This data will be used by committee members to manage your membership with Thames Opera Company and to organise and run our activities.

If you give us your consent to do so, we may also use your contact details to send you marketing/promotional communications from the group.

Any marketing/promotional communication we send you will include a clear option to withdraw your consent (e.g. to ‘opt out’ of future emails) and you can also withdraw consent at any point by contacting the Data Protection Officer – Timothy Drakes.

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Event attendees: for processing and managing tickets for events

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Where our events are ticketed, we need to collect data on the person booking (name and email) in order to allow you access to the event and to send you a confirmation of your reservation/purchase. This data will only be used for administering your access to the event/s for which you have booked and will not be used to send you marketing/promotional messages from the group unless you have also provided your consent to receive these (see below).

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Employees and contractors: for administration and legal/regulatory purposes

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We may need (for administration or for legal/regulatory reasons) to collect personal or sensitive data on employees or contractors of the group. Where this is the case, we will explain what this is for at the point of collection.

 

Mailing list subscribers: for marketing and promotion

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We offer everybody the opportunity to sign up (consent) to receive marketing and promotional information on the group’s activities (e.g. emails about forthcoming events).

When you sign-up to our marketing mailing list we will ask for your name, email, phone number, address and will use this data to send you information about our events and activities (e.g. forthcoming performances, social events and fundraising events). We may also ask for your preferred topics and communication methods. These allow us to tailor the information we provide to suit your preferences (e.g. email vs post).

We will only send you information that is related to the group (e.g. we will not use your data to send you marketing messages from 3rd parties).

Anything we send you will include a clear option to withdraw your consent (e.g. to ‘opt out’ of future emails) and you can also do so at any time by contacting the Data Protection Officer – Timothy Drakes.

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Website visitors: for running and improving our website

 

We use cookie technology when a person visits our website to collect and analyse anonymised data on how many people have visited, what pages they have looked at and other statistical information. We also use cookies to allow members to log in and out in order to view our members-only section.

We use a pop-up banner to let users know about this on their first visit, and they can at any time disable cookies in their browser if they do not wish their (anonymised) data to be tracked.

You can find out more about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

 

Do we share your data with anyone else?

We will never pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes.

 

We sometimes use third party services to process your data (e.g. Google Dive). We will always make sure any third parties we use are reputable, secure, and process your data in accordance with your rights under GDPR.

 

Are there special measures for children’s data?

 

Where we knowingly collect or store data of children under 13 we will ensure the person with parental responsibility for the child has seen the relevant information relating to the child data or has given consent on behalf of the child. 

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Once a child is over 13 years old, parental consent to use their data will no longer be sufficient. We will only continue to hold/use the data if the child themselves also gives their consent.

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How can you update your data?

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You can contact us at any time at admin@thamesopera.org.uk to update or correct the data we hold on you.

How long we will hold your data?

The Thames Opera Company data retention policy is to review all data held on individuals at least every two years and remove data where we no longer have a legitimate reason to keep it.

Where you have withdrawn your consent for us to use your data for a particular purpose (e.g. unsubscribed from a mailing list) we may retain some of your data for up to two years in order to preserve a record of your consent having been withdrawn.

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What rights do you have?

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Under the GDPR, you have the following rights over your data and its use:
 

• The right to be informed about what data we are collecting on you and how we will use it

• The right of access - you can ask to see the data we hold on you

• The right to rectification - you can ask that we update or correct your data

• The right to object - you can ask that we stop using your data for a particular purpose

• The right to erasure - you can ask us to delete the data we hold on you

• The right to restrict processing - you can ask that we temporarily stop using your data while the reason for its use or its accuracy are investigated

• Though unlikely to apply to the data we hold and process on you, you also have rights related to portability and automated decision making (including profiling)

 

All requests related to your rights should be made to the Data Protection Officer at admin@thamesopera.org.uk. We will respond within one month.

 

You can find out more about your rights on the Information Commission’s Office website

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What will we do if anything changes?

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If we make changes to our privacy statements or processes we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email individuals affected with the new details. Where required by law, will we ask for your consent to continue processing your data after these changes are made. 

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