Peter Marcus and his associated organisations are committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about the information we hold about you, whether you're a partner, a customer, and audience member, website visitor, or programme participant.
The purpose of this policy is to provide a clear explanation about how we collect, hold, process, and store your information and the measures we have in place to keep it safe and secure, whether it is collected or provided online, by phone, email, in person, by letter or through social media.
For all questions regarding personal data, including to take advantage of your rights under data protection legislation, please contact us by email or post.
Email: data.protection@pmarcus.co.uk
Postal Address: Legal Services, Pantoland, 19 Fairfield Square, Wymering, Hampshire, PO6 3JS
Pantoland manage data protection matters, including subject access requests, on behalf of Peter Marcus
When we say personal data or personal information, we mean the details that you may provide about yourself and any information which identifies you, such as your name, address, email address, telephone number, country of residence or any photographs.
We may also hold some sensitive or special category such as information relating to your political opinions or trade union membership if relevant to Peter's 'politics and activism' work. Where Peter processes information on behalf of a political party or trade union this shall be done in accordance with their own policies and processes relating to data.
We may collect personal information about you when you:
Most of the personal information we hold is provided directly from the person themselves, but some data could be provided by third parties such as programme partners, customers, managemers, event and production partners and co-producers, and venues.
We may occasionally share personal data with other organisations where it is of legitimate interest, such as sharing data with venues and co-producers. We may also be asked to share anonymised data with funders.
When you engage with Peter on third party websites the engagement or transaction will be governed by that site's privacy policies. You are recommended to make yourself familiar with those policies.
Peter has social media accounts on Facebook, Instagram, Twitter/X, Bluesky, YouTube, and other social media and social networking services. Depending on your settings or the privacy policies for these sites, by connecting with us on any of these channels you might give us permission to access your information on those accounts or services.
We will use your information for the following purposes:
If you apply for a role with Peter Marcus or one of his associated companies, we will hold the personal information you provide to process your application and we may undertake monitoring of recruitment statistics as required by employment and data protection law.
If we want to disclose information to a third party, for example where we want to take a reference up or obtain disclosure from the Disclosure and Barring Service, we will not do so without asking you beforehand, unless the disclosure is required by law.
If you apply to work with us we’ll only hold your data for the purposes of that application. We won’t hold your personal information for any longer than is necessary for the purposes of that application, unless you give us permission to do so.
We take the security of your data seriously. All digital personal information has appropriate technical controls in place to protect your data; any sensitive information is kept encrypted or password protected locations and personal information is deleted when no longer required for the original purpose.
Hard copies of personal information are stored in locked locations and avoided wherever possible.
Where we use external companies that may process data on our behalf we will check that these companies comply with the law and our policy before working with them.
We will only share your data where we have your explicit and informed consent, unless we are required to disclose your details to the police, regulatory bodies or legal advisors for a lawful basis.
If we are responsible for personal data which is lost, stolen or hacked, we have a duty to report this breach to the ICO within 72 hours of becoming aware of it. If the breach is 'high risk' and likely to have an impact on any individuals, we will inform those impacted as soon as possible.
We regularly review the length of time we keep personal data, and will keep your information for as long as required to complete the original purpose of collection.
You have the right to request the information we hold about you at any time by submitting a Subject Access Request (SAR). We will require proof of ID before releasing any information and will may an administration fee of £10.
We will provide you with a description or copies of your information held by us within 30 days, unless your request is particularly complex, in which case it may take up to 3 months.
Requests should be made in writing to data.protection@pmarcus.co.uk or Legal Services, Pantoland, 19 Fairfield Square, Wymering, Hampshire, PO6 3JS.
You have the right to keep your personal data accurate and up to date. If you have reason to believe that we hold incorrect or out of date information about you, please make a written request using the details above and we will respond within 30 days regarding your request to rectify, erase or destroy that data.
You have the right to be forgotten. If you would like your personal data held by us to be erased, please make a written request using the details above. We will respond within 30 days.
We will erase the data as requested if it is no longer necessary for the purpose it was originally collected, or if you initially consented to us holding the information and have now withdrawn consent, if the information was collected and retained on a legitimate interest basis which no longer applies or we need to comply with a legal obligation.
The right to be forgotten does not apply when the information needs to be retained to perform a task in the public interest, comply with a legal obligation, or to exercise the right of freedom of expression and information, or for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims. The right will also not apply in cases where processing is required for public health purposes in the public interest.
Other reasons why a request to be forgotten may be denied is if it is manifestly unfounded or excessive or whether the request is repetitive in nature.
These rights may not apply to data which Peter Marcus holds in his private capacity.
Peter maintains a policy of strict compliance with legal requirements to share data with law enforcement and other authorities. The data we share will depend on the request made and the reason(s) for the request. We will not normally share more data than the law requires us to.
We will never share information relating to an individuals sexuality, gender identity, membership of legitimate political organisations, or trade union membership.
When working as a journalist, Peter maintains strict adherence to the confidentiality of sources.
Peter will proactively engage with law enforcement when he feels that he or someone else is in danger and in response to the receipt of threats.