Privacy Policy

Effective Date & Last Updated: May 28, 2026

Please read these terms carefully. By accessing or using our website, participating in our physical Garba & Dodhiya batches in Surat, or enrolling in our online tutorials, you acknowledge that you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all the comprehensive details outlined in this document.

1. Introduction and Scope of Policy

Welcome to V&S Garba & Dodhiya Classes ("Company", "we", "our", "us"). We respect your privacy and are strongly committed to protecting it through our compliance with this comprehensive Privacy Policy. This extensive document serves to inform you of our policies and procedures regarding the collection, use, protection, and disclosure of personal information received from users of our website (the "Site"), as well as students enrolled in our physical batches located at Althan, Surat, and our digital/online tutoring services.

This policy applies to information we collect: on this Website; in email, text, and other electronic messages between you and this Website; through mobile and desktop applications you download from this Website; and when you interact with our advertising and applications on third-party websites and services if those applications or advertising include links to this policy.

It does not apply to information collected by us offline or through any other means, including on any other website operated by Company or any third party; or any third party, including through any application or content (including advertising) that may link to or be accessible from or on the Website.

2. Detailed Information We Collect About You

We collect several types of information from and about users of our Website, including information:

Personally Identifiable Information (PII): By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e-mail address, telephone number, age, gender, dietary preferences (if applicable for events), and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline.
Non-Personal Information: That is about you but individually does not identify you, such as your geographical location at a city/state level, age range, and general preferences regarding Garba and Navratri events.
Technical & Usage Information: About your internet connection, the equipment you use to access our Website, IP addresses, operating system, browser type, and usage details including page views, clickstream data, and navigation patterns.

2.1 Information You Provide to Us Directly

The information we collect on or through our Website may include:

Information that you provide by filling in forms on our Website. This includes information provided at the time of registering for our offline batches, subscribing to our premium online video courses, joining our VIP waitlist, or requesting further services.
Records and copies of your correspondence (including email addresses and WhatsApp numbers), if you contact us.
Your responses to surveys that we might ask you to complete for research and development purposes regarding new Dodhiya steps and choreography preferences.
Details of transactions you carry out through our Website and of the fulfillment of your class enrollments. Financial information may be required before placing an order through our Site.

2.2 Information We Collect Through Automatic Data Collection Technologies

As you navigate through and interact with our Website, we may use automatic data collection technologies (including Google Analytics) to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions, and patterns, including:

Traffic Data: Details of your visits to our Website, including traffic data, location data, logs, and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the Website.
Device Data: Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system, and browser type.

The information we collect automatically is generally statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our Website and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:

Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website according to your individual interests (e.g., highlighting specific Garba variations like Hitch or 3-Taali).
Speed up your searches and site performance.
Recognize you when you return to our Website.

3. Technologies Used for Automatic Data Collection

The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:

Cookies (or browser cookies): A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our Website. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our Website.
Web Beacons: Pages of our the Website and our e-mails 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 certain website content and verifying system and server integrity).
Flash Cookies: Certain features of our Website may use local stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences and navigation to, from, and on our Website. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings as are used for browser cookies.

4. How We Use Your Information

We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information, for the following comprehensive purposes:

To present our Website and its contents to you in a highly optimized manner.
To provide you with information, products, or services that you request from us, such as class schedules, Navratri event passes, and uniform (Chaniya Choli/Kediyu) updates.
To fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it.
To provide you with notices about your account/subscription, including expiration and renewal notices.
To carry out our obligations and enforce our rights arising from any contracts entered into between you and us, including for billing and collection.
To notify you about changes to our Website or any products or services we offer or provide though it.
To allow you to participate in interactive features on our Website, such as the Review and Rating system.
In any other way we may describe when you provide the information.
For any other purpose with your explicit consent.

5. Disclosure of Your Information

We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:

To our subsidiaries and affiliates.
To contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use to support our business and who are bound by contractual obligations to keep personal information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
To a buyer or other successor in the event of a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution, or other sale or transfer of some or all of V&S Garba & Dodhiya Classes' assets, whether as a going concern or as part of bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information held by V&S Garba & Dodhiya Classes about our Website users is among the assets transferred.
To fulfill the purpose for which you provide it.
For any other purpose disclosed by us when you provide the information.
With your consent.

We may also disclose your personal information:

To comply with any court order, law, or legal process, including to respond to any government or regulatory request.
To enforce or apply our Terms of Service and other agreements, including for billing and collection purposes.
If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of V&S Garba & Dodhiya Classes, our customers, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organizations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

6. Data Security Measures

We have implemented highly advanced, industry-standard measures designed to secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored on our secure servers behind firewalls. Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology.

The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password for access to certain parts of our Website, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share your password with anyone.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our Website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the Website.

7. Data Retention Policy

We will only retain your personal information for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements. To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorized use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

8. Accessing and Correcting Your Information

You can review and change your personal information by logging into the Website and visiting your account profile page. You may also send us an email or contact us via WhatsApp to request access to, correct or delete any personal information that you have provided to us. We cannot delete your personal information except by also deleting your user account. We may not accommodate a request to change information if we believe the change would violate any law or legal requirement or cause the information to be incorrect.

9. Children Under the Age of 13

Our Website is not intended for children under 13 years of age. No one under age 13 may provide any information to or on the Website. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are under 13, do not use or provide any information on this Website or on or through any of its features/register on the Website, make any purchases through the Website, use any of the interactive or public comment features of this Website or provide any information about yourself to us, including your name, address, telephone number, email address, or any screen name or user name you may use. If we learn we have collected or received personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will delete that information.

10. Changes to Our Privacy Policy

It is our policy to post any changes we make to our privacy policy on this page. If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by email to the primary email address specified in your account and/or through a notice on the Website home page. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date active and deliverable email address for you, and for periodically visiting our Website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.

11. Contact Information & Grievance Officer

To ask questions or comment about this privacy policy and our privacy practices, contact us at:

V&S Garba & Dodhiya Classes
312, 3rd Floor, Sai Vittorio, Althan Canal Rd,
Surat, Gujarat 395007, India
Phone / WhatsApp: +91 63537 57027
Attn: Kelvin Patel (Founder & Grievance Officer)

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