The Hive box office is open Tuesday – Friday, 9am – 5pm. Bookings can be made in person, over the phone or online.
A £1 booking fee applies to all transactions to cover essential administration and box office costs. For any enquiries or queries please do not hesitate to contact us.
Our registered office (Company Registration no: 5280366) is located at:
5 Belmont, Shrewsbury, SY1 1TE
We (The Hive – HMM Arts Ltd.) are registered as a Charity, and our registration number is: 1108488
We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (Regulation 2016/679) as amended, and any electronic communications will be made in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003.
We collect and process the personal data that you may volunteer as part of your relationship with the Hive as a customer, service user, associate, employee or trustee, or in the course of booking events, making a purchase, completing membership or donation forms, completing equality monitoring forms, signing up to our newsletter or completing visitor or audience surveys.
Personal information – information we request directly from you
We may retain or process your personal details when you create your online account and/or make a purchase either online, by phone or by visiting our Box Office.
Personal information we retain or process may include:
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We may also keep a record of your transactions with The Hive and any correspondence between us, which may include details of:
You may be asked for further information. If this is the case, then this privacy policy will apply to the personal information you provide, but please check for any specific terms that apply each time you participate in these activities.
How will we use your information?
The Hive sometimes sells tickets on behalf of the providers of the events which you wish to attend. This might be an artist, venue, promoter, amateur theatre groups or other arts organisation, producer or sponsor. We refer to the organisers or providers of an event as our ‘Venue Clients’. When you purchase tickets for an event, we may share your personal information with our Venue Client, but only if you are attending their event.
There may be more than one Venue Client for each event.
If you have indicated that you do not wish to subsequently receive any offers or newsletters, nor should your information be used for marketing purposes, The Hive will inform the Venue Client of this condition.
Providing, improving and customising our services
We use your information primarily to provide you with the services and products you request, and related customer services ( this includes the provision of The Hive website, website administration and security ). We may also analyse this information to improve our understanding of you and our customer base in general. We do this so that we can make better decisions about our services, advertising, products and content, based on a more informed picture of how our customers use our current services, and to provide you with a more customised experience. Depending on your marketing preferences, we may use this information to help us to determine which offers, information, discounts and promotions you would most like to receive from us.
How long will we keep your information for?
We may keep your data for different lengths of time depending upon the purpose for which it is being held:
· Where relevant we are required under UK tax law to keep your basic personal data (name, address, contact details etc.) for a minimum of six tax years, after which time it will be destroyed.
· If you apply for a job or a commission with The Hive and are unsuccessful we will keep your information on file for a period of not more than 12 months unless you specifically ask us not to.
· Any information we use for marketing purposes will be kept by us until you notify us that you no longer wish to receive this information, or until such time that we ask you to renew your consent to our retention of your data. If you ask us to remove your information from our mailing list we will do so within 28 days of your request.
Direct marketing
When you first register with The Hive (either in person, over the phone or via the website), you can decide whether your contact information may be used by us, our Venue Partners and selected third parties for direct marketing purposes.
If you agree ( ‘opt-in’ ), The Hive, its Venue Partners and/or other third parties may contact you by e-mail or post with information or offers regarding their goods and services such as discounts, exclusive offers or special event information. The Hive will send you a monthly newsletter with information about upcoming shows and events. If you purchase a ticket for an event, your address will be entered into The Hive ticketing database service. You will be given an opportunity to unsubscribe in every marketing e-mail we subsequently send you.
Partner Marketing
You may also receive marketing information from the Venue Partners for the events for which you have purchased tickets. If you do not wish to receive marketing correspondence from a Partner please use the unsubscribe link in their communications or contact them directly to request that your details are removed from their databases.
Changing your marketing Preferences
If you change your mind or want to amend your marketing preferences, you can do so at any time from your online account, calling us or visiting The Hive during our opening hours.
Please note that you will continue to receive customer service emails from The Hive Centre – which could include order confirmations, event reminders, information about changes to an event you’ve purchased tickets for and reminders to print your tickets if you’ve selected that option for ticket delivery.
Information sharing and/or transfer
The Hive and its Venue Partners will not share your data with any third parties without your consent, except under the following circumstances:
How your financial information is collected and used
We do not retain your payment details, if you are purchasing tickets, you will be asked to provide the financial information ( e.g. your payment card information ) each time you make a purchase.
The financial information is used to authorise payment and to bill you for your purchases through The Hive website, phone sales or Box Office sales in person. When you make a purchase from The Hive, you give consent to provide your financial or personal information to those third parties necessary to process your transactions with us, such as credit card companies and banks. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for fraud protection and credit risk reduction. Where we do share this data, we apply payment industry standard encryption methods to maintain its security. If you’ve ordered any additional goods or services through The Hive such as merchandise, your information may be passed to the providers of such goods or services so they can process your transaction and provide you with the goods or services you have ordered.
Except for processes explained above, we will not share your financial information with any third parties without your prior consent.
Changes to this privacy policy and your rights
We retain the right to make some changes and adjustments to our privacy policy from time to time, so please check regularly for any updates. Where there’s a significant change to this privacy policy, we’ll always notify you so that you can decide whether to continue using our services. You can edit and view the information about you that you’ve provided to us by logging on to your account on the website. You also have the right to obtain a copy of the personal data we hold about you to correct any inaccuracies in such data or to request that we delete it from our records. If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the details at the end of this document. For some requests we may ask you to provide proof of identity or further information to enable us to locate the information you have requested.
Your request will be dealt with as soon as possible and will not take more than 28 days to process.
If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, please contact us at admin@hiveonline.org.uk to investigate the matter, or telephone 01743 234 970.
If you are not satisfied with our response or believe we are processing your personal data unlawfully you can complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO), our registration number is: ZA319989
To enhance your experience on our (HMM Arts Ltd. / the Hive’s) website, many of our web pages use “cookies”. Cookies are small text files that we place in your computer’s browser to store your preferences. Cookies, by themselves, do not tell us your email address or other personal information unless you choose to provide this information to us by, for example, registering at one of our sites. Once you choose to provide a web page with personal information, this information may be linked to the data stored in the cookie. A cookie is like an identification card. It is unique to your computer and can only be read by the server that gave it to you.
We use cookies to understand site usage and to improve the content and offerings on our sites. For example, we may use cookies to personalise your experience on our web pages (e.g. to recognise you by name when you return to our site). We also may use cookies to offer you products and services.
Cookies save you time as they help us to remember who you are. Cookies help us to be more efficient. We can learn about what content is important to you and what is not. We can revise or remove web pages that are not of interest and focus our energies on content you want.
If you want to control which cookies you accept. You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server. Most browsers automatically accept cookies. You can set your browser option so that you will not receive cookies and you can also delete existing cookies from your browser. You may find that some parts of the site will not function properly if you have refused cookies.
Please be aware that if you do not configure your browser you will accept cookies provided by this website.
How to see cookies that you have accepted: You can configure your browser to accept all cookies or to alert you every time a cookie is offered by a website’s server.
We may also use small pieces of software code called “web beacons” or “clear gifs” to collect anonymous and aggregate advertising matrix, such as counting page views, promotion views, or advertising responses. A web beacon is an electronic image, called a single-pixel or clear GIF. Web beacons can recognise certain types of information on users computer, such as a user’s Cookie number, time and date of a page view, and description of the page where the web beacon is placed. You may render some web beacons unusable if you choose to reject their associated cookies. These web beacons may be use to deliver cookies that conform with our Cookie Policy.
TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR SALES
HMM Arts Ltd. (The Hive) is a registered charity (no: 1108488) and a company limited by guarantee (reg: 5280336), both registered in England. This document outlines our Terms & Conditions for purchases you made through any of our outlets either online or offline. As a Company, we are committed to protecting your privacy and complying with the Data Protection Act 1998.
1. TERMS & CONDITIONS FOR SALES
1.1 Tickets
The Hive sells tickets for its own events, as well as other events on behalf of promoters, producers, teams, performers and venues. We refer to these parties as our ‘Venue Clients’
All transactions are subject to a transaction booking fee of 50 pence (cash and card) to cover essential administration and box office costs. Tickets are non-refundable. Refunds/transfers may be possible under exceptional circumstances (e.g. cancellation of an event) but are at the discretion of The Hive. Tickets are not for resale and should not be used for any other purposes including promotions and contests. The Hive refers the right to refuse sale of tickets to young people under the age of 16.
We do not take any responsibility for tickets mailed to you or for tickets lost or stolen. Tickets are only valid for the date and event shown on the ticket and it is the responsibility of the customer to make a note of these details. The Hive does not take any responsibility for events cancelled by any of the Venue Clients. The Hive also reserves the right to refuse admission in the case of a breach of these terms & conditions or on other grounds; including later arrival, being under age (or appearing to be), being drunk, unauthorised recordings or any other anti-social behaviour. Under 16s must be accompanied by a responsible adult.
For issues regarding tickets purchased directly from the Venue Clients of the Hive, please contact the Partners directly as the Hive does not take any responsibility for tickets purchased from Venue Clients or other ticket outlets.
1.2. Merchandise, Café and Bar Sales
For merchandise, The Hive will only process purchases made by persons over 16 years of age unless accompanied by a parent or a guardian. Café sales will be made by persons over the age of 7, except for alcohol sales. For alcohol sales The Hive operates a Challenge 25 strategy.
All Intellectual Property Rights in or to the materials and information made available to you through The Hive merchandise website including but not limited to our registered and unregistered trademarks either owned by us or licensed to us by our third party partners.
We will not take any responsibility for goods once they have been passed on to Royal Mail or other courier. Risk in the goods passes to you upon delivery. We may cancel any sale and not supply products or services if it is reasonable to do so and may change or discontinue the availability of any product at any time at our sole discretion. However, if we do so, we will always notify you that we shall do so and, where relevant, refund you all payments made by you.
Please note that we cannot give refunds in respect of personalised goods or goods which by their nature cannot be returned to us, goods which deteriorate or expire rapidly, or which are by their nature time-sensitive, or in relation to any video cassette, CD, DVD, or other digital medium the seal of which has been broken. Therefore, when purchasing such items, please think carefully before you buy.
There is no warranty on any of the merchandise goods or services purchased from The Hive as goods are sold ‘as is’ basis. This will not affect your statutory rights.
We are dedicated to making sure everyone feels welcome. Our friendly team are available to help you with any enquiries you might have. Please do not hesitate to ask should you need assistance. To ensure your visit to the Hive is an enjoyable one, if there are any special requirements we recommend you contact the box office/reception in advance.