video file is called a clip, which at this point is stored on the camera SD card. All clips from the event are edited to provide one fun and memorable video. The distance of filming of each karaoke performance is always about 2–3 meters in front of the subject and always visible, thus making it simple to inform us if you do not want us to film or to stop filming. We understand written consent from a child and their parents or carers before filming a child-and-parent karaoke performance is the best policy; however, we do not know prior who the guests will be. Therefore, it is not possible for us to obtain prior consent. We will store photographs and videos of children securely, in accordance with data protection law. The camera is always kept in a body pouch, and SD cards are removed and secured in a small safe once home. The video clips (raw footage) and any video edits are NEVER shared by Advance Disco on any social media platform, website, forum, or given to other persons. This we guarantee. The camera and SD card are always kept in a secure small safe until editing is performed. Once the footage has been transferred to a computer for editing, the raw footage (clips) are securely deleted by re-formatting the SD card in the camera. After editing is completed and the final video (MP4) has been produced, the raw footage (clips) are securely deleted using a 128-bit file shredder app. After the final video (MP4) has been sent to our customer via WeTransfer, the final video file on our local editing system is securely deleted using the 128-bit file shredder app. The only copy in existence will be that which we have sent to the organiser as a fun and memorable keepsake. From this point, the party organiser (customer) is fully responsible for the final video.
Sharing videos of karaoke activities can help us celebrate the successes and achievements of our children and young people, and provide a record of their activities. We will never store images of children on unencrypted portable equipment such as laptops, USB sticks, and mobile devices. We will also develop a procedure for reporting the abuse or misuse of images of children as part of our child protection procedures should the need arise. We will ensure everyone involved in our organisation knows the procedures to follow to keep children safe. If children, parents, and/or carers do not wish video to be taken, we will respect their wishes and try our utmost to ensure this is done in a way that does not single out the child or make them feel isolated.