The Open Art Fair Privacy Policy

The privacy and security of your personal information is extremely important to us. This privacy policy explains how and why we use your personal data, to make sure you stay informed and can be confident about giving us your information.  

We will keep this page updated to show you all the things we do with your personal data.

We will never sell your personal data and will only share it with organisations we work with when it’s necessary and the privacy and security of your data is assured. 

Who are ‘we’?

In this policy, whenever you see the words ‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’, it refers to BADA Ltd trading as The Open Art Fair.

Purpose of this privacy statement:

The purpose of this privacy statement is to explain how we collect and process your personal data through your use of our website, regardless of where you visit it from.

It is important that you read this statement as well as any other privacy, transparency or fair processing notice we may bring to your attention on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you. 

Changes to the privacy notice:

We always publish the latest version of our privacy statement here on our website. This version was updated and published on 02/02/2022.

Collection of your information:

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the site includes:

Personal Data

Personally identifiable information, such as your name, address, email address, and telephone number, that you voluntarily give to us when you choose to participate in various activities related to the site. You are under no obligation to provide us with personal information of any kind.

Derivative Data

Information our servers automatically collect when you access the site, such as your IP address, your browser type, your operating system, your access times, and which pages on the site you view. We will not use the Squarespace statistical analytics tool, Facebook Pixel, Twitter Pixel, or Google Analytics, to track or to collect any personally identifiable information of visitors to our site. We will not associate any data gathered from this site with any personally identifying information from any source as part of our use of the Squarespace statistical analytics tool, Facebook Pixel, Twitter Pixel, and Google Analytics. We will not link, or seek to link, an IP address with the identity of a computer user.

Financial Data

We store only very limited, if any, financial information that we collect. Otherwise, all financial information is stored by our payment processor, Stripe, and you are encouraged to review their privacy policy and contact them directly for responses to your questions.

Who may process data?

Your personal information (which includes your name, address and any other details you provide to us, which concern you as an individual) may be processed by us.

Disclosing and sharing information

We do not sell or share your personal information for other organisations to use.

Personal data may be shared with data protection service providers for the purposes of GDPR compliance.

We may also disclose your personal information to third parties if we are under a duty  to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to protect the rights, property, or safety of The Open Art Fair, our supporters and visitors. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection.

Purpose of processing:

We will use your information for the purpose of fulfilling requests for information placed by you, processing transactions authorised or made by you with us, informing you of events and providing other marketing information to you which we think you may find of interest and undertaking product or customer research/development.

How long will we keep your information?

We will only keep the information we collect about you for as long as required for the purposes set out above or as required to comply with any legal obligations to which we are subject. This will involve us periodically reviewing our files to check that information is accurate, up-to-date and still required.

Where we are permitted to send you direct marketing communications we may retain your contact information necessary for this purpose, for as long as you do not unsubscribe from receiving the same from us. If you opt out from marketing, we will retain your information to enable us to respect your wishes to not be contacted for marketing purposes.

Third-party links:

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties also to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy policies or statements. When you link to them, we encourage you to read their privacy statements as well.

Cookies:

We use essential cookies to help our site run, and analytics cookies to track users to our site, for example Google Analytics, Facebook Pixel, Twitter Pixel, and Squarespace statistical analytics tool.

Google Analytics uses 'cookies', which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form. The information generated by the cookie about your use of the website (including your IP address) is transmitted to Google. This information is then used to evaluate visitors’ use of the website and to compile statistical reports on website activity for this website. To find out more about cookies, including how to control and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org, or to opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout.

A cookie is a small file sent to your computer when you visit our website, this file stores your session identifier. This will enable us to identify your computer and to allow our systems to tailor their response to your requests.

Except through the use of cookies, we do not automatically log or collect data unless you specifically provide it to us.

By using our website you agree to our use of analytics cookies.

People who make enquiries to The Open Art Fair:

If you make an enquiry by telephone, email or by writing to The Open Art Fair we collect personal data relating to your enquiry. This can include name, personal address, telephone numbers and email addresses.

This information is used for the sole purpose of carrying out your enquiry.

User Rights Over Their Data

Under the GDPR, EU-based visitors and subscribers have the right to request from us access to Personal Data we store about you, for any reason and at any time. If you wish to invoke a right under the GDPR, you may contact us at info@theopenartfair.com. Your email should include a sufficiently detailed description of what you seek assistance with. We may need to contact you for further information so that we can carry out your request.

If you have provided consent for the processing of your data, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time, which will not affect the lawfulness of the processing before your consent was withdrawn.

You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you believe that we have not complied with the requirements of the GDPR with regard to your Personal Data.

Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this privacy policy are welcomed and should be addressed to The Open Art Fair at info@theopenartfair.com.