SMS Terms of Service
Last updated October 2026
The program
When you opt in to text messages during NDCA registration or renewal, or from your member profile in the NDCA app, you agree to receive recurring automated SMS messages from the National Dance Council of America ("NDCA") at the mobile number you provided.
Membership and event texts
These texts are about your own membership and your own competition entries: event updates such as heat-time alerts, schedule changes and other time-sensitive event updates; anything about your membership or payments, such as links to pay dues or fees you owe the NDCA, receipts, refund notices and renewal reminders; and, if you are an NDCA official or event staff (such as a judge, scrutineer or registrar), notices about your licenses, tools, procedures and event operations. A payment link is sent only for an amount owed on your own account, it always points to the NDCA's own site, and no payment text is sent at all if that link cannot be made. Message frequency varies with your membership and event activity. These are account and operational messages only; the NDCA does not send marketing or promotional texts under this program.
Codes and security alerts
Whether or not you opt in, the NDCA texts a one-time verification code when you ask for one, and a security alert when someone tries to claim or sign in to your own account.
Your consent is given to the NDCA alone. It is never shared with, sold to, or exercised on behalf of any third party. The NDCA never sells your number and never shares it with or lets any third party use it for marketing or promotional purposes. The one company that receives your number in order to act on it is Twilio, which delivers each message for us; the hosting providers named in our Privacy Policy hold the membership records. Our Privacy Policy says how your number is stored: encrypted in the registry the app writes to, and without that encryption in the older membership list we still hold. We give Twilio the number only to deliver our messages; Twilio's own published terms also reserve it an independent-controller role for its own operations, such as security, fraud prevention, business analytics and developing and improving its products, as our Privacy Policy describes. Sponsors, studios, and other businesses do not send messages under this program and do not receive your mobile number or your opt-in from it.
Costs
Message and data rates may apply. Any such charges are billed by and payable to your mobile service provider. The NDCA does not charge for text messages.
Opting out and help
Reply STOP to any message to stop texts from the number that sent it. Reply HELP for help. You can also turn text messages on or off from your member profile in the NDCA app, or contact support@ndca.app. Carriers are not liable for delayed or undelivered messages.
Consent
Consent to receive text messages is not a condition of NDCA membership, of entering any competition, or of any purchase. Your mobile number is handled under our Privacy Policy, which says how it is stored; the NDCA never sells it.