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Privacy Policy

The See Further festival partner organisations (the ‘Partners’) receive personal information through this website. You may, for example, be asked for personal information if you want to take advantage of specific services that we offer.

The privacy policy on this page explains how we use information we collect on this website – seefurtherfestival.org. This policy does not cover links within this site to other websites.

Privacy policies and other terms for booking tickets or registering places on our events

The festival website provides links to the booking and registration systems of Southbank Centre, BFI Southbank and the Royal Society.

By booking tickets or reserving places using these systems, you are agreeing with the terms of sale and privacy policies of the organisation concerned. This includes:

The use of your information on this website

We are committed to protecting your privacy. We will only use the information that we collect about you lawfully (in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998).

This seefurtherfestival.org website only collects limited personal information about you in limited circumstances, including:

  • Collecting website statistics: Tracking the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site
  • Receiving blog comments: Information you enter on the website to post a comment on a blog. This would include your name and email address, which you provide voluntarily.
  • Receiving “Contact us” information: Information you enter on the “Contact” email form or send to us by email. This would include your name, email address and message, which you provide voluntarily.
  • Receiving “Email this page” information: Information you enter on using the “Email this page” function. This would include your name and email address, which you provide voluntarily.

By disclosing your personal information to us using this website, you consent to the collection, storage and processing of your personal information by Royal Society on behalf of the Festival partners in the manner set out in this Privacy Policy.

We use technologies to track the patterns of behaviour of visitors to our site. This can include using a "cookie" which would be stored on your browser. 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.

We also use Google Analytics, a popular web analytics service. It uses cookies to help us to analyse how visitors to this website use it (e.g. which of our website pages are the most popular). The information generated by the cookies about your use of our website (including your IP address) will be transmitted to and stored by Google on servers which are located in various countries, including the United States of America. Google will use this information for the purpose of evaluating your use of our website, compiling reports on our website activity, such as when our website was accessed and what sites referred the visitor to our web pages. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law, or where such third parties process the information on Google's behalf. Google undertakes not to associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Google have published more information on this on their website, in the question How does Google use cookies for Google Analytics?

The website also logs the user's IP address and session information such as the duration of the visit and the type of browser used. This is recognised by the Web server and is only used for system administration and to provide statistics, which the Partners use to evaluate use of the site. When you post a blog comment, vote on a poll, use the contact us form, or use the email this page function, we may store your IP address to guard against any abuse of these functions.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, please refer to the instructions for your file management software to locate the file or directory that stores cookies, or the option within your browser to find and delete cookies. Our cookies will include seefurtherfestival in the name of the file.

Information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at the third-party website, www.AboutCookies.org. Please note that by deleting our cookies or disabling future cookies you may not be able to access certain areas or features of our site.

We use features and content on this website provided by and hosted by third parties, including a reCaptcha form on the Email this page and Contact us forms, a Share button, and video players from YouTube and Vimeo. These features may also use cookies or log your IP address. You can usually modify your browser to prevent this happening. Please see their privacy policies for details, including details of how to remove their cookies: reCaptcha, AddThis (who use the services of other companies, including media6degrees), YouTube,  Vimeo.   

In any case where you provide personal information on this website (for example, to post comments, to contact us, or to email this page), we will only use it to deliver the services you have requested. We may need to pass your personal information to our Festival partners or suppliers to enable us to provide you with the service you need – for example, if you send us a request using the contact us form, we may need to forward this to colleagues at Southbank Centre or BFI Southbank who can answer your query.

We may need to pass your personal information to anyone to whom we transfer our rights and duties and we may also disclose your information to any applicable regulatory body or if the law requires or allows us to.

You have certain rights under the Data Protection Act 1998 including a right to access the information we hold about you, subject to certain conditions. Please contact us for further information using the contact us link or by writing to Data Protection, The Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London SW1Y 5AG.

Summary of terms

  • Browser: Used to locate and display Web pages via a software application. Examples of browsers include Microsoft Internet Explorer, Firefox, Google Chrome and Apple Safari.
  • Cookies: A cookie is a small amount of data which is stored on your computer and which is revealed to us when you use this website. Cookies can store information about your preferences and other information which you need when you visit a website, helping to avoid the need to type the same information on each visit. We can also use cookies to show us how you are using our website, in order to personalise our service and to help you use our website more easily. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies. You can configure your web browser not to accept cookies, although this may hinder the functionality of the website.
  • IP (Internet Protocol): All networks connected to the internet speak IP, the technical standard that allows data to be transmitted between two devices. TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol/Internet Protocol) is responsible for making sure messages get from one host to another and that the messages are understood.
  • IP address: If you are connected to the Internet you have an internet address, for example it may look something like this 198.184.98.9.
  • Web Server: Delivers (serves up) web pages to your computer

This website is operated by the Royal Society on behalf of the festival partners. The Royal Society is a Registered Charity No. 207043, registered in England and Wales. Registered address: Royal Society, 6-9 Carlton House Terrace, London, SW1Y 5AG