Privacy Policy

The Global Rhythm Festival organisers are committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide information by which you can be identified when using this website, we will only use this information in accordance with this privacy statement.

Applicable legislation

This website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation regarding data protection and user privacy:

• Data Protection Act 1998 
• EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

What we collect

Should you choose to contact us via email or sign up for our newsletter, we may collect the following information:

• name
• contact information including address, email address, phone number
• demographic information such as postcode, preferences and interests

What we do with the information we gather

• We use your information to understand your needs and to provide you with better service. Using the email address that you have provided we may periodically send promotional emails about future music-related events or products which you may find interesting or useful.

Contact forms and email links

We do not use contact forms on this website. If you wish to contact us, please send an email or telephone. If you choose to sign up for our newsletter, please refer to the MailChimp privacy policy below. Any information received via email, newsletter subscriptions or conversation is for Global Rhythm Festival-related use only and not given to any 3rd parties.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites. However, once you have used a link to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that website.  Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting other sites and these sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Third-party data processors

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in the above section Applicable legislation.

Google Analytics

We may use Google Analytics (GA) on our site to track user interaction. The information collected is for our own use to interpret and better understand how people use our website. No information personally identifies you to us, GA records your IP address, which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this data. Disabling cookies will prevent GA from tracking your visit.

MailChimp

If you sign up for our newsletter, which is administered through Mailchimp, some of your information will be stored, including your email address, IP address and certain information about the links you click within the emails we send you, on a Mailchimp server. Neither we nor Mailchimp will ever sell your email address or share it with any other party, unless we are legally compelled to do so. If you contact Mailchimp directly regarding your subscription to our newsletter, Mailchimp may contact you directly; otherwise, Mailchimp will never contact you. Only authorized Mailchimp employees have access to our subscriber list. You are always free to unsubscribe from our newsletter using the link provided in each newsletter.

Social Media Links

Other cookies may be stored to your computers hard drive by external vendors when this website uses referral programs, sponsored links or adverts. Such cookies are used for conversion and referral tracking and typically expire after 30 days, though some may take longer. No personal information is stored, saved or collected.

Website Hosting/Server

This website is hosted with Stable Host, full information about the company can be found by clicking the link. All information between the website server and your browser is encrypted and delivered by HTTPS over SSL.

Security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Data breaches

In the case of a personal data breach of this website’s database or the database(s) or any of our third-party data processors, we will notify all relevant persons and authorities within 72 hours after having become aware of it, if it is apparent that personal data stored in an identifiable manner has been stolen.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie does not give us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Controlling your personal information

You may choose to restrict the collection or use of your personal information in the following ways:

• Whenever you are asked to fill in a form on the website, look for the box that you can click to indicate that you do not want the information to be used by anybody for direct marketing purposes.
• If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time by writing to or emailing us at skippamissile@yahoo.co.uk.

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so. 

You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998 and EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR). A small fee will be payable. If you would like a copy of the information held on you please contact us.

If you believe that information we are holding on you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to or email us as soon as possible at the below address.   We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.

Controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR), other data protection laws applicable in Member states of the European Union and other provisions related to data protection is:

Global Rhythm
Skippa J McKenzie
33 Heatherhayes,
Ipswich, Suffolk, IP2 9SL

Tel: 07885 286222
Email: skippamissile@yahoo.co.uk

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes.

This policy was last changed and is effective from 23 May, 2018.