Privacy and Policy

SKIP’S PRIVACY POLICY

As well as to users of the SKIPtick Platform, this privacy policy also applies to any other individuals whose data we may process, except for our employees, candidates, event partners, and/or artists. If you are under these data subjects’ categories, please check out the relevant privacy policy for you, which you can find on www.skiptick.com.

This privacy policy explains how SKIP Group (“SKIP”, “we” or “us”) uses your personal information to provide the SKIPtick Platform. If you have any questions about this privacy policy, feel free to contact us at [email protected]. Occasionally, we might need to update this policy and will let you know of any updates in the Help Centre on the SKIPTICK Platform. If we make any changes to the way we use your personal information, we will let you know by posting a notice on the SKIPTICK Platform or sending you an email at the email address provided at the time you registered.

1. ABOUT US

1.1 SKIP comprises various group companies, including Skiptick inc LLC (Canada) and Skiptick LLC (UAE)

1.2. We are a disclosed ticketing agent selling tickets via the SKIPtick Platform on behalf of promoters, organizers, managers, artists, and venues of music, entertainment, sports, and similar events (the “Event Partners”).

2. OVERVIEW

2.1. For the purpose of the EU General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”) (and any other applicable UK laws, such as the UK GDPR), SKIPtick is the “Data Controller” where you are using the SKIPtick Platform.

2.2. SKIPtick and the Event Partners are controllers each at his level, except in certain situations in which the data is controlled jointly (for example with regards to pixels/cookies on third-party websites). SKIPtick is an agent and data controller, and the Event Partners are data controllers, and they also own your data.

2.3. This privacy policy explains how we use your personal information and other data we collect when you use the SKIPtick Platform.

3. THE BASIS FOR THE PROCESSING OF YOUR DATA

3.1. SKIPtick processes your data to allow you to use, and us to deliver our services to you on the SKIPTICK Platform. These services are governed by our Purchase terms and Terms of Use.

3.2. Some of your data will be processed based on SKIPTICK’s legitimate interest, including photographs, and audio and video recordings of events, to allow us to successfully provide the event experience set up for you on the SKIPTICK Platform. Legitimate interest is also our lawful basis for processing in-app analytics data (except where your consent is required) so we can enhance and monitor app performance, account activity, or website logs, etc, and prevent fraudulent or other malicious activities, and produce website visitor logs for cybersecurity and/or error tracking purposes. Legitimate interest is also our lawful basis for profiling. We also rely on our legitimate interest to collect your date of birth, so we can make sure you are allowed to purchase tickets since some events will require you to be at least 18, and to share some aggregated information with Event Partners for their own internal statistical and sales control purposes. We may also rely on legitimate interest to share with our Event Partners any personal information required for public health reasons as per any legal obligation to which our Event Partners are subject, and in some circumstances, to share limited data with third parties based on their legitimate interest, for example, where a ticket is re-sold to a third-party user on an alternative platform. Legitimate interest is also our lawful basis for sending you any post-event reviews or surveys to complete after you have attended an event, or after you have contacted our Fan Support team, to help make SKIPTICK even better. Where we are processing any personal data based on legitimate interest, we have conducted a Legitimate Interest Assessment to ensure that the individual’s interests do not override those legitimate interests.

3.3. We will ask for your consent if we need to share your data with third parties for any reason not mentioned in this privacy policy which isn’t absolutely necessary for you to be able to use the SKIPTICK Platform. We will also ask for your consent in some other cases, for example in order to use your location to sync your music library or to send you notifications, and to access your phone contact list under the ‘Limited Right to Transfer Tickets’ feature (see Clause 10 of our Purchase Terms), as well as for market research, or any other survey which doesn’t fall under post-event reviews, but of course you will have a right to say no.

3.4. We may ask for your consent in other cases where we process your data. You can revoke your consent at any time by contacting us at [email protected]. Please note that the withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before the withdrawal.

4. COLLECTED INFORMATION

4.1. To help us manage your registration and ticket sales, we will process and store all personal information you give when you register on the SKIPTICK Platform, and any personal information which is generated when you navigate and use the SKIPTICK Platform. We also use this information to analyze trends in your behavior as this helps us to determine your preferences, habits, tastes, geographic location, and favorite artists and events, which will maximize your use and enjoyment of the SKIPTICK Platform; this is the Discovery feature. We might also take some information from email communications between you and SKIPTICK and store this in separate documents. To find out more about how we use your personal information, see Clause 6 below.

4.2. The types of personal information we collect may include:

Contact details – including your name, gender, email address, phone number, ID, postal address, and date of birth. You will also have the option to add these details for each ticket holder of a ticket purchased via the SKIPTICK Platform (“Additional User Data”), giving SKIPTICK or our Event Partner the ability to contact each ticket holder after an event has occurred if it is required for public health reasons. This is a safety precaution in case the organizer needs to contact attendees. SKIPTICK will store this information for better functionality. Please note that the organizer may have defined a different retention period, so please contact them or check their privacy policy for more information.
Payment card and billing details – when you buy tickets via the SKIPTICK Platform, we will need your payment and billing information (such as your address and postcode) so we can handle the processing and dispatch of ticket orders;
Location data – we may collect your IP address, and if you allow us to connect to your device’s geolocation functionality, we may collect your GPS data. We will use the location data to improve personalized recommendations on the SKIPTICK Platform on what events are taking place near you. You can turn off the App's ability to access your geolocation at any time through your device’s general or privacy settings.
Your image or recordings – we might get photographs, audio, or video recordings of events listed on the SKIPTICK Platform. We may reproduce and/or publish your image, or share this with the Event Partner to reproduce and/or publish (as part of a general photograph of an event) on the SKIPTICK Platform and in other promotional materials, social networking channels, and other materials related to the SKIPTICK Platform;
Your preferences – we may collect information about your purchase history, events you have viewed, attended, or enquired about, any events you have joined a waiting list for, shared or invited people to attend, and any feedback you may give or reviews you may submit;
Music library (e.g. Spotify or Apple Music) – if you allow us to connect to your music library, we may collect and hold information on your musical interests so we can improve the personalized recommendations through the SKIPTICK Platform;
Your interactions with us – for example if you send us information via email, survey, social media, customer service communications, or other methods, this may be stored on our systems.
Technical information – when you use the SKIPTICK Platform, we automatically receive and record information on our server logs from your browser or mobile platform, including the location, IP address, strictly necessary cookie information, and details about the page you requested. We also collect information regarding your use of the SKIPTICK Platform, mobile device information, and browser information.
Feedback - when conducting a survey, we may collect your views, opinions, and suggestions.

5. COOKIES

5.1. Our website and our app use cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website and our app. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and when you use our app which allows us to improve our site. A cookie is a small file of letters and numbers that we store on your browser or the hard drive of your device (if you agree). Cookies contain information that is transferred to your device’s hard drive.

5.2. We use the following cookies on our website and/or our app:

Strictly necessary cookies. These are cookies that we require to operate our website and app. They include, for example, cookies that enable you to log into secure areas of our website and app, use a shopping cart, or make use of e-billing services. We also include among these cookies a combination of Google Analytics and proprietary tracking cookies that allow us to attribute purchases to partners, which is necessary for us to be able to fulfill our obligations under these agreements as our business model relies on it. This data is intended for internal use only. You can contact us at [email protected].
Analytical/performance cookies. These allow us to recognize and count the number of visitors and to see how visitors move around our website and app when they are using it. This helps us to improve the way our website and app works, for example, by ensuring that users are finding what they are looking for easily.
Functionality cookies. These are used to recognize you when you return to our website. This enables us to personalize our content for you, greet you by name, and remember your preferences (for example, your choice of language or region).
Targeting cookies. These cookies record your visit to our website, the pages you have visited, and the links you have followed. We will use this information to make our website and the advertising displayed on it more relevant to your interests. We may also share this information with third parties for this purpose. Where this information is used for any marketing purposes, we will ask for your consent first.
Marketing cookies. These are cookies that are used to target advertising to a user (behavior targeting), including Facebook Conversion API through which data will be shared with us and/or our Event Partners for marketing purposes, as well as being shared with Facebook/Meta.

5.3. When you use our website for the first time you are given the opportunity to accept or decline cookies which are not strictly necessary. By using the tick boxes on the cookie banner, you are consenting to, or declining, our use of cookies by category as set out in this policy. You can also change your cookie consent at any time by accessing the cookie banner or by emailing us on [email protected]. You can set up your preferences the first time you visit our website and at any time through our cookie banner or by contacting us at [email protected].

5.4 The cookies described above will be installed when you download the app. If you have any questions about them, you can contact us at [email protected] before downloading the app. You can change your cookie preferences at any time by contacting us at [email protected].

5.5 Please note that when you access or use our services through third-party websites, such as our Event Partners' websites, we may share some information with them when you perform certain actions in the purchase flow. We will not use any cookies or pixels for these purposes. These to use third parties or Event Partners will only be able this data for marketing purposes if you provide your consent on their website. We may not be able to erase your data in new sessions if there is no way for us to identify you.

5.6 You can delete all cookies that are already on your device by clearing the browsing history of your browser. This will remove all cookies from all websites you have visited. Browsers also allow you to control access to cookies. You can find below the links providing information about how you can do this for the major browsers:

5.7 Our use of cookies is proportionate in relation to our intended outcome and limited to what is necessary to achieve our purpose.

Session cookies. These cookies allow us to recognize and link the actions of a user during a browsing session. They are temporary and expire at the end of a browser session, normally when you exit the browser.
Persistent cookies. This category encompasses all cookies that are stored on a user’s device in-between sessions. All persistent cookies have an expiration date written into their code, but their duration can vary for each category or specific cookie. The persistent cookies we use normally expire after six months. If you require more information regarding the duration of a particular cookie used by us, please contact us on [email protected] .

6. USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

6.1. As well as the purposes described above at Clause 4.1, we use your personal information to:

Run the SKIPTICK platform or any other purposes required in order to allow us to provide the SKIPTICK Platform to you.
Communicate with you via email, SMS, in-App notifications and push notifications about your purchases on the SKIPTICK Platform, including tickets (and the events they relate to) and any other non-ticket items.
Fulfil your orders for tickets and other non-ticket items purchased via the SKIPTICK Platform.
Provide better content, services, marketing, and support to you. For example, we may need to use your information to administer your account or provide you with information in connection with any purchases or events you have expressed an interest in.
Run and provide any competitions available to you via the SKIPTICK Platform and communicate with you about those competitions. If entering a competition, please read the terms and conditions relating to that competition as these may include specific terms regarding your personal data; and
To profile individual and demographic trends of events you attend or interest you show in certain events and artists. This helps us to provide recommendations of similar things you might like or find interesting (via the Discovery feature or otherwise). We do this by making assumptions based on an analysis of the information we hold, including the events you have viewed, waiting lists you have joined, and tickets you have purchased. For example, if you purchased tickets to an event, we might show you more events of this specific genre or type, or events by similar artists.

6.2. We also use information that we collect about you for operational purposes, including:

To provide customer service, including responding to your inquiries and answering any of your requests for information.
Carry out verification checks, including verifying your identity when collecting tickets at a venue, checking that you meet any minimum age requirements, or checking that any restrictions on the reselling of tickets have been complied with.
To send you important information regarding our services, or other technical notices, updates, security alerts, and support and administrative messages.
As we believe to be necessary or appropriate under any applicable law, to enforce our rights or to respond to requests from law enforcement and any other government authorities.

6.3. As explained in Clause 3, we use your personal data on the following legal bases:

Your consent.
As necessary to perform a contract that you have entered.
in our (or an Event Partner’s or other third parties) legitimate interests, including to improve the performance of the SKIPTICK Platform and in order to enhance your experience of the SKIPTICK Platform.
To comply with a legal obligation.

6.4. Where we rely on your consent to process your personal data (e.g., marketing), you can withdraw your consent at any time by emailing us at [email protected] or in any other way explained in this privacy policy. If you withdraw your consent, this might affect the lawfulness of any processing which took place before your withdrawal.

7. MARKETING

7.1. We may send you marketing communications via email and push notifications. On registration, we will ask you if you consent to (1) Receiving updates about competitions, prizes, and what is going on at SKIPTICK, which can include updates about events, artists, new features, merchandise, offers, and more. (2) Taking part in surveys, fan tests, and more. You can choose to opt into marketing communications and push notifications when registering on the SKIPTICK Platform. If you change your mind about receiving any marketing emails from us, you can edit your preferences in the communication controls center in App (called ‘Messages’) or unsubscribe from emails by following the unsubscribe directions provided in the footer of each one. If you do not want to receive push notifications from us, you can opt-out by changing your preferences in the ‘Messages’ control center in the App or changing the appropriate settings directly on your mobile device, However, this may affect you from receiving invitations to event from your friends. To access the communication controls center (‘Messages’) you must have the App version 3.17.0 or above.

7.2. Where you opt out of receiving these marketing communications, we may still process your personal data for other required purposes, as explained in Clauses 5 and 6 above.

7.3. On registration, we will also ask you if you consent to receive marketing messages from our Event Partners and other third parties involved in providing an event you have purchased ticket(s) to. If you opt in to such marketing messages, we will pass your details, such as email address, city or full residence, full name, and date of birth to the relevant Event Partner or third party so that they can contact you for this purpose. If you change your mind and do not want to receive such marketing messages, you can opt-out by contacting that third party directly or by unsubscribing using any available ‘unsubscribe’ link or similar in that third party’s emails to you. Alternatively, to opt out of marketing messages from all third parties, you could edit your preferences in the communication controls center in the App (called ‘Messages’). We will notify the relevant third parties of your change in preferences, normally, within 7 business days. Note that it may take longer for each third party to process your request.

7.4. On registration, we will also ask you if you consent to take part in surveys, fan tests, and more.

8. DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION

8.1. We will not rent or sell your personal information to anyone without your explicit consent, but, so we can perform our part of our contract with you based on our Terms and Conditions and our legitimate interests, we may share your personal information in the ways described below:

Agents and suppliers – We employ other companies/individuals to perform functions on our behalf, for example, our payment processing suppliers and data analytics services providers. We do not share your personal information with our agents or suppliers except as is necessary to enable them to provide us with a service.
We may disclose your personal data to the following categories of third-party recipients:
Recipient category - Explanation
Hosting - We may share your personal data with cloud storage providers.
Analytic tools - We may share your personal data with analytics and search engine service providers.
Administration and support tools - We may share your personal data with support software providers.
Emailing - We may share your personal data with emailing service providers.
CRM - We may share your personal data with CRM providers.
Payment processing - We may share your personal data with online payment processing providers.
Messaging and collaboration tools - We may share your personal data with messaging and collaboration software providers.
Online survey tools - We may share your personal data with online survey tool service providers.
Third Parties – We may integrate with other third-party products and services such as Spotify to enable certain features of the SKIPTICK Platform. We do not share your personal information with them except as is necessary in order to allow them to perform the features requiring their integration.
Competition partners – When offering competitions or other prize draws, via the SKIPTICK Platform, we may process your personal data in order to manage your entry and contact you if you are a winner. We may share your name and country of residence with anyone who asks for the winner’s details, and we may use your name and image in publicity materials as we see fit. We may share your personal information with our competition partner to allow them to administer the competition (e.g., arranging for the prize to be provided to the winner).
Event Partners – We are a ticketing agent, so we sell you tickets to events on behalf of the Event Partner for that event. Because of this, under some circumstances, we need to share your personal details with these Event Partners as well as with other parties involved in the provision of the event (such as the venue).
These include:
- First name, last name, email address, phone number, ticket type, and time of purchase for operational purposes so Event Partners can provide you with relevant information about the event including last-minute changes and/or cancellations, or for the purposes of ticket validation when you enter a venue, on the basis of contract;
- Location information; age and ticket purchase history for sales control and aggregated statistics on the basis of legitimate interest.
- Any personal information required for public health reasons as per any legal obligation to which our Event Partners are subject on the basis of third-party’s legitimate interest.
- Any other information which we may need to share to comply with a legal requirement.
- Hashed email address and phone number, action name (e.g. ‘purchase’, ‘initiate checkout’, or ‘page view’), and the SKIPTICK event ID for the purposes of marketing cookies (see clause 5.1.5 for more information).
- Marketing opt-in data including full name, email address, ticket type and opt-in date and time where you have opted-in the receive third party marketing when signing up with SKIPTICK.
We are not responsible or liable for the actions of any third parties. Should you wish to complain about the use of your personal information by any third party, then you should contact them directly.
Artists - If you follow an artist using the App, we may also share your information with them. We are not responsible or liable for the actions of any third parties, and if you wish to complain about the use of your personal information by any third party then you should contact them directly.
Cookie Providers - where third-party cookies or similar technologies are used, we may share your data with the relevant cookie provider if you have consented to the cookie being set. Please see clause 5 for further information.
Other reasons – We may also share your personal information with a purchaser or potential purchaser of our business and in some circumstances, we may have to disclose your personal information by law, either because a court or the police or other law enforcement agency has asked us for it, to enforce our legal rights, or to prevent fraud or ticket-touting for example.

8.2. We may also provide our partners with anonymous information about how users, collectively, use the App and website so that they can understand how often people use their services, the App, and the website.

9. INFORMATION ABOUT OTHER INDIVIDUALS

9.1. If you give us information (including personal information) on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has given you permission to act on their behalf and has agreed that you can:

Provide their personal information to us.
Receive on their behalf any data protection notices.
Give consent to the transfer of their personal data abroad.

9.2. We will need to see proof of this consent, so will ask you to provide SKIPTICK with the written authorization from them or the document which demonstrates power to represent them. If these documents are not available, we will be able to accept any appropriate alternatives.

9.3. Where personal data has not been obtained from a data subject, this privacy policy explains how their data is processed.

10. SECURITY AND INTERNATIONAL TRANSFERS OF DATA

10.1. We are committed to ensuring that your information will be treated confidentially and securely, and we have put in place appropriate measures to ensure the security of your personal data.

10.2. The personal data that we collect from you may be transferred to, and stored at, destinations outside the European Economic Area (EEA) where the laws on processing personal data may be less stringent than in your country. It may also be processed by staff operating outside the EEA who work for us or for one of our agents or suppliers.

10.3. Presently, personal data collected from you have been stored in data centers as well as cloud networks that are located or hosted by AWS.

10.4. When your personal data is transferred to parties located anywhere in the world we will assess and take appropriate measures to ensure these third parties provide adequate security of such personal data and respect your rights to privacy. These safeguards are intended to ensure a similar degree of protection to your data wherever it may be transferred and may include:

only transferring your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data by the European Commission.
Entering into specific contractual terms which have been approved by the European Commission and which give personal data the same protection as within the EEA (for example, if transferring your data to the USA).

If you would like any more information on the safeguards used, feel free to contact us at [email protected].

11. DATA RETENTION

11.1. We may hold on to your personal data for as long as we need to for the purposes for which it is processed or as is otherwise required by applicable law. If you terminate your account on the App and/or website, stop using the SKIPTICK Platform, or our agreement with you under the Terms of Use is terminated, we will delete your information as it is no longer relevant, but we might need to continue to process your personal data as required under applicable law, in order to establish, exercise or defend legal claims where relevant.

11.2. We calculate the appropriate retention period for your data by considering the nature and sensitivity of the data, the purposes for which we are processing the data, and any applicable statutory retention periods. Using these criteria, we regularly review the personal data which we hold and the purposes for which it is held and processed. Once processing has been completed, we may securely delete or anonymize your personal data.

11.3. We may delete your account or specific information before deactivating your account if we believe it may no longer be relevant, or where an account has been inactive for more than a year. Purchase history may be deleted after 7 years.

If you would like any more information about our retention periods, please contact us at [email protected].

12. YOUR RIGHTS

You are entitled to certain rights relating to our handling of your personal data, as described below.

12.1. You can request details of the personal information that we hold about you under data protection laws. If you would like a copy of the information held about you, please write to us at [email protected].
12.2. If you think any information, we have about you is incorrect or incomplete, please write to us at [email protected] as soon as possible. We will correct or update any information as soon as we can.
12.3. You have the right to erase your data, as well as a right to deactivate your account (in which case only your user ID and ticket history will be retained for our records). We are not required to delete any information needed to establish, exercise, or defend against legal claims, or that we need to retain in order to comply with the law.
12.4. You have the right to restriction of processing, where your data is wrongfully processed but should not be erased for a reason.
12.5. Until a download option has been developed based on universally recognized standards, you may exercise your right of data portability by obtaining your data. You can do this by writing to us at [email protected].

If you would like to exercise these rights, please write to us at [email protected].

13. CONTACT AND COMPLAINTS

If you have any complaints about how we handle your personal information, please contact us at [email protected].

14. DATA PROTECTION OFFICER CONTACT DETAILS

SKIPTICK has appointed a data protection officer for you to contact if you have any questions or concerns about SKIPTICK’s personal data policies or practices. SKIPTICK’s data protection officer’s name and contact information can be requested at anytime, contact us at [email protected]