Chopscape LLC

Privacy Policy

Last updated 13 September 2026 · Effective 2 August 2026

This policy explains how Chopscape LLC (“Chopscape”, “we”, “us”), 1906 Oceanside Blvd, Ste UV, Oceanside, California 92054, handles personal information collected through www.chopscape.com and at our venue.

Chopscape LLC is a separate and independent legal entity from Jardine Entertainment LLC (d/b/a RageScape), which operates other attractions at the same street address. This policy covers Chopscape only.

1. Notice at collection

Under the California Consumer Privacy Act as amended by the CPRA, here is what we collect, why, and how long we keep it.

We do not collect your Social Security number, financial account numbers, or precise geolocation. Card payments are processed by our booking provider — we never see or store your card number.

2. The ID scan — read this part

Before signing a waiver you may be asked to scan the barcode on the back of a US driver’s licence or state ID. We want to be precise about what that does, because it sounds more invasive than it is.

• The scan happens in your own browser, on your own phone. No image of your document is captured, uploaded, or stored — anywhere.
• We read exactly five fields: family name, first name, date of birth, expiry date, and issuing jurisdiction. The remainder of the barcode is discarded the moment your age is confirmed.
• We never read your licence or ID number, your address, or your physical description (height, weight, eye colour).

California Civil Code § 1798.90.1 permits a business to scan a driver’s licence or identification card solely to verify age or the authenticity of the document, and prohibits retaining or using that information for any other purpose. We do not use it for any other purpose, and we do not share it.

Date of birth is sensitive personal information under the CPRA. We use it only for age verification and for the waiver record. We do not use or disclose sensitive personal information for the purpose of inferring characteristics about you.

3. Cookies, analytics and advertising

We use Google Analytics 4 to understand how people find and use the site, and Google Ads to measure whether our advertising works. These set cookies on your device and may share limited information with Google.

We do not sell your personal information for money. However, using advertising cookies may count as “sharing” personal information for cross-context behavioural advertising under California law. You can switch this off:

• Use the Do Not Sell or Share My Personal Information control, available here and in the footer of every page.
• Or enable a Global Privacy Control signal in your browser.

Opting out is stored on your device, applies to future visits from that device, and does not affect your ability to book.

3a. Aggregate analysis

We look at waiver information in aggregate to run the business better — for example the overall age spread of our guests, which days and hours are busiest, and which activities are booked together. This helps us schedule staff, decide opening hours, and avoid advertising to the wrong people.

This analysis is aggregate only. It produces counts and averages, never individual profiles, and any group too small to be anonymous is suppressed rather than displayed. We do not use it to market to you individually, and we do not use driver’s licence scan data for it at all — that information is used solely for age and document verification, as California Civil Code § 1798.90.1 requires.

3b. Offers shown while you sign

The waiver page shows a small number of our own offers — another activity, a seasonal special, that sort of thing. We record when one is shown to you, when you tap it, and when you ask us to email it to yourself, together with the name and email address you have typed on the waiver at that moment and which activities you selected. That is how we tell which offers are useful and which are wasting your attention.

These are our own offers only. We do not sell this space, there is no third-party advertising on the waiver, and none of this is passed to an advertising network. Asking us to email an offer to yourself is a one-off — it does not add you to a mailing list. Records of which offers were shown, tapped or emailed are kept for 24 months and then deleted.

3c. The dance-night request line

On dance nights you can scan a code and ask for a song or a dance at chopscape.com/requests. You can send a request for free, or pay a priority charge to have it played sooner, add a mic shout-out, tip the instructor, or buy merch at the same time. Here is what that does with your information.

Your name goes on a screen. The queue is shown on a television in the venue and on the request page itself, so everyone can see what is coming up and where they are in the line. We show your first name and last initial only — "Taylor M." — never your phone number, your email, or the amount you paid alongside your full name. If you asked for a mic shout-out, the message you typed is read out. Do not put anything on a request you would not want read aloud in a bar.

Your phone number is not used to text you about your request. We ask for it so staff can find you when your song comes up, and so one person cannot fill the queue under six different names. We do not send you a message when your turn is near, and we do not sell or share the number. There is a separate tick-box, off by default, if you want to hear about future dance nights — that one is a genuine marketing opt-in and you can reply STOP at any time.

Card payments go to Square, not to us. Square processes the payment and we never see or store your card number. What we keep is the amount, what it was for, and Square's reference for it, so we can reconcile the night and work out what the instructor is owed.

Promo codes. If you use one, we record which code was used on which order. That is how we tell whether a code was worth printing. It is not linked to anything outside your own order.

The sponsor slot. One local business is shown on the request page. We count that it was displayed and whether anyone tapped it — a count, not a list. The sponsor is not told who you are, and nothing about you is passed to them or to any advertising network.

Changing your mind. A free request can be cancelled from the page itself while it is still in the queue. A paid one has to go through a staff member, because it means a refund. If a request you paid for is still unplayed when the night ends, the priority charge is refunded to you automatically.

How long we keep it. Requests, names and phone numbers are kept for 24 months so we can see how dance night is doing over time, then deleted. Anything tied to a payment stays for seven years with the rest of our accounting records, because tax law requires it.

Requests are not sold, and they are not shared for cross-context behavioural advertising.

3d. Memberships and the birthday perk

Memberships are bought and billed through Acuity and renew automatically at the price shown until you cancel. You can cancel online at any time from your account.

What we keep on our own server. Acuity tells us when a payment goes through, but not when someone cancels. So we keep a short record of our own — which email address holds which membership, and when the most recent payment landed — and we treat a membership as ended once the payments stop. That record sits on our own site. It is not shared with an advertiser.

Your birthday, and only part of it. Bladesmith members get an hour of the party room plus six guests throwing, once a year, around their birthday. To know when that is, we copy the month and the day from the date of birth already verified on your waiver. We do not copy the year, we do not copy anything else from the ID scan, and no image of your document is stored anywhere — that has not changed. If the date of birth on your waiver was not ID-verified, it is not used for this at all.

What happens then. Forty-five days before that date we create a voucher code, attach it to your email address, email it to you and show it in your member account. Thirty days after your birthday the code is deleted, whether it was used or not.

If you would rather not. Email us and we will remove your birth month and day from the membership records and stop issuing the voucher. The date of birth on your signed waiver stays where it is — that is a legal record, and section 4 explains why.

How long we keep it. The membership record and the birth month and day are kept while your membership is active and for 24 months after it ends, then deleted. Anything tied to a payment stays for seven years with the rest of our accounting records, because tax law requires it.

4. How long we keep waivers

Signed waivers are retained for a minimum of 13 years, and longer where a minor is involved. This is not us being acquisitive. California’s personal-injury limitation period is tolled for minors until they turn 18, so a waiver signed by a parent for a young child may need to survive well over a decade before a claim window even opens. Waivers are never deleted on request, because they are the record of an agreement you entered into.

5. Who we share information with

We do not sell personal information to data brokers.

6. Your California rights

• Know what we collect, use and disclose about you
• Delete personal information, subject to the waiver retention above and other legal exceptions
• Correct inaccurate personal information
• Opt out of sale or sharing for cross-context behavioural advertising
• Limit the use of sensitive personal information
• Not be discriminated against for exercising any of these rights — the price you pay and the service you get will not change

To make a request, email info@chopscape.com with “Privacy request” in the subject. We will verify your identity using information we already hold and respond within 45 days. You may use an authorised agent.

7. Children

Minimum age to throw is 13. Anyone under 18 must have a parent or legal guardian present who signs on their behalf. We do not knowingly collect information online directly from children under 13. Information about a minor reaches us through the parent or guardian who signs their waiver.

8. Security

Signed waiver records are stored in a protected location that is not publicly reachable, and an offsite copy is emailed to an account we control. The site is served over HTTPS. No system is perfectly secure, but we do not keep the categories of data — card numbers, licence numbers — that would make a breach severe.

9. Changes

If we change this policy we will update the date at the top. Material changes will be flagged on the site.

10. Contact

Chopscape LLC
1906 Oceanside Blvd, Ste UV
Oceanside, CA 92054
info@chopscape.com