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The Trustees of the EMI Music Sound Foundation ("MSF") process your personal data (as defined by the Data Protection Act 1998 ("the Act") and outlined below) for the purposes of:

1 consideration of any application for a grant or bursary from MSF, including investigation to establish that the criteria for an award are met, whether it relates to you personally, the person on whose behalf you are applying or your organisation;

2 administering the activities of MSF;

3 achieving the charitable objectives of MSF;

4 transferring your personal data to other organisations connected with the grant and bursary award process;

5 fundraising; and

6 undertaking the marketing of MSF's aims, which may include marketing to you using telephone, facsimile and electronic mail services. MSF respects the privacy concerns of the visitors to this Website ("the Site"). By submitting an application to MSF you are consenting to our processing your personal data for the above purposes. If you would prefer that MSF did not process your data for the purposes of direct marketing please write to The Music Sound Foundation, 27 Wrights Lane, Kensington, London, W8 5SW.

Please note that information displayed on our Website or sent to MSF over the Internet may be transferred outside of the European Economic Area where data protection laws are not as strong as within the EEA. If you have any concerns in relation to such transfers, you should not use the Internet as a means of communication with MSF.

MSF collects sensitive personal data, as defined by the Act, only if permitted to do so by the Act.

If you supply any visual image or sound recording to MSF, or MSF obtains such image or recording by other means, this image or recording may be used for MSF's marketing and promotional activities.

MSF continues to process your personal data following:

  • a decision being made on awards and bursaries; and/or
  • sending you any information requested by you.
Only information collected by cookies as specified below is automatically collected from users of the Site. In the event that we do collect any personal data about visitors to the Site it is available only to MSF and EMI Group PLC and its related companies ("EMI"), which hosts the Site on behalf of MSF. EMI shall not use this information for any purpose not expressly permitted by MSF and EMI shall have permission to send you direct marketing information only with your express consent.

We may use technology to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to the Site. This can include using a "cookie", pieces of information what are transferred to an individual user's hard drive for record keeping purposes. At the present time the cookie stores any information which you enter into the Site, this includes name, address, phone number and email address. It is possible for MSF to retrieve the information stored in the cookie, however this retrieval is unlikely at the current time.

The cookies function by saving your passwords and site preferences Ð as a result it is possible to speed up your future activities at the Site and allow MSF to provide you with information specifically tailored to your interests. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. The information collected in this way can be used to identify you unless you modify your browser settings. To modify your browser settings click on the help section of your Internet browser and follow the instructions.

The Site contains links to other websites. Neither MSF nor EMI are responsible for the privacy policies and practices or the content of each others site or any websites which are linked to the Site.

MSF encourages parents and guardians to use the parental control tools available from online services and software manufacturers to help supervise their children's online activities. MSF shall only obtain the data of individuals within the United Kingdom and shall take steps to ensure that children from other jurisdictions cannot use the Site in breach of the laws of their home jurisdiction.

Please check this page periodically for changes as MSF reserves the right, at its discretion, to change, modify, add, or remove portions of the Privacy Policy and the Site at any time. Your continued use of the Site following the posting of any changes to this Policy will mean that you accept such changes.

DEFINITIONS

Please find below definitions of some of the terms used in the above privacy policy for your information and assistance.

PROCESSING

In the Act "processing" means obtaining, recording, or holding the information or data or carrying out any operation or set of operations on the information or data, including -

6.1 organisation, adaptation or alteration of the information or data,

6.2 retrieval, consultation or use of the information or data,

6.3 disclosure of the information or data by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, or

6.4 alignment, combination, blocking, erasure or destruction of the information or data.

PERSONAL DATA

Personal data are:

- any data from which the identity of a living individual can be determined, either by itself or with other data processed by data controller;

- any information such as name and address, email address, telephone number and general contact details, personal data includes images on film (e.g. CCTV images), photographs and telephone voice recordings.

SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA

Sensitive Personal Data means personal data consisting of information as to -

6.1.1 the racial or ethnic origin of the data subject;

6.1.2 the data subject's political opinion;

6.1.3 the data subject's religious beliefs or other beliefs of a similar nature;

6.1.4 whether the data subject is a member of a trade union (within the meaning of the Trade Union and Labour Relations (Consolidation) Act 1992);

6.1.5 the data subject's physical or mental health or condition;

6.1.6 the data subject's sexual life;

6.1.7 the commission or alleged commission by the data subject of any offence; or

6.1.8 any proceedings for any offence committed or alleged to have been committed by the data subject, the disposal of such proceedings or the sentence of any court in such proceedings.