Geologise Theatre - Website Privacy Policy

 

This website is operated by GEOLOGISE THEATRE (the organisation referred to as ‘we’). The privacy of the users of this website is extremely important to us. We encourage users of this website to read this Privacy Policy with great care as it contains important information related to the use and storage of personal information in compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which applies across the European Union and United Kingdom.

 

1. Introduction

1.1 We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of our website visitors.

1.2 This policy applies where we are acting as a data controller with respect to the personal data of such persons; in other words, where we determine the purposes and means of the processing of that personal data.

1.3 We use cookies on our website (see Sections 10 through 13). We will ask you to consent to our use of cookies when you first visit our website.

1.4 In this policy, "we", "us" and "our" refer to Geologise Theatre. For more information about us, see Section 16.

1.5 In this notice we refer to “processing” your “personal data”.

1.6 Processing is taken to mean anything that is done to or with personal data (including simply collecting, storing, or deleting that data).

1.7 Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person.  When “you” or “your” are used in this statement, we are referring to the relevant individual who is the subject of the personal data.

 

2.Credit

2.1 This privacy policy was adapted from a template from Docular (https://seqlegal.com/free-legal-documents/privacy-policy).

 

3.The personal data that we collect

3.1 In this Section 3 we have set out the general categories of personal data that we process.

3.2 We may process data enabling us to get in touch with you ("contact data"). The contact data may include your name (first and last) and email address. The source of the contact data is you if you sign-up to our Mailing List (www.geologisetheatre.com/mailing-list) or contact us via the contact form (www.geologisetheatre.com/contact). 

3.3 We may process data about your use of our website and services ("usage data"). The usage data may include your IP address, geographical location, browser type and version, operating system, referral source, length of visit, page views and website navigation paths, as well as information about the timing, frequency and pattern of your service use, though this data is in aggregate form with the IP dissociated. The source of the usage data is from Wix, our website host and Processor of data (see Wix’s Data Processing Addendum - https://www.wix.com/about/privacy-dpa-users, and their Privacy Policy: https://www.wix.com/about/privacy). We do not use third-party analytics applications. 

 

4.Purposes of processing and legal bases

4.1 In this Section 4, we have set out the purposes for which we may process personal data and the legal bases of the processing.

4.2 When you sign up to the Mailing List (www.geologisetheatre.com/mailing-list), you consent to receiving occasional emails from us about our services and opportunities. You can opt out at any time by using the unsubscribe button on the email, or contacting us directly (see Section 16). The legal basis for this is given in Section 4.5 below.

4.3 Operations - We may process your personal data for the purposes of operating our website and providing our services. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper administration of our website, services and business.

4.4 Relationships and communications - We may process contact data for the purposes of managing our relationships, communicating with you (excluding communicating for the purposes of direct marketing) by email. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely communications with our website visitors, service users, individual customers and customer personnel, the maintenance of relationships, and the proper administration of our website, services and business.

4.5 Direct marketing - We may process contact data for the purposes of creating and sending direct marketing communications by email. The legal basis for this processing is consent OR our legitimate interests, namely promoting our business and communicating marketing messages and offers to our website visitors and service users.

4.6 Research and analysis - We may process usage data for the purposes of researching and analysing the use of our website and services, as well as researching and analysing other interactions with our business. The legal basis for this processing is for our legitimate interests, namely monitoring, supporting, improving and securing our website, services and business generally.

4.7 Record keeping - We may process your personal data for the purposes of creating and maintaining our databases, back-up copies of our databases and our business records generally. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely ensuring that we have access to all the information we need to properly and efficiently run our business in accordance with this policy.

4.8 Security - We may process your personal data for the purposes of security and the prevention of fraud and other criminal activity. The legal basis of this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the protection of our website, services and business, and the protection of others.

4.9 Insurance and risk management - We may process your personal data where necessary for the purposes of obtaining or maintaining insurance coverage, managing risks and/or obtaining professional advice. The legal basis for this processing is our legitimate interests, namely the proper protection of our business against risks.

4.10 Legal claims - We may process your personal data where necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure, if there is a reasonable expectation that your personal data will be required for such. The legal basis for this processing is our legal obligation, namely the protection and assertion of our legal rights, your legal rights and the legal rights of others.

4.11 Legal compliance and vital interests - We may also process your personal data where such processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 

5.Providing your personal data to others

5.1 We will not share your personal data with any 3rd parties apart from those described below.

5.2 Our company is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide our services to you. Your personal data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. In their own documentation, Wix.com state that they store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. 

5.3 In addition to the specific disclosures of personal data set out in this Section 5, we may disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person. We may also disclose your personal data where such disclosure is necessary for the establishment, exercise, or defence of legal claims, whether in court proceedings or in an administrative or out-of-court procedure.

 

6.International transfers of your personal data

6.1 In this Section 6, we provide information about the circumstances in which your personal data may be transferred to a third country under UK and/or EU data protection law.

6.2 We may transfer your personal data from the European Economic Area (EEA) to the UK and process that personal data in the UK for the purposes set out in this policy during any period with respect to which the UK is not treated as a third country under EU data protection law or benefits from an adequacy decision under EU data protection law; and we may transfer your personal data from the UK to the EEA and process that personal data in the EEA for the purposes set out in this policy, during any period with respect to which EEA states are not treated as third countries under UK data protection law or benefit from adequacy regulations under UK data protection law.

6.3 Our website is hosted by Wix.com. The Wix.com hosting facilities for our website are situated in data centres located in the United States of America, Ireland, South Korea, Taiwan and Israel. See the Wix.com Data Processing Addendum (https://www.wix.com/about/privacy-dpa-users) to see how the appropriate safeguards are put in place for the storage of data in these countries, and the transfer of data between these countries, including the appropriate adequacy decisions about the data protection laws (Ireland, South Korea and Israel) or Standard Contractual Clauses (USA and Taiwan). Please contact us if you’d like more information using the details in Section 16.

 

7.Retaining and deleting personal data

7.1 This Section 7 sets out our data retention policies and procedures, which are designed to help ensure that we comply with our legal obligations in relation to the retention and deletion of personal data.

7.2 Personal data that we process for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes.

7.3 We will retain your personal data as follows:

(a) contact data: will be retained until you unsubscribe or otherwise request removal;

(b) usage data: will be retained indefinitely or otherwise request removal;

7.4 Notwithstanding the other provisions of this Section 7, we may retain your personal data where such retention is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject, or in order to protect your vital interests or the vital interests of another natural person.

 

8.Your rights

8.1 In this Section 8, we have listed the rights that you have under data protection law.

8.2 Your principal rights under data protection law are:

(a) the right to access - you can ask for copies of your personal data;

(b) the right to rectification - you can ask us to rectify inaccurate personal data and to complete incomplete personal data;

(c) the right to erasure - you can ask us to erase your personal data;

(d) the right to restrict processing - you can ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data;

(e) the right to object to processing - you can object to the processing of your personal data;

(f) the right to data portability - you can ask that we transfer your personal data to another organisation or to you;

(g) the right to complain to a supervisory authority - you can complain about our processing of your personal data; and

(h) the right to withdraw consent - to the extent that the legal basis of our processing of your personal data is consent, you can withdraw that consent.

8.3 These rights are subject to certain limitations and exceptions. You can learn more about the rights of data subjects by visiting https://edpb.europa.eu/our-work-tools/general-guidance/gdpr-guidelines-recommendations-best-practices_en and https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-data-protection/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/individual-rights/.

8.4 You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us, using the contact details set out in Section 16.

8.5 We may have additional ways to unsubscribe from direct marketing, such as an unsubscribe button on the emails. Please note that it may take a short period of time before this unsubscription occurs, and you may receive some marketing whilst the request is being processed.

8.6 We hope we can resolve any questions that you may have related to the use of your information. Under data protection law, you may lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority of the European Economic Area that you live, work or where any alleged data protection law infringement has taken place. The UK-based supervisory authority is the Information Commissioner (contact: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or 0303 123 1113.)

 

9.Children and Parental Consent

9.1 Though Geologise Theatre’s activities and the content of the website may be aimed at a range of age groups, including young people, the mailing list and contact form are designed for use only by those over the age of 18, and the user will have to confirm that this is the case when submitting personal information through these channels.

9.2 In these cases where we obtain personal information (mailing list and contact form) we will take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the user is over 18 years of age.

9.3 If the user is under 18 years of age, parental consent will be required to provide consent for the processing of personal information.

9.4 If you believe that we have collected, used or disclosed Personal Data of a child under the age of 18 (or the age of majority in your jurisdiction), please contact us using the contact information below so that we can take appropriate action.

 

10.About cookies

10.1 A cookie is a file containing an identifier (a string of letters and numbers) that is sent by a web server to a web browser and is stored by the browser. The identifier is then sent back to the server each time the browser requests a page from the server.

10.2 Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies: a persistent cookie will be stored by a web browser and will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date; a session cookie, on the other hand, will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.

10.3 Cookies may not contain any information that personally identifies a user, but personal data that we store about you may be linked to the information stored in and obtained from cookies.

 

11.Cookies that we use

11.1 We currently use the essential cookies needed for the website to operate, and we may use a functional cookie (used on multilingual websites to save user language preference - see https://support.wix.com/en/article/cookies-and-your-wix-site). We do not currently use cookies for marketing or analytics, though we ask for your consent for the use of these in our cookies banner. If we use additional cookies on the website in the future, the cookie banner will appear again when the website is accessed to ask for consent, and this Privacy Policy will be altered accordingly.

 

12.Cookies used by our service providers

12.1 Our service providers use cookies and those cookies may be stored on your computer when you visit our website. Our website is hosted by Wix, and you can read about the essential cookies that Wix use here: https://support.wix.com/en/article/cookies-and-your-wix-site 

 

13.Managing cookies

13.1 Most browsers allow you to refuse to accept cookies and to delete cookies. The methods for doing so vary from browser to browser, and from version to version. You can however obtain up-to-date information about blocking and deleting cookies via these links:

(a) https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647 (Chrome);

(b) https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enhanced-tracking-protection-firefox-desktop (Firefox);

(c) https://help.opera.com/en/latest/security-and-privacy/ (Opera);

(d) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/17442/windows-internet-explorer-delete-manage-cookies (Internet Explorer);

(e) https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/safari/manage-cookies-and-website-data-sfri11471/mac (Safari); and

(f) https://support.microsoft.com/en-gb/help/4468242/microsoft-edge-browsing-data-and-privacy (Edge).

13.2 Blocking all cookies will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites.

 

14.Links to third-party websites

14.1 This website may include links to the third-party websites. The third-party sites are not under the control of Geologise Theatre and we are not responsible for the content of any third-party websites and/or any links contained in the third-party websites. We are providing these links to the third-party websites to you only for your convenience and we are not responsible for any kind of loss/damage arising from these. The access to or any other act on such third-party links shall be entirely at your risk.

 

15.Amendments

15.1 This privacy policy was published on 29th March 2023 and last updated on 29th March 2023.

15.2 We may update this policy from time to time by publishing a new version on our website.

15.3 You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes to this policy.

15.4 We may notify you of significant changes to this policy by email if you have signed up to our mailing list, and if these changes affect those signed up to the mailing list.

 

16.Our details

16.1 This website is owned and operated by Geologise Theatre, which is a trading name of Solid Earth Productions Ltd. Company number: 14883481.

16.2 You can contact us, in order to revoke consent or otherwise, using our website contact form, which can be found here: www.geologisetheatre.com/contact