Allingham Arts Festival is committed to protecting your privacy and treats all personal data entrusted to us with the highest degree of security and confidentiality. The purpose of this document is to inform you of the ways in which the Festival processes your data and what rights you have in relation to this processing. It is important that you read this document carefully.

Topics:

• What data do we collect? 
• How do we collect your data? 
• How will we use your data? 
• How do we store your data? 
• Marketing 
• What are your data protection rights? 
• What are cookies? 
• How do we use cookies? 
• What types of cookies do we use? 
• How to manage your cookies 
• Privacy policies of other websites 
• Changes to our privacy policy 
• How to contact us 
• How to contact the appropriate authorities 

What data do we collect? 

Allingham Arts Festival collects the following data: 

• Personal identification information (Your name and email address) 

How do we collect your data? 

You directly provide Allingham Arts Festival with most of the data we collect. We collect data and process data when you: 

• Subscribe to our newsletter.

• Voluntarily complete a contact form or enquiry.

• Use or view our website via your browser’s cookies. 

We may also receive your data indirectly from the following sources: Ticket Solve https://ticketsolve.com/ 

How will we use your data?

Allingham Arts Festival collects your data so that we can: 

• Process your ticket bookings
• Respond to enquiries submitted through contact forms
• Send you newsletters and updates about the festival, if you’ve subscribed 
• Improve our website and monitor performance through analytics and cookies
• Check form submissions for spam via Akismet.

How do we store your data? 

Allingham Arts Festival securely stores your data on servers located in Ireland, protected by SSL encryption, password-protected admin access, and regular data backups 

Allingham Arts Festival will keep your [enter type of data] for [enter time period]. Once this time period has expired, we will delete your data by [enter how you delete users’ data]. 

Marketing 

Allingham Arts Festival would like to send you information about products and services of ours that we think you might like, as well as those of our partner companies. 

[Allingham Arts Festival does not currently share your data with any partner companies for marketing purposes./ list partner companies]

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 Our Company from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your data to other members of the Our Company Group. 

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email us at allinghamfest@gmail.com 

What are your data protection rights? 

Allingham Arts Festival 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 Allingham Arts Festival 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 Allingham Arts Festival correct any information you believe is inaccurate. You also have the right to request Allingham Arts Festival to complete information you believe is incomplete.
• The right to erasure – You have the right to request that Allingham Arts Festival erase your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to restrict processing – You have the right to request that Allingham Arts Festival restrict the processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to object to processing – You have the right to object to Allingham Arts Festival’s processing of your personal data, under certain conditions.
• The right to data portability – You have the right to request that Allingham Arts Festival transfer the data that we have collected to another organisation, 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: allinghamfest@gmail.com 

Cookies

Our website uses cookies to improve your experience. For full details on the types of cookies we use and how to manage them, please see our [Cookie Policy]. 

What are 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? 

Allingham Arts Festival uses cookies in a range of ways to improve your experience on our website, including:

• Keeping the site secure and functioning correctly
• Understanding how visitors use our website
• Remembering your cookie preferences
• Measuring and improving website performance
• Delivering relevant advertising, where you have consented

What types of cookies do we use? 

Our website uses the following types of cookies:

• Strictly Necessary — required for core website features to work, such as remembering that you’ve accepted our cookie policy.
• Functional — help us recognise you on our website and remember your preferences.
• Performance — allows us to track statistics on website usage, such as how many people visit and how they navigate the site, so we can improve it.
• Advertising — used by us or third parties to track the results of advertising campaigns and to show relevant ads across the internet, via tools such as Google Tag Manager.

How to manage cookies 

You can set your browser not to accept cookies, and the above website tells you how to remove cookies from your browser. You can also manage your cookie preferences at any time using the cookie settings tool on this website. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result. 

Privacy policies of other websites 

The Our Company 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 13th of August 2026. 

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. 

Email us at: allinghamfest@gmail.com   

How to contact the appropriate authority 

Should you wish to report a complaint or if you feel that Allingham Arts Festival has not addressed your concern in a satisfactory manner, you may contact the Data Protection Commission.

Email: info@dataprotection.ie 

Address: 21 Fitzwilliam Square South, Dublin 2, D02 RD28, Ireland