WizDance
Privacy — draft outline
What a WizDance privacy policy will have to cover, and what has not been decided yet.
Draft outline — not in force
This is not a privacy policy or a legal agreement, and nothing on this page is binding on anyone.
It is a working list of the questions WizDance has to answer with a lawyer before the first studio signs up. Because the product handles video of children, publishing confident-sounding policy text before that work is done would be worse than publishing none — somebody might rely on it. Please do not treat anything here as a promise, a permission, or a statement of what we do with your data.
- Status
- Draft outline. Not a policy.
- In force
- No. Nothing here is binding.
- Reviewed by a lawyer
- No. Not yet written with counsel.
- Last updated
- Still being drafted — no version yet.
- Who it will apply to
- Studios, teachers, dancers, and the parents of young dancers.
Topics the finished policy must cover
Each topic below states what the product actually does today, and then the question that is still open. The facts are checkable. The questions are not rhetorical — they are the live decisions.
1. A dancer's own video stays on their phone
What the product does today
When a dancer records themselves, the movement analysis runs on their own device. Only the derived skeleton points — a stream of joint positions, not pictures — are sent to us. The video itself is never uploaded.
Still to be decided
Whether the skeleton points derived from a child's video count as personal data in their own right, how long they are kept, and what has to be said about them before a parent agrees to anything.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel
2. Teacher videos are uploaded; dancer videos are not
What the product does today
The asymmetry is deliberate. A teacher's tutorial video is uploaded because publishing it is the point. A dancer's practice recording is a different thing entirely and is treated as a different thing.
Still to be decided
How plainly this difference has to be explained at the moment somebody presses record, rather than buried in a document — and what a teacher is agreeing to when they upload.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel
3. Where a dancer's recording is stored, and who can open it
What the product does today
Recordings are kept privately, not on the open internet. They are opened through links that are issued one at a time and expire quickly, and only after we have checked that the person asking is allowed. A recording belongs to the dancer, and to a teacher only when the dancer shares it.
Still to be decided
Whether a teacher can reply to a shared recording with a voice note, which would mean storing an adult's audio commentary about a child's video — and everything that follows from that. The specification currently contradicts itself on this point.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel
4. How long recordings are kept
What the product does today
Nothing is deleted automatically, and every recording carries the date it was made so that whatever is decided can be applied to recordings that already exist.
Still to be decided
The actual retention period. The options on the table are twelve months with the dancer able to delete their own recordings, or keeping them indefinitely. This is undecided, and it is the single most important unanswered question on this page.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel
5. Young dancers, and who may agree on their behalf
What the product does today
Every person at a studio is recorded as an adult, a teenager, a child, or not yet told. A child, and anyone whose age we have not been told, is treated as needing a parent or guardian to agree — an unknown age is never treated as an adult. Where consent is needed, the studio contacts the adult rather than the dancer.
Still to be decided
The consent model itself: whether a studio can confirm it holds a parent's permission on our behalf, or whether WizDance is simply not available to under-13s at all. Also where the line between child and teenager sits, which is a legal question and moves outside the United States.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel — counsel is required, not optional
6. Who is responsible for safeguarding at each studio
What the product does today
Nothing yet. There is no named safeguarding owner recorded for a studio, and no agreed route for reporting a concern about a recording or a message.
Still to be decided
Who that named person is at each studio, whether a studio can finish signing up without naming one, what happens when that person leaves, and how a parent reaches them. This has to be both a field in the system and a term in the studio's contract — one without the other is not a safeguard.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel
7. Asking us to delete someone's data
What the product does today
WizDance keeps an unalterable record of actions taken inside a studio — who invited whom, who published what. That record is what makes it possible to investigate anything that is ever reported, so entries cannot be removed from it. As a result, erasing somebody means blanking their details and leaving the record intact, rather than removing them entirely.
Still to be decided
Whether that is the policy WizDance adopts; exactly which details are blanked and which survive; how long the record is kept; and — separately, because there is no safeguarding argument for keeping them — what happens to that person's recordings. A parent asking for a child's data to be removed deserves a decided answer, not one worked out during the request.
Decided by: Founder, then a small engineering change
8. Who can see whom inside a studio
What the product does today
A dancer sees the people they share a class with today, and nobody else; where a name is not theirs to see, the screen says so rather than quietly leaving the person out. Studio admins and the front desk see the whole roster. Studios cannot see into each other at all.
Still to be decided
Whether this is also what a parent expects, what a dancer can choose to hide from classmates, and what a studio may do with the contact details it holds.
Decided by: Founder, with legal counsel
9. Email we send you
What the product does today
Signing in and being invited both work by email. There are no passwords, so an email is how you get in.
Still to be decided
Which company delivers that email on our behalf, what they can see of it, and what it says about WizDance when an invite arrives from us rather than from the studio a dancer actually knows.
Decided by: Founder
10. The AI that drafts lesson cues
What the product does today
The cue writing is done by an outside AI service. It is shown only detected structure — timings, counts, beats and joint positions. It is never shown anybody's video, and never a dancer's recording.
Still to be decided
Which service, what it keeps, and whether it may use what we send it to train its own models. The boundary above is fixed; the vendor and its terms are not chosen.
Decided by: Founder, with counsel on the terms
11. Where in the world your data is held
What the product does today
WizDance is being built for the United States first. Consent records, ages and the ability to export or erase one person's data are all built so that other countries' rules can be added later without rebuilding.
Still to be decided
Whether WizDance operates outside the US at all — and if so, the consent question above reopens completely, because the age at which a young person can agree for themselves is different there.
Decided by: Founder, before any commitment outside the US
Draft outline — not in force
This is not a privacy policy or a legal agreement, and nothing on this page is binding on anyone.
It is a working list of the questions WizDance has to answer with a lawyer before the first studio signs up. Because the product handles video of children, publishing confident-sounding policy text before that work is done would be worse than publishing none — somebody might rely on it. Please do not treat anything here as a promise, a permission, or a statement of what we do with your data.
If you need to know what happens to your data before this is finished, ask your studio, and they can ask us. A real answer from a person is worth more than a page of text nobody has checked.