Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy applies to you if you visit an event or festival promoted or organised by Cruachan Productions purchase a ticket for one of our events or festivals, purchase one of our services, or use our products or services, over the phone, online, through our mobile applications or otherwise by using any of our websites or interacting with us on social media (our “Services”).

Our contact details:

If you have any comments or questions about this Privacy Policy or our data processing practices, please address them to us at [email protected]

The categories of personal data we collect and use:

• name;

• address;

• email address;

• telephone number;

• gender;

• date of birth, age and/or age range;

• information about the pages or sections you have visited on our website or mobile applications provided by us including the pages or sections you visited, the website or mobile application you were referred from, and when you visited or used them;

• information about the Services we provide to you (including for example, what we have provided to you, when and where and, if applicable, how much you paid);

• location data

• information you provide to us with when you contact us by phone, email, post, or when you communicate with us via social media;

• information you provide to us about your health (for example when you are buying tickets for wheelchair accessible spaces, when you request a sign language interpreter, or when we are investigating an accident which may have happened at one of our festival);

• your vehicle registration number (when you access our site or back of house areas in a vehicle);

• CCTV images when you visit our festival

• information about electronic communications you receive from us, including whether that communication has been opened and if you have clicked on any links within that communication;

• answers you provide when you respond to competitions, votes and surveys;

• your identity, public profile, follows and likes from a social network such as Facebook (this may include your employment or education information if you include it in your public profile);

• other personal data which you may disclose to us when you use our Services at any time.

• Photography & Videography when you visit one of our events or festivals;

Sources of personal data:

We will receive your personal data when you provide them to us yourself or when you use or purchase one or more of our Services.

We also receive personal data about you from third parties. Third parties who provide us with personal data about you include:

• ticket agents such as Ticket Tailor and others, who transfer personal data to us when you purchase a ticket from them for one of our festival;

• Meta Inc., who, if you have consented, transfer personal data to us when you register for one of our Services using your Facebook account.

How we use your personal data

All personal data that we obtain about you will be used in accordance with current data protection law and this Privacy Policy. We, or third party data processors acting on our behalf, will process your personal data as follows:

As necessary, to perform a contract with you, such as a contract to process an order from you for one or more of our Services including, where applicable, taking payment and carrying out fulfilment and delivery.

As necessary, to comply with a legal obligation, for the following purposes:

where you exercise your rights under data protection law and make requests; and

to comply with any legal obligation, any lawful request from government or law enforcement officials and as may be required to meet national security or law enforcement requirements or prevent illegal activity.

As necessary, for our legitimate interests in providing the Services and ensuring they operate safely, securely and in a commercially suitable way which is tailored to your use and interests, for the following purposes:

• to provide you with the Services;

• to verify your identity for security purposes;

• to help us to ensure our customers are genuine and to prevent fraud;

• to ensure the security of our websites, mobile applications and other technology systems;

• for the good governance of our business, including keeping financial records, to allow us to pay suppliers and to charge, invoice or refund customers;

• to search credit reference agencies before we provide you with credit;

• by using CCTV, to prevent and detect crime and to keep people who visit and work at our events and festivals safe and secure;

• to record and investigate health and safety and other incidents which have happened or may have happened at one of our events or festivals;

• to manage access to specific areas at an event or festival (for example, we will use lists of people and/or vehicles to allow us to manage access to backstage, VIP or premium viewing areas);

• to provide you with information about our Services, to contact you about administrative matters, and to manage and respond to any queries or complaints you make or any correspondence you send us;

• to help us to return lost property to its rightful owner;

• to process your competition entries and your survey or voting information;

• for the purpose of marketing our Services and goods and services from other companies, including sending marketing communications and, where applicable, processing your registration, creating custom marketing audiences on third-party websites such as Facebook, and profiling and automated decision-making relating to our marketing;

• to operate competitions, including notifying you if you have won, to confirm delivery of a prize or for other related purposes; and

• for market research and statistical analysis and to analyse the use of our Services so that we can improve them.

Based on your consent, for the following purposes:

to send you marketing communications.

Based on your explicit consent, when you provide us with personal data about your health, for the following purposes:

to provide you with tailored services (for example, a wheelchair accessible space or a sign language interpreter); and

to help us investigate an incident which may have taken place at the festival.

If you win a competition, we may publicly post some of your data on our website or mobile application (for example acceptance of a prize may also require you (unless prohibited by law) to allow us to post publically some of your personal data such as on a winners page). However, we will not post your data publically without your express consent.

Sharing your personal data:

We may share your personal data with the data processors that help us to provide the Services. Any data processors with whom we share your personal data are limited (by law and by contract) in their ability to use your personal data for any purpose other than to provide services for us. We will always ensure that any data processors with whom we share your personal data are subject to privacy and security obligations consistent with this Privacy Policy and applicable laws.

If you have consented, we will share your personal data with other trusted third parties, for example the artists, promoters or sponsors we work with, so that they can use your personal data for marketing or promotional purposes by sending you information about related products or service that may be of interest to you.

We will also disclose your personal data to third parties in the following circumstances:

if we (or substantially all of our assets) are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by us will be one of the transferred assets;

if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, any lawful request from government or law enforcement officials and as may be required to meet national security or law enforcement requirements or prevent illegal activity;

in order to enforce or apply our Terms of Use or any other agreement or to respond to any claims, to protect our rights or the rights of a third party, to protect the safety of any person or to prevent any illegal activity; or

to protect the rights, property, or safety of us, our customers or other persons. This may include exchanging personal data with other organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

Save as expressly detailed above in this section, we will never share, sell or rent any of your personal data to any third party without notifying you and/or obtaining your consent.

How long do we keep your personal data?

We will normally retain your personal data for as long as you use our Services and for up to two years after your last use of our Services or your last interaction with us (for example, the last time you opened an electronic communication from us or visited one of our websites).

However, in some circumstances we will retain your personal data for a shorter period, including:

we will retain recorded CCTV footage from our events and festivals for no longer than one month, unless we are required to retain it for longer (for example, if we are investigating an incident, or have been asked to retain specific CCTV footage for a longer period by government or law enforcement officials).

We will always retain your personal data in accordance with data protection law and never retain your personal data for longer than is necessary.

Your rights:

You may contact us by email at [email protected] at any time.

Your request must include your name, email address and postal address and we may request proof of your identity. Please allow at least seven working days for us to process your request.

Withdrawing your consent

Where we are processing your personal data based on your consent, you may change your mind and withdraw your consent at any time.

You can withdraw your consent to receive marketing communications by clicking on the unsubscribe link in an email.

You can also withdraw your consent to receive marketing communications or any other consent you have previously provided to us by contacting us at [email protected]

The consequence of you withdrawing consent might be that we cannot do certain things for you.

Right to lodge a complaint with a supervisory authority

You may also make a complaint to a supervisory authority for data protection matters contact – dataprotection.ie If you live in another EEA country, you may complain to the supervisory authority in your country. Alternatively you may seek a remedy through local courts if you believe your rights have been breached.

How do we protect your personal data?

We use industry standard technical and organisational security measures to protect your personal data. We keep your personal data secure by implementing policies, procedures and access controls so that only authorised members of our staff or authorised third parties can access your personal data. We protect our information technology systems with firewalls and anti-virus and anti-malware software and other information security technology solutions. When we transfer your personal data to third parties we use encryption.

We cannot guarantee the security of your personal data when you transmit it to us. For example, if you email us your personal data, you should be aware that email is not a secure transmission method. As such, you acknowledge and accept that we cannot guarantee the security of your personal data transmitted to us and that any such transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features to prevent unauthorised access.

Where we have given you (or where you have chosen) a password which enables you to access one of our Services, you are responsible for keeping this password confidential. We ask you not to share a password with anyone.

Links to other websites and mobile applications

We sometimes provide you with links to other websites or mobile applications, but these websites and mobile applications are not under our control. We are only responsible for the privacy practices and security of our Services. We are not responsible for the privacy policies, content or security of any linked websites or mobile applications. We recommend that you check the privacy and security policies of each and every website and mobile application that you visit.

In some instances, a third party may operate or host a competition on our website or mobile application, and collect your personal data. In those cases, where we are not the operator or host of the competition, we have no control over the personal data collected and accordingly urge you to review the third party’s privacy policy before participating.

Cookies and other tracking technologies

We use cookies and web beacons on our websites. Third parties also view, edit, or set their own cookies or place web beacons on our websites. Cookies and web beacons allow us and third parties to distinguish you from other users of the website.

Our Cookies Policy is available here

Changes to our Privacy Policy

We reserve the right to change our Privacy Policy from time to time. Any such changes will be posted on this page so that we can keep you informed about how we process your personal data. We recommend that you consult this page frequently so that you are aware of our latest Privacy Policy and can update your preferences if necessary. Your continued use of our Services shall constitute your acceptance of any revised Privacy Policy.

This Privacy Policy was last updated on 30 June 2023.

We will retain your personal data for longer if we believe we may need them in order to respond to any claims, to protect our rights or the rights of a third party, and we will retain your personal data for longer if we are required to retain them in order to comply with applicable laws.

• request that we provide you with a copy of the personal data which we hold about you;

• request that we update any of your personal data which are inaccurate or incomplete;

• request that we delete any of your personal data which we are holding;

• request that we restrict the way that we process your personal data;

• request that we provide your personal data to you or a third-party provider of services in a structured, commonly-used and machine-readable format;

• object to us processing personal data based on our legitimate interests, including profiling; or

• object to us processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

• to enable certain features of our websites (for example, to allow a customer to maintain a basket when they are shopping at an online store);

• to analyse the traffic to our websites (for example, we can count how many people have looked at a specific page, or see how visitors move around the website when they use it, and use this information to improve the website);

• to help target advertisements which are more likely to be of interest to you;

• to allow us carry out retargeting (this is when advertisements are presented to you for products or services which you have previously looked at on a website, but have not purchased);

• to allow you to interact with our websites on social media platforms.