Dance Camps Internet Policies for Parents & Campers

Parents, we want your American Dance Training Camp experience to be safe and fun year-round. And since you’ll be responsible for monitoring any potential interactions between your daughter and ADTC staff/campers outside of camp, please read our dance camp internet policies below and then review them with your daughter before check-in for her camp session.

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Internet Safety During Virtual Dance Camps 

Parents – please review these three tips with your daughter.

Tip #1: Only Use Official Communication Channels Given to You By ADTC (like a Zoom link)

Tip #2: Follow the “Rule of Three”

The “Rule of Three” means that you shouldn’t be alone with another person online through a camp channel. There should always be at least three people present online with you. The “Rule of Three” also applies to messages – when you DM’s our ADTC Instagram or Facebook pages, multiple staff have eyes on that account, so we’re following the rule of three even then.

Tip #3: Tell a Trusted Adult if Something Makes You Uncomfortable

You’re not doing anything wrong by telling, and you won’t get in trouble. A “trusted adult” could be a parent or caregiver or someone else… a trusted adult for you might even be your ADTC Program Director. And we’re here to help you feel great about being online.

Keeping in Touch with Fellow ADTC Campers

ADTC views social networking sites and other Internet communication as a positive way for campers to keep in touch with friends and express themselves after camp. Our dance camp internet policies allow campers to exchange emails or social media contact info with other ADTC campers and invite them to be on their “friends” list in any way they see fit.

Keeping In Touch With ADTC Counselors

At ADTC, our pledge is to put your daughter in the company of the most trustworthy and capable young adults we can hire. The effort we put into screening and selecting our staff is part of this pledge.

By hiring the staff that we do, however, we don’t recommend them as babysitters or nannies outside of camp. Our staff works with your children in the context of a visible, well scrutinized environment that has built-in checks and balances. Counselors are supervised by Directors and are guided by clear, firm policies regarding behavior.

Their actions are also visible to a community of coworkers and campers. In general we discourage our staff from having contact with your children after camp since we cannot supervise it. We hire our staff for certain camp locations/sessions. We do not take responsibility for their behavior outside of the sessions they work with us.

We also recognize that many campers will naturally want to keep in touch with their favorite counselors after camp. In general, we discourage our staff from having social contact with ADTC campers outside of the camp environment. But in this technological age, this policy is not always realistic.

Keep in mind that despite our best efforts, we at ADTC cannot control what happens after camp concludes. Campers may seek out their ADTC counselors via online searches, etc., without their parents’ or ADTC’s specific awareness or permission. We recommend that parents closely and continually supervise their children’s online activities.

Dance Camp Internet Policies Regarding Cyber-Bullying and Harassment

Cyber-bullying and harassment are not tolerated at ADTC. Rude, demeaning, intimidating or vulgar emails, texts, social posts, instant messages or other such notes, sent to or about other ADTC campers are absolutely unacceptable. Likewise, creating false screen names or accounts to harass members of our camp community, or to spread false and damaging information about them, is unacceptable.

Media Release

As part of your form requirements, we ask parents to sign a media release. It is important that you understand this release before camp. Here is what it says:

I give permission and consent for my child to participate in all activities and to allow photographs, videos and interviews to be taken during the camp session. I hereby authorize and grant to ADTC the right to: (i) record my child (including, without limitation, my child’s appearance, image and voice) by still photography and videotape photography, audio tape and all other means of recording technology (the results of which shall be deemed the “Recordings”); (ii) edit the Recordings (in ADTC’s sole discretion); (iii) use the Recordings along with my child’s photographs, likeness and voice; in and in connection with the camp, and all ancillary and subsidiary uses thereof and all advertising, publicity, or any legitimate purpose. In compliance with COPPA (Child Online Privacy Protection Act) my signature confirms that I hereby represent and warrant that I have the right to grant the rights granted hereunder and that I understand and agree that my child’s picture and video (without full name) may be used on publicly accessible areas of the ADTC website. I expressly release the Released Parties from and against any and all claims which I have or may have for invasion of privacy, defamation or any other cause of action arising out of the production, distribution, broadcast or exploitation of the Recordings. I acknowledge and agree that in no event shall I seek or be entitled to obtain injunctive or other equitable relief against the Released Parties or the Recordings.

Please note, if you decline the Media Release your camper will not be able to participate in our Virtual Dance Camps.