Privacy Policy

Carrow House Creatives CIC customer privacy notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

• Contact details
• What information we collect, use, and why
• Lawful bases and data protection rights
• Where we get personal information from
• How long we keep information
• Who we share information with
• How to complain

Contact details

• Post: Carrow House, King Street, , NORWICH, Norfolk, NR1 2TG, GB
• Email: info@carrowhousecreatives.org

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information for service updates or marketing purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Marketing preferences
• Purchase or viewing history

We collect or use the following information for research or archiving purposes:

• Names and contact details
• Addresses
• IP addresses
• Answers to research questions through questionnaires and social comments

We also collect or use the following information for research or archiving purposes:

• Racial or ethnic origin
• Sexual orientation information

We collect or use the following information to comply with legal requirements:

• Name
• Contact information
• Financial transaction information
• Health and safety information
• Copies of relevant insurance documents, copies of contracts & licence agreements

We collect or use the following personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims:

• Names and contact details
• Financial transaction information
• Information relating to health and safety
• Correspondence

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are in brief set out below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. You can request other information such as details about where we get personal information from and who we share personal information with. There are some exemptions which means you may not receive all the information you ask for. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to correct or delete personal information you think is inaccurate or incomplete. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to delete your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to limit how we can use your personal information. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you. You can read more about this right here.
• Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can read more about this right here.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for research or archiving purposes are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for legal requirements are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
• Contract – we have to collect or use the information so we can enter into or carry out a contract with you. All of your data protection rights may apply except the right to object.
• Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for dealing with queries, complaints or claims are:

• Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

Where we get personal information from

• Directly from you

How long we keep information

We will keep details of studio agreements for 3 years after members leave a project.  Website, email and marketing information will be kept for 3 years after last contact

Who we share information with

Data processors

Google

This data processor does the following activities for us: Cloud storage & email

Slack 

This data processor does the following activities for us: - provides member services for communication 
 

Ionos

This data processor does the following activities for us: Web hosting, email provider

MailerLite

This data processor does the following activities for us: email marketing
 

Others we share personal information with

• Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons
• External auditors or inspectors
• Professional consultants
• Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with
• Publicly on our website, social media or other marketing and information media

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:           

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated: 24/3/25