Privacy Policy For Users
About this policy
We have provided this policy to ensure that individuals who use our website (https://www.event-hosts.com/) and/or our services understand what personal data we may collect and hold about them, what we may use it for and how we keep it safe. You have legal rights to access the personal data that we hold about you and to control how we use it which are also explained.
You can read, print and save this whole policy or click on the links below to see specific information about:
Who we are and how you can contact us
What personal data we collect about you
What we use your personal data for
When we need your consent to use your personal data
Personal data you are legally obliged to provide
Your rights to know what personal data we hold and to control how we use it
Automated decision making and profiling
When we will share your personal data with others
How we keep your personal data safe
How we use your personal data for marketing
When we will send your personal data to other countries
Who we are and how you can contact us
We are Event Hosts Limited a UK registered company. Our company number is 09489554 and our registered address is at 71-75 Shelton St, Covent Garden, London, WC2H 9JQ .
You can contact us in writing at insert main correspondence address or by emailing info@event-hosts.com. If you would like to speak to us please call us on 020 893 55587.
Please refer to the sections on Your rights to know what personal data we hold and to control how we use it and How to make a complaint for further contact information.
We collect:
- personal data that you provide to us. There are lots of ways in which you may share your personal data with us, for example, you may contact us via the website, by telephone, post or social media or in person in connection with hiring one of our hosts for your event, or in connection with a previous or upcoming booking, or with a general enquiry. The personal data that you provide to us may include your name, address, e-mail address, telephone number, name of your business and your job title. If you make a booking we may also request your bank details, credit card information, VAT number and website address. If you contact us to enquire about working with us as one of our hosts, we will ask you to provide your name, email address, contact number, location, details of any languages you speak, your UTR (unique tax reference), height, dress size, headshot and full length photograph.
- personal data that we receive from third parties. When we work with other businesses or use sub-contractors these parties may collect personal data about you which they will share with us. For example, we may receive feedback from the event staff who we provide for your events. If you are applying to work with us, we will ask for references.
- personal data about your use of our website. This is technical information and includes details such as your IP address, your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, as well as details of how you navigated to our website and where you went when you left, what pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages and page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs).
We use your personal data in the following ways:
- personal data that you provide to us is used to:
- process and respond to any enquiry you make
- provide you with the information and services that you request from us
- invoice you for services and process your payment
- provide you with marketing information in accordance with your marketing preferences (see How we use your personal data for marketing)
- manage and administer our business
- review and improve our service
- review your application to work as one of our event hosts and respond accordingly
- personal data that we receive from third parties is combined with the personal data that you provide to us and used for the purposes described above.
- personal data about your use of our website is used to:
- administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes
- to improve our website to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer or mobile device
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, and to deliver relevant advertising to you
Cookies
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our website. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie policy.
Whilst we always want you to be aware of how we are using your personal data, this does not necessarily mean that we are required to ask for your consent before we can use it. In the day to day running of our business we may use your personal data without asking for your consent because:
- we are entering into and carrying out our obligations under a contract with you
- we need to use your personal data for our own legitimate purposes (such as the administration and management of our business and the improvement of our services) and our doing so will not interfere with your privacy rights
In exceptional circumstances we may wish to use your personal data for a different purpose which does require your consent. In these circumstances we will contact you to explain how we wish to use your data and to ask for your consent. You are not required to give consent just because we ask for it. If you do give consent you can change your mind and withdraw it at a later date.
Please refer to the section on How we use your personal data for marketing to read about marketing consents.
You are not under a legal obligation to provide us with any of your personal data but please note that if you elect not to provide us with your personal data we may be unable to provide our services to you or to respond to your query.
Your rights to know what personal data we hold and to control how we use it
You have a legal right to know what personal data we hold about you – this is called the right of subject access. You can exercise this right by sending us a written request at any time. Please mark your letter “Subject Access Request” and send it to us in the details set out in the Who we are and how you can contact us section.
You also have rights to:
- prevent your personal data being used for marketing purposes (see How we use your personal data for marketing for further details)
- have inaccurate personal data corrected, blocked or erased
- object to decisions being made about you by automated means or to your personal data being used for profiling purposes
- object to our using your personal data in ways that are likely to cause you damage or distress
- restrict our use of your personal data
- require that we delete your personal data
- require that we provide you, or anyone that you nominate, with a copy of any personal data you have given us in a structured electronic form such as a CSV file
If you want to review, verify, correct or request erasure of your personal information, object to the processing of your personal data, or request that we transfer a copy of your personal information to another party, please contact us in writing using the details set out in the Who we are and how you can contact us section.
You can find full details of your personal data rights on the Information Commissioner’s Office website at ww.ico.org.uk.
We do not make use of automated decision making or profiling.
We share your data with the following people in the day to day running our business:
- the host(s) who we provide for your event
- any other business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors we work with to provide you with goods or services that you have requested from us
- advertisers and advertising networks (see How we use your personal data for marketing for more information
- analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site
We may also share your personal information with third parties on a one-off basis, for example, if:
- we sell or buy any business or assets (including our own), in which case we will disclose your personal data to the prospective seller or buyer of such business or assets
- we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply our website terms of use or our terms and conditions of supply other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of our customers, ourselves or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction
We take every care to ensure that your personal data is kept secure. The security measures we take include:
- only storing your personal data on our secure servers
- restricting access to personal data that we hold
- keeping paper records to a minimum and ensuring that those we do have are stored in locked filing cabinets on our office premises
- maintaining up to date firewalls and anti-virus software to minimise the risk of unauthorised access to our systems
- enforcing a strict policy on the use of mobile devices and out of office working
Unfortunately, sending information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of personal data sent to our website; you send us personal data at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features (some of which are described above) to try to prevent unauthorised access.
We will add your details to our marketing database if:
- you make an enquiry about our services and have opted in to receiving marketing communications from us
- you book one of our hosts for your event and have not opted out of receiving marketing communications from us
- you have told a third party that you would like them to pass us your contact details so that we can send you updates about our services
We may send you marketing communications by email, telephone, text message or post.
You can ask us to only send you marketing communications by particular methods (for example, you may be happy to receive emails from us but not telephone calls) or you may ask us not to send you any marketing communications at all.
We may ask you to indicate your marketing preferences when you first register an account on our website. You can check and update your current marketing preferences at any time by calling or emailing us using the details set out in the Who we are and how you can contact us section above.
We never share your personal data with third parties for marketing purposes.
Your personal data may be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) by us or by our sub-contractors. Where we, or our sub-contractors, use IT systems or software that is provided by non-UK companies, your personal data may be stored on the servers of these non-UK companies outside the EEA. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this privacy policy.
These are the organisations outside of the EEA with whom we may currently share your personal data:
| Organisation | Reason for transfer | Location | Safeguard |
| Dropbox Inc | Sharing large files and presentations with clients. | USA | Registered with EU – US Privacy Shield |
| MailChimp
(The Rocket Science Group LLC d/b/a MailChimp) |
Marketing to clients/potential clients | USA | Registered with EU – US Privacy Shield |
We only keep your personal data for as long as we actually need it. In practice this means that we will keep:
- If you make an enquiry, we will keep a record of your name, contact details, enquiry and any further contact we have with you for a period of 3 years from the date of the last contact.
- If you use our services, we will keep a record of you name, contact details, services provided (including a copy of your full customer file) for a period of 3 years from the data of your last booking with us, or date of last contact with us if that is later.
- complaint records will be kept for 7 years
- If you contact us in relation to potentially working with us as one of our event hosts but we choose not to add you to our books at that time, we will retain details of your application and any correspondence with you for a period of 6 months from the date of your last contact with us.
Please note that we may anonymise your personal data or use it for statistical purposes. We keep anonymised and statistical data indefinitely but we take care to ensure that such data can no longer identify or be connected to any individual.
If you are unhappy with the way we have used your personal data please contact our us to discuss this using the contact details set out in the section titled Who we are and how you can contact us section above.
You are also entitled to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office which you can do by visiting www.ico.org.uk. Whilst you are not required to do so, we encourage you to contact us directly to discuss any concerns that you may have and to allow us an opportunity to address these before you contact the Information Commissioner’s Office.
We will review and update this policy from time to time. This may be to reflect a change in the goods or services we offer or to our internal procedures or it may be to reflect a change in the law.
The easiest way to check for updates is by looking for the latest version of this policy on our website (https://www.event-hosts.com/) or you can contact us (see Who we are and how you can contact us) to ask us to send you the latest version of our policy.
Each time we update our policy we will update the policy version number shown at the end of the policy and the date on which that version of the policy came into force.
This is policy version 1 which came into effect on 20/07/2018
