Privacy Policy

Who we are
Worthing Ice Rink is owned and operated by Town Centre Ice Rinks Ltd , Company No. 8833509. Registered Office: East Clivedale, Castle Lane, Steyning, West Sussex, BN44 3GA. VAT Number 184243702.

Our website address is: https://worthingicerink.com

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

We use your personal information in a number of ways:

  • Provide you with the service or information you’ve requested
  • To process your ice-rink booking, we will contact you concerning any essential changes to the booking.
  • Contact you with any marketing messages appropriate to you if you have given us permission to do so.
  • To pass your details when required to the Health and Safety Executive and where appropriate our insurers and our solicitors should you be involved in an accident or incident whilst on our premises.
  • Improve our website and and range of services offered,
  • We do not use automated profiling of personal data to evaluate certain things about an individual.
  • Date collected through competitions will be held for the purpose of the competition and disposed of thereafter.

CCTV

CCTV is used on our premises for 

  • Crime prevention and protection and the apprehension and prosecution of offenders
  • Monitoring and collection of visual images for the purpose of maintaining security of premises, for the prevention of crime and investigating crime. 
  • The purpose of public safety

What personal information we hold about you

We only ask you to supply information that we need in order to provide the service you have requested. We normally ask you to provide us with:

  • Your name
  • Your contact details. – email, phone numbers, postal address.

We may request other information where it’s appropriate or relevant for example:

  • Your title
  • Your payment details
  • Age or date of birth
  • What type of marketing you would like to receive and how you would like to receive it.
  • Your health information
  • Details of any accident or incident you may have been involved in whilst on our premises.

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 is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Cookies

This site uses Cookies. Cookies are small data files that are sent between computers during a browsing session. Cookies are typically stored on your computer’s hard drive and are used by Websites to stimulate a continuous connection to that site. In order to make our site more responsive to your needs we use cookies to track and manage information relative to your specific interests. In this way we can tailor our site to your needs, deliver a better and more personalised service and track the pages on our site that you visit. The use of cookies automatically identifies your browser to our computers whenever you interact with our site. Your browser options allow you to disable cookies. You should note that if you do disable cookies, you may not be able to access all the services on this site.

Analytics

We may collect information about your computer, including where available your IP address, operating system and browser type. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual and we will not collect personal information in this way.

We may obtain information about your general internet usage by using The Google GA cookie.

This will enable us:

  1. To estimate our audience size and usage pattern.
  2. To recognise you when you return to our site.

You may opt out of Google Analytics by clicking here:

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Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, 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 tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Where we collect you personal information from

We collect personal information from you in several different ways:

  • Via our website when you purchase tickets, when you enter a competition.
  • When you purchase your tickets via our online ticket service (Eventbrite).
  • When you arrange a booking via telephone or email.
  • When you contact us by mail, phone, email, or social media.
  • When completing either an online or paper customer satisfaction survey.
  • When signing up to receive marketing communications online, in person or over the phone.
  • When you have used a social media platform to contact us, including but not exclusive to Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat
  • If you have been in an accident or incident whilst attending an event on our premises.
  • We use “cookies” to help us make our sites and the user experience better. “Cookies” mean that a website will remember you. They are small text files that site transfer to your computer, tablet or phone.

How we may use your information for marketing

  • We only use your personal information for marketing where you have positively opted in by giving unambiguous consent to do so or you have provided permission to other organisations to allow us to market to you, for example, via Facebook.
  • We rely on marketing to help improve our services and customer experiences and by using the information you provide us we are able to contact you with specific marketing messages based on your preferences. Depending on the permission you have given us this may be by post, email, telephone, SMS, social media or via a mobile application.
  • We understand that your circumstances change and you can easily withdraw the permissions you have given us, at any time either by using our contact details in this notice or by using the methods we tell you about in our communications e.g. the ‘unsubscribe’ link on our emails.

Who we share your data with

  • We sell our online tickets through Eventbrite (www.eventbrite.co.uk). Their privacy policy can be found here:  https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/support/articles/en_US/Troubleshooting/eventbrite-privacy-policy?lg=en_GB
  • We do not share or sell your data to any other company for marketing purposes.
  • we utilise trusted suppliers in marketing solutions to administer services that you have agreed to receive, for example:
  • website hosting companies which we use to administer our website contenta database company who support us in keeping all our records in order as and when required we will share accident and incident information with the Health and Safety Executive, our insurers and our solicitors.

We also use trusted suppliers to help us with marketing and accounting:

  • email service providers to send our emails and manage your marketing permissions
  • 3rd party software to prepare, record and send sales invoices via email and store information from suppliers.
  • Some of our suppliers may operate outside the European Economic Area (EEA). This requires us to ensure they provide an adequate level of protection in accordance with UK data protection law, for example the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework. By submitting your personal information to us you agree to this transfer, storing or processing at locations outside the EEA.Under some circumstances we may be required to disclose or share your information without your consent, for example if we are required by the police, the courts or for other legal reasons.

How we keep your personal information up to date

  • TCIR Ltd has a legal obligation under data protection legislation to keep the personal information it collects accurate and up to date. Among other things, it helps us ensure that we do not contact you with inappropriate information and marketing messages.

We keep your information accurate by:

  • giving you the opportunity at any time to contact us to correct or change your information.
  • Using information publicly available to us.
  • If you contact our Customer Services we may ask you to confirm certain details.

When we receive undelivered mail or emails.

  • It’s important for both you and us that your personal information is correct. If you believe this not to be the case then please e-mail the amended details to info@worthingicerink.com and we will contact you to verify your identity.

How we keep your personal information safe

  • We take our obligations to keep your personal data safe and secure very seriously. Within TCIR Ltd, access to your personal information is strictly controlled on a ‘need to know’ basis. Staff members are only allowed access to your personal data if they have been sufficiently trained in data handling. 
  • We have specific technical controls in place to restrict access and these are monitored regularly. Our website is also monitored and protected to prevent it from unauthorised access.
  • All personal data sent to our trusted suppliers is protected. In all cases we require these companies to comply strictly with our instructions and they are not allowed to use your information for their own business purposes. We also require these companies to have sufficient organisational and technical measures in place to ensure the security of your data.

How long we keep your personal information

  • We keep your personal information in line with our data retention policy. This means that we will remove data which has been collected directly from you from our systems if you have not participated in an activity at one of our leisure facilities in the last 36 months. This is the maximum retention period for the majority of our data (detailed retention periods can be requested via info@worthingicerink.com). However, in certain circumstances we have a statutory obligation to keep your personal information for more than 36 months.
  • If you unsubscribe from email marketing your information will be stored in our email service provider, MailChimp suppression list. This is to ensure we do not send you communications that you have unsubscribed from. Should you further wish for us to remove your information entirely (and assuming we have no other obligation to keep it) then please let us know and we will do this – but we would encourage you to let us use it for suppression purposes only.

How you can find out about the information we hold about you

  • You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you.
  • If you would like a copy of some or all of your personal information, please email or write to us using the contact details in this privacy notice.

We will get in contact to verify your identity and if we do hold information about you we will:

  • give you a description of it.
  • tell you why we are holding it.
  • tell you who it could be shared with.
  • let you have a concise and clear copy of the information.
  • Our legal basis for processing your personal information
  • Much of our processing will be under the basis of “contractual obligation” in other words we need and use your personal information for providing the services we offer or you have contracted with us for.
  • However, when you have unambiguously opted in to receive information from us, our processing will be based on consent. Of course you will always have the opportunity to object as detailed below.
  • Asking us to suppress or remove your personal information
  • Should you wish to not receive information from us in future then you can quickly action this by clicking the unsubscribe link you will find on our marketing e-mails or by sending your details to info@worthingicerink.com and we will quickly suppress your data
  • Should you further wish for us to remove your information entirely (and assuming we have no other obligation to keep it) then please let us know and we will do this – but we would encourage you to let us use it for suppression purposes only
  • For clarity Data Suppression refers to the removal of any unwanted records from a contact database.

What to do if you have a complaint

If you have a complaint please contact our Data Protection Officer at info@worthingicerink.com who will deal with your request promptly:

If you are not satisfied with the way your complaint was handled, you can refer your complaint to UK Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/.

Links to other websites

We link our website directly to other sites. This privacy notice does not cover the links within our site linking to other websites and organisations. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit

Merger or Integration of business

In the event that this business is merged or integrated with another business your details will be disclosed to the new company providing the services. This will ensure that you will continue to get your selected information updates and services provided to you.

Your use of our services

Please be sure you are aware of these policy terms while you use this website or one of our venues. Should our terms change these will be shown on this page and in our venues and we may place notices on other pages of the web site, so that you may be aware of the information we collect and how we use it at all times

Changes to this privacy notice

This Privacy Notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of TCIR’s Ltd collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed using the contact details in this policy.

We keep our privacy notice under regular review. This privacy notice was last updated on: 07/10/2022