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How the Academy collects, uses, stores, and protects personal information.
Nelson Music and Dance Academy ("NMDA", "the Academy", "we", "our", or "us") respects the privacy of our students, parents, guardians, website visitors, partners, sponsors, employees, instructors, and other members of our community.
This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, protect, and disclose personal information obtained through our website, online registration forms, sponsorship and partnership forms, enquiries, programmes, workshops, events, and related Academy services.
We are committed to handling personal information responsibly, transparently, securely, and in accordance with applicable data-protection laws.
By using our website or voluntarily providing information to us, you acknowledge the practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Depending on how you interact with NMDA, we may collect the following categories of information.
We may collect:
Where a student is a minor, we may collect:
Where necessary for student safety, we may collect limited information such as:
Because health-related information is sensitive, NMDA will seek to limit its collection to information reasonably necessary for student safety and programme participation.
When you contact NMDA through our website, email, WhatsApp, telephone, contact form, or social media, we may collect:
We use this information to respond to enquiries and provide requested information about our programmes and services.
When organisations or individuals submit sponsorship or partnership applications, we may collect:
This information is used to evaluate, communicate about, administer, and document potential or existing collaborations with NMDA.
Where online or electronic payments are available, NMDA may provide payment options such as:
Payment transactions may be processed by third-party financial service providers.
NMDA should not intentionally collect or store complete payment-card credentials when payments are processed directly by an authorised third-party payment service.
Payment providers may collect and process information according to their own privacy policies and terms.
NMDA may use personal information to:
We will seek to use personal information only for legitimate and clearly identified purposes.
NMDA provides programmes for children and young people, including children from the age of five.
We recognise that children's personal information requires particular care.
Where a participant is a minor, registration and relevant consent should normally be completed or authorised by a parent or legal guardian.
We may require parent or guardian consent before:
Children should not independently submit sensitive personal information through the website without the knowledge and permission of a parent or guardian.
Parents or guardians may contact NMDA if they have questions or concerns regarding information relating to their child.
NMDA activities may include:
Photographs, audio recordings, or videos may sometimes be taken during these activities.
Where required, NMDA will seek appropriate consent before using identifiable photographs or videos of students, particularly minors, for purposes such as:
Parents or guardians may contact NMDA regarding their media-consent preferences.
Withdrawal of consent will apply to future use where reasonably practicable and may not always allow NMDA to retrieve material that has already been lawfully printed, distributed, or otherwise published.
NMDA may use website analytics services to understand matters such as:
Where analytics services are used, NMDA should configure them to collect only information reasonably required for legitimate website-management purposes.
Sponsorship of a child or programme does not automatically give a sponsor unrestricted access to students' or families' personal information.
NMDA may provide sponsors and partners with appropriate programme information such as:
Personal or sensitive student information should not be disclosed to sponsors simply because they have provided financial or material support.
NMDA takes reasonable administrative, organisational, and technical measures intended to protect personal information against:
Measures may include appropriate access controls, passwords, secure hosting, limited staff access, secure record management, backups, and reputable service providers.
However, no internet transmission or electronic storage system can be guaranteed to be completely secure.
NMDA will seek to keep personal information only for as long as reasonably necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including:
Information that is no longer required should be securely deleted, destroyed, or anonymised where reasonably practicable.
Some technology, hosting, email, payment, analytics, or cloud-storage service providers used by NMDA may operate outside Cameroon.
Where personal information is transferred or processed internationally, NMDA will seek to use appropriate service providers and reasonable safeguards as required by applicable law.
Subject to applicable law and relevant exceptions, individuals may be able to request:
Parents or legal guardians may make appropriate requests concerning information relating to their minor children.
Requests may be sent to:
Email: nelsonmusicanddanceacademy2026@hotmail.com
NMDA may need to verify the identity or authority of the person making a request before acting on it.
NMDA may occasionally communicate information about:
Where marketing consent is required, we will seek appropriate permission.
Recipients may request to stop receiving optional promotional communications by contacting NMDA or using any unsubscribe method provided.
Essential administrative messages relating to an existing registration, programme, transaction, or contractual relationship may still be sent where appropriate.
The NMDA website may contain links to third-party websites or services, including:
NMDA is not responsible for the privacy practices of websites or services operated independently by third parties.
Visitors should review the privacy policies of those services before providing personal information.
Our website may provide forms for:
Users should provide only information relevant to the purpose of the form.
Where document-upload functionality is provided, users should avoid uploading unnecessary sensitive information.
If NMDA becomes aware of a security incident involving personal information, we will assess the incident and take reasonable steps to:
NMDA may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect:
The updated policy will be posted on this website with a revised "Last Updated" date.
We encourage visitors to review this page periodically.
For questions, concerns, correction requests, consent withdrawals, or other privacy-related matters, please contact:
Nelson Music and Dance Academy Buea, Cameroon
Email: nelsonmusicanddanceacademy2026@hotmail.com
Tel/WhatsApp: +237 675 528 015 +237 650 579 274
Website: www.nelsonmusicanddanceacademy.org
Nelson Music and Dance Academy is committed to protecting the dignity, safety, and privacy of every child, young person, parent, guardian, employee, instructor, partner, sponsor, and visitor who engages with the Academy.
We believe that responsible protection of personal information is an important part of maintaining the trust of the families and communities we serve.
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