South West Open Studios - Data Protection and Terms & Conditions

South West Open Studios (SWOS) is a Community Interest Company, registered in the UK as Company No. 6035151

Privacy Policy - In Brief

South West Open Studios exists to support Open Studio and Art Trail organisations in the region, and through them, the artists and makers of the South West.

By registering your details on this site, you are agreeing to receive our occasional e-bulletins in order to keep you informed of activities and events concerned with the visual and applied arts in the South West of England, particularly open studios and art trails, which we believe will be of interest to you. We are not going to pass your details on to anyone other than people involved in open studios and art trail organisations and you are free to opt out at any time.

To unsubscribe from the E-Bulletin log on to this website and opt out.

For full details of South West Open Studios’ Data Protection Policy please download our Data Protection Policy pdf

Terms and conditions - In Brief

SWOS has developed this website for the purpose of supporting the organisers of open studios and art trail organisations in the South West of England. Through it we aim to accurately inform organisers, artists and members of the public about activities and events concerning the visual and applied arts.

However, SWOS cannot be held responsible for any inaccuracies or errors in the content of the site, or anything resulting from them. Similarly, SWOS is not responsible for the content of third-party sites with which it may have links. If you wish to become a member of SWOS and make use of this site then you are under an obligation to do so responsibly and not to do anything that will upset others or bring SWOS into disrepute.

In Full

Links

South West Open Studios may have links to other websites. South West Open Studios is not responsible for the contents, nor does it warrant the accuracy or reliability of any linked website. South West Open Studios, to the extent permissible by law, excludes all liability that may arise from your use or reliance on the information or contents contained in the linked site.

Copyright

The copyright in the contents of and the publications in this website are owned by the South West Open Studios or its licensors.

Disclaimer

The views and opinions expressed in the content are not those of South West Open Studios and no endorsement is made by South West Open Studios of the accuracy or completeness of the content. You should not rely on the content.

When using the services, you may gain access to other websites through use of links or hypertext. You agree that South West Open Studios is not responsible for the content or operation of such third party websites and that South West Open Studios shall have no liability to you or any other person or entity for the use of such third party websites

South West Open Studios disclaims all liability to you arising out of your use of the Service.

Data Protection

General

South West Open Studios is committed to protecting your privacy.

The text below describes the ways in which we collect information from you when you use the service, and what we may use it for. It should be read in conjunction with the other terms and conditions of use and data protection policy. pdf

South West Open Studios is a Community Interest Company, registered in the UK as Company No. 6035151. SWOS CIC is registered as a Data Controller under the Data Protection Act 1998, registration number PZ9748831. Our head office is located at Unit 14, Mellstock Farm, Higher Bockhampton, Dorchester, Dorset, DT2 8QJ. If you have any other questions about this policy you can write to us at our head office or email info@southwestopenstudios.org.

What data do we collect from you?

We collect data from you ('user data') when you register to use the service.

This data can sometimes comprise personal data about individuals, to which UK data protection laws apply. These terms and conditions and our data protection policy pdf describes South West Open Studios approach to fulfilling its obligations under those data protection laws.

Our use of user data

We will use user data we collect from you only in accordance with the following guidelines:

To provide the service to you

We will use user data to provide and improve the service to you, to notify you of any changes to the service or our terms and conditions of use. We will not share your user data with third parties or sell it on.

Internally within South West Open Studios

South West Open Studios may make user data available to other parts of the organisation, either for the fulfilment of South West Open Studios services, or to enable us to provide you with information about products or services, which we believe you may be interested in.

Disclaimer

South West Open Studios has tried to ensure that the contents and information we provide in our website is accurate at the time of posting. Unfortunately we cannot guarantee the accuracy of contents or information contained in its pages and any person using information contained in them does so entirely at their own risk.

Virus protection

Although care is taken to check and test material at all stages of production, South West Open Studios cannot accept any responsibility for any loss, disruption or damage to your data or your computer system which may occur whilst using material derived from this website.

Organisers’ E-Bulletin and Artist/Makers’ E-Bulletin

Introductory Statement

South West Open Studios E-Bulletins are provided free of charge (the 'service'). In order to use the service you must be 18 years old and have read and agreed to the terms and conditions of use and data protection policy. pdf

Terms and conditions of use

General

You may print a copy of these terms and conditions of use, but South West Open Studios may change these at any time. The most up-to-date version of these terms and conditions will be that displayed on www.southwestopenstudios.org

In order to use the service you must submit your email account to South West Open Studios. You are fully responsible for all postings that are received by subscribers to the mailing list submitted from your email account.

You confirm that you operate security procedures to prevent the unauthorised use of your email account and that you will to notify South West Open Studios immediately of any unauthorised use of your email account.

Postings

You agree that you will not post material that contains content which is harmful, threatening, abusive, vulgar, obscene, harassing, defamatory, offensive (racially, sexually or ethnically), promotes a political view or is otherwise objectionable.

You will not post or transmit chain letters, pyramid or money schemes.

You will not use your email account to:

impersonate any person; and/or

'Spam' by posting frequent and/or annoying messages.

Material that you post must not contain links to 'browser bombs' (sites that open up multiple windows) or to sites that contain material that would fall within the description above.

You agree that you will not post content, the display of which would infringe the intellectual property rights of any third party. In particular, you represent and warrant that the content of your posting is original and not copied from any third party.

You agree that you will not use postings to offer items or services for sale or place advertisements for goods, products or services of third parties.

If you breach any of the provisions set out here South West Open Studios may immediately terminate your use of the service.

South West Open Studios reserves the right not to circulate any material that you post in its absolute discretion.

You consent to South West Open Studios monitoring your posting prior to distribution.

You consent to South West Open Studios editing any posting it receives from you for the sole purpose of formatting to make it legible.

Limitations on use

No link to any part of South West Open Studios website may be made from another website or distributed by email without the prior written permission of South West Open Studios.

Governing law

These terms and conditions of use and your use of the services shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the English Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in connection with all matters relating to these terms and conditions of use.