PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy policy

We are committed to protecting your personal information and to being transparent about what we do.

Purpose of our policy

Ball Pit Hire is committed to protecting your personal information and to being transparent about what we do with the information that we hold about you.

The purpose of this policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we use the information that we collect from you directly, and from third parties.

We use your information in accordance with applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information. This policy explains:

What information we may collect about you

How we may use that information

In what situations we may disclose your details to third parties

Our use of cookies to improve your experience of visiting our websites

Information about how we keep your personal information secure, how long we retain it for and your rights to be able to access it

If you have any queries about this policy, please contact Ball Pit Hire by emailing team@ballpithire.co.uk

Who we are

This privacy policy refers to data collection and processing undertaken by Ball Pit Hire. Ball Pit Hire is a brand specialising in the hire of equipment including nighttime and daytime party sessions, promotional operations bespoke events.

Information collection

We collect customer information in a number of different ways:

Information that you give us;

When you make a booking through us, or contact us to make an enquiry, we will store the perfornal information that you give to us including: your name, email address, telephone number, any other relevant details you give us pertaining to an event enquiry. We may also store preferences which may help us personalise our service to you.

Your data will be stored alongside details of the specific enquiry you have made in order for us to contact you about that specific enquiry.

Information about your interactions with us;

We collect information about how you interact with us when you visit our website or read our emails. This allows us to make our communications relevant to you and to understand how we can make them more effective.

Information is collected in the following ways:

When you visit our website: where we collect information about how you interact with our show pages and content.

When we send you a mailing: where we store a record of this. In the case of emails, we also store a record of which emails you have opened and which links that you have clicked on. This helps us to make sure that our communications with you are relevant and effective.

Sensitive personal data;

Data Protection law recognises that certain categories of personal information are more sensitive such as health information, race, religious beliefs and political opinions.

We do not collect this type of information. In the case that you contact us disclosing any of this information, such as requesting details about access at our events, we do not keep a record of this alongside any information we may have collected about you.

How we process your information

There are certain lawful bases under which we may process your data:

Contract purposes

We use the lawful basis of performance of a contract for the following:

Your purchase

When you make a purchase from us you are entering into a contract with us. In order to perform this contract we need to process and store your data. We may occasionally need to contact you by email, SMS or telephone about your purchase with us, such as in the case of a cancelled event, or should there be problems with your payment.

We may from time to time use your e-mail address and mobile number to notify you of similar events and services we offer which we think may be of interest to you. You will have the option to opt-out of any messages we send you at anytime

Consent;

For any situation where contract purposes or legitimate organisational interest are not appropriate as a lawful basis for the processing of your data, we will instead ask for your consent before using your personal information in that specific situation.

Situations when we use consent to process your data or contact you include:

Sharing your data with another organisation: We may ask you if you would like your data to be shared with another organisation. We only do this if you give us your active consent.

Legitimate organisational interest;

In certain situations we may collect and process your personal information for purposes under the lawful basis of legitimate organisational interest.

However, we only do this if there is no overriding prejudice to you caused by us through using your personal information in this way. In these cases we will always keep your fundamental rights and freedoms at the forefront or what we do.

We describe below all of the situations where we may use Legitimate Organisational Interest as the basis for processing your information, or contacting you.

Marketing communications

We aim to communicate with you about the work that we do in ways that you find relevant, timely and respectful. To do this, we use data that we have stored about you, such as information on which products you have booked for in the past, as well as any preferences you may have told us about.

We use legitimate organisational interest as the legal basis for sending you marketing communications by SMS and email. Communications that we send to you may include relevant information about future events.

SMS Communications: In the case of SMS communications, we will contact you about other relevant products directly related to other items you have expressed interest in or we think may be an interest. At the end of every communication, we will provide you with an option to unsubscribe. You can withdraw your consent to receive SMS at any time by using the contact details provided at the end of this policy.

However, we may still contact you by SMS for matters relating to your purchases (such as in the event of cancellation or a problem with your payment).

We do not accept any responsibility for any monetary loss due to a withdrawal of communication consent.

Email communications: In the case of email communications, we will contact you about other relevant products directly related to other items you have expressed interest in or we think may be an interest. At the end of every communication, we will provide you with an option to unsubscribe. You can withdraw your consent to receive SMS at any time by using the contact details provided at the end of this policy.

However, we may still contact you by email for matters relating to your purchases (such as in the event of a cancelled performance or a problem with your payment).

We do not accept any responsibility for any monetary loss due to a withdrawal of communication consent.

Analysis of our SMS and email communications

We may analyse data that we hold about you (such as brands and locations you have expressed prior interest in) to help us ensure that the content and timing of communications that we send you by SMS or email are as relevant to you as possible.

Fraud prevention

We may analyse data we hold about you in order to identify and prevent fraud.

Analysis of our website

In order to improve our website, we may analyse information about how you use it and how you interact with the show pages and content that it contains.

Third parties

Data Collection

If you complete a purchase online, you will be doing this through a third party website. This website will share your data with us after you have made a purchase. Any purchase you make is also subject to the privacy policy of the third party company.

Data Sharing

There are certain circumstances under which we may disclose your personal information to third parties. This will only occur where we are under a duty to disclose your personal information in order to comply with any legal obligation (for example to government bodies and law enforcement agencies).

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed onto your device by some websites that you visit. They are widely used to allow a website to function (for example to keep track of your online shopping basket) as well as to provide website operators with information on how the site is being used.

We use cookies to keep track of your basket, to identify how the website is being used and to help inform improvements to the overall customer experience that it offers.

Your debit and credit card information

We do not store any credit or debit card information, and this information is not shared with us by any third party service. To learn more about your credit and debit card information, and how it may be used, please refer to the privacy policy of any applicable service.

Maintaining your personal information

We store your personal information for eight years so that, for any subsequent purchases you make, we are able to link them back to a single unique record that we hold for you on our system.

If there are aspects of your record that are inaccurate or that you would like to remove, you can use the contact details provided at the end of this policy.

Any objections that you make to any processing of your data will be stored against your record on our system so that we can comply with your requests.

Security of your personal information

We will put in place appropriate safeguards (both in terms of our procedures and the technology that we use) to keep your personal information as secure as possible. We will ensure that any third parties we use for processing your personal information do the same.

Your rights to your personal information

You have a right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in this data corrected.

Please use the contact details provided at the end of this policy if you would like to exercise this right.

Contact details and further information

Please get in touch with us via the contact details below if you have any questions about any aspect of this privacy policy and, in particular if you would like to object to any processing of your personal information that we carry out for our legitimate organisational interests.

You can contact us at team@ballpithire.co.uk