Terms of use

1. Who these terms are with

This site is operated by DanceKaro ("we", "us"). By using it you agree to these terms. If you do not, please do not use the site.

You must be 18 or older to hold an account. Browsing needs no account at all.

2. What this platform is

DanceKaro is a listing and introduction service. Choreographers, studios and groups publish what they do, what they charge and when they are free; couples find them and get in touch.

We are an intermediary, not a provider of dance classes. We do not employ choreographers, do not supervise classes, do not set anyone's prices and are not a party to the contract you make with them. We are an intermediary within the meaning of the Information Technology Act, 2000 in respect of content published by our users.

3. Accounts

• You give accurate details and keep them current. An account created with somebody else's name, photographs or phone number will be removed.
• Verifying a phone number is required before a booking request can be sent, and a one-time code is sent by SMS to do it. That is what stops choreographers being answered by nobody.
• You are responsible for what happens under your account. Tell us straight away if you think somebody else has access to it.
• One person, one account. Accounts are not transferable and may not be sold.

4. If you list on the platform

A choreographer, studio or group that publishes here agrees that:

• Everything on the profile is true — the work in the portfolio is work you did or were part of, the prices are prices you will honour, and the availability is availability you have.
• You hold the rights to the photographs and video you upload, or have permission from whoever does, including from the people in them.
• You will answer a booking request or let it lapse. A request that goes unanswered for 48 hours expires on its own, and a profile that repeatedly leaves requests to expire may be unpublished.
• You are responsible for your own taxes, registrations and insurance, and for the safety and conduct of your classes.
• A profile is reviewed before it first goes live, and we may ask for changes or decline to publish it.

The licence you give us

You keep everything you own. By publishing on the site you grant us a non-exclusive, royalty-free licence to host your content, resize and re-encode it for the web, and show it on the platform, in its listings, in its link previews and in its search results. That licence exists so the site can display your work; it ends when you remove the content, subject to backups aging out.

5. Bookings

A booking request is an offer to engage a choreographer on the terms shown on their profile. It is not a confirmed booking. The choreographer may accept it, decline it, or propose different dates or a different price, and it expires automatically after 48 hours if they do not respond.

No payment is taken through this site. What you owe and how you pay it is between you and the choreographer. We hold no money, process no cards and issue no invoices for the classes themselves. See the pricing page and the refunds and cancellations policy.

6. Workshops

A workshop listing is published by its host, and the host is responsible for it: the dates, the venue, the level, the capacity and what happens if it is called off. Where a workshop page shows a fee, that fee is the host's and is paid to the host.

Places in a workshop cannot currently be booked or paid for through this site. A listing tells you what is on and how to reach the host.

7. Reviews

• Only a couple whose booking actually happened may review the choreographer who taught it. There is no way to review someone you never engaged.
• A review must be your own honest experience. Reviews that are bought, traded, written by a competitor or written about something other than the work will be removed.
• A choreographer cannot delete a review they dislike, and neither can we do it on their behalf. We remove one only when it breaks these terms.
• A review may be hidden while a complaint about it is looked at.

8. What you may not do

• Post anything unlawful, abusive, obscene, misleading, or infringing somebody's rights.
• Impersonate another person, business or studio, or claim work that is not yours.
• Scrape, crawl beyond what robots.txt allows, or bulk-collect profiles, phone numbers or email addresses.
• Use contact details found here to send marketing to anybody who did not ask for it.
• Interfere with the site, probe it for weaknesses, or attempt to reach data that is not yours.
• Take a booking conversation off-platform in order to leave a false review or to evade a suspension.

9. Suspension and removal

We may remove content or suspend an account that breaks these terms, that we reasonably believe to be fraudulent, or that we are required to act on by law. Where it is practical and lawful to do so we will tell you why and give you a way to respond. You may close your account at any time.

10. What we do not promise

The site is provided as it is. We do not warrant that any choreographer is suitable for your event, that a listing is accurate, that a booking will be accepted, or that the site will be available without interruption. We do check listings before they are first published, and that check is not a guarantee.

11. Liability

To the extent the law allows, we are not liable for loss arising out of a booking, a class, a workshop, a cancellation, or a dispute between you and another user — including any fee you paid directly to them. Nothing here limits liability that cannot be limited by law, including for fraud or for death or personal injury caused by our negligence.

Where liability cannot be excluded, ours is limited to the amount you have paid us, which for the avoidance of doubt is currently nothing: the platform charges no fee.

12. Privacy

What we collect and why is set out in the privacy policy, which forms part of these terms.

13. Complaints and the grievance officer

Complaints about content on the platform go to our grievance officer, who will acknowledge your complaint and resolve it within 15 days. The details are on the contact page.

14. Changes to these terms

We may update these terms. The date at the top of this page changes when we do, and a change that materially affects you will be notified to your account's email address. Continuing to use the site after a change means you accept it.

15. Governing law

These terms are governed by the laws of India, and the courts at Mumbai, Maharashtra have exclusive jurisdiction over any dispute arising from them.