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Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how South Wye Development Trust, trading as The Kindle Centre ("we", "us", "our") collects, uses and protects your personal information when you visit this website or make an enquiry or booking with us.

Who we are

South Wye Development Trust (Registered Charity No. 1117770), The Kindle Centre, ASDA Supermarket, Belmont Road, Hereford HR2 7JE, is the data controller for the personal information described in this policy. If you have questions about how we handle your data, contact us at info@kindlecentre.org.uk or 01432 278070.

What information we collect

We may collect the following information when you use this website:

  • Contact and booking details you provide through our enquiry or room hire forms, such as your name, email address, phone number, organisation, and details of the room and dates you're enquiring about. (This applies once the enquiry form on the Contact Us page is live — update this if the finished form collects anything different.)
  • Correspondence you send us by email or phone, and any notes we keep from that correspondence.
  • Technical information collected automatically when you browse the site, such as your IP address, browser type, device information, and pages visited, typically gathered through cookies or similar technologies (see Cookies section below).

We do not knowingly collect information from children without appropriate parental consent, and we do not collect any special category data (such as health information) unless you volunteer it as part of a booking, for example when requesting accessibility arrangements for an event.

How we use your information

We use your information to:

  • Respond to enquiries and process room hire bookings
  • Send you booking confirmations, invoices and related correspondence
  • Maintain accurate records of hall usage and hirers
  • Improve this website and understand how visitors use it
  • Meet our legal, accounting and insurance obligations

Our legal basis for processing

We process your personal data on the basis of: performance of a contract (processing your booking), our legitimate interests (responding to enquiries, running the venue efficiently), and, where relevant, your consent (for example, for marketing communications or non-essential cookies).

Sharing your information

We do not sell your personal information. We may share it with third parties who help us run the venue and this website, such as our website hosting provider, or [booking/calendar software, if one is introduced]. If you choose to donate to us, this is handled by JustGiving, whose own privacy policy applies to the payment details you give them — we only receive confirmation that a donation was made, not your card details. We will only disclose information to other third parties, such as regulators or law enforcement, where we are legally required to do so.

How long we keep your information

We keep booking and correspondence records for as long as needed to fulfil the purposes above and to meet our legal and accounting obligations, typically for [X years] after your last booking, after which it is securely deleted.

Cookies

This website uses cookies to help it function and to understand how visitors use the site. [Describe cookie types in use, e.g. essential/session cookies, analytics cookies such as Google Analytics.] You can control or delete cookies through your browser settings; disabling some cookies may affect how parts of the site work.

Your rights

Under UK data protection law, you have the right to:

  • Ask us for a copy of the personal information we hold about you
  • Ask us to correct inaccurate information
  • Ask us to delete your information, in certain circumstances
  • Object to or restrict how we use your information
  • Ask us to move your information to another organisation

To exercise any of these rights, contact us at [email address]. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, you also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk).

Changes to this policy

We may update this policy from time to time. The date at the top shows when it was last revised.