Privacy Policy
WHO WE ARE
We are a small group of like-minded professionals with a common goal to celebrate all that Wrexham has to offer. Together and on a voluntary basis, we are the founding members of Wrexham Business & Community Awards. Click here for more information about the Founders.
Contact
You can contact us via email or via the contact us webpage.
Email: info@wrexhambca.co.uk
WHAT WE DO
The Wrexham Business & Community Awards (WBCA) is an annual event celebrating the achievements and innovations of local businesses, social enterprises, and community groups in Wrexham. The awards aim to recognise the outstanding contributions of individuals and organisations that make Wrexham a great place to live and work.
The event includes various categories to honour excellence in different fields, providing a platform for networking and community engagement. The inaugural awards in 2023 were a huge success, with over 375 attendees and multiple sponsors and charities involved.
Networking Events
Throughout the year, we work with local businesses to host various networking events to strengthen business and community relationships. Occasionally, vendors may be invited to showcase themselves and what they do at these events.
PERSONAL DATA
Where you, your organisation or a third party has purchased tickets for one of our events we will have a contractual requirement to process the personal data provided, to ensure the event runs smoothly and to enhance the attendee experience.
This may include but not limited to:
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Contact Information: This includes names, email addresses, phone numbers, and postal address for communication purposes.
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Identification Details: Information such as job titles, company names, and anything else needed to verify attendees.
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Dietary Requirements: To accommodate any special dietary needs or preferences.
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Accessibility Needs: Information on any special requirements to ensure the venue is accessible to all attendees.
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Payment Information: Where there are ticket fees, payment details such as credit card information may be collected.
LEGITIMATE INTEREST
Please be advised when attending or participating with any of our events that filming, including live streaming and photography will be taking place. The transmission and distribution of still and moving images with audio may subsequently be used on our website, social media channels, digital communication materials to also include television and radio. All content may be used for marketing purposes of WBCA, the winners and 3rd parties associated with the event, for advertising of future events and for self-promotion of their organisation.
These images will be released into the public domain and used for purposes of promoting and recognising achievement(s) of individuals and organisations.
MARKETING
Where you have provided your details to purchase tickets, register or receive further information about our events we may occasionally provide you with marketing material about the past event or upcoming event.To keep up to date we do recommend you follow our social media channels for the latest updates.
THIRD PARTY
We will only share your personal data with organisations assisting us with delivery of our services where we have a requirement to do so. We will not sell or provide your contact details to vendors or those sponsoring our events, without your consent.
JUDGING AWARDS
To ensure fairness in our awards judging process, we will anonymise all entries from individuals and organisations to the best of our ability. We will also ensure there is no conflict of interest from our judges, with the overall process independently overseen by Best Companies, a local organisation with 20 years’ experience of evaluating organisations.
YOUR DATA PROTECTION RIGHTS
Under UK data protection law, you have rights including:
Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal data.
Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal data you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.
Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal data in certain circumstances.
Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal data you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.
Your right to withdraw consent – When we use consent as our lawful basis you have the right to withdraw your consent.
If you make a request, we have one calendar month to respond to you.
To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
We can only adhere to your request and provide information where we are holding personal data about you. This can be through you having made contact with us directly and/or having registered for an event. Please be aware that whilst you have the right to request, there may be times where we are unable to complete your request. We will consider every request on a case by case basis.
Should you request to be removed from an event as you are no longer able/or wish to attend, or request to no longer receive communications regarding an event from us, we will delete your personal data and you will need to register again for any future events.
Security and international transfers
Personal data will be appropriately secured and deleted where we are no longer required to retain that information. Access to any personal data, will only be provided on a need to know basis for the purpose of delivering the above services or we have a lawful basis to do so. Your personal data will be stored within the UK and EEA (“European region”).
COOKIES
Like most organisations, we use cookies. They help us provide our users with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages they find useful and how our site is interacted with. We will ask for your consent to track cookies when you first arrive at our website. You can decline cookies; in which case we will only apply cookies that are necessary for site security and functionality.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a web site, which are stored by your Internet browser. A cookie in no way gives us access to a user’s computer or any information about them, other than the data they choose to share with us. Most web browsers allow some control over most cookies through the browser settings, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, for more information visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org ).
COOKIES
Like most organisations, we use cookies. They help us provide our users with a better website experience by enabling us to monitor which pages they find useful and how our site is interacted with. We will ask for your consent to track cookies when you first arrive at our website. You can decline cookies; in which case we will only apply cookies that are necessary for site security and functionality.
What are cookies?
Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed on your computer or mobile device when you visit a web site, which are stored by your Internet browser. A cookie in no way gives us access to a user’s computer or any information about them, other than the data they choose to share with us. Most web browsers allow some control over most cookies through the browser settings, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, for more information visit www.aboutcookies.org or www.allaboutcookies.org ).
HOW TO COMPLAIN
If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.
If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your personal data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the Information Commissioners Office.
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint
We look forward to welcoming you all at our future events.