Privacy

Lionhead Media Ltd Privacy Statement

Last updated: 1 March 2021

Introduction

We respect the privacy of every person who visits or registers with Lionhead Media Ltd via amandaprowse.com or (the "Site") or the services that we make available from the Site, over the telephone or at our events, including but not limited to our customer support service and loyalty schemes (our "Services"). We are further committed to ensuring a safe online experience.

1 Purpose of the Policy

This privacy policy ('Privacy Policy') explains our approach to any personal information that we might collect from you or which we have obtained about you from a third party and the purposes for which we process your personal information. This Privacy Policy also sets out your rights in respect of our processing of your personal information.

This Privacy Policy will inform you of the nature of the personal information about you that is processed by us and how you can request that we delete, update, transfer it and/or provide you with access to it.

This Privacy Policy is intended to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Site and our Services. Please take a moment to read and understand it. Please note that it should be read in conjunction with our Website terms of Use.

Please also note that this Privacy Policy only applies to the use of your personal information obtained by us, it does not apply to your personal information collected during your communications with third parties. 

The Site and our Services are operated by Lionhead Media Ltd, trading as Amanda Prowse, ("Amanda Prowse", "we", "us" or "our").

Lionhead Media Ltd is an English company with registered company number: 11045497 and whose registered office is recorded at Companies House.

Mr S Prowse is the data controller responsible for your personal information and is registered at the UK Information Commissioner's Office with certificate number: ZA921409

3 – How to contact us. 

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or want to exercise your rights set out in this Privacy Policy, please contact us by:

  • email, addressed to privacy@amandaprowse.com; or
  • telephone Mr S Prowse on ++44(0)7713711883

4 – What Personal Information do we collect and how do we use it?

We may collect the following types of personal data from you, all depending on how you interact with us:

  • name and contact information (such as email address, postal address and telephone number)
  • order and payment information
  • IP address and information about your browsing habits
  • social media handles
  • requests, reviews and opinions
  • preferred shop
  • image recordings on our CCTV systems
  • any other personal data you may submit to us.

Our primary goal in collecting personal information from you is to:

  • verify your identity;
  • help us improve our products and services and develop and market new products and services;
  • carry out requests made by you on the Site;
  • investigate or settle inquiries or disputes;
  • comply with any applicable law, court order, other judicial process, or the requirements of a regulator;
  • enforce our agreements with you;
  • protect the rights, property or safety of us or third parties, including our other customers and users of the Sites and at our event shops;
  • provide support for the provision of our Services; and
  • use as otherwise required or permitted by law.

In particular, we use your personal information for the following purposes:

Fulfilment of products and services

We collect and maintain personal information that you voluntarily submit to us during your use of the Site and/or our Services, including registering on our Site.

We use the contact and payment details you have provided to us so that we can fulfil the supply of products and services you have ordered from our Sites, or in our event shops. This includes your purchase of products, your attendance at events hosted by us or our third-party partners and the processing of returns and refunds.

Who do we share your personal information with for this purpose?

We will share your personal information with the following categories of third parties:

  • To verify card payments and process refunds - credit card companies and other payment providers;
  • To deliver products and process returns - delivery and courier companies.
  • Events - any applicable third party hosting the event; and third-party ticketing companies such as Eventbrite.
  • Competitions and prize draws - any applicable third-party co-promoter (for example, a book publisher), prize supplier, facilitator or publicity platform.

What is our legal basis?

It is necessary for us to use your personal information to perform our obligations in accordance with any contract that we may have with you.

We will only use location data collected by us via our website where we have your consent to do so.

Customer support

Our Sites and our event shops use various user interfaces to allow you to request information about our products and services: these include printed and electronic enquiry forms and a telephone enquiry service. Your contact information may be requested in each case, together with details of other personal information that is relevant to your customer service enquiry. This information is used in order to enable us to respond to your requests.

Who do we share your personal information with for this purpose?

We do not share your personal information for this purpose.

What is our legal basis?

It is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information in such a way to ensure that we provide the very best customer service we can to you.

We will only use location data collected by us via our website where we have your consent to do so.

Your feedback about our products and services

In the future, we may contact you to invite you to provide feedback about our products and services in the form of online, postal or at event shop surveys. We use this information to help us improve the quality of service provided by our staff and in our event shops. We also use your feedback to monitor the quality of our products and services and to assist us with the selection of future product and service lines.

Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes?

We do not share your information regarding customer surveys and feedback requests with any other individual or organisation.

What is our legal basis?

It is in our legitimate business interests to use the information you provide to us in your feedback for the purposes described above.

We will only use location data collected by us via our website where we have your consent to do so.

Customer insight and analysis

We analyse your contact details and other personal information that we collect about you such as your interests and demographic information together with personal information that we obtain from observing your interactions with our Site, our email communications to you and/or with our products and services in our event shops, such as the products and services you have purchased or viewed.

Where you have given your consent (where lawfully required), we use cookies, log files and other similar technologies to collect personal information from the computer hardware and software you use to access the Sites, or from your mobile. This includes the following:

  • an IP address to monitor Sites, traffic and volume;
  • a session ID to track usage statistics on our Sites;
  • information regarding your personal or professional interests, demographics, buying habits, experiences with our products and contact preferences.

Our web pages contain cookies or pixel tags ("Tags"). Tags allow us to count users that have visited a web page and to collect other types of aggregate information.

In some of our e-mail messages, we may use a click-through URL linked to certain websites not administered by us e.g., online bookstores with whom we are affiliated, or other vendor sites managed by third parties.  Please note that if you click through to a third-party website from our email, use of your data by the relevant third party will be subject to their own rules and policies.

Please note that any emails you receive from us may contain Cookies to help us to see if recipients have opened an email and understand how recipients have interacted with it. If you have enabled images, Cookies may also be set on your computer or mobile device.

If you do not wish to accept Cookies from any one of our emails, simply close the email before downloading any images or refrain from clicking on any URL links. You can also set your browser to restrict Cookies or to reject them entirely. These settings will apply to all Cookies whether included on websites or in emails.

In some instances, depending on your email or browser settings, Cookies in an email may be automatically accepted (for example, when you've added an email address to your address book or safe senders list). Please refer to your email browser or device instructions for more information on this.

Please see our Cookie Policy for further information.

The personal information described in this section is used to create profiles and insights about your shopping habits and the shopping habits of our other customers. By using this information, we are able to measure the effectiveness of our content and how visitors use our Sites and our Services. This allows us to learn what pages of our Sites are most attractive to our visitors, which parts of our Sites are the most interesting and what kind of offers our users like to see.

We also use this information to help us with the selection of future product and service lines and the design of our Sites and Services.

We also use this information for marketing purposes (see the marketing section below for further details).

Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes?

We do not share your personal information for these purpose with anyone. 

What is our legal basis?

Where your personal information is completely anonymised, we do not require a legal basis to use it as the information will no longer constitute personal information that is regulated under data protection laws. However, our collection and use of such anonymised personal information may be subject to other laws where your consent is required. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

Where your personal information is not in an anonymous form, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information in such a way to ensure that we provide the very best products and services to you and our other customers.

We will only use location data collected by us via our website where we have your consent to do so.

Marketing communications

We carry out the following marketing activities using your personal information:

Email marketing

We use information that we observe about you from your interactions with our Sites, our email communications to you and/or with our products and services in our event shops (see the Customer Insight and Analysis section above for more details of the information collected and how it is collected) to send you marketing communications by email, where you have consented to receive such marketing communications.

Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes?

We do not share your personal information for this purpose.

What is our legal basis?

Where your personal information is completely anonymised, we do not require a legal basis to use it for marketing analysis as the personal information will no longer constitute personal information that is regulated under applicable data protection laws. However, our collection and/or use of such anonymised personal information may be subject to other laws where your consent is required. Please see our Cookie Policy for further details.

Where your personal information is not in an anonymous form, it is in our legitimate interest to use your personal information for personalised marketing purposes.

We will only send you marketing communications via email where you have consented to receive such marketing communications.

Business administration and legal compliance

We use your personal information for the following business administration and legal compliance purposes:

  • to comply with our legal obligations;
  • to enforce our legal rights;
  • protect rights of third parties; and
  • in connection with a business transition such as a merger, acquisition by another company, or sale of all or a portion of our assets.
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Who do we share your personal information with for these purposes?

We will share your personal information with professional advisers such as lawyers and accountants and/or governmental or regulatory authorities.

What is our legal basis?

Where we use your personal information in connection with a business transition, enforce our legal rights, or to protect the rights of third parties it is in our legitimate interest to do so. For all other purposes described in this section, it is our legal obligation to use your personal information to comply with any legal obligations imposed upon us such as a court order.

Where we share your sensitive personal information, we shall obtain your consent to do so.

Any other purposes for which we wish to use your personal information that are not listed above, or any other changes we propose to make to the existing purposes will be notified to you using your contact details.

5 – How do we obtain your consent?

Where our use of your personal information requires your consent, you can provide such consent:

  • at the time we collect your personal information following the instructions provided; or
  • by informing us by e-mail, post or telephone using the contact details form set out in this Privacy Policy.

6 – Our use of cookies and similar technologies

Our Sites use certain cookies, pixels, log files and other technologies of which you should be aware. Please see our Cookie Policy to find out more about the cookies we use and how to manage and delete cookies.

7 – Third party links and services

Our Sites contain links to third party websites and services. Please remember that when you use a link to go from our Sites to another website or you request a service from a third party, this Privacy Policy no longer applies.

Your browsing and interaction on any other websites, or your dealings with any other third-party service provider, is subject to that website's or third-party service provider's own rules and policies.

We do not monitor, control, or endorse the privacy practices of any third parties.

We encourage you to become familiar with the privacy practices of every website you visit or third-party service provider that you deal with and to contact them if you have any questions about their respective privacy policies and practices.

This Privacy Policy applies solely to personal information collected by us through our Service and does not apply to these third-party websites and third-party service providers.

8 – how long do we keep your personal information for?

We will keep your personal information for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy and in accordance with the law and relevant regulations. We will never retain your personal information for longer than is necessary.

9 – Confidentiality and security of your personal information

We are committed to keeping the personal information you provide to us secure and we will take reasonable precautions to protect your personal information from loss, misuse or alteration.

We have implemented information security policies, rules and technical measures to protect the personal information that we have under our control from:

  • unauthorised access;
  • improper use or disclosure;
  • unauthorised modification; and
  • unlawful destruction or accidental loss.

All of our employees and data processors (i.e. those who process your personal information on our behalf, for the purposes listed above), who have access to, and are associated with the processing of personal information, are obliged to respect the confidentiality of the personal information of all users of our Services.

10 – How to access our information and your other rights

You have the following rights in relation to the personal information we hold about you:

Your right of access

If you ask us, we'll confirm whether we're processing your personal information and, if so, provide you with a copy of that personal information (along with certain other details). If you require additional copies, we may need to charge a reasonable fee.

Your right to rectification

If the personal information we hold about you is inaccurate or incomplete, you're entitled to have it rectified. If we've shared your personal information with others, we'll let them know about the rectification where possible. If you ask us, where possible and lawful to do so, we'll also tell you who we've shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.

Your right to erasure

You can ask us to delete or remove your personal information in some circumstances such as where we no longer need it or if you withdraw your consent (where applicable). If we've shared your personal information with others, we'll let them know about the erasure where possible. If you ask us, where it is possible and lawful for us to do so, we'll also tell you who we've shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.

Your right to restrict processing

You can ask us to 'block' or suppress the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances such as where you contest the accuracy of that personal information or you object to us processing it. It won't stop us from storing your personal information though. We'll tell you before we lift any restriction. If we've shared your personal information with others, we'll let them know about the restriction where it is possible for us to do so. If you ask us, where it is possible and lawful for us to do so, we'll also tell you who we've shared your personal information with so that you can contact them directly.

Your right to data portability

With effect from 25 May 2018, you have the right, in certain circumstances, to obtain personal information you've provided us with (in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format) and to reuse it elsewhere or to ask us to transfer this to a third party of your choice.

Your right to object

You can ask us to stop processing your personal information, and we will do so, if we are:

  • relying on our own or someone else's legitimate interests to process your personal information, except if we can demonstrate compelling legal grounds for the processing; or
  • processing your personal information for direct marketing purposes.

Your rights in relation to automated decision-making and profiling

You have the right not to be subject to a decision when it's based on automatic processing, including profiling, if it produces a legal effect or similarly significantly affects you, unless such profiling is necessary for entering into, or the performance of, a contract between you and us.

Your right to withdraw consent

If we rely on your consent as our legal basis for processing your personal information, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. 

Your right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority

If you have a concern about any aspect of our privacy practices, including the way we've handled your personal information, you can report it to the UK Information Commissioner's Office (ICO). You can find details about how to do this on the ICO website at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/ or by calling their helpline on 0303 123 1113.

11 – Changes to this Privacy Policy.

We may make changes to this Privacy Policy from time to time.

To ensure that you are always aware of how we use your personal information we will update this Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect any changes to our use of your personal information. We may also make changes as required to comply with changes in applicable law or regulatory requirements. We will notify you by e-mail of any significant changes. However, we encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically to be informed of how we use your personal information.

Cookie Policy

Last updated: 1 March 2021

Introduction

We do not currently use cookies and similar technologies on www.amandaprowse.com and this section is included only for information on how we may use cookies in the future.  Should we introduce them at any point, we will update this section to keep you informed. 

We may in the future use cookies and similar technologies ("Cookies") on www.amandaprowse.com (the "Site") for identification and analysis and advertising purposes. By using our Site, you consent to the storing and accessing of Cookies on your device.

This cookie policy "Cookie Policy"") is intended to inform you how we may use Cookies in the future to assist you in making informed decisions when using the Sites. Please take a moment to read and understand this Cookie Policy. This Cookie Policy should also be read in conjunction with our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use.

Cookies are very small text documents or pieces of software code, which often include an anonymous unique identifier. When you visit a website or use a mobile application, a computer asks your PC or mobile device for permission to store this file on your computer or mobile device and access information from it. Information gathered through Cookies include the date and time of visits and how you are using the website or mobile application. Cookies are used by us as part of our Site. Details of the Cookies used on our Site are set out in the table below.

For more details on Cookies a useful external explanation is provided at:  www.allaboutcookies.org

How to change your Cookies settings

You can block the use of Cookies by activating the relevant settings in your browser or by following the links below.

For more information on Cookie management and blocking Cookies for a wide variety of browsers, please visit: www.allaboutcookies.org

What happens when you choose to block Cookies that you have previously accepted?

If you choose to block cookies, some aspects of our Sites may not work properly and you may not be able to access all or part of Sites.

What Cookies do we use?

As at 1 March 2021, we do not use Cookies but may do in the future.  If we do begin to use them, we will set out more information about the individual Cookies used on our Site and the purposes for which they are used.

Likely Cookies that we would introduce would be.

An AmandaProwse Cookie.  This cookie would allow the website to remember what you've added to your basket and which page you visited last. It also helps us know if you're signed in, or not.  Its type would be for core site functionality and.  The Storage Period of it would be partially when the browser was closed and the other part one month after activation or update.

Google Cookies.  These cookies (_ga, _gid and _gat) would help us to understand how our site is used and pick up on any problems with how it works. Google Analytics uses these cookies to discover when you first visited the site, how often you came back and how long you spend on it. The information stored by these cookies can be seen only by the relevant teams at www.AmandaProwse.com and Google and never shows any confidential information. For more information about Google Analytics Cookies you can see: http://www.google.com/intl/en/analytics/privacyoverview.html/

It would provide analytics and these are stored as follows:  ga expires 2 years after activation/update while _gid and _gat expire 24 hours after activation/update.

Eventbrite Cookies.

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Eventbrite provide or sell tickets to some Amanda Prowse events. Their cookies are used to enable the function of the ticket purchasing process from the event listing page without having to leave our site.

For further information please see Eventbrite's cookie policy here:

https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/eventbrite-cookie-policy?lg=en_GB

Storage of Eventbrite Cookies are as follow - all expire when leaving the event listing page.

SUMMARY OF COOKIES:  Cookies are not currently used. This section discussing possible Cookies that may be used in the future is for disclosure only and will be updated if Cookies are introduced at any point.

Terms of Use

Last updated 1 March 2021

The Terms of Use are constantly under review and will comply with UK legislation including the Consumer Rights Act 2015 which can be viewed via the link below.

https://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2015/15/contents/enacted

Any concerns or queries should be directed via;

email to info@amandaprowse.com or,

telephone Mr S Prowse on UK mobile 07713711883

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