Privacy Policy

This page outlines how we secure and manage your personal data and privacy when accessing the Leeds International Piano Competition website, attending our live events, or joining our mailing list. We collect information from you in several ways outlined below and most of the information we collect comes directly from you and with your consent.

By attending an event organised by the Leeds International Piano Competition, you acknowledge that photography, audio, and video recording may be taking place. Your entry and presence at the event signify your agreement to be photographed, filmed, and recorded. You also consent to the use, release, publication, exhibition, or reproduction of these recordings, including your image, voice, and name, for any purpose related to the Leeds International Piano Competition and our related broadcast partners, including BBC Radio 3, BBC Four, medici.tv, Amadeus.tv, mezzo.tv and ClassicFM. This may include uses on websites, social media, news outlets, and advertisements, without restriction and in perpetuity.

By being on the event premises, you forfeit any claims related to the use of your recorded media, such as the right to review or approve the recordings, and any claims for invasion of privacy, violation of the right of publicity, defamation, or copyright infringement. You also waive any entitlement to fees for the use of such recordings.

This consent is essential for the Leeds International Piano Competition to proceed with photography, filming, and recording. If you do not consent to these terms, please refrain from entering the event area.

We process personal information where we have your consent to do so, where we are legally obliged to and where there is a legitimate interest. For example, we may use your information to:

If you are asked to submit personal data this will be indicated on the relevant page. We may use your personal data in the following ways with your consent:

Mailing lists

If you are asked to provide personal data including your email address for our mailing lists, this information is shared with MailChimp and Beacon CRM. For further information please refer to Mailchimp’s privacy policy. We do not share data with any other third-parties for marketing purposes.

Legitimate Interest

As part of our legitimate interests as an arts charity to provide you with and improve our services. This might include sending you information by post about news, events, services, offers and opportunities to get closer to the company and support the Leeds International Piano Competition.

Making donations

You can securely donate to the Leeds International Piano Competition by visiting our join and support page. All transaction data is encrypted, and uses a secure third-party solution, Beacon CRM.

As with most other web servers, when you access these web pages certain information you provide will automatically be recorded by the web hosting company. This will include your IP address, browser type, and information relating to the page you last visited. This information is processed to estimate how much usage of the server is made by different categories of users and in the event of a breach of security may be used to aid detection.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy outlines these in more detail. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

This website uses cookies. By visiting this site and accepting the terms you are providing consent for cookies to be served. Here is some further information about how we use cookies:

Google Analytics

This website uses Universal Analytics. For further information please refer to the Google privacy policy.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, audio, images, tweets, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

The following platforms may be included:

YouTube
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No personal data is shared with any third-parties without your full consent. Optional activities including commenting on posts, making donations and joining mailing lists may involve data being shared with third-parties, and is outlined in the relevant sections above.

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

We follow the rights of access guidelines that form part of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

If you wish to make a subject access request email [email protected] Please allow 1 month to process your data.

In the unlikely event of a data breach, we follow a standard protocol. This includes:

Information may be updated at certain intervals if changes happen. You will always be notified on this page.

If you have any further questions please contact the Administrator at [email protected]

Page updated: 24 July 2024