Privacy Policy

Data Protection

Liveness is edited and maintained by the School of Art, Architecture and Design (also referred to as the “School”), which is a department of London Metropolitan University. As the data controller of your personal data, London Metropolitan University is subject to the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), effective from 25 May 2018.

This privacy notice outlines how Liveness at London Metropolitan University (also referred to as “we”, “us” or “our”) collects, uses and shares your personal data. It also explains your rights regarding the personal data we hold. The privacy notice relates to our processing of personal data of subscribers to the Liveness Mailing List (also referred to as “you” or “your”) for the purpose of sending you regular updates about events and activities at the School.

You can read the university’s full Privacy Policy here. The information in this policy applies specifically to the use of Data we collect from you on this website.

What Data We Collect and How We Collect It

When you subscribe to our mailing list via our online form, we collect your Email Address. If you are a new student or new staff member at London Metropolitan University and you join the School of Art, Architecture and Design, we add you to the Liveness Mailing List at the start of the new academic year. You can unsubscribe from the Mailing List at any time. An Unsubscribe Link is provided in each email and you will not be added to the Mailing List again.

How We Use Your Data

We use your Email Address to send you regular updates about events, exhibitions, news, symposia and writing at the School of Art, Architecture and Design.

How We Share Your Data

We share your Data with Campaign Moniotor, a third party service that provides us with essential software that is used to store and process personal data to send emails to our subscribers. The University will only transfer personal data to the receiving organisations that have provided they have adequate safeguards.

We do not share your Email Address with any other third party organisations. It is stored solely for the use of communicating with you via our Mailing List.

How Long We Store Your Data

We do not retain your personal data for longer than is required in order to provide you with relevant information or services unless you request us to do otherwise. Should you choose to stop receiving marketing communications, you will be opted out of our Mailing List with immediate effect.

Your Rights

The General Data Protection Regulation gives you the rights to obtain access to, and copies of, the personal data that we hold about you; to require that we stop processing your personal data on your request; to require that we do not send you marketing communications; and to require that we erase your personal data.

We will update this privacy policy to reflect changes to our information practices. If we make any material changes we will notify you through the channels that you’ve opted into or via a notice on this website. We encourage you to periodically review this page for the latest information on our privacy practices.

We are not responsible for the practices employed by third party websites. Links to and from our website, and therefore the information or the content contained on those websites, are provided solely as reference points to allow you access information on topics that may be useful to our website users. Please note, when you use a link to go from our website to a third party website, our privacy policy will no longer apply.

Contact Us

If you’d like to know more about how we process your personal information or have any questions, please contact us on info@liveness.org.uk. You can also use the above details to request access to the personal information we hold about you.

To find out more about your data protection rights, visit the Information Commissioner’s Office website. You can also contact the Information Commissioner’s Office if you’re not happy with the way we are processing your personal data.