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Privacy & Cookie Policies

Privacy Policy

Leiston Book Festival Website (“We”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

 

This policy (together with our terms of use and any other documents referred to therein) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it.

 

For collecting data covered by The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) (Regulation (EU) 2016/679) the Data Controller is the website management company Byrne Studio.

 

Information we may collect from you

We may collect and process the following data about you:

  • Information that you provide by subscribing to a newsletter or an enquiry form on our site. We will use this information to send newsletters or answers to your enquiries only. We may also ask for further information if you are reporting problems with our website. This will be stored on our Wix website management system and our email system. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by asking us to delete these emails.

  • If you contact us by email, we will keep a record of that correspondence. This will be stored on our email system. You have the right to withdraw consent at any time by asking us to delete these mails.

  • Details of your visits to our site including, but not limited to, traffic data, location data, weblogs and other communication data, whether this is required for our own administration purposes or otherwise and the resources that you access. This will be stored on our Wix website management system and our Wix analytics and Google analytics accounts – see our Cookie Policy for further information.

 

IP addresses

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and website analytics. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns and does not identify any individual.

 

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.

 

Where we store your personal data

The data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Union (“EU”). It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EU who work for us or for one of our suppliers. Such staff maybe engaged in, among other things, the fulfilment of your order, the processing of your payment details and the provision of support services. By submitting your personal data, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.

 

All information you provide to us is stored on our servers (see above: Information we may collect from you). Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology, and processed by an external payment processor i.e. Wix Payments, PayPal, SAGE, Stripe or other.

 

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

 

Uses made of the information

We use information held about you in the following ways:

  • To reply to newsletter subscriptions.

  • To reply to your enquiries.

  • To provide you with information, products or services that you request from us or which we feel may interest you, where you have consented to be contacted for such purposes.

  • To allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so.

  • You have the right to withdraw consent at any time.

 

Disclosure of your information

We may disclose your personal information to members of our company and colleagues where appropriate.

 

Your rights

You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on our cookie and privacy banner which will be shown to all users and will ask if you wish to opt-out of such technologies. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting our website management company Byrne Studio via email to carl@byrne-studio.com.

 

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks and affiliates.  If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies.  Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

 

If you believe that we have done something wrong by not complying with GDPR please contact us in the first instance to make a complaint for which we aim to resolve. Should you not be happy with this resolution, you do have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office.

 

Access to information

GDPR gives you the right to access information held about you. Your right of access can be exercised in accordance with the Act.

 

Changes to our privacy policy

Any changes we may make to our privacy policy in the future will be posted on this page.

 

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be sent to our website management company Byrne Studio via email to carl@byrne-studio.com.

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Cookie Policy

Leiston Book Festival Website (“We”, “Our”, “Us”)

 

Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and allows us to improve our website. By continuing to browse the website, you are agreeing to our use of cookies.

 

A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your computer. Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive.

 

We use the following cookies:

  • Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that are required for the operation of our website.

  • Analytical/performance cookies. They allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.

  • Functionality cookies. These are used to recognise you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalise our content for you, greet you by name and remember your preferences.

  • Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website more relevant to your interests.

 

Please note that third parties (including, for example, advertising networks and providers of external services like web traffic analysis services) may also use cookies, over which we have no control. These cookies are likely to be analytical/performance cookies or targeting cookies.

 

You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on our cookie and privacy banner which will be shown to all users and will ask if you wish to opt-out of such technologies

 

You can also block cookies by activating the setting on your browser that allows you to refuse the setting of all or some cookies. However, if you use your browser settings to block all cookies (including essential cookies) you may not be able to access all or parts of our website.

 

Changes to our Cookie Policy

Any changes we may make to our Cookie Policy in the future will be posted on this page.

 

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this cookie policy are welcomed and should be sent to our website management company Byrne Studio via email to carl@byrne-studio.com.

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