Privacy Policy

Mailing list subscribers: for marketing and promotion

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

When you sign-up to our marketing mailing list we will ask for your name and email and will use this data to send you email information about our events and activities (e.g. forthcoming performances and fundraising events).

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.

Event attendees: for processing and managing tickets for events

Where our events are ticketed, we need to collect data on the person booking (name, address 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.

Do we share your data with anyone else?

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

How can you update your data?

You can contact us at any time by clicking here to update or correct the data we hold on you. You can also click ‘unsubscribe’ at the bottom of any email to be removed from our mailing list.

How long we will hold your data?

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Where you have withdrawn your consent for us to use your data for a particular purpose (e.g. unsubscribed from a mailing list) we may retain some of your data for up to two years in order to preserve a record of your consent having been withdrawn.

What rights do you have?

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. We will respond within one month.

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

What will we do if anything changes?

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.