Homegrown Community Events customer privacy notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

• Contact details
• What information we collect, use, and why
• Lawful bases and data protection rights
• Where we get personal information from
• How long we keep information
• Who we share information with
• Sharing information outside the UK
• How to complain

Contact details

Email: [email protected]

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Purchase or account history
• Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
• Account information
• Website user information (including user journeys and cookie tracking)
• Records of meetings and decisions
• Information relating to compliments or complaints
• Information relating to sponsorship

We collect or use the following information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)
• Purchase history
• Account information, including registration details

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

• Names and contact details
• Address
• Payment details
• Account information
• Correspondence

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for the operation of customer accounts and guarantees are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Where we get personal information from

• Directly from you
• Publicly available sources

How long we keep information

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Who we share information with

Data processors

‍Airtable

This data processor handles the storage and management of our application forms.

‍Cloudflare

This data processor does the following activities for us: they host our website.

Formspark (Trampoline Software SRL)

This data processor does the following activities for us: they store and forward our website contact forms. Formspark's policy is here: https://formspark.io/legal/privacy-policy/

‍Ventnor Web Design

This data processor does the following activities for us: they provide our email services on our domain: homegrowncommunityevents.uk.

Sharing information outside the UK

Where necessary, our data processors may share personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, they comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place.

For further information or to obtain a copy of the appropriate safeguard for any of the transfers below, please contact us using the contact information provided above.

Organisation name: Cloudlare Inc

Category of recipient: Website Hosting

Country the personal information is sent to: USA

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has a UK data bridge (also known as Adequacy Regulations)

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Organisation name: Airtable Inc

Category of recipient: Cloud Database

Country the personal information is sent to: USA

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has a UK data bridge (also known as Adequacy Regulations)

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Organisation name: Trampoline Software SRL

Category of recipient: Website Forms

Country the personal information is sent to: France

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: The country or sector has a UK data bridge (also known as Adequacy Regulations)

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:          

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated

10 October 2024

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