Privacy and safety
This page explains what data SalsaSocial keeps and how blocking, reporting, and account deletion work.
Account and profile data
Your account stores your email address and a one-way hash of your password (never the password itself). Your profile stores your display name, dance role, skill level, dance styles, optional Instagram handle, and Instagram visibility setting.
Who can see my Instagram
Your Instagram handle is never visible to signed-out visitors or to anyone you have blocked or who has blocked you. By default ("Any signed-in dancer"), it is visible to any signed-in dancer. You can restrict it to dancers sharing a table with you, a class with you (when you ticked "Show me…" on sign-up), or the same event's "going" list as you, from your profile.
Blocking
Blocking another dancer mutually hides your table membership rows, your visible class sign-ups, your event "going" list rows, and your chat messages (table, class, or event chat), and prevents either of you from joining a table the other created. Basic profile fields and existing table, class, or going-list entries stay unchanged. Unblock a dancer from the "Blocked dancers" section of your profile.
Reporting
A signed-in dancer can report a user or a chat message (table, class, or event chat) with a 1-500 character reason; reporting an event chat message also offers to block its sender immediately. Reports are readable only by the site owner, for moderation.
Chat message retention and account deletion
Chat messages (table, class, or event chat) expire 48 hours after the event or class ends, and an event's "going" list stays visible to signed-in dancers until 48 hours after the event ends. Deleting your account on your profile immediately deletes your account, profile, blocks, created tables, and table, class, and going-list entries, while keeping your past messages on other tables, classes, and event chats, anonymised (sender cleared), until they expire.
"I'm coming" attendance
An "I'm coming" tap stores the event, the role you picked, the time, and a random code that lets your device undo it, with no name or account. To limit repeated taps, a hash of your network address is kept for at most 24 hours and then deleted; that hash is not anonymous.
Welcome hosts
When an organiser names a welcome host for a social, the site owner confirms directly with that host before publishing their first name, how to find them at the venue, and, only if the host agrees, their Instagram handle and photo. Each host entry has an agreed end date and is deleted automatically once the social or end date has passed (including its photo). A host or organiser can ask at any time to change or remove a host entry by emailing [email protected].