Privacy Policy

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This website is operated by Portishead Carnival Committee - Posset Events. The privacy  of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read  this policy very carefully because it contains information regarding: 

• who we are 

• How and why we collect, store, use and share personal information 

• Your rights in relation to your personal information; and 

• How to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event you have a  complaint.

 Who we are Portishead Carnival Committee - Posset Events (‘we’, ‘us’, ‘our’) collect, use and are  responsible for storing certain personal information about you (‘you’, ‘your’, ‘yours’) The personal information we collect and use Personal information is information which you can be identified from (and does not  include any anonymised forms of information) 

Types of information We may process the following types of information in relation to you: Name, contact details such as telephone numbers and email addresses. 

How your personal information is collected 

This section describes how the above types of personal information is collected by us.  Your personal information will be collected as follows

 1 personal information obtained from you directly We will sometimes obtain information from you directly including when you use the  chat or message feature on our website. 

2 personal information obtained by use of cookies and other automated means We will sometimes obtain information via automated technology. This shall be by use of  cookies and other similar technology.

 A cookie is a small text file which is placed into  your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies  include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects, (‘flash cookies’) and singlepixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users actions and activities, and to  store information about them, usually this will be in order to monitor and obtain  information regarding How many times a user or users visit the website and to see what section of our website  is the most popular. 

 On the first occasion that you use our website we will ask whether you contact to our  use of cookies and/or other similar processing technologies. If you do not consent,  such technologies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser to not accept cookies. However, some of our website  features may not function as a result. For further information on our use of cookies and other similar technologies, please see  our policy document as described below.

 3 changes to the way in which we collect your personal information. In the event that we need to obtain personal information from you from any other  source than those described above, we shall notify you of this. 

How we use your personal information 

1 General Purpose In general, your personal information will generally be proceeds for the following  purposes: To manage the company To contact you directly Lawful basis for processing of your personal information We have received above the purposes for which we may process your personal  information. These purposes will at all times be justified by U.K. data protection law. 

1. general lawful basis The lawful basis upon which we are able to process your personal data are: 

1. where we have your consent to use your date for a specific purpose 

2. Where it is necessary to enter j to a legal ck tract with you or to perform  obligations under a legal contract with you 

3. Where it is necessary to enable us to comply with a legal obligation; 

4. Where it is necessary to ensure our own legitimate interest or the legitimate  interests of a third party (provided that your own interests and rights do not  override those interests). Wherever we rely upon this basis, details of the  legitimate interests concerned shall be provided to you; 

5. Where we need to protect your own vital interests (or the vital interests of  another person); and/or 

6. Where it is needed in the public interest (or where we are acting in our offical  functions), provided that the task or function has a clear basis in law. In general, in order to meet the purposes we have defines above, we will process your  personal al information where it is necessary to protect your vital interests, and vital  interests of others. 

Sharing of your personal information 

On any occasion where any of your personal information is shared with any third party,  we shall only permit them to process such information for our required purposes, under  our specific instruction, and not for their own purposes. We are required to enter into a  formal legal agreement to enable such sharing to take place. We do not anticipate that we will need to share your personal information with any third  party, we will notify should this position change How long your personal information will be kept Your personal information will only be be kept for the period of time which is necessary  for us to fulfil the above purposes. We envisage that your personal information shall be retains by us for the following: Until you have been contact by us direct After the period described above, your information shall be properly deleted or  anonymised. Keeping your information secure We will ensure the proper safety and security of your personal information and have  measures in place to do so. We will also use technological and organisation measures  to keep your information secure along with GoDaddySites.com and Google.com. 

Children 

Our website is not intended for children (anybody under the age of 18). We do not  intend to collect data from children 

Your rights.

Under the U.K. general date protection regulation you have a number of important rights  free of charge. In summary, those include rights to: 

1. fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal  information 

2. Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary  information that this privacy statement is already designed to address 

3. Require us to correct any mistake in your information which we hold; 

4. Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations; 

5. Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us,  in a structured, commonly used and machine-reachable format and have the  right to transmit this information to a third party in certain situations; 

6. Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for  direct marketing; 

 7. Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal  effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you; 

8. Object in certain other situations to out continued processing of your personal  information, or ask us to suspend the processing procedure in order for you to  confirm its assurance or our reasoning for processing it; 

9. Object to processing your personal information where we are doing g so in  reliance upon a legitimate interest of our own or of a third party and where you  wish to raise to an objection to this particular ground; 

10. Otherwise restrict our processing or your personal information in  certain circumstances 

11.Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any date protection  laws: and/or 

12. In any circumstance where we rely upon your consent for processing personal  information, you may wish to withdraw this consent at any time. For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which  they apply, see the guidance from the U.K. information commissioners office (ICO) on  your rights under the general data protection regulations. If you would like to exercise any of these rights please contact us via our website or  simply emailing admin@possetevents.com 

Changes to the privacy policy 

This privacy policy was published on 10th July 2024 and last updated on 10th July 2024 We may change this privacy policy from time to time and will notify you of any changes  by: a notice in our news section on our website Contacting us Any requests or questions regarding use of your personal information should be made  direct to the Portishead Carnival committee via the message service on our website or  emailing admin@possetevents.com