Privacy
Last updated: 28 October 2026
Who is responsible
TapWorldChamps is an independent, non-commercial archive of the IDO World Tap Dance Championships results. The controller of the personal data on this website is Otto Kočí, otto.koci@gmail.com, contact: info@tapworldchamps.com. We are not connected to the International Dance Organization (IDO).
What we publish and where it comes from
Only what the IDO has already published in the official results on ido-dance.com: the year and category, the placing, the name of the dancer, duo or team, and the country. Results from 1991 to 2006 come from the book History of the IDO World Tap dance Championships 1991–2023 by Michael Wendt (used with his permission), and Ask can search its text. For some years the title of the choreography is stored for search. We do not publish photos, ages, dates of birth, clubs, contact details or any other information about dancers.
Why, and on what legal basis
The purpose is a searchable historical archive and statistics of public sports results for the tap dance community: dancers, parents, teachers, clubs and national associations. The legal basis is our legitimate interest (Art. 6(1)(f) GDPR) in documenting and analysing public championship results.
Many dancers are children, so we keep the archive to what is necessary: only the published results, dancer pages are hidden from search engines (noindex), and any name is removed on request, without giving reasons.
Removing a name
If you, or your child, do not want to appear in the archive, write to info@tapworldchamps.com with the name and a link to one of the results. We replace the name with “Name withheld” in all results, also after future updates, normally within a few days and at the latest within one month. Removing a name here does not change the official results on ido-dance.com.
Who receives data
- Hosting: the website and database run at SvětHostingu (Czech Republic, EU).
- AI questions on this website (“Ask the archive”): your question and the archive results needed to answer it are sent to Anthropic, PBC (USA), which runs the Claude model, to write the answer. Do not enter personal information about yourself in the question.
- AI assistants of visitors: through our MCP server (
/mcp), AI assistants such as Claude or ChatGPT can read the same public results that are on these pages.
Data about visitors
- Questions asked in “Ask the archive” are stored for up to 12 months to prevent abuse and to reuse answers to identical questions. Your IP address is not stored, only a one-way fingerprint of it used for rate limits.
- The last few answered questions are shown on this website with their answers (“Recently asked”), with the time but without anything about who asked them. Do not put personal information in your question; we remove unsuitable questions.
- The hosting provider keeps standard technical server logs (IP address, time, page) for security.
Your rights
You have the right to access, rectification, erasure and restriction of processing, and the right to object to processing based on legitimate interest. You can also lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority: in the Czech Republic the Office for Personal Data Protection (uoou.gov.cz), or the authority in your country.