Nevill Holt Opera and Nevill Holt Community Arts are committed to protecting your personal information. We respect that it’s your information and it’s personal. We also want to maintain the trust and confidence of every one of our audience members and supporters, as well as each visitor who uses the Nevill Holt Opera website.
Our Privacy Notice gives you detailed information on when and why we collect your personal information, how we use it and how we keep it secure.
The information you share with us means you’ll receive a more personalised and rewarding experience e.g. information about performances, and events that may interest you as well as a smoother ticket-buying process.
Nevill Holt Opera is a company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales (Company number 08351346). Nevill Holt Opera is the trading organisation through which the charitable activities of Nevill Holt Community Arts are delivered. Nevill Holt Opera is the data controller of your personal information.
Nevill Holt Community Arts is a charitable company limited by guarantee incorporated in England and Wales (Company number 09514461) and a registered charity (number 1163614). Nevill Holt Community Arts is the sole owner and shareholder of Nevill Holt Opera Ltd.
Contact details for Nevill Holt Opera and Nevill Holt Community Arts are
Nevill Holt Opera
Nevill Holt
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
Le16 8EG
By phone 01858 437 451 or you can message us via our website https://www.nevillholtopera.co.uk/contact-us
If you have questions regarding your information or its use, please contact our Data Protection Lead by email: admin@nevillholtopera.co.uk or by phone: 01858 437 451.
We collect your information when you decide to interact with us. This could include purchasing tickets online or over the phone, joining as a member or it could be where you sign up to receive emails from us. We also look at how our audience use our website, so that we can offer the best possible experience whether you’re booking tickets or just trying to find out more about our latest productions.
We collect information in a number of ways which are listed below:
The type of information we collect depends on where and when it is gathered:
Directly from you
When you register via our website, purchase tickets or contact us online or by phone, we need to collect information from you in order to provide the service you are requesting. We may collect:
When visiting our website, we may collect the following information:
Data Hygiene
From time to time we may screen our database against recognised data hygiene files such as National Change of Address file and cleanse our file or correct inaccurate data. We may also update inaccurate data if the information is available.
Information available publicly
We may include information found in places such as Companies House and information that has been published in articles/ newspapers.
The information we hold on you will be used in a number of ways. Here are the main ones: to provide a service you have requested, offer you a personalised experience and understand our audience’s needs better, inform you of events or updates you’ve asked for or contact you if we need to obtain or provide additional information (e.g. cast changes). Specifically, we use your information we collect in the following ways:
To carry out our business and to provide a service or carry out a contract with you:
Where we have your consent or a legitimate interest:
Where we have justifiable reason (including legal obligation and legitimate interest):
Where we want to better understand people’s engagement with Nevill Holt Opera and their potential interest in supporting us further:
Before contacting some individuals, we may seek additional information including Nevill Holt Opera booking and connections, business network information and publicly available information relating to: residential location, wealth and assets, family, 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, officially registered information providers, such as the organisations listed below:
| Source | Description | Link |
| Onesource | Company financials and directors information | http://www.hoovers.com/ |
| 192.com | UK Electoral Roll and Directory Inquiries | http://www.192.com/ |
| Trustfunding | Database of UK Trusts and foundations grants | http://www.trustfunding.org.uk/ |
We also may from time to time use Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications. We do this to understand and deliver advertising, and make adverts more relevant to you. Cookies enable us to learn whether someone who saw an advert by Nevill Holt Opera on Facebook later visited our website. The ultimate control of the dissemination of information gathered through Facebook Advertising, Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing, and communications resides entirely with Facebook. You can opt-out of Facebook’s use of cookies and Facebook Pixel Re-Marketing by controlling the settings on your Facebook Account.
Nevill Holt Opera or Nevill Holt Community Arts will not share, sell, rent or trade your personal information to any third parties for marketing purposes without your prior consent.
Some of our service providers may have access to your data in order to perform services on our behalf – payment processing is a good example of this. We make sure anyone who provides a service for Nevill Holt Opera or Nevill Holt Community Arts enters into an agreement with us and meets our standards for data security. They will not use your data for anything other than the clearly defined purpose relating to the service that they are providing.
We may share your details with:
Our service providers are:
Nevill Holt Opera or Nevill Holt Community Arts are not responsible for the privacy notices and practices of other websites even if accessed using links from www.nevillholtopera.co.uk and recommends that you check the policy of each website you visit and contact its owner or Data Protection Officer if you have any concerns or questions.
Despite all our precautions, no data transmission over the internet is 100% secure. So, we cannot guarantee the security of any information which you disclose to us and so wish to draw your attention to the fact that you do so at your own risk.
Nevill Holt Opera and Nevill Holt Community Arts are committed to protecting the personal information you entrust to us. We adopt robust and appropriate technologies and policies, so the information we have about you is protected from unauthorised access and improper use.
Everyone who works for or with NHO has a responsibility to ensure data is collected, stored and handled appropriately and in accordance with both this policy and any applicable laws relating thereto.
The length of time we keep data for will vary according to the purpose, for example if purchasing a ticket only, we will typically keep your data for up to ten years from the date of your last transaction whereas if you have pledged a legacy to Nevill Holt Community Arts, we will hold your details until notified by your executors. For further information about how long we will keep your information, please contact us using the contact details outlined in this notice.
If you ask us to stop sending direct marketing communications to you, we will keep the minimum amount of information (e.g. name, address or email address) to ensure we adhere with such requests.
Storing data outside the European Economic Area (EEA)
As part of the services offered to you through the Nevill Holt Opera website, the personal information you provide may be transferred to countries outside the European Economic Area (EEA) – for example, by being stored on a server outside the EEA. We use the following systems:
Mailchimp is the email marketing software we use and their servers are located in the USA. Mailchimp have certified their agreements with the EU-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-U.S. Privacy Shield Framework. More information can be found on the Mailchimp website: https://kb.mailchimp.com/accounts/management/about-mailchimp-the-eu-swiss-privacy-shield-and-the-gdpr
More details on this certification can be found at www.privacyshield.gov/welcome
Salesforce is our database system. It is a US based company but has servers located in the UK which is where our data is held. For more information about Salesforce’s approach to data security please see: https://www.salesforce.com/uk/company/privacy/
We want to make sure you feel in control of any personal data and information that we hold about you. You should find it easy to access and amend the personal information that we hold on you, or request that we stop contacting you. You can do this by phoning, emailing, writing using our contact details below or submitting a message via the form on our website.
Every email we send to you will include details on how to change your communications preferences or unsubscribe from future communications.
You can request full details of personal information we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998, or after 25 May 2018, The General Data Protection Regulation, by contacting our Data Protection Lead. Within 30 days, you are entitled to:
At any time, you have the right to ask Nevill Holt Opera and Nevill Holt Community Arts to amend or stop how it uses your personal information including for marketing and fundraising purposes. You can do this by phoning, emailing, writing using our contact details below or submitting a message via the form on our website.
If you would like us to remove the personal information we hold about you, please contact us using the below contact details.
By email: admin@nevillholtopera.co.uk
By phone: +44 (0)1858 437 451
By post
Nevill Holt Opera
Nevill Holt
Market Harborough
Leicestershire
Le16 8EG
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority, The Information Commissioner’s Office – www.ico.org.uk
This notice was updated on 4th February 2022. It may be updated to take into account changes at Nevill Holt Opera and Nevill Holt Community Arts or for example to reflect changes to regulation or legislation.
Updates to this policy will be posted on this page – please check back from time to time. We may also inform you of any changes where we hold an appropriate email address for you.
Further information on GDPR, data protection regulations and laws can be found here:
Policy updated on 4th February 2022.
Members enjoy priority booking for Nevill Holt Opera’s Summer Festival and other key events.
Priority Booking for our summer opera festival in August opens on the 4 March.
Public Booking opens at 10am on the 1 April.