Privacy Policy

Silk Street Music Ltd Privacy Policy

Silk Street Music Ltd is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. The purpose of this privacy notice is to inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website and sign up to our service. We will also tell you about your privacy rights and how the data protection law protects you.

Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Who we are and important information

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how we collect and process your personal data through the use of this website, including any data you may provide through this website when you contact us or sign up to our service.

This website is not intended for children and we do not knowingly collect data relating to children.

You must read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements other notices and is not intended to override them.

Data Controller(s)
Silk Street Music Ltd is the controller and responsible for your personal data (collectively referred to as Silk Street, “we”, “us” or “our” in this privacy notice). Our contact details are compliance@silkstreet.co.uk / Silk Street Music Ltd, 45 South Mossley Hill Road, Liverpool, L19 3PY. For all data matters contact: compliance@silkstreet.co.uk

Third Party Links Outside Our Control
Our website contains links to third-party websites, plug ins and applications. This privacy policy only applies to this website so when you click a link to other websites you should read their own privacy policies. Once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

What personal data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. You can find out more about personal data from the Information Commissioners Office.

We collect information about you when you make an enquiry with us via email or telephone, complete a contact form on our website or place an order for our services. We also collect information when you voluntarily complete customer surveys, provide feedback and participate in competitions. Website usage information is collected using cookies.

When you make an enquiry or sign-up to our service, we will ask you for your Personal Data  which we have grouped together follows: –

Identity Data | First Name, Last Name, Username, Company Name

Contact Data | Address, Billing Address, Telephone Numbers and Email Addresses, Proof of Address documentation (if required)

Financial Data | Credit or Debit Card & Bank Details

We may also use and share Aggregated Data via Cookies such as statistical or demographic data which is derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data in law as it does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.   An example of this is we may aggregate your usage data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a particular part of our service or website.

We do not collect any Special Categories of Personal Data about you (this includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data). Nor do we normally collect any information about criminal convictions and offences.

If you fail to provide personal data

Where we need to collect your personal data by law, or under the terms of a contract we have with you and you fail to provide that data when requested, we may not be able to perform the contract we have or are trying to enter into with you. In this case, we may have to cancel a product or service you have with us but we will notify you if this is the case at the time.

How we collect your personal data

We collect information about you to process your order, manage your account and, if you agree, to email you about other products and services we think may be of interest to you.

We use different methods to collect data from and about you including through:

  • Directly | When completing a Contact Form on our website. Completing a Sign-up Form to subscribe to our services or marketing. Creating an account on our website or when corresponding with us an email. Call recording a
  • Information we receive from other sources | We may receive information about you from other sources, this includes from other booking Agents

How we use your personal data

We collect information about you to process your order, manage your account and, if you agree, to email you about other products and services we think may be of interest to you. We will only use your personal data supplied to us when the law allows us to and for the following reasons:

  • Performance of Contract |  this means processing your data where it is necessary for the performance of a contract/service to which you are a party or to take steps at your request before entering into such a contract.
  • Consent |  this means providing consent for us to:

-use your personal data supplied on a contact form in order for us to provide a service quotation and/or information on requested service

-receive any marketing information from us. This includes information collected from the website to personalise your repeat visits to our website. If you agree, we shall contact you with some of the other products and services we offer. We do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email.

-record any telephone conversations we have with you if we deem it necessary.

-track all email that is opened and read by you.

  • Comply with a legal or regulatory obligation this means processing your personal data where it is necessary for compliance with a legal or regulatory obligation that we are subject to.

‍We make sure we consider and balance any potential impact on you (both positive and negative) and your rights before we process your personal data for our legitimate interests. We do not use your personal data for activities where our interests are overridden by the impact on you (unless we have your consent or are otherwise required or permitted to by law).

Purposes for which we will use your Personal Data

We have set out below, in a table format, a description of all the ways we plan to use your personal data, with the legal bases we rely on to do so.

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please contact our Data Protection Officer at compliance@silkstreet.co.uk if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data where more than one ground has been set out in the table below.

Purpose/Activity Type of Data Lawful basis for processing including basis of legitimate interest
To register you as a new customer / supplier (a) Identity
(b) Contact
Performance of a contract with you
To process and deliver your order including:
(a) Manage payments, fees and charges
(b) Collect and recover money owed to us
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Financial
(d) Transactional
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) To recover debts owed to us
Where applicable, providing your personal data to Acts, Band Members or Clients under contracts we enter in to (a) Identity
(b) Contact
Performance of a contract with you
Service – Sending email notifications for any booking related services provided (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Transactional
Performance of a contract with you
Service – Sending SMS notifications for any booking related services provided (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Transactional
Performance of a contract with you
Providing Information or a quote for service (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Transactional
Taking steps before performing a contract
To manage our relationship with you which will include:
(a) Notifying you about changes to our terms or privacy policy
(b) Asking you to leave a review or take a survey
(a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) To comply with a legal obligation
(c) To keep our records updated and to study how customers use our products/services
To enable you to partake in a prize draw, competition or complete a survey (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Profile
(d) Usage
(e) Marketing and Communications
(a) Performance of a contract with you
(b) To study how customers use our products/services, to develop business
To administer and protect our business and our site (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data) (a) Identity
(b) Contact
(c) Technical
(a) Provision of administration and IT services, network security, to prevent fraud and in the context of a business reorganisation or group restructuring exercise
(b) To comply with a legal obligation
To use data analytics to improve our website, products/services, marketing, customer relationships and experiences (a) Technical
(b) Usage
To define types of customers for our products and services, to keep our site updated and relevant, to develop our business and to improve our marketing strategy

Marketing

We would like to send you Information about products and services of ours and other companies in our group which may be of interest to you. If you have consented to receive marketing, you may opt out at a later date. We do not share your data with any third parties for marketing purposes.

  • Opting Out You have the right at any time to stop us from contacting you for marketing purposes or giving your information to other members of Silk Street Music Ltd. To do this, please email us at enquiry [at] silkstreet.co.uk or unsubscribe using the opt-out link at the bottom of any of our email marketing. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing messages, this will not apply to personal data provided to us as a result of providing our Service to you, Product or Service Experience or other transactions.

Promotional offers from us

We may use your Identity, Contact, Technical, Usage and Profile Data to form a view on what we think you may want or need, or what may be of interest to you. This is how we decide which products, services and offers may be relevant for you.

You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or purchased goods or services from us or if you provided us with your details when you entered a competition or registered for a promotion and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

Cookies

Cookies are tiny files of letters and numbers that are stored by your web browser, either temporarily within your device’s memory or more permanently on your device’s storage. You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. We use analytical and tracking cookies on our website as a result of using services supplied by third-party companies such as Google. Google may use information (not including your name, address, email address or telephone number) about your visits to this and other websites in order to provide advertisements about goods and services of interest to you. If you would like more information about this practice and would like to know your options in relation to not having this information used, click here or contact us. These cookies contain data including but not limited to: details of the operating system, browser and IP address of the device used to visit the website, the time and duration of the visit and which parts of our website were visited. Cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website when they are using it. These cookies are stored on your device’s storage for varying durations, typically around a month. Our website uses cookies to identify you over multiple visits to the site. Cookies are optional, and you can block or delete them. However, some parts of our website (e.g. user accounts) will not work correctly without cookies enabled. It is not possible for a cookie stored by us to be read by any other company’s website, nor can a cookie read information from your computer that you have not already provided us with.

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

You can set your browser not to accept cookies and the above websites tell you how to remove cookies from your browser. However, in a few cases, some of our website features may not function as a result.

Change of purpose

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us at compliance@silkstreet.co.uk.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

Who we share your personal data with

Individuals data may be shared with external third parties who operate under contracts that we may enter into. For example:

  • Approved Service Partners | Individuals data may be shared with approved service partners who operate part of our service and also under any contracts that we enter into.
  • Financial Regulators |  HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities acting as Processors based in the UK require certain reporting on our business activities.
  • Third Party Providers | acting as Processors based in the United Kingdom, in (or outside) the European Economic Area who provide IT and system administration services.
  • Professional advisers | acting as Processors including lawyers, bankers, auditors and insurers based in the United Kingdom who provide consultancy, banking, legal, accounting and insurance services.

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

In processing your order, we may send your details to, and also use information from credit reference agencies and fraud prevention agencies.

Silk Street Music Ltd will not share your information for marketing purposes with companies outside the Silk Street Group.

Silk Street Music Ltd does not store your financial information (including debit and credit card details) under any circumstance. This includes payments made over the telephone or over the internet.

International transfers

We may transfer data outside of the EEA.

Data security

We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online. This includes SSL and data transfers using a 256 bit AES encryption. All email correspondence is sent at the client’s risk.

We limit access to your personal data to our employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

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

Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data (in the table in section 4, above). are available by contacting our Data Protection Officer at compliance@silkstreet.co.uk

By law we have to keep basic information about our customers (including contact, identify and financial details for eight years after a contract has ended for the purposes of Anti-Money Laundering and six years for the purposes of HMRC / Tax.

In some circumstances you can ask us to delete your data: see Your legal rights below for further information.

In some circumstances, we may anonymize your personal data (so that it can no longer be associated with you) for research or statistical purposes in which case we may use this information indefinitely without further notice to you.

Your legal rights

Unless subject to an exemption under the data protection laws, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • The right to request a copy of the personal data which we hold about you;
  • The right to request that we correct any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary to retain such data;
  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time, where consent was the lawful basis for processing your data;
  • The right to request that we provide you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), where applicable i.e. where our processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of our contract with you or where we process your data by automated means);
  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
  • The right to object to our processing of personal data, where applicable i.e. where processing is based on our legitimate interests (or in performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing or processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics).

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact our Data Protection Officer at compliance@silkstreet.co.uk

Access To Your Information & Correction – No fee required (with some exceptions)
We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate. You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us at the following address:- Silk Street Music Ltd, 45 South Mossley Hill Road, Liverpool, L19 3PY. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable admin fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you
We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond
We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

Changes to our privacy policy and your duty to inform us of any changes

We keep our privacy policy under regular review and we will place any updates on this web page. This privacy policy was last updated on 09 May 2018 and is GDPR compliant.  Previous versions of this Policy can be obtained by contacting the Data Protection Officer at compliance@silkstreet.co.uk. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us. It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate and current.

Queries, requests or concerns

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or Information we hold about you.

To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints in relation to this policy or any other data protection matter between you and us, please in the first instance contact our data compliance officer at compliance@silkstreet.co.uk

If this does not resolve your complaint to your satisfaction, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF, England, UK