Privacy Notice
How we use your information
This privacy notice tells you what to expect when Clifford Champion Beer Festival collects, stores, and processes personal information when you visit our website, contact us via email or attend the event.
It applies to information we collect about:
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People who contact us via our email address cliffordbeerfest@gmail.com
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Visitors to our website
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People who buy tickets for our event through our website
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People Who Email Us
When you email us, you unavoidably share your email address, name, and any other information in the email signature. For example, if you email us from your place of work, we may be told the name of your employer and your work phone number.
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Contact Us Web Form
We provide a Contact Us web forms on our website. This allows visitors to the website to provide information to us and to request that we contact them. The personal data that is collected can include the visitor's first and last names, email address and optionally your phone number. This data is logged and emailed to the appropriate beer festival committee member to answer the query.
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Our Lawful Basis for the Personal Data That We Collect
To fulfil a customer’s ticket purchase we collect and process contact details of their transaction and payment information and records of their interactions with us. This is necessary to enable us to properly manage and administer customers’ tickets. Our lawful basis for this is Article 6(1)(b) (Contract clause).
To provide you with an online method of contacting us, we will collect and process their contact details. This is necessary to allow website visitors to have a convenient means of contacting us. Our lawful bases for this are Article 6(1)(a) (Consent clause)
and Article 6(1)(b) (Contract clause).
To answer customer queries, we will collect and process their contact details and records of their interactions with us. Our lawful basis for this is Article 6(1)(f) (Legitimate Interest clause).
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Use of Data Processors
Data processors are third parties who provide services to Clifford Champion Beer Festival. We have contracts in place with our data processors. This means that they cannot do anything with your personal information unless we have instructed them to do it. They will not share your personal information with any organisation apart from us. They will hold it securely and retain it for the period we instruct.
How long is the information retained for?
Customer Information
We will retain your details for a period of 3 years.
We will never sell your data to third parties or use it for purposes beyond festival communications and the purchase of tickets.
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Your Rights
Under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (GDPR) and Data Protection Act (2018) as applicable, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you.
Individual Rights:
The GDPR provides the following rights for individuals:
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The right to be informed.
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The right of access.
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The right to rectification.
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The right to erasure.
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The right to restrict processing.
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The right to data portability.
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The right to object.
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Rights in relation to automated decision making and profiling.
You can read more about these rights here:
Complaints or Queries
Clifford Champion Beer Festival tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.
This privacy notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of the collection and use of personal information by Clifford Champion Beer Festival. However, we are happy to provide additional information and explanation. Any requests for this should be sent to the address below.
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Access to Personal Information
Individuals can find out if we hold any of their personally identifiable information by making a subject access request under the General Data Protection Regulation (EU 2016/679) (GDPR). If we do hold information about you, we will:
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Respond within 30 days.
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Tell you what it is.
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Tell you why we are holding it.
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Tell you who it is shared with.
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Let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.
To make a request to Clifford Champion Beer Festival for any personal information we may hold you need to put the request in writing to the address provided below. If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes there may be in the data.
Visitors to our Website
Cookies
A cookie is a file containing an identifier made up of letters and numbers. The cookie is sent by our web server to your web browser and is stored by your browser. The identifier is then sent back to our web server each time the browser requests a page from the server. Cookies can be used by web servers to identify and track users as they navigate different pages on a website and identify users returning to a website.
Cookies may be either "persistent" cookies or "session" cookies. A persistent cookie will remain valid until its set expiry date, unless deleted by the user before the expiry date. A session cookie will expire at the end of the user session, when the web browser is closed.
Use of Cookies by Clifford Champion Beer Festival
We use session cookies which expire when you close your browser session. These cookies do not contain any information that can personally identify a user.
Analytics Cookies
We use Google Analytics Universal to analyse the way users interact with our website. They generate statistical and other information about the use of our website by means of session cookies. We use this information to fine tune and improve our website. Our analytics service provider's privacy notice is available at: http://www.google.com/policies/privacy.
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Links to Other Websites
This privacy notice does not cover the links within this site linking to other websites. We encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit.
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Changes to this Privacy Notice
We keep our privacy notice under regular review.
This privacy notice was last updated on February 9th, 2026.
How to Contact Us
You can write to us at:
Clifford Champion Beer Festival
c/o Clifford Village Hall
Albion St
Clifford
Wetherby LS23 6HY
You can email us at:
Via the website at:
