Privacy Policy

Chiswick House & Gardens Privacy Policy

Last Update: 10 March 2021

1 Introduction

The Chiswick House and Gardens Trust takes the privacy of all its customers and supporters very seriously and is committed to respecting and protecting your personal information. We aim to be transparent about what information we hold about you, whichever way you are connected with us.

The purpose of this policy is to explain how the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust collects, uses and protects any personal information we collect about you.

Collecting personal data helps us to develop a better understanding of everyone who engages with us – from House and Garden attendees and website users to our members and supporters. This allows us to work more effectively and helps us provide you with a better, more tailored service that we hope encourages you to get closer to our work and enjoy everything we have to offer.

We use your information strictly in accordance with all applicable data protection laws and you can be assured that any information provided will only be used in accordance with this privacy policy.

We will publish any updates to our privacy policy here and we recommend you check this page from time to time. If we make any significant changes in the way we treat your personal information we will make it clear in this policy.

2 Who are we?

The Chiswick House and Gardens Trust Company Limited is a registered charity (number 1109239). Our registered office is The Estate Yard, Chiswick House and Gardens, Hogarths Lane, Chiswick, London W4 2QN

Our wholly owned subsidiary is: Chiswick House and Gardens Trading co Ltd, a registered company in England and Wales (number 07152064).

The Trust manages one website – chiswickhouseandgardens.org.uk

3 How to contact us

If you have any questions regarding this privacy policy or your personal information, please contact info@chgt.co.uk or write to us at: Data Enquiries, Chiswick House and Gardens Trust Chiswick House London W4 2QN

4 How to change the information we hold about you

The accuracy of your personal information is important to us and you can help keep our records up to date by telling us when your contact details and other personal information changes, and if you change your mind about how we contact you.

Every email we send you will include details on how to change your communications preferences or unsubscribe from future communications.

It is important the personal information we hold about you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal information changes during your relationship with us.

If you would like to update the details we hold or change your contact preferences please notify us at info@chgt.org.uk

5 What information do we collect?

5.1 Depending on the reason for interacting with us, we may collect and hold the following information from you:

Identity Data: includes your first name, last name, title, date of birth, gender and contact details for your parent or guardian if you are under 16.

Contact Data: includes billing address, delivery address, email address, telephone numbers.

Education Data: if you are a student, including name of your college/university/community group and your course details.

Financial Data: includes bank account and payment card details if you are making a purchase or donation and your preferences relating to Gift Aid.

Transaction Data: includes details about payments to and from you and details of tickets or services you have purchased from us.

Supporter Data: includes information relating to memberships, donations, attendance at events and interests.

Health Data: if you have a disability, information about your access requirements (for example if you require wheelchair access, an assistance dog, assisted hearing audio descriptions, BSL interpretation or a seat for a personal assistant); information about your allergies or dietary requirements if you are participating or attending an event and information about your health if we are investigating an accident or other incident that has occurred at the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust.

Image Data: includes your image and likeness as captured on our CCTV cameras and in photographs, video and audio recordings if you participate in a workshop or other event.

Technical Data: includes the technical data we collect when you visit our websites as further detailed in section 6 below.

Social Media: depending on your settings or the privacy policies for social media and messaging services like Facebook, Twitter and Instagram you may give us permission to access information from those accounts or services.

Usage Data: includes information about how you use our websites and services.

Marketing and Communications Data: includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

5.2 We will collect and aggregate on an anonymous basis information about you and your use of our services with information about other users of our services, such as statistical or demographic data, for analysis, reporting to stakeholders (such as English Heritage Trust and the London Borough of Hounslow) and to better understand our customers. For example, we may aggregate your Usage Data to calculate the percentage of users accessing a specific feature on one of our websites. However, if we combine or connect any of this type of data with your personal data so that it can directly or indirectly identify you, we treat the combined data as personal data which will be used in accordance with this privacy notice.

6 How do we collect your personal information?

Directly from you: We collect personal information from you at multiple touch points, for example when you: book a performance or an event, participate in a workshop or attend another event, speak to or email a member of our team, register for an account on our websites, make a donation, join as a member, subscribe to an email newsletter, respond to a survey, request marketing or fundraising information to be sent to you, enter a competition, provide feedback to us, fill out a form or provide any other information in any way.

Automatically: As you interact with our websites, we may automatically collect Technical Data from you as further detailed in section 7 below. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies.

From other organisations or publicly available sources: For example, we may receive personal information about you from:

Ticket agents who transfer personal data to us when you book a ticket for a production or other event at the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust
Chiswick Cricket Club, who manage some of the hire bookings for our cricket pitch and pavilion (see ‘Cricket Hires’ below)
Analytics providers such as Google or social media platforms such as Facebook and Twitter based outside the EU
Publically available sources such as newspapers or online, such as Companies House or the Charity Commission.

We use this information to help us give you the best possible experience of the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust.

Cricket Hires

During the cricket season, Chiswick Cricket Club manages bookings to hire our cricket pitch and pavilion. When you make a booking through Chiswick Cricket Club, you are providing your personal information to both the Cricket Club and to the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust as we jointly manage the hire process.

Please contact us if you would like more information about the joint arrangement between the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust and Chiswick Cricket Club.

Outside of the cricket season, bookings are done directly through the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust.

7 Visiting our websites

When you visit one of our websites we may automatically collect the following information:

The IP address used to connect your computer to the Internet – we do not ordinarily link IP addresses to any of your personal information, which means that you remain anonymous even though the IP address is used to produce analytics information.
Other technical information including your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, your device, operating system and platform.
Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL) clickstream to, through and from our site (including time and date), pages you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs), and methods used to browse away from the page and/or website.
You can set your browsers 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 our websites may become inaccessible or not function properly.
Our websites may contain links to websites, plug-ins and applications that are operated by third parties. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control those websites and this Privacy Policy does not apply to those websites. Please consult the terms and conditions and privacy policy of those websites to find out how they collect and use your personal data and to establish whether and for what purpose they use 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 basket) as we as to provide website operators with information on how the site is being used. We use cookies to identify how the website is being used and what improvements we can make.

8 Young people

We are especially committed to protecting the privacy of any young people that engage with or participate in our work. If you are under 16, please ensure that you obtain your parent/guardian’s consent before and whenever you provide personal information. Personal data relating to young people will be held securely on our CRM database. This data will be protected and only accessible to a limited number of staff members.

9 How do we use your information?

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

To perform a contract with you, such as when you book a ticket or other event, when you hire our cricket pitch or pavilion or hire any of our grounds or buildings, or when we need to contact you with important information relating to a contract we have with you.
To comply with a legal obligation, such as when you exercise your rights under data protection law or when we have to report to or respond to a request from government or law enforcement officials (such as reporting Gift Aid details to HMRC) or to meet national security or law enforcement requirements or prevent illegal activity
Based on your consent, for example when you have specifically consented for us to send you updates via email about what’s on, priority booking, Chiswick House and Gardens news or information about membership or supporting us. This may also include us sharing your details with our partner organisations where you’ve consented to this.
Based on your explicit consent when you provide us with information about your health or access needs in order for us to provide you with tailored services, such as a wheelchair accessible space.

As necessary for our legitimate interests in providing our services safely and securely in a suitable way which is tailored to your use and interests for the following purposes:

To provide you with and improve our services
To help us provide you with the best possible customer service and experience at the Chiswick House and Gardens
To manage and administer our relationship with you, such as by keeping our database up to date, responding to you if you have donated, contacting you about administrative matters, renewing your membership or responding to your complaints or feedback
To fundraise (see section 12 below) or, for example, by alerting you to opportunities to support the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust through making a donation or becoming a member
To enable you to participate in research, a survey or a competition
To ensure the security of our websites and other technology systems
To learn about your interests and preferences so that we can tailor your experience with the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust and provide you with information that is relevant to you
For the purpose of marketing our services, including sending marketing communications by post
To learn about our audience and classify our audience into groups or segments, using booking, survey and publicly available information and ensure we are sending relevant messages to each group
To use data analytics and research to improve the quality of the services we offer and define our marketing strategy
To verify your identity for security purposes
To help us ensure our customers are genuine and to prevent fraud
For the management of our business, including keeping financial records, to allow us to pay suppliers and to charge, invoice or refund customers
By using CCTV to prevent and detect crime and to keep people who visit and work at the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust safe and secure
To record and investigate health and safety and other incidents which have happened at the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust
For market research and statistical analysis and to analyse the use of our services so that we can improve your experience at the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust.
For a small number of our audience and other contacts, for the purpose of better understanding their engagement with the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust and their potential interest in supporting us further (see section 11 below for more details)

Note that we may process your personal information in reliance on more than one of the grounds listed above depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data.

10 Sharing of your personal information

We may share your personal information with our trusted service providers, sub-contractors and agents that we may appoint to perform functions on our behalf and in accordance with our instructions, including payment providers, event ticketing providers, email communication providers, market research analysts, IT service providers, postal mailing providers, accountants, auditors and lawyers.

We may also share your personal information with other venues or organisations with whom the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust works, but only if you have given your consent to this or if it is necessary to perform a contract we have with you.

We require all other organisations with whom we share your personal information to respect the security of your information and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes.

We might also have to share your information if we have to by law or where we need to protect you or other people from harm.

Other than as expressly set out in this Privacy Policy, we will not sell, rent, trade or distribute your personal information to third parties without your express consent or are required by law to do so.

11 Opting out

11.1 You can ask us to stop sending you marketing information at any time by requesting the Unsubscribe button in an e-communication and checking or unchecking relevant boxes to adjust your marketing preferences or by following the opt-out links on any marketing message sent to you or by contacting us any time as set out above in Paragraph 3.

11.2 Where you opt out of receiving marketing information, this will not apply to personal data provided to us when your purchase a ticket or other service from us.

11.3 Please be aware that if you opt out, it may be that we cannot provide you with certain services.

12 Fundraising

Each year we need to raise more than £1m in addition to our core grant income from English Heritage Trust and the London Borough of Hounslow. We consequently encourage support from individuals, companies and foundations who want to help us achieve our mission and reach the widest possible audience.

We may do some limited research before contacting certain individuals or organisations to understand if there is a potential connection or shared interest. We also carry out research about our current supporters so we can provide the best experience possible, tailor our communications and suggest relevant opportunities to get closer to our work. We aim to ensure that we are contacting you with the most relevant and timely communications and ultimately provide an improved experience for you. To do this, we use the information that you provide.

We may also:

Break down the information we hold on our database (for example, we might send information to a specific group of people who live in the same area)
Analyse donations already made to the Chiswick House and Gardens Trust
Make use of additional geo-demographic information and measures of affluence
Record the reasons you have chosen to donate to us, events you have attended and other relevant information about your involvement with the Trust.

This activity assists us in understanding more about the people who support us. It also enables us to better understand your interests, anticipate your needs, and to provide exceptional customer service. In line with Charity Commission guidance, we may also use your personal information to detect and reduce fraud and credit risk.

Before contacting a small number of individuals we may seek further information including business network information and publicly available information relating to: residential location, wealth and assets, family (excluding information on children unless personally given by the individual concerned), career, donations to other organisations (including political parties where they are made public by the individual) and hobbies and interests to create a profile of their interests and preferences. This helps us understand the background of the people who may choose to support us and helps us to make requests for gifts to those who may be able and willing to give. We may also use publicly sourced images to help identify individuals who attend our special events.

We use a number of different sources to aid us in our fundraising activities, including newspaper websites and archives, housing market websites and the electoral roll as well as official websites of companies, charities and other arts organisations. In addition to general use of the internet we also make use of company, director and shareholder information from publicly available information providers, such as Trustfunding.org.uk. This helps us to make appropriate requests to supporters who may have the means and inclination to support at a higher level. You can opt out of your data being used in this way and unsubscribe from future communications about fundraising by contacting development@chgt.org.uk

13 How we protect your information

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal information from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal information to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal information on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a very limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and who are required to keep the information secure and confidential. All financial transactions are processed through a gateway provider and are not stored or processed on our servers.

Any credit card or payment information we hold is stored securely and encrypted so that only the last four digits of the long card number are identifiable. This allows our customers to complete transactions faster and easier.

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

We will do our best to protect your personal information. However, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our websites before it reaches us, and any transmission is therefore at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

14 How long do we keep your information?

We will only keep your personal information in accordance with data protection law 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. Where your information is no longer required, we will ensure it is disposed of, deleted or cached in a secure manner.

To determine the appropriate retention period for personal information, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the information, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of the information, the purposes for which we process your personal information and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

15 Your legal rights

You are in control of your personal information. Under certain circumstances you have the right to:

Request access to your personal information – this enables you to receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you and to check that we are processing it lawfully.
Ask us to correct information that’s wrong, to delete it or to request that we only use it for certain purposes.
Request that we provide your personal information to you or another organisation in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
Withdraw your consent to use using your personal information at any time.
Object to us processing your personal information based on our legitimate interests.
Change your mind and ask us to stop using your information, for example, unsubscribing from any marketing emails. Please be aware that if you ask us to stop using your information we may not be able to provide certain services to you: we will let you know if this is the case.

If you would like to exercise any of your legal rights in relation to the personal information that we hold about you, please email info@chgt.org.uk or write to us at: Data Enquiries, Chiswick House and Gardens Trust, Chiswick House London W4 2QN

Your request must include your name, email address and postal address and we may request proof of your identity.

If you have a concern about the way in which we use your personal information, you may also make a complaint to a supervisory authority for data protection matters. In the UK this is the Information Commissioners Office: https://ico.org.uk/concerns/. If you live in another EEA country, you may complain to the supervisory authority in your country.

DigiTickets Privacy Policy

Who we are

In this privacy policy references to "we", "us" and "our" are to Chiswick House & Gardens. References to "our Website" or "the Website" are to chiswickhouseandgardens.digitickets.co.uk.

Information collected and its use

The information we collect via the Website may include:

Any personal details you knowingly provide us with through forms and our email, such as name, address, telephone number etc.
In order to effectively process credit or debit card transactions it may be necessary for the bank or card processing agency to verify your personal details for authorisation outside the European Economic Area (EEA). Such information will not be transferred out of the EEA for any other purpose.
Your preferences and use of email updates, recorded by emails we send you (if you select to receive email updates on products and offers).
Your IP Address, this is a string of numbers unique to your computer that is recorded by our web server when you request any page or component on the Website. This information is used to monitor your usage of the Website.
Information about your device such as your web browser, screen resolution and operating system. This information is used to ensure we continue to support the different devices used by our customers.
Data recorded by the Website which allows us to recognise you and your preferred settings, this saves you from re-entering information on return visits to the site. Such data is recorded locally on your computer through the use of cookies. Most browsers can be programmed to reject, or warn you before downloading cookies, information regarding this may be found in your browsers 'help' facility.

We do not store any credit card details.

What we do with your information

Any personal information we collect from this website will be used in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998 and other applicable laws. The details we collect will be used:

To process your order, to provide after sales service (we may pass your details to another organisation to supply/deliver products or services you have purchased and/or to provide after-sales service);
In certain cases we may use your email address to send you information on our other products and services. In such a case you will be offered the option to opt in/out before completing your purchase.

We may need to pass the information we collect to other companies for administrative purposes. We may use third parties to carry out certain activities, such as processing and sorting data, monitoring how customers use the Website and issuing our e-mails for us. Third parties will not be allowed to use your personal information for their own purposes.

Cookie Policy

Like many websites we use cookies to store and then retrieve small bits of information on your computer when you visit. This information is used to make the site work as you expect it to. It is not personally identifiable to you, but it can be used to give you a more personalised web experience.

Some of the information stored is put there by other companies whose software we have added to the site, and this can also impact your experience of other websites you may visit after leaving ours.

If you continue to use this site without taking action to prevent the storage of this information, you are effectively agreeing to this use.

If you want to learn more about the general uses of cookies, including how to stop them being stored by your computer, please visit Cookiepedia - all about cookies.

Below is a list of the different types of cookies used on this site, and an explanation of what they are used for. If you would like any more information, please get in touch.

Cookie	Name	Expiration Time	Purpose
Shopping Basket	PHPSESSID	24 minutes	This cookie is used to keep track of what items are in a user's shopping basket.
Cookie Consent	dtAnalyticsConsent	1 year	This cookie is used to monitor the users consent for analytical cookies on our site. No user data is collected without this being enabled.
Google Analytics	_ga _ga_container-id	2 years	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site, where visitors have come to the site from and the pages they visited. Read Google's overview of privacy and safeguarding data
	_gid	24 hours
	_gat_tracker-name	1 minute
Microsoft Clarity	_clck	1 year	These cookies are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We use the information to compile reports and to help us improve the site. The cookies collect information in an anonymous form, including the number of visitors to the site and how they interact with the website. Read Microsoft Clarity's Cookie Overview and Data Retention Policy.
	_clsk	1 year
	CLID	1 year
	ANONCHK	1 year
	MR	1 year
	MUID	1 year
	SM	1 year
New Relic	__cfduid	1 year	This cookie is used to collect information about visitor's experience of the site in terms of performance. This helps us to monitor that our systems are working quickly and effectively, and to identify any problematic areas. Visit the New Relic website

Your Rights

You have the right to request a copy of any information that we currently hold about you. In order to receive such information please send your contact details including address to the following address:
Chiswick House & Gardens
Chiswick House & Gardens Burlington Lane, Chiswick London
W4 2RP

Other websites

This privacy policy only covers this website. Any other websites which may be linked to by our website are subject to their own policy, which may differ from ours.