Privacy Policy

This policy covers the websites operated by BTA C.I.C.

We comply with data protection legislation such as the GDPR UK. This regulates the processing of personal data relating to you and grants you various rights in respect of your personal data. We’d like to reassure you that any personal data you give us will be treated in complete confidence.

The aim of this statement is to tell you how we use any personal data we collect about you through our websites.  Please read it carefully before you proceed.

What information do we collect?

You do not have to give us any personal data in order to use most of our websites.

However, by registering with us, you agree that we may process the data below for the purposes outlined in our Privacy and Cookie Policy.

Parents and students

If you wish to enrol a student with BTA, we will collect the following personal data: parent or guardian’s name; contact and address details; relationship to the student; emergency contact numbers; name, age, gender and date of birth of student; and any medical conditions the student has. If the student is over 16 years of age, please ensure that you have their permission to share these details with us.

BTA will from time to time take photographs and film footage of students during class time for use in BTA marketing and publicity material (both online and offline). If you do not wish for your child to be photographed/filmed please let the school Directors know in writing or through the online forms.

Online payments made to BTA are processed securely by PayPal or Go Cardless and the information you provide is communicated in a strongly-encrypted format between PayPal or Go Cardless and your bank or credit card company. BTA does not directly collect, process or store financial information.

Other individuals

If you wish to contact us for other purposes, we ask for your contact details so we can respond to your queries.

Sensitive personal data

The Data Protection Act gives special protection to sensitive personal data which will include information relating to health or sex life, race or ethnic origin, political beliefs or membership, philosophical or religious beliefs, trade union membership and information about the commission of offences and related proceedings.    You should only provide this information if it is required in response to a mandatory question on our websites, or if you are otherwise content for us to process this information

Automatically collected information

In addition, we may automatically collect information about the website that you came from or are going to. We also collect information on which pages of our websites you visit, IP addresses, the type of browser you use and the times you access our websites. However, this information is aggregated and is not used to identify you.

How will information about you be used and shared?

The information we collect allows us to:

· locate and put you in touch with the Directors;

· provide teaching services in movement and voice and the organisation of performances;

· administer our websites and provide customer services;

· meet legal, regulatory and compliance requirements including the administration of BTA’s statutory obligations relating to children;

· gather management information for research purposes and to form statistical and trend analysis;

· communicate with you;

· send you surveys and competitions;

· improve our websites and the products and services we offer to you and to provide you with online personalised services and targeted advertising including through the use of cookies when you visit our websites; and

· provide you with information about our products and services which may be of interest to you from time to time.

We may employ the services of a third party to help us in certain areas, such as website hosting, support and maintenance, and child protection issues. In some cases, the third party may receive your information. However, at all times, we will control and be responsible for the use of your information.

We may also use aggregated information so we can administer and improve our websites, analyse trends and gather broad demographic information. We may pass this information to third parties

We may also disclose your personal data when we believe this is required by law, to enforce or comply our terms and conditions or to protect the rights, property, safety of BTA, our customers or others.

Transfer of your information outside the EU

Some of the recipients of your personal data (including sensitive personal data) may be located in countries out of the European Economic Area such as the US but we remain responsible for making sure that your personal data is given adequate protection and held securely. By submitting your personal data to our websites, you agree that such transfers may take place.

Marketing Communications

From time to time, BTA and its Directors may wish to provide you with information about BTA’s products and services (including by online targeted advertising, post, phone, email and text) which may be of interest to you.

If you do not wish to receive such information, please tick the box on the application form or contact admin@breakthroughtheatre.org to unsubscribe at any time.

Links

Our websites may contain links to other third party websites over which we have no control. We are not responsible for privacy policies or practices of any websites to which you choose to link from our sites. We encourage you to review the privacy policies of those other web sites so you can understand how they collect, use and share your information.

Security

We have implemented reasonable technical and organisational measures designed to secure your personal data from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration or disclosure. However, the Internet is an open system and we cannot guarantee that unauthorised third parties will never be able to defeat those measures or use your personal data for improper purposes.

Sale of the business

In the event that the business is sold or integrated with another business, your details will be disclosed to our advisers and any prospective purchaser’s adviser and will be passed to the new owners of the business.

How to contact us

You are entitled to see the information held about you.  You may review, correct, update or change your personal data at any time.

If you have any other questions about this policy or your personal data, please contact us on admin@breakthroughtheatre.org

Changes to our privacy policy

If our privacy policy changes in any way, we will place an updated version on this page. Regularly reviewing this page ensures that you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it and under what circumstances, if any, we will share it with other parties.

For further information on what cookies we collect please view our cookie policy.

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