Who we are

Our workshop website address is: https://workshops.pieceofstringmedia.co.uk.

I’m Mike Smart and I’m working with Nick Fogg, alongside our collaborators at Apples and Oranges and at DASH. You may contact me by emailing workshops ?⃝? pieceofstringmedia.co.uk

Data Protection Statement

Keeping your information secure

I will keep your information secure. This will include using high-grade encryption of all data at rest and best available guidance for network and password security. 

Information I will hold

I will keep some of your personal details for basic purposes, and only for as long as necessary. 

Where you submit personal information via this form, I will keep that secure and will delete it a few months after the workshops are completed.

If you are unable to attend a workshop, I will hold information for potential future opportunities and I may contact you in the future about it unless you request otherwise. 

I will seek your explicit permission for holding your data wherever this might go beyond what you would normally expect me to do as a freelancer / sole trader and in connection with these workshops.

Sharing

I will not share or sell your information. 

Use by third parties

Some information will also be used by third parties, for example an email address is shared briefly with my email provider only for the purposes of delivering an email to you. 

I will only use a third party which will ensure that no further use of the data will occur. Those suppliers may be processing those details outside the EU/EEA. 

For example, I will not use a third party mailing service which allows itself to use your data for profiling you. I will read data protection statements and will try to keep up to date with changes. If you are aware that a third party supplier I use has changed or no longer upholds those standards, please let me know so that I can deal with it.

Questions and corrections

If you have any questions about the data I hold, or if you need to request any correction or deletion, please contact me.

If you have any suggestions or queries about this policy, please do get in touch; I want to keep my policy and my procedures friendly and up to date.

Exemption from formal registration

Because of the very limited scope of data I process, I am exempt from formal registration with the ICO. Regardless, I endeavour to uphold the highest standards of data protection, and will follow the ICO guidance. None of the personal information I will hold and process is part of any automated decision processes. I will only collect the information I need to.

Where we send your data

Nowhere else, except —

Form entries may be checked through an automated spam detection service. This means the “I am not a robot” (captcha) type tests, such as Google’s captcha v2.

Google will not see the details you put into the form, but they will test other indications from your computer to allow you to use the form and to prevent robots from spamming me through the form. This means things like your computer’s IP address, the type of computer and browser you are using, and other data which is associated with the computer you are using and the website with the form you are completing. See Google’s privacy policies for the full details. I believe this keeps everything as private as practically possible.