Privacy Notice 

What is this guide for?

Whenever we need to collect any of your data, we will let you at that point why we need to do so and what it will be used for, but this guide provides a useful overview of all of those situations and provides more detail on how we keep your data secure and up to date, how long we might hold it for, and what your rights are in relation to it.

Caritas Chamber Choir is committed to protecting your personal data and will use any personal or sensitive data we collect from you in line with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).  

Who’s responsible for data the group collects? 

Caritas Chamber Choir is a Data Controller under the GDPR. Caritas Chamber Choir’s Data Protection Officer is the Chair who can be contacted at chair@caritaschamberchoir.com. 

What data do we collect and what do we use it for?

Caritas Chamber Choir collects data from individuals to promote and market the group’s activities (e.g. marketing mailing lists and photography/video capture).

Event attendees: for processing and managing tickets for events

Where our events are ticketed, we may need to collect data on the person booking (name and email) in order to allow you access to the event and to send you a confirmation of your reservation/purchase. This data will only be used for administering your access to the event/s for which you have booked and will not be used to send you marketing/promotional messages from the group unless you have also provided your consent to receive these (see below).

Mailing list subscribers: for marketing and promotion

We offer everybody the opportunity to sign up (consent) to receive marketing and promotional information on the group’s activities (e.g. emails about forthcoming events).

When you sign-up to our marketing mailing list we will ask for your name and email and will use this data to send you information about our events and activities (e.g. forthcoming performances, social events and fundraising events). We will only send you information that is related to the group (e.g. we will not use your data to send you marketing messages from 3rd parties). 

Anything we send you will include a clear option to withdraw your consent (e.g. to ‘opt out’ of future emails) and you can also do so at any time by contacting the Data Protection Officer - the Chair.

Website visitors: for running and improving our website

We use cookie technology when a person visits our website to collect and analyse anonymised data on how many people have visited, what pages they have looked at and other statistical information.

We use a pop-up banner to let users know about this on their first visit, and they can at any time disable cookies in their browser if they do not wish their (anonymised) data to be tracked.

You can find out more about cookies at http://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Do we share your data with anyone else?

We will never pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes. 

We sometimes use third party services to process your data (e.g. Mail Chimp). We will always make sure any third parties we use are reputable, secure, and process your data in accordance with your rights under GDPR. 

How can you update your data?

You can contact us at any time at info@caritaschamberchoir.com to update or correct the data we hold on you. 

How long we will hold your data?

The Caritas Chamber Choir data retention policy is to review all data held on individuals at least every two years and remove data where we no longer have a legitimate reason to keep it.

Where you have withdrawn your consent for us to use your data for a particular purpose (e.g. unsubscribed from a mailing list) we may retain some of your data for up to two years in order to preserve a record of your consent having been withdrawn. 

What rights do you have?

Under the GDPR, you have the following rights over your data and its use: 

‍    •    The right to be informed about what data we are collecting on you and how we will use it

‍    •    The right of access: you can ask to see the data we hold on you 

‍    •    The right to rectification: you can ask that we update or correct your data

•    The right to object: you can ask that we stop using your data for a particular purpose

‍    •    The right to erasure: you can ask us to delete the data we hold on you

‍    •    The right to restrict processing - you can ask that we temporarily stop using your data while the reason for its use or its accuracy are investigated 

‍    •    Though unlikely to apply to the data we hold and process on you, you also have rights related to portability and automated decision making (including profiling)

All requests related to your rights should be made to the Data Protection Officer at chair@caritaschamberchoir.com. We will respond within one month. 

You can find out more about your rights on the Information Commission’s Office website 

What will we do if anything changes?

If we make changes to our privacy statements or processes we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email individuals affected with the new details. Where required by law, will we ask for your consent to continue processing your data after these changes are made.  

Use of Cookies

What are 'cookies'?

'Cookies' are small text files that are stored by the browser (for example, Internet Explorer) on your computer or electronic device. They allow websites to 'remember' you for a period of time so that they can store things like user preferences and make the website quicker and easier for you to use.

Without cookies, some things on websites would not be able to work: for example, without cookies it might not be possible to know whether or not you are logged in on a website, which would prevent you from being able to see content restricted to logged-in users.

How does the Caritas Chamber Choir website use cookies?

A visit to a page on the Caritas Chamber Choir website may create the anonymous analytics cookies.

Anonymous analytics cookies

Every time someone visits our website, software provided by other organisations generates an 'anonymous analytics cookie'.

These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before and what pages you visit. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page, to help us identify if visitors would benefit from more information on a particular area.

How do I turn cookies off?

It is usually possible to stop your browser accepting cookies, or to stop it accepting cookies from a particular website. 

All modern browsers allow you to change your cookie settings. You can usually find these settings in the 'options' or 'preferences' menu of your browser. To understand these settings, the following links may be helpful, or you can use the 'Help' option in your browser for more details.

‍    •    Cookie settings in Internet Explorer

‍    •    Cookie settings in Firefox

‍    •    Cookie settings in Chrome

‍    •    Cookie settings in Safari

Please note: switching off cookies may prevent some aspects of our website from working fully.

Useful links

You can find out more about cookies and their use on the internet from www.allaboutcookies.org