Privacy policy.

TAYLOR ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS

PRIVACY POLICY


This website is operated by TAYLOR ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS.

The privacy of our users is extremely important to us and therefore we encourage all users to read this policy very carefully because it contains important information regarding:

  • Who we are.

  • How and why, we collect, store, use and share personal information. 

  • Your rights in relation to your personal information and 

  • How to contact us and supervisory authorities in the event that you have a complaint.

Who we are

TAYLOR ACADEMY OF PERFORMING ARTS (‘we’ or ‘us’) (trading as BOP STARS) collect, use and are responsible for storing certain personal information about you. When we do so, we are regulated under the General Data Protection Regulation which applies across the European Union/EEA (including the United Kingdom) and we are responsible as a ‘controller’ of that personal information for the purposes of those laws. 


The personal information we collect and use

Personal information you provide about third parties

If you give us information about another person, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on their behalf and agree that you:

  • Shall consent on their behalf to the processing of their personal data;

  • Shall receive any data protection notices on their behalf; and 

  • Shall consent on their behalf to the transfer of their personal data abroad. 

Monitoring and recording communications

We may monitor communications such as emails and telephone calls for the following purposes:

  • Internal quality assurance

  • Compliance with safeguarding and other policies 

  • Training for our staff 

  • Marketing future products to our customers


Cookies and similar technologies 

A cookie is a small text file which is placed onto your computer or electronic device when you access our website. Similar technologies include web beacons, action tags, local shared objects (‘flash cookies’)and single-pixel gifs. Such technologies can be used to track users’ actions and activities, and to store information about them. We use these cookies and/or similar technologies on this website. 

In addition it should be noted that in some cases our cookies or similar technologies may be owned and controlled by third parties who will also collect personal information about you. 

The following examples illustrate how we may use cookies to monitor and/or collect the following information: 

Cookies may be used for autofill form data supplied by your browser.

This information helps us build a profile of our users. Some of this information aggregated or statistical, which means that we will not be able to identify you individually. 

On the first occasional that you use our site we will ask whether you consent to our use of cookies. If you do not, cookies will not be used. Thereafter you can opt-out of using cookies at any time or you can set your browser not to accept cookies and the websites below tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, some of our website features may not function as a result.

For further information on cookies visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org

How we use your personal information 

We collect information about our users for the following purposes:

Confirming booking and communicating any changes to bookings, classes, clubs or policies which are relevant to the customer and marketing emails if opted-in to our newsletter. 

Who your information may be shared with

We may share your information with law enforcement agencies in connection with any investigation to help prevent unlawful activity.

We will not share your personal information with any other 3rd parties. 

Marketing 

We would like to send you information about products, services, offers, competitions, and our business which may be of interest to you. Such information could be sent by post, email, telephone, text message or automated call. 

We will ask whether you would like us to send you marketing messages on the first occasion that you provide any relevant contact information (i.e. on purchase, signing up to a newsletter, entering a competition etc). If you do opt in to receive such marketing from us you can opt out at any time (see ‘What rights do you have?’ below for further information). If you have any queries about how to opt out, or if you are receiving messages you do not want you can contact us using the details provided below. 

Required personal information

No personal information has to be provided by you to us at any time. 

How long your personal information will be kept

We will hold your personal information for the following periods: 

We will hold your information on file for as long as you are on our books as a customer or opted-in to our email communications. These cases are no longer than necessary in each case. 

Reasons we can collect and use your personal information

We rely on the following as the lawful basis on which we collect and use your personal information:

(1). Consent;

(2). Contract;

(3). Legitimate interests;

(a). The legitimates interests relied upon are as follows: 

To provide you information and updates on products you have purchased or upcoming products relating to your previous purchases. e.g if you enrolled on our Spring Term Holiday Club, you may be contacted in the run up to our Summer Term Holiday Club to see if you would be interested in attending. 

Keeping your information secure

We have appropriate security measures in place to prevent personal information from accidentally being lost or used or accessed in an unauthorised way. We limit access to your personal information to those who have a genuine business need to know it. Those processing your information will do so only in an authorised manner and are subject to a duty of confidentiality. 

We will also use technological and organisation measures to keep your information secure. These measures may include the following examples:

Your information will be stored on secure devices by the business and only Directors of the business will have access to this information. 

We also have procedures in place to deal with any suspected data security breach. We will notify you and any applicable regulator of a suspected breach where we are legally required to do so. 

Indeed, while we will use all reasonable efforts to secure your personal data, in using the site you acknowledge that the use of the internet is not entirely secure and for this reason we cannot guarantee the security or integrity of any personal data that are transferred from you or to you via the internet. If you have any particular concerns about your information, please contact us using the details below. 

Transfers of your information out of EEA

We will not transfer your personal information outside the EEA at any time. 

Children and the validity of consent

Where we obtain consent from any user we will take reasonable steps to ascertain whether the user is over 13 years of age and whether the child is sufficiently informed to give valid consent. If the user is not, parental consent will be required to provide consent for the processing of any personal information.

What rights do you have? 

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have a number of important rights free of charge. In summary, those include rights to: 

  • Fair processing of information and transparency over how we use your personal information.

  • Access to your personal information and to certain other supplementary information that this Privacy Notice is already designed to address. 

  • Require us to correct any mistakes in your information which we hold. 

  • Require the erasure of personal information concerning you in certain situations. 

  • Receive the personal information concerning you which you have provided to us, in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format and have the right to transmit those data to a third party in certain situations. 

  • Object at any time to processing of personal information concerning you for direct marketing. 

  • Object to decisions being taken by automated means which produce legal effects concerning you or similarly significantly affect you. 

  • Object in certain other situations to our continued processing of your personal information. 

  • Otherwise restrict our processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

  • Claim compensation for damages caused by our breach of any data protection laws. 

For further information on each of those rights, including the circumstances in which they apply, see the Guidance from the UK information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) on individual’s rights under the General Data Protection Regulations.

If you would like to exercise any of these rights please:

  • Email, call or write to us. 

  • Let us have enough information to identify you.

  • Let us have proof of your identity (a copy of your driving license, passport, or a credit card/utility bill)

  • Let us know the information to which your request relates. 

From time to time we may also have other methods to unsubscribe (opt-out) from any direct marketing including for example, unsubscribe button or web links. If such is offered, please note that there may be some period after selecting to unsubscribe in which marketing may still be received while your request is being processed. 

Changes to the privacy policy 

This privacy policy was published on 5th February 2021 and last updated on the 01st September 2021. 

We may change this privacy policy from time to time. You should check this policy occasionally to ensure you are aware of the most recent version that will apply each time you access this website. We will also attempt to notify users of any changes by: 

Email. 

Contacting us 

If you have any questions about this policy or the information we hold about you, please contact us by: 

Email: info@bopstars.co.uk

P: Bop Stars

     Brunskill House, Bridges Court Road, 

     Battersea, London, SW11 3GR. 

T: 07596 851 374

Calls will be answered at the following times:

Monday – Friday 09:00 – 20:00 

Saturday – 10:00 – 17:00 

We may record calls for quality and training purposes.