Privacy Policy

Our Privacy Policy

This is the privacy notice of Impress Events Ltd. In this document, “we”, “our”, or “us” refer to Impress Events Ltd.

Our registered office is at 17 Main Street, Ponteland, Newcastle upon Tyne, NE20 9NH.

Summary:

The only personal information we store is your name, contact number, email address and correspondence address. We may use these details to: contact you, provide our services, and, if necessary, chase unpaid fees through the courts. We never share this information with non-essential third parties. We only share your event details with our suppliers if you have given us permission to do so.

Upon completion of providing our services, we may keep your personal information on record for as long as it is required to further provide an efficient and excellent service. This usually just extends to correspondence between yourself and us. You can, at any time, request us to cease processing your data. This should be done via email to contact@impress-events.co.uk.

Introduction

This is a notice to inform you of our policy about all information that we record about you. It sets out the conditions under which we may process any information that we collect from you, or that you provide to us. It covers information that could identify you (“personal information”) and information that could not. In the context of the law and this notice, “process” means collect, store, transfer, use or otherwise act on information.
We regret that if there are one or more points below with which you are not happy, your only recourse is to leave our website immediately.
We take seriously the protection of your privacy and confidentiality. We understand that all visitors to our website are entitled to know that their personal data will not be used for any purpose unintended by them, and will not accidentally fall into the hands of a third party.
We undertake to preserve the confidentiality of all information you provide to us and hope that you reciprocate.
Our policy complies with UK law accordingly implemented, including that required by the EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
The law requires us to tell you about your rights and our obligations to you in regard to the processing and control of your personal data. We do this now, by requesting that you read the information provided at www.knowyourprivacyrights.org
Except as set out below, we do not share, or sell, or disclose to a third party, any information collected through our website.

    When you create an account on our website, buy a product or service from us, or otherwise agree to our terms and conditions, a contract is formed between you and us. In order to carry out our obligations under that contract, we must process the information you give us. Some of this information may be personal information. We may use it in order to:
    – verify your identity for security purposes.
    – sell products to you.
    – provide you with our services.
    – provide you with suggestions and advice on products, services and how to obtain the most from using our website.

    We process this information on the basis there is a contract between us, or that you have requested we use the information before we enter into a legal contract. We shall continue to process this information until the contract between us ends or is terminated by either party under the terms of the contract.

    1) Information we process with your consent

    Through certain actions when otherwise there is no contractual relationship between us, such as when you browse our website or ask us to provide you with more information about our business, including our products and services, you provide your consent to us to process information that may be personal information.

    Wherever possible, we aim to obtain your explicit consent to process this information, for example, by asking you to agree to our use of cookies. Sometimes you might give your consent implicitly, such as when you send us a message by e-mail to which you would reasonably expect us to reply. Except where you have consented to our use of your information for a specific purpose, we do not use your information in any way that would identify you personally. We may aggregate it in a general way and use it to provide class information, for example, to monitor the performance of a particular page on our website.

    If you have given us explicit permission to do so, we may from time to time pass your name and contact information to selected associates whom we consider may provide services or products you would find useful. We continue to process your information on this basis until you withdraw your consent or it can be reasonably assumed that your consent no longer exists.

    You may withdraw your consent at any time by instructing us via email at contact@impress-events.co.uk. However, if you do so, you may not be able to use our website or our services further.

    2) Information we process for the purposes of legitimate interests
    We may process the information on the basis there is a legitimate interest, either to you or to us, of doing so.

    Where we process your information on this basis, we do after having given careful consideration to:
    – whether the same objective could be achieved through other means
    – whether processing (or not processing) might cause you harm
    – whether you would expect us to process your data, and whether you would, in the round, consider it reasonable to do so

    For example, we may process your data on this basis for the purposes of:
    – record-keeping for the proper and necessary administration of our business.
    – responding to unsolicited communication from you to which we believe you would expect a response
    – protecting and asserting the legal rights of any party
    – insuring against or obtaining professional advice that is required to manage business risk
    – protecting your interests where we believe we have a duty to do so

    3) Information we process because we have a legal obligation
    We are subject to the law like everyone else. Sometimes, we must process your information in order to comply with a statutory obligation. For example, we may be required to give information to legal authorities if they so request or if they have the proper authorisation such as a search warrant or court order. This may include your personal information.

    4) Complaints regarding content on our website
    If you complain about any of the content on our website, we shall investigate your complaint. If we feel it is justified or if we believe the law requires us to do so, we shall remove the content while we investigate. If we think your complaint is vexatious or without any basis, we shall not correspond with you about it.

    5) Information relating to your method of payment
    Payment information is never taken by us or transferred to us either through our website or otherwise. Our employees and contractors never have access to it.

    6) Complaining
    When we receive a complaint, we record all the information you have given us. We use that information to resolve your complaint. If your complaint reasonably requires us to contact some other person, we may decide to give to that other person some of the information contained in your complaint. We do this as infrequently as possible, but it is a matter of our sole discretion as to whether we do give information, and if we do, what that information is. We may also compile statistics showing information obtained from this source to assess the level of service we provide, but not in a way that could identify you or any other person. Use of information we collect through automated systems when you visit our website

    7) Cookies
    Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer’s hard drive by your web browser when you visit any website. They allow information gathered on one web page to be stored until it is needed for use on another, allowing a website to provide you with a personalised experience and the website owner with statistics about how you use the website so that it can be improved. Some cookies may last for a defined period of time, such as one day or until you close your browser. Others last indefinitely. Your web browser should allow you to delete any you choose. It also should allow you to prevent or limit their use. Our website uses cookies. They are placed by software that operates on our servers, and by software operated by third parties whose services we use.

    We use cookies in the following ways:
    – to track how you use our website
    – to record whether you have seen specific messages we display on our website
    – to record your answers to surveys and questionnaires on our site while you complete them

    8) Personal identifiers from your browsing activity
    Requests by your web browser to our servers for web pages and other content on our website are recorded. We record information such as your geographical location, your Internet service provider and your IP address. We also record information about the software you are using to browse our website, such as the type of computer or device and the screen resolution. We use this information in aggregate to assess the popularity of the webpages on our website and how we perform in providing content to you. If combined with other information we know about you from previous visits, the data possibly could be used to identify you personally, even if you are not signed in to our website.

    9) Access to your personal information
    At any time you may review or update personally identifiable information that we hold about you via email at contact@impress-events.co.uk. After receiving the request, we will tell you when we expect to provide you with the information.

    10) Removal of your information
    If you wish us to remove personally identifiable information from our website, you may contact us at contact@impress-events.co.uk. When we receive any request to access, edit or delete personally identifiable information we shall first take reasonable steps to verify your identity before granting you access or otherwise taking any action. This is important to safeguard your information.

    11) Encryption of data sent between us
    We use Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) certificates to verify our identity in your browser and to encrypt any data you give us. Whenever information is transferred between us, you can check that it is done so using SSL by looking for a closed padlock symbol or other trust mark in your browser’s URL bar or toolbar.

    12) How you can complain
    If you are not happy with our privacy policy or if have any complaints then you should tell us by email. Our email address is contact@impress-events.co.uk. If a dispute is not settled then we hope you will agree to attempt to resolve it by engaging in good faith with us in a process of mediation or arbitration. If you are in any way dissatisfied with how we process your personal information, you have a right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. This can be done at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

    13) Retention period for personal data
    Except as otherwise mentioned in this privacy notice, we keep your personal information only for as long as required by us:
    – to provide you with the services you have requested;
    – to comply with other law, including for the period demanded by our tax authorities;
    – to support a claim or defence in court.

    14) Compliance with the law
    Our privacy policy has been compiled so as to comply with England law. If you think it fails to satisfy the law of your jurisdiction, we should like to hear from you. However, ultimately it is your choice as to whether you wish to use our website.

    15) Review of this privacy policy
    We may update this privacy notice from time to time as necessary. The terms that apply to you are those posted here on our website on the day you use our website. We advise you to print a copy for your records.

    If you have any questions regarding our privacy policy, please contact us.