Privacy Policy

We are committed to upholding your privacy and will take care with your personal data. We will only use information about you in accordance with the UK GDPR, Data Protection Act 1998, General Data Protection Regulations 2018 and other relevant legislation and regulations. Our Privacy Policy is set out below; please read it with care. It explains the following:

  • What information we may collect about you

  • How we may use that information

  • In what situations we may disclose your details to third parties

  • Our use of cookies to improve your use of our website

  • Your rights to access the data we collect about you

If you have any questions or comments please email projectfemaleuk@gmail.com 

WHAT INFORMATION DO WE COLLECT FROM YOU & WHY?
We collect or use the following information:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Purchase or account history

  • Health information

  • Marketing preferences

  • Website user journey information

  • Records of consent, where appropriate

  • Photographs or video recordings

  • Demographic data 

We process your personal information for:

  • administration of classes and dance companies membership

  • ticketing

  • to send you promotional or marketing information


  • for market research purposes

  • compiling statistical reports to our funders
 (collected anonymously)

  • prospect research

  • inviting you to support our work.

  • administration of donations, sponsorship and legacies

HOW DO WE COLLECT INFORMATION FROM YOU?

  • People directly: We collect the personal data that you may volunteer via: our website’s enquiry form online surveys, audience/participant surveys and when booking for Project Female classes or buying tickets to watch a show.

  • Publicly available sources: Fundraising is crucial to Project Female’s future. We may use information about you (including for instance where you live, your age and other demographic information) to help us to understand your interests and preferences. We may also use publicly available information about you from sources such as public registers, online (for instance, LinkedIn or Companies House) or the electoral roll. We do not currently use third-party researchers or profiling companies for this but we may choose to do so in future in exceptional cases.

HOW LONG WE KEEP INFORMATION:


WHO WE SHARE INFORMATION WITH:

  • Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons

  • Emergency services (where necessary)

  • Professional consultants

  • Organisations who fund our work

  • Organisations we work with e.g. a venue where you may attend one of our workshops 

Under no circumstances will we ever sell personal data to anyone.

SECURITY:

We do not give you the option of using an insecure transmission method to send us your personal data. We have implemented security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal data that we have under our control from:

  • Unauthorised access;


  • Improper use or disclosure;


  • Unauthorised modification.


All our employees and data processors, who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal data, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of your personal data.

RIGHTS FOR ACCESS TO PERSONAL DATA
Under data protection law, you have rights including:

  • Your right of access: You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.

  • Your right to rectification: You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

  • Your right to erasure: You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to restriction of processing: You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to object to processing: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to data portability: You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

  • Your right to withdraw consent: When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent.

You don’t usually need to pay a fee to exercise your rights. If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you.

To make a data protection rights request, please email projectfemaleuk@gmail.com

OPTING OUT:

We will always keep your rights and interests at the forefront. You have the right to opt out of any of this processing at any time. If you wish to do this, please email projectfemaleuk@gmail.com. 

WHEN YOU VISIT OUR WEBSITE-

COOKIES:

Cookies are files placed on your computer to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information. This helps us to understand visitor behaviour, to remember your preferences and improve user experience.

HOW WE USE COOKIES:

Project Female makes limited use of cookies while you are browsing the website. We generally only use session-based cookies, which are deleted when you close your browser. Our cookies are anonymous, containing no information that can identify you personally.

We do use some third-party widgets on the site, such as Google Analytics, Meta, Vimeo and YouTube. These widgets may set cookies. However, the cookie information from each of these sites is usually anonymous, unless you are logged in to those third-party systems while you are on our site.

By using this website, you consent to the storing of the cookies listed below. We may also use some cookies that are not listed – these will contain no personal information about you. You can disable cookies by selecting the appropriate settings on your browser, although this means you might not be able to use the full functionality of our website.

WHAT COOKIES DO WE USE?

Google products
This website uses Google Analytics, a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.

Google Analytics uses cookies to help analyse how the website is used. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers in the United States. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of the website, compiling reports on website activity for us and providing other services relating to website activity and internet usage. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf.

We also use separate Google products similar to Analytics. These are Optimize, which is used to carry out tests to improve user experience, Tag Manager, which tracks actions on our site, and Search Console, to analyse website performance.

Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google.

YouTube
Parts of this website contain embedded videos from YouTube. Read the YouTube Privacy Policy.

Vimeo
Parts of this website contain embedded videos from Vimeo.  Further information:

  • Vimeo's list of cookies


  • Vimeo's privacy policy.


CHILDREN, YOUNG PEOPLE AND VULNERABLE ADULTS:

Working in partnership with children, young people, vulnerable adults, their parents, carers and other agencies is essential in promoting our participants’ welfare and in helping them to be responsible in their approach to privacy.

The use of information technology is an essential part of all our lives; it is involved in how we as an organisation gather and store information, as well as how we communicate with each other. It is also an intrinsic part of the experience of our children, young people and vulnerable adults, and is beneficial to all. However, it can present challenges in terms of how we use it responsibly and, if misused either by a child, young person or a vulnerable adult, can be actually or potentially harmful to them.

If you are age 16 or under, a parent or guardian’s permission will be required before providing any personal information. We will always require their signature on any documentation.

In cases where an adult has given another person permission to speak on their behalf, for instance, a carer, Project Female will ask this person to give consent for Project Female to hold the adult’s personal data, as well as proof of permission given and proof of identification.

You can also download a copy of our Safeguarding Policy and view our Commercial Dance statement.

EXTERNAL LINKS:

This website contains links to other websites. Although the majority of them are our partner organisations we are not responsible for the privacy practices of these and you should read their own privacy information. The information and usage described here applies only to personal data collected by Project Female.

HOW TO COMPLAIN:

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us by emailing projectfemaleuk@gmail.com 

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

This policy was last updated on 24 May 2024.