Introduction

Objective Entertainment Ltd is committed to protecting your personal information, being transparent about what data we hold and giving you control over how we use it.

The purpose of this Privacy Policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we use the information we collect from you.

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Please contact us regarding any issues with data protection at: hello@objective-entertainment.com

How do we collect personal information?

We collect your information when you interact with us. This could include booking tickets online, by phone, or in person, ordering an item from our online shop. It could also be when you sign up to receive updates from us by email and other digital channels. We also monitor how audiences use the website to help us understand how it could be improved.

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We collect personal information when you:  

1. Buy tickets

2. Register for special interest lists e.g. special events, sign up events.

3. Visit our website.

4. From time to time, we may also get data about you from third parties. For more information see the next section.

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What information do we collect from you?

We only collect the information that’s necessary to carry on our business, provide the particular product or service you’ve requested and to keep you informed. There are occasions when you can choose not to give us certain information, but this may mean that we cannot provide you with certain products or services and that our communications are less relevant and personalised. For example, you may not hear about an event that we think would appeal to you.

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The type of information we collect depends on where and when it is gathered. When you create an account with us, register on our website, purchase tickets or other items from us, ask us for information, either online, by post or phone, we need to collect information from you in order to provide the service or information you are requesting or to process your application.

 

We collect the following information in the registration and booking process:

• Prefix and name

• Email address

• Date of Birth

• Contact phone number(s)

• Payment card details through our secure server. We do not store this information

• Delivery address(s)

• Billing address

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If you have specific needs, such as a disability, we collect:

Details of how we can best support your experience.

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When you visit our website we may collect the following information:

Automatically populated IP address: a public IP address is a unique number which allows a computer, group of computers or other internet connected device to browse the internet. The log file records the time and date of your visit, the pages that were requested, the referring website (if provided) and your internet browser version.

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If you contact us with feedback online, by email, by phone or in person, we keep a record of the correspondence on our database to help us improve customer service.

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In certain circumstances, your information will be shared with us by third parties. For example:

• Arts organisations: we collect personal information from other arts organisations that Objective Entertainment works with;

• Service providers: we collect personal information from our website developer, IT support provider, payment services provider and agents who sell tickets on our behalf. For donors, we sometimes use service providers to verify source of funds as required by law; and

• Publicly available sources: we combine information you have given to us with information available from external sources. This will only be done when you give permission to the relevant third party organisations to share with us the data they hold on you, or if the data is already publicly available, or if we are required by law or requested by the police or a regulatory or government authority investigating potentially illegal activities. From time to time we screen our database against recognised data sources such as National Change of Address file and cleanse our file or correct inaccurate data. We may also update inaccurate data if the information is available.

• Employers and referees: if you are a job applicant we may contact your recruiters, current and former employers and/or referees, who may be based inside or outside the EU, to provide information about you and your application.

• We might also receive information about you from third parties if you have indicated to such third party that you would like to hear from us.

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Why do we collect this information, and what do we do with it?

The main reasons we collect information are to provide a service you have requested, to keep you up to date with news and events, to personalise your communications, or to contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information (e.g. cast changes, travel disruption). The information we collect about our audiences also helps us understand how we can best meet their needs.

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We will use your information for the purposes listed below either on the basis of:

• performance of your contract with us and the provision of our services to you;

• your consent (where we request it);

• where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation; or

• our legitimate interests (see below for further information).

 

Specifically, we use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

• To manage your booking or purchase with us. We will use your personal information to:

• fulfil ticket, merchandise, donation and membership requests (on the basis of performing our contract with you);

• process payments (on the basis of performing our contract with you).

  • Please note that Objective Entertainment Ltd does not store any Credit Card or other payment information once the transaction has been completed unless you have asked us to store your card details for future bookings. provide good customer service by phone (on the basis of performing our contract with you or on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide you with customer service); and contact you with important information relating to your booking or purchase, such as confirming your order, reminding you of an upcoming event you’ve booked for or letting you know about cast changes, travel disruption or changes to event times that may affect your visit (on the basis of performing our contract with you or on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide you with service information).

• To send you marketing communications. We will use your personal information to:

  • keep you up-to-date with news, offers, talks and events, products and information, and let you know about opportunities to support our work (where you have provided your consent or on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide you with marketing communications where we may lawfully do so).

    • send marketing information to companies and organisations about ways to support us.

• To provide you with special assistance, if required (on the basis of our legitimate interests to provide you with assistance or where you have provided your consent when you have provided sensitive information about your health).

• To personalise your experience (on the basis of our legitimate interests to present you with the right kinds of products and services). We will use your personal information to:

  • help us target our marketing communications so that they’re more relevant to you. You can opt-out of personalised communications by contacting us on the email above.

  • keep track of your interests and preferences so that we can contact you with information that is relevant to you;

  • show you advertising on such Social Media platforms as Facebook and Instagram or via other third party advertising that may appear on other websites you use. You can opt-out of targeted advertising (please note that you may not see fewer ads, but they will be less relevant to your interests);

  • help make the experience of using our website better and to personalise the service you receive from us – this means we will remember your previous visits and track the pages on our website that you visit;

  • understand your interests and personalise communications to you.

• To conduct research (on the basis of our legitimate interests to improve our products, services and customer service). We will use your personal information:

  • for classifying our audiences into groups or segments, using information from bookings and digital interactions, and publicly available information. We do this to better understand our audience and tailor messaging accordingly;

  • to measure and understand how our audiences respond to a variety of marketing activity so we can ensure our activity is well targeted, relevant and effective;

  • to undertake audience research via an online or telephone survey or in person. Participation in these is entirely voluntary, so you can choose whether or not to disclose any information requested. We will make it clear whether your response to surveys is anonymous or not and, should you provide any further information, the National Theatre will inform you how it will be used;

  • to analyse and continually improve the services we offer including our artistic programme, our website and our other products;

  • to help us run the test version of our website that we use internally to pilot new features and ensure the smooth running of our web services; and

  • to help diagnose and manage the website, to audit the geographical make-up of users, and to establish how they have arrived at the website.

• To ensure security and protect our business interests. In certain circumstances, we use your information to ensure the security of our services, buildings, and people, including to protect against, investigate and deter fraud, unauthorised or illegal activities, systems testing, maintenance and development (on the basis of our legitimate interests to operate a safe and lawful business or where we have a legal obligation to do so).

• To comply with our legal obligations. In certain circumstances, we will need to use your information to comply with our legal obligations, for example to comply with any court orders or subpoenas, carry out due diligence in accordance with statutory regulations or keep our database accurate and relevant, for example, using National Change of Address (on the basis of our complying with a legal obligation).

 

In addition to general use of the internet for research we make use of company, director and shareholder information from publicly available, officially registered information providers.

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Legitimate interests

Where we refer to using your information on the basis of our ‘legitimate interests’, we mean our legitimate business interests in conducting and managing our business and our relationship with you, including the legitimate interest we have in:

• personalising, enhancing, modifying or otherwise improving the services and/or communications that we provide to you;

• detecting and preventing fraud and operating a safe and lawful business;

• improving security and optimisation of our network, sites and services; and

• providing you with customer service.

 

Where we use your information for our legitimate interests, we make sure that we take into account any potential impact that such use may have on you. Our legitimate interests don’t automatically override yours and we won’t use your information if we believe your interests should override ours unless we have other grounds to do so (such as your consent or a legal obligation). If you have any concerns about our processing please refer to the ‘How can you manage your personal information?’ section below.

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Where is your information?

We’re committed to protecting your personal information. We adopt robust and appropriate technologies and policies to protect it from unauthorised access and improper use. In addition, whenever we transfer your personal data out of the EEA, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it as it would have in the EEA.

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As part of the services offered to you, the personal information you provide may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA). By way of example, this may happen if any of the computer servers used to host the website are located in a country outside of the EEA. If Objective Entertainment Ltd transfers your personal information outside of the EEA in this way, we will take steps to ensure that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this privacy.

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How long do we keep your data?

We will keep your information only for as long as is reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and to fulfil our legal obligations. We will not keep more information than we need.

The retention period will vary according to the purpose, for example if purchasing a ticket only, we will typically keep your data for up to eight years from the date of your last transaction. For further information about how long we will keep your information, please contact the Data Protection Manager using the contact details outlined in this policy.

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Is personal information shared with any third parties?

Objective Entertainment Ltd will never share, sell, rent or trade your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes without your prior consent. We will ask for your consent to share personal information with arts organisations who have collaborated with us on shows you have seen.

Some of our service providers may have access to your data in order to perform services on our behalf (payment processing is a good example of this) or to advise us (such as legal advisors).

 

We make sure anyone who provides a service for Objective Entertainment enters into an agreement with us and meets our standards for data security. We will not use your data for anything other than the clearly defined purpose relating to the service or advice that they are providing. We may also disclose personal information to appropriate third parties to assist in anti-fraud checks and investigations.

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How can you manage your personal information?

You can access and amend the personal information that we hold for you, or request that we stop contacting you at any time.

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Or you can contact us by phoning, emailing, or writing using our contact details set out here.

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You have certain rights in respect of the information that we hold about you, including:

• the right to be informed of the ways in which we use your information, as we seek to do in this Privacy Policy;

• the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes;

• the right to request that we correct or rectify any information that we hold about you which is out of date or incorrect;

• in addition to your right to lodge a complaint about us to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (https://ico.org.uk/), you can lodge a complaint with the relevant authority in your country of work or residence;

• the right to withdraw your consent for our use of your information in reliance of your consent (refer to “Why do we collect this information, and what do we do with it?”   above to see when we are relying on your consent), which you can do by contacting us using any of the information at the top of this Privacy Policy;

• the right to object to our using your information on the basis of our legitimate interests (refer to “Why do we collect this information, and what do we do with it?” above to see when we are relying on our legitimate interests) (or those of a third party)) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground;

• the right to receive a copy of any information we hold about you in connection with the performance of our contract with you or on the basis of your consent (or request that we transfer this to another service provider) in a structured, commonly-used, machine readable format, in certain circumstances; and

• the right to ask us to limit or cease processing or erase information we hold about you in certain circumstances.

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How to exercise your rights

You may exercise your rights above by contacting us using the details at the top of this Privacy Policy and we will comply with your requests unless we have a lawful reason not to do so.

Every email we send to you will include details on how to change your communications preferences or unsubscribe from future communications.

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You can manage your settings for how our website uses cookies and opt-out of targeted advertising in your browser or by contacting relevant bodies such as Google. Please remember that you may still see the same number of adverts, but they will be adverts that appear as standard and less relevant to you.

What we need from you to process your requests.

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We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances. We will try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

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Please note that we may need to retain certain information for our own record-keeping and research purposes. We may also need to send you service-related communications relating to your website user account even when you have requested not to receive marketing communications.

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Are you under 18?

If you are under 18, please ensure that you obtain your parent/guardian's consent beforehand whenever you provide personal information to the website. If you don’t have that consent, you must not provide personal information to us.

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Changes to this Privacy Policy and your duty to inform us of changes

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will post any changes to our site, or notify you of any material changes by e-mail.

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It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us by updating your profile account information or contacting us via the contact details at the footer of this website.

 

This Privacy Policy was updated on 27 January 2021.

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