Privacy Policy
Platform and Artist Led St Helens Privacy Policy
Platform Studios is a voluntary organisation that provides studio space for artists and Artist Led St Helens is an instagram account that shares and promotes artistic activity within the town of St Helens. Claire Weetman and Gee Collins are two of the artists involved in these projects and are delivering a piece of commissioned research for St Helens Council under the umbrella of Artist Led St Helens/Platform Studios. This privacy policy will explain how we use the personal data we collect from you when you use our website or attend one of our events.
What data do we collect?
If you contact us via the website platformartsthelens.co.uk we collect:
Personal identification information (Name and email address)
If you participate in an event that is part of the ‘Delivering St Helens Creatives Development Programme Commission’ we may request the following:
Personal identification information (Name and email address)
Demographic data (Postcode, Gender, Ethnicity, Age Range, Disability)
Your opinions about the activity that we run (via evaluation forms)
How do we collect your data?
You directly provide us with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you:
Use our contact form on our website
Email us directly
Voluntarily complete a survey or provide feedback via online or printed forms
Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies.
How will we use your data?
We collect your data so that we can:
Respond to your queries, or contact you in future about studio space if you have expressed an interest.
Email you about events or artistic opportunities that we think you may be interested in.
Report to our funders about who took part in our funded activities using anonymously completed forms.
If you give consent when completing a project form, we will share your personal contact information with our partner organisations so that they may continue to stay in touch once our funded project has ended.
St Helens Borough Council Arts Service
How do we store your data?
We securely store your data on our password-protected online cloud services. Any hard copy paperwork will be stored confidentially and shredded once inputted to our digital documents.
We will keep your personal identification information until consent is withdrawn as per the data sharing agreements and at that point the details are to be deleted from systems. We will delete your data by deleting the securely stored documents, or deleting old emails.
Marketing
We would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our funding partners.
St Helens Borough Council Arts Service
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 us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other partners.
If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please let us know by emailing or completing the contact form on platformartsthelens.co.uk.
What are your data protection rights?
We 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 Our Company for copies of your personal data. We may charge you a small fee for this service.
The right to rectification – You have the right to request that Our Company correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Our Company to complete the information you believe is incomplete.
The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Our Company erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Our Company restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Our Company’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Our Company transfer the data that we have collected to another organization, 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 or by completing the contact form on platformartsthelens.co.uk:
Cookies
Cookies are text files placed on your computer to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior 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?
Our website is built using Yola, and the cookies that the website collects are described here https://helpcenter.yola.com/hc/en-us/articles/360015993979-Cookies-on-your-Yola-based-site
Cookies help us to:
Understand how you use our website
Distinguish human users from bots
How to manage cookies
There is a banner at the top of our website that gives you the option to agree to the essential cookies or to dismiss the message .
Privacy policies of other websites
Our 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
Our Company keeps its privacy policy under regular review and places any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 29 November 2024.
How to contact us
If you have any questions about Our Company’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 by completing the contact form on platformartsthelens.co.uk
How to contact the appropriate authority
Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Our Company has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/