Effective date: 15 June 2026
Organisation: Various Voices Brighton and Hove 2030 Limited
Website: https://www.various-voices.uk/
Various Voices Brighton and Hove 2030 Limited (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, store, and protect personal data when you visit our website, complete our forms, or sign up to receive updates about the festival.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or would like to exercise your privacy rights, please contact us at it@brightongmc.org.
1. Who we are
Various Voices Brighton and Hove 2030 Limited operates the website at https://www.various-voices.uk/ and manages communications relating to the festival, including updates, announcements, and marketing emails.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, we are the controller of the personal data described in this policy.
2. What personal data we collect
We may collect and process the following personal data:
- your name
- your email address
- your phone number or other contact details, if you provide them
- information you submit through our website forms
- details about your interest in the festival or related updates
- technical and usage data collected through cookies and similar tracking technologies, such as IP address, browser type, device information, pages viewed, and how you use the website
We only collect personal data that is relevant to the purposes described in this policy.
3. How we collect your data
We collect personal data in the following ways:
- when you complete a data collection form on our website
- when you sign up to receive festival news, updates, or marketing emails
- when you contact us directly
- automatically, through cookies and standard website analytics or tracking technologies
4. How we use your personal data
We may use your personal data to:
- provide you with information, updates, and announcements about the festival
- respond to your enquiries or requests
- send you marketing emails where you have signed up to receive them or where we are otherwise permitted to do so by law
- manage and improve our website, communications, and user experience
- monitor website performance, usage, and engagement
- maintain the security of our website and systems
- comply with legal or regulatory obligations
5. Our lawful bases for using your data
Under UK GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for processing your personal data. Depending on the circumstances, we may rely on:
- Consent – for example, where you sign up to receive email updates or marketing communications
- Legitimate interests – for example, to operate, secure, and improve our website and festival communications, where those interests are not overridden by your rights
- Legal obligation – where we need to process your data to comply with applicable law
Where we rely on consent, you can withdraw it at any time.
6. Marketing emails
If you sign up to receive updates from us, we may send you festival news, announcements, and other relevant marketing communications by email.
You can unsubscribe from marketing emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in any email we send, or by contacting us at it@brightongmc.org.
7. Cookies and tracking technologies
Our website uses cookies and similar technologies to support the operation of the site, understand how visitors use it, and improve performance and communications.
These may include:
- Strictly necessary cookies required for the website to function properly
- Analytics cookies that help us understand how visitors use the site
- Marketing or tracking cookies used to measure engagement and support communications activity
As a UK website, we use standard cookie tracking and may show a cookie notice or consent mechanism where required.
You can usually control cookies through your browser settings. If you disable some cookies, parts of the website may not function correctly.
8. Sharing your personal data
We may share your personal data with trusted service providers who help us operate our website, manage forms, send communications, host systems, or analyse website usage.
We only share personal data where necessary and require service providers to handle it securely and in accordance with applicable data protection law.
We may also disclose personal data if required to do so by law or to protect our legal rights.
9. International data transfers
Some of the service providers we use may process personal data outside the UK.
Where personal data is transferred internationally, we will take appropriate steps to ensure it remains protected in line with UK data protection requirements, such as using appropriate contractual safeguards where needed.
10. How long we keep your data
We keep personal data only for as long as necessary for the purposes for which it was collected, including to provide updates, manage communications, comply with legal obligations, resolve disputes, and enforce our rights.
We may retain subscriber or enquiry information until you unsubscribe, ask us to delete it, or it is no longer needed for our legitimate organisational purposes.
11. Your data protection rights
Under UK data protection law, you may have the right to:
- request access to the personal data we hold about you
- request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal data
- request deletion of your personal data
- object to or restrict certain types of processing
- withdraw consent where processing is based on consent
- request transfer of your personal data in certain circumstances
- complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)
To exercise any of these rights, please contact it@brightongmc.org.
If you are unhappy with how we handle your personal data, you can also complain to the ICO via https://ico.org.uk/.
12. Data security
We take appropriate technical and organisational measures to protect personal data against unauthorised access, loss, misuse, alteration, or disclosure.
However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is completely secure, so we cannot guarantee absolute security.
13. Third-party websites
Our website may include links to third-party websites. We are not responsible for the privacy practices or content of those external sites. We encourage you to read their privacy policies before providing any personal data.
14. Children’s data
Our website is not intended for children to submit personal data without appropriate supervision or consent where required by law. If you believe a child has provided personal data to us inappropriately, please contact us and we will investigate.
15. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes to our practices, technology, legal requirements, or other operational reasons.
Any updates will be posted on this page with a revised effective date