Privacy Policy
Last updated: [30/06/26]
The New Leaves respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use and look after your personal data when you visit our website, contact us through the website, or sign up to receive email updates from us.
This policy applies to personal information collected through www.thenewleaves.co.uk
1. Who we are
The New Leaves is a band based in Northern Ireland.
For the purposes of UK data protection law, including the UK General Data Protection Regulation, UK GDPR, and the Data Protection Act 2018, The New Leaves is the data controller for the personal information collected through this website.
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, you can contact us at:
Email: hello@shindigevents.co.uk
2. What personal information we collect
We only collect personal information that you choose to provide to us through the website.
This may include:
your name, when you use the contact form;
your email address, when you use the contact form;
the content of any message you send to us;
your email address, when you sign up to our mailing list or newsletter.
We may also collect basic technical information through the website, such as information about how visitors use the site. This may be collected through cookies or similar technologies, depending on how the website is set up. Where cookies are used, you should be given appropriate information and choices through the website’s cookie settings or cookie notice.
3. How we use your personal information
We use your personal information for the following purposes:
Contact form enquiries
When you send us a message through the contact form, we use your name, email address and message so that we can read your enquiry and respond to you.
This may include responding to general questions, gig enquiries, booking enquiries, media enquiries, or other messages relating to The New Leaves.
Email newsletter signups
When you sign up to our email newsletter, we use your email address to send you updates about The New Leaves. This may include news, music releases, gigs, events, merchandise, website updates or other band-related information.
You can unsubscribe from our mailing list at any time by using the unsubscribe link in our emails or by contacting us directly.
4. Our lawful basis for using your personal information
Under UK GDPR, we must have a lawful basis for using your personal information.
For contact form enquiries, our lawful basis is usually legitimate interests, because we have a legitimate interest in responding to messages and managing enquiries sent to us through the website.
Where your enquiry relates to a potential booking, event, collaboration or other arrangement, we may also use your information because it is necessary to take steps before entering into a contract.
For email newsletter signups, our lawful basis is consent. You choose to join the mailing list, and you can withdraw your consent at any time by unsubscribing or contacting us.
5. How long we keep your personal information
We will only keep your personal information for as long as necessary.
Contact form enquiries may be kept for up to 12 months after our last communication with you, unless we need to keep them for longer because the enquiry relates to an ongoing booking, event, agreement, legal matter or business record.
Newsletter signup information will be kept for as long as you remain subscribed to our mailing list. If you unsubscribe, we may keep a limited record of your email address to make sure we do not send you further marketing emails.
6. Who we share your personal information with
We do not sell your personal information.
We may share your personal information with trusted service providers who help us run the website, manage emails or send newsletters. This may include:
website hosting providers;
website platform providers;
email or newsletter service providers;
IT, design or website support providers.
These providers should only use your personal information as needed to provide their services to us.
We may also share personal information if we are required to do so by law, regulation, legal process or a lawful request from a public authority.
7. International transfers
Some of the services we use, such as website hosting, email or newsletter platforms, may process personal information outside the United Kingdom.
Where this happens, we will take reasonable steps to make sure appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your personal information in line with UK data protection law.
8. How we protect your personal information
We take reasonable steps to protect the personal information submitted through our website. This includes using appropriate website, email and service provider security measures.
However, no website or email system can be guaranteed to be completely secure. You should avoid sending highly sensitive information through the contact form.
9. Your rights
Under UK data protection law, you have rights in relation to your personal information. These may include the right to:
ask for a copy of the personal information we hold about you;
ask us to correct inaccurate or incomplete information;
ask us to delete your personal information;
ask us to restrict how we use your personal information;
object to how we use your personal information;
withdraw your consent where we rely on consent, such as for the email newsletter;
ask for your personal information to be transferred to another organisation, where applicable.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us at:
Email: hello@shindigevents.co.uk
We may need to ask you for information to confirm your identity before responding to your request.
10. Email marketing
We will only send you email updates if you have chosen to sign up to our mailing list, or where we are otherwise allowed to do so under applicable law.
You can unsubscribe from our emails at any time by clicking the unsubscribe link in the email or by contacting us directly.
11. Links to other websites
Our website may include links to other websites, such as streaming platforms, ticketing websites, social media pages or other third-party sites.
We are not responsible for the privacy practices of those websites. You should read their privacy policies before providing them with any personal information.
12. Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we use your personal information, please contact us first so that we can try to resolve the issue.
You also have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office, ICO, which is the UK regulator for data protection.
13. Changes to this Privacy Policy
We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. Any updates will be posted on this page with a new “last updated” date.