Creative BasildON is a consortium of 25 stakeholder organisations, led by Things Made Public CIC. Creative BasildON is funded by Arts Council England. 

This privacy policy will explain how Creative BasildON uses the personal data we collect from you when you use our website.

Topics:

• 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

What data do we collect?

Creative BasildON collects the following data:

• Personal identification information (Name, email address, phone number, post codes etc.)
• Interests (hobbies, activities etc.)

How do we collect your data?

You directly provide BasildON Creative People and Places with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:

• Register online 
• Voluntarily complete a survey or provide feedback on any of our social media channels or via email.
• Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.

Creative BasildON may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources:

• Google Analytics

How will we use your data?

Creative BasildON collects your data so that we can:

• Monitor our reach within our audience 
• Email you with any other opportunities we think you might be of interest.
• Enable our external evaluator to assess the date in order to feedback on the success and the effectiveness of our business plan and overall programme.

How do we store your data?

Creative BasildON securely stores your data. Creative BasildON will keep your personal identification data and interests / hobbies for five years.Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data.

Marketing

Creative BasildON would like to send you information about opportunities and events of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our companies and organisations of relevance to your interests. 

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 Creative BasildON from contacting you for marketing purposes or sharing your data with the evaluator.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email: gdpr@creativebasildon.co.uk

What are your data protection rights?

Creative BasildON would like to make sure you are fully aware of all of your data protection rights. Every user is entitled to the following:

The right to access – You have the right to request Creative BasildON for copies of your personal data.

The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Creative BasildON correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Creative BasildON to complete information you believe is incomplete.

The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Creative BasildON erase your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Creative BasildON restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Creative BasildON’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.

The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Creative BasildON 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: gdpr@creativebasildon.co.uk

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?

Creative BasildON 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 – Creative BasildON uses these cookies so that we recognise you on our website and  remember your previously selected preferences. These could include what language you prefer and location you are in. A mix of first-party and third-party cookies are used.

The below list details the cookies used in our website.

Cookie	Description
_ga	Used to distinguish users._ga
_gat_UA-176986105-1	Used to throttle request rate. Throttle is the practice of only running a task a certain amount of times to avoid resource over-usage.
_gid	Used to distinguish users.
_pinterest_cm	This cookie ensures that you can share our website pages via Pinterest by means of the 'share' button.
cookielawinfo-checkbox-necessary	Your consent to the necessary cookies
cookielawinfo-checkbox-non-necessary	Your consent to the no-necessary cookies.
indigo-modal	The website uses this cookie to acknowledge you dismiss a previous pop-up, and it should not show it again.
viewed_cookie_policy	The website uses this cookie to acknowledge you viewed the cookie policy banner, which requested your consent to use cookies on this site.

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 Creative BasildON 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

Creative BasildON keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 25th August 2020.

How to contact us

If you have any questions about Creative BasildON’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 at: gdpr@creativebasildon.co.uk

Or write to us at:

Rachel Brown – Programme Director

The Workspace, 7 High Pavement, Basildon, Essex SS14 1EA

How to contact the appropriate authority

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Creative BasildON has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/