X

• home
• prices
• background
• book
• calendar
• contact
• courses
• equipment
• facilities
• garden
• hire
• login
• lounge
• lights
• map
• news
• parking
• prices
• privacy
• props
• phone
• production
• promotion
• white studio 1
• black studio 2
• floorplan
• action
• afterhours
• visit
• team
• technical help
• terms

Privacy:

Explaining the legal bases

The law on data protection sets out a number of different reasons for which a company may collect and process your personal data, including:

• Consent In specific situations, we can collect and process your data with your consent. For example, when you tick a box to receive email newsletters. When collecting your personal data, we always make clear to you which data is necessary.
• Contractual obligations In certain circumstances, we need your personal data to comply with our contractual obligations. When you book the studio we collect your email address and mobile number.
• Legal compliance If the law requires us to, we may need to collect and process your data. For example, we can pass on details of people involved in fraud or other criminal activity to law enforcement.
• Legitimate interest In specific situations, we require your data to pursue our legitimate interests in a way which might reasonably be expected as part of running our business and which does not materially impact your rights, freedom or interests. For example, we will use your booking history to send you or make available personalised offers. We also combine booking history of many customers to identify trends and ensure we can keep up with demand, or develop new facilities and services. We will also use your email address to send you direct marketing information on events and services that we think might interest you.

When do we collect your personal data?

• When you visit any of our websites, and use your account to book online.
• When you book online and check out as a guest we just collect transaction-based data.
• When you create an account with us.
• When you book in the studio or by phone.
• When you engage with us on social media.
• When you download or install one of our apps.
• When you join or partake in one of our events.
• When you contact us by any means with queries, complaints etc.
• When you ask us to email you information.
• When you enter prize draws or competitions.
• When you book any kind of appointment with us or book to attend an event.
• When you choose to complete any surveys we send you.
• When you comment on or review our services.
• When you fill in any forms. For example, if an accident happens in studio we may collect your personal data.
• When you give a third party permission to share with us the information they hold about you.
• When recieving your we collect data from paypal or your bank.
• When you use our studio. The CCTV system may record your image during your visit.

What sort of personal data do we collect?

• If you have a web account with us: your name, email and telephone number.
• For example, Details of your visits to our websites or apps, and which site you came from to ours. Information gathered by the use of cookies in your web browser. Learn more about how we use cookies and similar technologies. Personal details which help us to recommend items of interest.
• For example, Your comments and product reviews. Your image may be recorded on CCTV. Your car number plate may be recorded. To deliver the best possible web experience, we collect technical information about your internet connection and browser as well as the country and telephone code where your computer is located, the web pages viewed during your visit, the advertisements you clicked on, and any search terms you entered. Your social media username, if you interact with us through those channels, to help us respond to your comments, questions or feedback.

How and why do we use your personal data?

• We want to give you the best possible customer experience. One way to achieve that is to get the richest picture we can of who you are by combining the data we have about you. We then use this to offer you promotions, products and services that are most likely to interest you. In the case of loyalty scheme members, we’ll also offer you relevant rewards. The data privacy law allows this as part of our legitimate interest in understanding our customers and providing the highest levels of service. Of course, if you wish to change how we use your data, you find details in the What are my rights? section below. Remember, if you choose not to share your personal data with us, or refuse certain contact permissions, we might not be able to provide some services you asked for.
• For example, if you asked us to let you know if a particular session time is available, we can not do that if you withdrawn your general consent to hear from us. Here how we use your personal data and why: To process any orders that you make by using our websites, apps or in store. If we do not collect your personal data during checkout, we will not be able to process your order and comply with our legal obligations.
• For example, your details may need to be passed to a third party to supply or deliver the item or service that you ordered and we may keep your details for a reasonable period afterwards in order to fulfil any contractual obligations such as refunds, guarantees and so on. To respond to your queries, refund requests and complaints. Handling the information you sent enables us to respond. We may also keep a record of these to inform any future communication with us and to demonstrate how we communicated with you throughout. We do this on the basis of our contractual obligations to you, our legal obligations and our legitimate interests in providing you with the best service and understanding how we can improve our service based on your experience. To protect our business and your account from fraud and other illegal activities. This includes using your personal data to maintain, update and safeguard your account. We also monitor your browsing activity with us to quickly identify and resolve any problems and protect the integrity of our websites. We do all of this as part of our legitimate interest.
• For example, by checking your password when you login and using automated monitoring of IP addresses to identify possible fraudulent logins from unexpected locations. To protect our customers, premises, assets and Partners from crime, we operate CCTV systems in our studio record images for security. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests. To process payments and to prevent fraudulent transactions. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests. This also helps to protect our customers from fraud. If we discover any criminal activity or alleged criminal activity through our use of CCTV, fraud monitoring and suspicious transaction monitoring, we will process this data for the purposes of preventing or detecting unlawful acts. We aim to protect the individuals we interact with from criminal activities. With your consent, we will use your personal data, preferences and details of your transactions to keep you informed by email, web, text, telephone and through our contact centres about relevant products and services including tailored special offers, discounts, promotions, events, competitions and so on. Of course, you are free to opt out of hearing from us by any of these channels at any time. To send you relevant, personalised communications by post in relation to updates, offers, services and products. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest. You are free to opt out of hearing from us by post at any time. To send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you. For example, updates to this Privacy Notice, product recall notices, and legally required information relating to your orders. These service messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. If we do not use your personal data for these purposes, we would be unable to comply with our legal obligations. To display the most interesting content to you on our websites or apps, we use data we hold about your favourite brands or products and so on. We do so on the basis of your consent to receive app notifications and / or for our website to place cookies or similar technology on your device.
• For example, we might display a list of items you recently looked at, or offer you recommendations based on your purchase history and any other data you shared with us. To administer any of our prize draws or competitions which you enter, based on your consent given at the time of entering. To develop, test and improve the systems, services and products we provide to you. We do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests.
• For example, we record your browser Session ID to help us understand more when you leave us online feedback about any problems you are having. To comply with our contractual or legal obligations to share data with law enforcement.
• For example, when a court order is submitted to share data with law enforcement agencies or a court of law. To send you survey and feedback requests to help improve our services. These messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. We have a legitimate interest to do so as this helps make our products or services more relevant to you. Of course, you are free to opt out of receiving these requests from us at any time by by updating your preferences in your online account To build a rich picture of who you are and what you like, and to inform our business decisions, we combine data captured from across the Partnership, third parties and data from publicly-available lists as we have described in the section What Sort of Personal Data do we collect? We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interest.
• For example, by combining this data, this will help us personalise your experience and decide which inspiration or content to share with you. We also use anonymised data from customer purchase histories to identify trends in different areas of the country. This may then guide which products we display in particular stores.
• For example, if you consent through our apps, we may use your shopping preferences to offer you tailored rewards. To process your booking/appointment requests (such as with a personal stylist).

Combining your data for personalised direct marketing

We want to bring you offers and promotions that are most relevant to your interests at particular times.

How we protect your personal data

We know how much data security matters to all our customers. With this in mind we will treat your data with the utmost care and take all appropriate steps to protect it. We secure access to all transactional areas of our websites. Access to your personal data is password-protected, and sensitive data (such as payment card information) is secured by SSL encryption. We regularly monitor our system for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, and we carry out penetration testing to identify ways to further strengthen security.

How long will we keep your personal data?

Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted completely or anonymised, for example by aggregation with other data so that it can be used in a non-identifiable way for statistical analysis and business planning. Some examples of customer data retention periods: Orders When you place an order, we keep the personal data you give us for five years so we can comply with our legal and contractual obligations. In the case of certain products, such as electrical and nursery items, we keep the data for 10 years. Inactive accounts If you do not used your account for more than five years, it will be flagged as inactive and we contact you to ask whether you want to keep it open. Unless you reply to say yes, we close the account and delete or anonymise the personal data associated with it. Warranties If your order included a warranty, the associated personal data will be kept until the end of the warranty period.

Who do we share your personal data with?

We sometimes share your personal data with trusted third parties. For example, delivery couriers returning items hired or left in the studio, for fraud management, to handle complaints, to help us personalise our offers to you and so on. Here is the policy we apply to those organisations to keep your data safe and protect your privacy: We provide only the information they need to perform their specific services. They may only use your data for the exact purposes we specify in our contract with them. We work closely with them to ensure that your privacy is respected and protected at all times. If we stop using their services, any of your data held by them will either be deleted or rendered anonymous. Examples of the kind of third parties we work with are: IT companies who support our website and other business systems. Operational companies such as delivery couriers. Direct marketing companies who help us manage our electronic communications with you. Google/Facebook to show you products that might interest you while you browse the internet. This is based on either your marketing consent or your acceptance of cookies on our websites. See our Cookies Notice for details. Data insight companies to ensure your details are up to date and accurate. Sharing your data with third parties for their own purposes: We will only do this in very specific circumstances, for example: With your consent, given at the time you supply your personal data, we may pass that data to a third party for their direct marketing purposes. For example, if you enter a holiday competition and tick a box agreeing that the travel company can send you promotional information directly. Or if we run a joint event with a restaurant, and you agree to receive direct communications from them. For fraud management, we may share information about fraudulent or potentially fraudulent activity in our premises or systems. This may include sharing data about individuals with law enforcement bodies. We may also be required to disclose your personal data to the police or other enforcement, regulatory or Government body, in your country of origin or elsewhere, upon a valid request to do so. These requests are assessed on a case-by-case basis and take the privacy of our customers into consideration. We may, from time to time, expand, reduce or sell the Partnership and this may involve the transfer of divisions or the whole business to new owners. If this happens, your personal data will, where relevant, be transferred to the new owner or controlling party, under the terms of this Privacy Notice. For further information please contact our Data Protection Officer. To help personalise your journey through Partnership websites we currently use the following companies who will process your personal data as part of their contracts with us: Google Facebook Twitter

Where your personal data may be processed

Sometimes we will need to share your personal data with third parties and suppliers outside the European Economic Area (EEA). International orders If you are based outside the UK and place an order with us, we will transfer the personal data that we collect from you to the Partnership in the UK. Protecting your data outside the EEA The EEA includes all EU Member countries as well as Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway. We may transfer personal data that we collect from you to third-party data processors in countries that are outside the EEA such as Australia or the USA. For example, this might be required in order to fulfil your order, process your payment details or provide support services. If we do this, we have procedures in place to ensure your data receives the same protection as if it were being processed inside the EEA. For example, our contracts with third parties stipulate the standards they must follow at all times. If you wish for more information about these contracts please contact our Data Protection Officer. Any transfer of your personal data will follow applicable laws and we will treat the information under the guiding principles of this Privacy Notice.

What are your rights over your personal data?

An overview of your different rights You have the right to request: Access to the personal data we hold about you, free of charge in most cases. The correction of your personal data when incorrect, out of date or incomplete. That we stop using your personal data for direct marketing (either through specific channels, or all channels). That we stop any consent-based processing of your personal data after you withdraw that consent. Review by a Partner of any decision made based solely on automatic processing of your data (i.e. where no human has yet reviewed the outcome and criteria for the decision). You can contact us to request to exercise these rights at any time as follows: If we choose not to action your request we will explain to you the reasons for our refusal. Your right to withdraw consent Whenever you have given us your consent to use your personal data, you have the right to change your mind at any time and withdraw that consent. Where we rely on our legitimate interest In cases where we are processing your personal data on the basis of our legitimate interest, you can ask us to stop for reasons connected to your individual situation. We must then do so unless we believe we have a legitimate overriding reason to continue processing your personal data. Direct marketing You have the right to stop the use of your personal data for direct marketing activity through all channels, or selected channels. We must always comply with your request. Checking your identity To protect the confidentiality of your information, we will ask you to verify your identity before proceeding with any request you make under this Privacy Notice. If you have authorised a third party to submit a request on your behalf, we will ask them to prove they have your permission to act.

How can you stop the use of your personal data for direct marketing

There are several ways you can stop direct marketing communications from us: Click the unsubscribe link in any email communication that we send you. We will then stop any further emails from that particular division. If you have an account, log in into your account, visit the My Account area and change your preferences. In our apps, you can manage your preferences and opt out from one or all of the different push notifications by selecting or deselecting the relevant options in the Settings section. Please note that you may continue to receive communications for a short period after changing your preferences while our systems are fully updated.

Contacting the Regulator

If you feel that your data has not been handled correctly, or you are unhappy with our response to any requests you have made to us regarding the use of your personal data, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner Office. You can contact them by calling 0303 123 1113. Or go online to www.ico.org.uk/concerns (opens in a new window; please note we cant be responsible for the content of external websites) If you are based outside the UK, you have the right to lodge your complaint with the relevant data protection regulator in your country of residence.

Any questions

We hope this Privacy Notice has been helpful in setting out the way we handle your personal data and your rights to control it. If you have any questions that have not been covered, please contact our Data Protection Officer who will be pleased to help you: Email us on info@studio101.london