Freedom Community Festival Privacy Policy

The policy:

This privacy policy notice is served by The Freedom Community Festival under the website; https://freedomcommunityfestival.org/. In accordance with GDPR, PECR and the Data Protection Act.

The purpose of this policy is to explain to you how we control, process, handle and protect your personal information through the business and while you browse or use this website. If you do not agree to the following policy you may wish to cease viewing / using this website, and or refrain from submitting your personal data to us.

This privacy policy will covers the following topics:

Policy definitions
Key principles of GDPR
What data do we collect?
How do we collect your data?
How will we use your data?• How do we store your data?
Marketing
What are your data protection rights?
What are cookies?
How do we use cookies?
What types of cookies do we use?
How to manage your cookies
Privacy policies of other websites
Changes to our privacy policy
How to contact us
How to contact the appropriate authorities

Policy definitions:

“our”, “us”, or “we” refers to The Freedom Community Festival.
“you”, “the user” refer to the person(s) using this website.
GDPR means General Data Protection Act.
PECR means Privacy & Electronic Communications Regulation.
ICO means Information Commissioner’s Office.
Cookies mean small files stored on a users computer or device.

Key principles of GDPR:

Our privacy policy embodies the following key principles; (a) Lawfulness, fairness and transparency, (b) Purpose limitation, (c) Data minimisation, (d) Accuracy, (e) Storage limitation, (f) Integrity and confidence, (g) Accountability.

What data do we collect?

We collect the following data:

Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, etc.)

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide The Freedom Community Festival with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

Place an order for any of our products.
Apply to trade, perform or volunteer at the festival.
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
Sign Up to our mailing list.

How will we use your data?

We collect your data so that we can:

Process your order, manage your account.
Email you with information on the festival or details about your role in it.

The following applies to artists only:

If you agree, we will share your data with our CD manufacturer – DMS.

When we process an order, it may send your data to, and also use the resulting information from, credit reference agencies to prevent fraudulent purchases.

How do we store your data?

We securely store your data on various password protected computers, or our MailChimp email provider’s secure server.
We will keep your data for a minimum time period of 24 months. Once this time period has expired, depending on the type of data the servers will automatically delete your data or we will manually delete it unless you request otherwise.

Marketing

We like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like.
If you have agreed to receive marketing, you may always opt out at a later date.
You have the right at any time to stop The Freedom Community Festival from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of our group.

What are your data protection rights?

The Freedom Community Festival would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights under GDPR.

Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request copies of your personal data.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that corrects any information you believe is inaccurate.
You also have the right to request us to complete information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that we erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that we restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to The Freedom Community Festival processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that we transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, or directly to you, under certain conditions.

If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights, please contact us at our email: info@freedomcommunityfestival.org

You also have the right to complain to the ICO www.ico.org.uk if you feel there is a problem with the way we are handling your data.

What are cookies?

Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behaviour information. When you visit our websites, we may collect information from you automatically through cookies or similar technology.
For further information, visit allaboutcookies.org.
How do we use cookies?

The Freedom Community Festival uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

Keeping you signed in
Understanding how you use our website

What types of cookies do we use?

There are a number of different types of cookies, however, our website uses:

Functionality – The Freedom Community Festival uses these cookies so that we recognize you on our website and remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and the location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.
Advertising – The Freedom Community Festival uses these cookies to collect information about your visit to our website, the content you viewed, the links you followed and information about your browser, device, and your IP address.

How to manage cookies

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Privacy policies of other websites
The Freedom Community Festival website contains links to other websites. Our privacy policy applies only to our website, so if you click on a link to another website, you should read their privacy policy.

Changes to our privacy policy

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 29 May 2019.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Our Company’s privacy policy, the data we hold on you, or you would like to exercise one of your data protection rights, please do not hesitate to contact us.

Email us: info@freedomcommunityfestival.org

How to contact the appropriate authority
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that The Freedom Community Festival has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.

Website: https://ico.org.uk/

ICO helpline: 0303 123 1113

Please note: The Freedom Community Festival is exempt from registering and paying a fee to ICO because of the following:

We are a Not-for-profit organisation
All data collected is only used for advertising, marketing and public relations purposes