Privacy Notice

Turner Sims is part of the University of Southampton. We take your privacy seriously and handle your data with care. This Privacy Notice explains your rights, and how we use and store your data.

About Turner Sims and the University of Southampton

Turner Sims is part of the University of Southampton, with big ambitions to build an inclusive world through the joy of live music. We are committed to:

  • protecting your personal information
  • processing your personal data in a fair and lawful manner
  • being transparent about the information we hold about you

This privacy notice, together with the University of Southampton privacy notice, sets out the terms relevant to our processing of personal data obtained as a result of your use of Turner Sims’ website and services.

The University is a ‘Data Controller’. This means that we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use your data. This privacy notice is being made available to you because, in order to operate the Turner Sims website and fulfil your requests, we may collect and store personal information that you submit to Turner Sims and the University via this website.

This notice informs you about how and why your personal data will be used and how long it will usually be retained by us. It provides you with certain information that must be provided under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (GDPR 2016), the UK Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), the Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulation (PECR) and any other relevant data protection legislation that may apply (together ‘Data Protection Legislation’). Our registration number with the Information Commissioner’s Office is Z6801020.

‘Data’ refers to the information that we hold about you from which either on its own or in combination with other information you can be identified. ‘Processing’ means doing anything with your data, such as collecting, recording or holding the data, as well as disclosing, destroying or using the data in any way.

We keep this Privacy Notice under regular review and it may be amended from time to time.

Data Protection Principles

We will comply with data protection legislation and principles, which means that your data will be:

  • Used lawfully, fairly and in a transparent way
  • Collected only for valid purposes that we have clearly explained to you and not used in any way that is incompatible with those purposes
  • Used in a way that is relevant to the purposes we have told you about and limited in usage only to those purposes
  • Accurate and kept up to date
  • Kept only as long as necessary for the purposes we have told you about
  • Kept securely

What information does Turner Sims collect?

We will collect and process the following categories of personal data about you:

  • Biographical data including first and last name, maiden name, marital status, title, age, domicile, date of birth and gender
  • Contact data including billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers
  • Records of all contact we have with you
  • Accessibility Requirements (Special Category Data)
  • Financial data including bank or payment card details – needed to process payments for events and activities
  • Transaction data including details about payments to and from you and other details of products and services you have purchased from us
  • Technical details – including internet protocol (IP) address, cookie identifiers, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access the Turner Sims website
  • Profile data including your username or similar identifier and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses
  • Usage data including information about how you use our website, products and services, including emails or adverts from us that you’ve clicked on
  • Marketing and communications data including your preferences in receiving marketing from us and your communication preferences
  • Data that you provide in the course of your interaction with Turner Sims – for example, placing an order through the website, entering a competition, or completing an application or submission of interest for an event or service
  • We also collect, use and share aggregate data such as statistical and demographic data. Aggregate data may be derived from your personal data but does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity. For example, we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific website feature
  • Any other information that you provide to us to fulfil your request

Additionally, we may collect personal data through:

  • Photography and Video – some performances and events may be recorded through photography or video footage. We will notify members of the public and you will be given the opportunity to notify us if you do not wish to be captured in the photo/s or video footage/s. We will also notify all performers, participants and staff
  • CCTV footage – the University of Southampton has CCTV cameras internally and externally across campus for security purposes. Access to footage generated by these cameras is limited to specific members of staff

How Turner Sims collects your data

Information you give us

We collect various types of information you give us, including when you:

  • register for an account
  • buy tickets, gift vouchers, or make a donation
  • become a member
  • subscribe to our email lists
  • submit a form to register interest for an event or service e.g. venue hire
  • make contact with us electronically, in person or over the telephone
  • enter a competition

For most customers, this data is obtained when you create your account. It will include your name, email address, and all further information you provide. We will store a record of your purchases and donations in order to fulfil our contract with you.

Information about your interactions with us

Turner Sims also uses services from Google, Google AdWords and Meta on this website to measure and analyse visitor information. For further information on these, please visit Google Analytics, Google AdWords, and Meta.

Information other patrons provide

In some instances, another customer might provide your name and contact details in order for us to provide a service such as:

  • a gift voucher for you to experience the joy of live music
  • a Friends membership
  • a Cavatina membership for a child or young person

In these instances, your name and address or email address will be stored to enable you to benefit from the service.

Information from third parties

We occasionally receive information about you from third parties. For example, we may use a third party research company to provide general information about you compiled using publicly available data.

Special Category data

The data protection legislation recognises that certain categories of personal information are more sensitive such as health information, race, religious beliefs and political opinions. We do not usually collect this type of information, unless it is provided by you in your account setup for a specific purpose such as:

  • to enable you to book wheelchair spaces online
  • to enable you to book a free personal assistant ticket
  • to enable us to provide appropriate access adjustments

We will only process your data where you have given your explicit consent for the specific purpose or purposes that we tell you about. It will only be processed to the extent necessary for that specific purpose(s), unless we are legally obliged to do so.

Cookies

We use cookies to support your service user-experience, and to assist us with providing a better service for other users. Allowing cookies to be used will enable your user preferences to be remembered by your device. Some cookies are necessary for the functioning of our website. Others are optional and we will not use them without your consent. When you first visit our webpages, you will be asked to agree to the use of cookies. If you do not agree, only essential cookies will be enabled.

You can read our cookie policy and change your cookie settings at any time using the Privacy Settings button on the footer of every webpage.

How we use your personal data

We will only use your personal data in accordance with the law. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

  • Where we need to perform a contract that we are about to enter into or have entered into with you, for example, to deliver the services we have agreed to provide as part of your booking
  • Where it is necessary for Turner Sims’ legitimate interests (or those of a third party) and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests
  • Where Turner Sims needs to comply with a legal obligation (for example, the detection or prevention of crime and financial regulations)
  • To protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another person (for example, in the case of a medical emergency)
  • In order to perform a task carried out in the public interest

We will only process your special category data with your consent or if it is necessary:

  • for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims
  • to protect your or another person’s vital interests and you are not capable of giving consent
  • for archiving purposes in the public interest

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message or where you have consented to us collecting your personal information through one of our online forms. Where you have provided your consent you have the right to withdraw it at any time by sending an email to turnersims@soton.ac.uk .

We may use and analyse the information we collect so that we can manage and improve our services.

Demographic and statistical information about user behaviour may be collected and used to analyse the popularity and effectiveness of the website. Any disclosure of this information will be in aggregate form and will not identify individual users.

When we use your data for statistical and research purposes, we will usually anonymise your data so that you cannot be identified. If that is not possible, we use your personal data on the basis that this is necessary: in the public interest or for the purposes of Turner Sims’ or the University’s legitimate business interests.

Processing for limited purposes

We will only process your data for the specific purpose or purposes that we tell you about, or if specifically permitted by the Data Protection Legislation, and will only process your data to the extent necessary for that specific purpose or purposes.

None of the personal data collected about you will be used as part of any automated decision-making about you.

What if you do not provide your personal data?

If you do not provide certain categories of personal data when requested, or if you do not allow us to process your personal data collected through other means for specified purposes, we may not be able to successfully fulfil your request or deliver services to you.

Who has access to your personal data?

Your information will be shared internally within the University for the purposes described in the section ‘How we use your personal data’.

We will never sell your data.

We only share data for purposes that are compatible with the original purpose of its collection.

There are certain circumstances under which we may disclose your personal information to third parties. These are as follows:

  • To our own service providers who process data on our behalf and on our instructions (for example our ticketing system software provider, Spektrix).
  • To specific named visiting companies whose performances you have attended. In these cases we will always ask for your explicit consent before doing so.

Contracts will be put in place with all third-party data recipients to ensure that any personal data shared will be held in accordance with the requirements of the Data Protection Legislation. Third-party data recipients are required to take appropriate security measures to protect your personal data in line with our policies. We only permit third-party data recipients to process your personal data for specific purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

Exceptionally, we may disclose your data to a third party if required to do so: to protect or defend Turner Sims’ and the University’s rights, interests, or property, or those of third parties; act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of Turner Sims and University constituents, or the public; or protect against legal liability.

Accuracy

It is important that the personal information that we hold about you is accurate and up to date. Please notify us at turnersims@soton.ac.uk if your personal details change, or if data that we hold about you is inaccurate.

If you have an account with us you can also login to your account in the top right corner of the website and amend your details and preferences.

Holding and retaining your data

We will retain your personal data for as long as you are happy for us to retain it. This enables us to link any subsequent purchases you make back to a single unique record that we hold for you on our system.

If there are aspects of your record that are inaccurate or that you would like to remove, you can usually do this by logging in to your account through our website. Alternatively please contact: turnersims@soton.ac.uk.

Any objections you make to any processing of your data will be stored against your record on our system so that we can comply with your requests. If at any stage you would like your data removed, we will delete it immediately.

If you would like to raise a concern with the University, you can report it via dataprotection@soton.ac.uk to the appropriate team.

How will your data be secured?

We limit access to your personal data to those employees of the University and third parties who have a business need-to-know. They will only process your data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality. The University has procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach in accordance with our legal obligations.

Your debit and credit card information

If you use your credit or debit card to purchase from us or to make a donation, we will ensure that this is carried out securely and in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS).

We optionally allow you to store your card details for use in a future transaction. This is carried out in compliance with PCI-DSS and in a way where none of our staff members are able to see your full card number. We never store your 3 or 4 digit security code.

Any payment transactions will be encrypted using SSL technology. As the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure, all information you transmit to our University Network is at your own risk.

International Transfers

If it is necessary to transfer your personal data out of the European Economic Area (EEA), for example for storage of data in the cloud, delivery of services or for research purposes, at least one of the following safeguards will be applied:

Please contact infogov@southampton.ac.uk if you would like to receive further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the EEA.

Marketing Communications

We aim to communicate with you about the work that we do in ways that you find relevant, timely and respectful. To do this we use data that we have stored about you, such as what events you have booked for in the past, as well as any preferences you may have told us about.

If at any stage you are concerned about the content of these communications e.g. unwanted marketing information, or wish to change how we communicate with you, please contact us at turnersims@soton.ac.uk to unsubscribe. All electronic communication is offered in line with EU and UK electronic privacy rules.

Withdrawal of consent for direct marketing

You have the right to withdraw your consent for direct marketing at any time. To do so, please contact turnersims@soton.ac.uk. Once we have received notification that you have withdrawn your consent, we may not be able to fulfil some or all of your request and, subject to our record management policy and record retention schedule, we will dispose of your personal data securely.

The record management policy and record retention schedule can be viewed in the section titled “Our policies and procedures” on the University’s Publication Scheme webpage.

Third party links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

Your rights

You have a number of rights. You can:

  • Access and obtain a copy of your data on request
  • Require us to change incorrect or incomplete data
  • Require us to delete or stop processing your data, for example where the data is no longer necessary for the purposes of processing
  • Object to the processing of your data where we are relying on our legitimate interests as the lawful basis for processing
  • Ask us to stop processing data for a period if data is inaccurate or there is a dispute about whether or not your interests override the organisation’s legitimate grounds for processing data, and
  • Request the transfer of your personal data to another party.

If you would like to exercise these rights please use our online form or write to:

The Data Protection Officer
Legal Services
University of Southampton, Highfield
Southampton, SO17 1BJ
Email: data.protection@soton.ac.uk

Reviews and updates

This Privacy Notice was last reviewed on 28 October 2024. It was last updated on 28 October 2024.