Purpose of policy

We are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold about you. Using personal information allows us to develop a better understanding of our audience and in turn to provide you with relevant and timely information about the work that we do. It also helps us to engage with potential supporters. The purpose of this policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we collect and use the information we collect from you directly and from third parties.

We use your information in accordance with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information. This policy explains:

• What information we may collect about you

• How we may use that information

• In what situations we may disclose your details to third parties

• Our use of cookies to improve your use of our website

• Information about how we keep your personal information secure, how we maintain it for and your rights to be able to access it

If you have any queries about this policy, please contact us at Allenheads Contemporary Arts or via e-mail: helenshead@acart.org.uk

Who we are

Allenheads Contemporary Arts is an arts organisation that receives project funding from  Arts Council England, Northumberland County Council,  foundations and individual supporters. We also run self-catering residencies and cultural holidays from the Old School House to support the organisation. We are registered as a company in England and Wales under registration number  6764121, with not for profit status.

Information collection

We collect various types of information and in a number of ways:

Information you give us

For example, when you register on our website, buy tickets or make a donation, we’ll store personal information you give us such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number and card / bank details. We will also store a record of your purchases and donations.

Information about your interactions with us

For example, when you visit our website, we collect information about how you interact with our content and ads.  When we send you a mailing we store a record of this, and in the case of emails we keep a record of which ones you have opened and which links you have clicked on.

Information from third parties

We may occasionally receive information about you from third parties. For example, we may use third party research companies to provide general information about you, compiled using publicly available data.

Sensitive personal data

Data Protection law recognises that certain categories of personal information are more sensitive such as health information, race, religious beliefs and political opinions.  We do not usually collect this type of information about our patrons unless there is a clear reason for doing so. For example, we collect health information about participants in our programme of classes and courses.

Legal basis

There are three bases under which we may process your data:

Contract purposes

When you make a purchase from us or donate to us, you are entering into a contract with us. In order to perform this contract, we need to process and store your data. For example, we may need to contact you by email or telephone in the case of cancellation of an event, or in the case of problems with your payment.

Legitimate business interests

In certain situations, we collect and process your personal for purposes that are in our legitimate organisational interests. However, we only do this if there is no overriding prejudice to you by using your personal information in this way. We describe below all situations where we may use this basis for processing.

With your explicit consent

For any situations where the two bases above are not appropriate, we will instead ask for your explicit consent before using your personal information in that specific situation.

Marketing communications

We aim to communicate with you about the work that we do in ways that you find relevant, timely and respectful. To do this we use data that we have stored about you, such as what events you have booked for in the past, as well as any preferences you may have told us about.

We use our legitimate organisational interest as the legal basis for communications by email.  In the case of email, we will give you an opportunity to opt out of receiving them during your first contact with us. If you do not opt out, we will provide you with an option to unsubscribe in every email that we subsequently send you, or you can alternatively use the contact details at the end of this policy.

We may also contact you about our work by telephone and we use our legitimate organisational interest as the legal basis for communications by telephone.  Please bear in mind that this does not apply to telephone calls that we may need to make to you related to your purchases (as above).

Other processing activities

In addition to marketing communications, we also process personal information in the following ways that are within our legitimate organisational interests:

• We may analyse data we hold about you to ensure that the content and timing of communications that we send you are as relevant to you as possible.

• We may analyse data we hold about you in order to identify and prevent fraud.

• In order to improve our website, we may analyse information about how you use it and the content and ads that you interact with.

In all of the above cases we will always keep your rights and interests at the forefront to ensure they are not overridden by your own interests or fundamental rights and freedoms. You have the right to object to any of this processing at any time. If you wish to do this, please use the contact details at the end of this policy. Please bear in mind that if you object this may affect our ability to carry out tasks above that are for your benefit.

Third parties

There are certain circumstances under which we may disclose your personal information to third parties. These are as follows:

• To the subsidiaries described above when it is necessary for them to be able to provide you with products or services that you’ve requested.

• To our own service providers who process data on our behalf and on our instructions (for example Eventbrite & Mail Chimp. In these cases, we require that these third parties comply strictly with our instructions and with data protection laws, for example around security of personal data. Where we are under a duty to disclose your personal information to comply with any legal obligation (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).

• To specific named visiting companies whose performances you have attended. In these cases we will always ask for your explicit consent before doing so.

Your debit and credit card information

If you use your credit or debit card to purchase from us (via a third-party website) such as Eventbrite or make a donation, we will ensure that this is carried out securely and in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). You can find more information about this standard here.

If you make payments via bank transfer or cheque we will not store bank details other than the records held at the bank.

Maintaining your personal information

We store your personal information indefinitely such that for any subsequent purchases you make we are able to link them back to a single unique record that we hold for you on our system. If there are aspects of your record that are inaccurate or that you would like to remove, please use the contact details at the end of this policy.

Any objections you make to any processing of your data will be stored against your record on our system so that we can comply with your requests

Security of your personal information

We will put in place appropriate safeguards (both in terms of our procedures and the technology we use) to keep your personal information as secure as possible. We will ensure that any third parties we use for processing your personal information do the same.

We will not transfer, process or store your data anywhere that is outside of the European Economic Area.

Your rights to your personal information

You have a right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in this data corrected. Please use the contact details at the end of this policy if you would like to exercise this right.

Contact details and further information

Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about any aspect of this privacy policy, and in particular if you would like to object to any processing of your personal information that we carry out for our legitimate organisational interests.

Allenheads Contemporary Arts (ACA)

The Old School House

Allenheads

Hexham

Northumberland

NE47 9HR

 

E-mail: helenshead@acart.org.uk