Privacy Policy

Introduction

This privacy notice is for The Lesbian Project (‘we’, ‘us’, or ‘our’) describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (‘process’) your information when you use our services (‘services’), such as when you:

Questions or Concerns

We hope that reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us using the ‘Contact Us’ form

What information do we collect?

Personal information you disclose to us

We collect personal information that you voluntarily provide to us when you express an interest in obtaining information about us or our events and Services, when you participate in activities, or otherwise when you contact us.

Personal information provided by you:

The personal information that we collect depends on the context of your interactions with us and the Services, the choices you make and the features you use. The personal information we collect may include the following:

  • names

  • email addresses

  • phone numbers

Sensitive information:

We do not process sensitive information.

Information automatically collected

We automatically collect certain information when you visit, use or navigate the Services. This information does not reveal your specific identity (like your name or contact information) but can include:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

Cookies

This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

These functional and required cookies are always used, which allow Squarespace, our hosting platform, to securely serve this website to you.

These analytics and performance cookies are used on this website, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. This website uses analytics and performance cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

How do we process your data?

We process your personal information for a variety of reasons, depending on how you interact with our Services, including:

  • To identify usage trends. We may process information about how you use our Services to better understand how they are being used so we can improve them

  • To respond to enquiries. When you submit information to this website via webform, we collect the data requested in the webform in order to track and respond to your submissions. We share this information with Squarespace, our online store hosting provider, so that they can provide website services to us.

Ticketing Data

We use a third-party provider, TicketTailor, to manage the registration and payment processing of tickets to our events. Information about TicketTailor’s data policy can be viewed here. 

From time to time we may hold events in partnership with other organisations such as Universities or hired venues. We will let them know about your booking and share your name and contact details with them for event registration purposes only. We will not share sensitive information or your payment details.

Mailing List

As part of the registration process for email updates, we collect personal information. We use that information to tell you about our news and events. We don’t rent or trade email lists with other organisations and businesses.

We use a third-party provider, MailChimp, to deliver our emails. We gather statistics around email opening and clicks using industry standard technologies to help us monitor and improve our communications. For more information, please see MailChimp’s privacy notice. You can unsubscribe to our mailing list at any time of the day or night by clicking the unsubscribe link at the bottom of any of our emails.

How long do we retain your data?

We will only keep your personal information for as long as it’s necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy notice, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law (such as tax, accounting, or other legal requirements).

When we have no ongoing legitimate need to process your personal information, we will either delete or anonymise such information, or, if this is not possible (for example, because your personal information has been stored in backup archives), then we will securely store your personal information and isolate it from any further processing until deletion is possible.

How do we keep your information safe?

We have implemented appropriate and reasonable technical and organisational security measures designed to protect the security of any personal information we process. However, despite our safeguards and effort to secure your information, no electronic transmission over the internet or information storage technology can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so we cannot guarantee that hackers, cybercriminals or other unauthorised third parties will not be able to defeat our security and improperly collect, access, steal or modify your information. Although we will do our best to protect your personal information, transmission of personal information to and from our Services is at your own risk. You should only access the Services within a secure environment.

What are your privacy rights

If you are located in the EEA or UK and you believe we are unlawfully processing your personal information, you also have the right to complain to your Member State data protection authority or Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).

If we are relying on your consent to process your personal information, which may be expressed and/or implied consent depending on the applicable law, you have the right to withdraw your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting us using the ‘Contact Us’ form