About Us, Cookies & Privacy Policy
About Us
We operate the website www.freefromfestival.co.uk and are the organiser of Free From Festival.
Free From Events Limited, a company registered in England and Wales under company number 15528275 and with our registered office: 12, Charles Darwin House, 17 Minnie Baldock Street, London E16 1YE, United Kingdom. VAT registration number: 474078177
How We Use Your information
We take your privacy seriously. We receive customer data from our partnering ticketing websites such as Eventbrite and Design My Night where users opted in to receive updates and information from the event organiser of the event they have booked tickets for. We keep all data shared by the ticketing platforms on a secure MailChimp account. MailChimp is located in the USA but they have certified to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and are therefore deemed as having adequate controls by the EU supervisory authority for GDPR.
We use personal information to communicate with customers in relation to event they have booked to attend, send event updates, offers, competitions, information about products & services that can be found at the event as well as information about other similar events we are holding in the future. We also use personal information to send Customer Feedback information following visits and bookings of our events and occasionally to conduct Customer Surveys.
Our legal basis for processing client data is Legitimate interest for the following activities:
Sending offers, sharing news and events and information regarding any purchases or bookings.
Your data will be processed in line with the Principles and Rights of The General Data Protection regulation.
You also have the right to withdraw consent where it has been provided and we will no longer send you information related to those subjects, which may mean you cannot not be informed about our latest events and offers.
Disclosure
We also use MailChimp for communications. As we mentioned previously MailChimp are located in the USA but they have certified to the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and are therefore deemed as having adequate controls by the EU supervisory authority for GDPR.
Your information will not otherwise be transferred out of the European Union without your prior consent; we will not share your personal data.
By subscribing to our newsletter, this will mean you will be receiving newsletters notifying you about our upcoming events, offers and competition we are running on our social media in relation to our events.
Storage and Disposal
Your information will be stored in a secure MailChimp account in the EEA and will be retained for 6 years. However you may ask for this to be deleted in accordance with the Rights of the GDPR.
Privacy Assured
As is common practice with almost all professional websites this site uses cookies, which are tiny files that are downloaded to your computer, to improve your experience.
The next sections below describes what information they gather, how we use it and why we sometimes need to store these cookies. We will also share how you can prevent these cookies from being stored however this may downgrade or ‘break’ certain elements of the sites functionality.
How We Use Cookies
We use cookies for a variety of reasons detailed below. Unfortunately in most cases there are no industry standard options for disabling cookies without completely disabling the functionality and features they add to this site. It is recommended that you leave on all cookies if you are not sure whether you need them or not in case they are used to provide a service that you use.
Disabling Cookies
You can prevent the setting of cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality of this and many other websites that you visit. Disabling cookies will usually result in also disabling certain functionality and features of the this site. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.
The Cookies We Set
If you create an account with us then we will use cookies for the management of the signup process and general administration. These cookies will usually be deleted when you log out however in some cases they may remain afterwards to remember your site preferences when logged out.
This site offers newsletter or email subscription services and cookies may be used to remember if you are already registered and whether to show certain notifications which might only be valid to subscribed/unsubscribed users.
Third Party Cookies
In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties. The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.
Third party analytics are used to track and measure usage of this site so that we can continue to produce engaging content. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site or pages you visit which helps us to understand how we can improve the site for you.
We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work the following social media sites including; Facebook, Google+, will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their respective privacy policies.
Contact Information
Our Information Security and Data Protection Manager can be contacted at [email protected]