Privacy notice

The Welsh Government has commissioned Wavehill to undertake an impact study of productions that are funded by Creative Wales. This aim of this research project is to establish and develop an overarching framework for assessing the range of impacts and effects generated from funding productions in Wales and provide valuable evidence to inform future actions and decisions on funding.

As part of this research, Wavehill will be gathering information through stakeholder consultations/interviews. You will have been asked to complete an interview to obtain information on:

• Your views and experiences of the economic impact that funding productions has to the Welsh economy, including direct, indirect, induced and spillover impacts.
• Your views and experiences of how funding productions in Wales impacts a range of factors relating to social, cultural and sustainability outcomes.

The Welsh Government is the data controller for the research. However, Wavehill will delete any personal data provided through the interviews, and anonymise the raw data, before it is shared with the Welsh Government.

The information collected during the project will be included in a report published on the Welsh Government website and possibly in other publications by Wavehill and Welsh Government including the Creative Wales website.

Your participation in this research is completely voluntary. However your views and experiences are important in order to help inform Welsh Government policies.

The contact for this research at Wavehill is Michael Pang

E-mail address: michael.pang@wavehill.com 

Telephone number: 07596 547 17

Personal data is defined under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) as: ‘any information relating to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified by reference to an identifier’.

Your contact details (name and email address) have been provided to Wavehill by the Welsh Government. The Welsh Government hold your details because you are a recipient of Creative Wales’ production funding.

Wavehill will use your details to contact you to take part in an interview. 

Your participation is voluntary, and if you do not wish to take part or be sent reminders, then please reply to the invitation email, and your details will be removed. Wavehill will only use email address and telephone number for the purposes of this research project.

Taking part in an interview does not require the collection of additional personal data from you, except for your image if you agree to the interview being video recorded.

We may need to record interviews for operational reasons. If this is the case, we will make this clear to you before the interview begins, and you will have the opportunity to tell us if you are not happy for the discussion to be recorded. If interviews are recorded, personal data will be removed during the process of transcribing.

Recordings will be deleted as soon as this process is completed. If discussions are not recorded, personal data will not be included in written notes prepared during or following the interviews.

If you raise a query or complaint and provide personal data requesting a response, the researcher will forward the request only to the relevant official and subsequently delete it from the research data.

The lawful basis for processing information in this data collection exercise is our public task; that is, exercising our official authority to undertake the core role and functions of the Welsh Government.

Participation is completely voluntary. Research studies such as this are important for the Welsh Government to collect information and actionable evidence about its ability to deliver government priorities. The information collected in this research, for example, might be used to:

• Provide a better understanding of the impact that funding productions in Wales has on a range of social and economic outcomes, including analysing selected case studies on productions that have been funded by Creative Wales.
• Test the validity of measures of impact outlined within existing key performance indicators for Creative Wales production funding.
• Evidence the impact in Wales to support with future funding decisions and approvals that will ultimately strengthen the industry.
• Use findings as a baseline to compare future findings against and to compare to other nations.
• Develop recommendations for further research where there are gaps in the data.

Personal information provided to Wavehill is always stored on a secure server. The data can only be accessed by a limited number of researchers working on this project. Wavehill will only use this data for research purposes. Wavehill has cyber essentials certification.

Wavehill has procedures to deal with any suspected data security breaches. If a suspected breach occurs, Wavehill will report this to the Welsh Government who will notify you and any applicable regulator where we are legally required to do so.

Wavehill will use the information gathered to produce a report that will be published on the Welsh Government website. This report will not include any information that could be used to identify individual participants.

Wavehill will hold personal data during the contract period, and any personal data will be deleted by Wavehill within three months of the end of the contract. This includes your contact details.

Under UK GDPR, you have the following rights in relation to the personal information you provide as part of the interview, specifically you have the right:

• To access a copy of your own data;
• For us to rectify inaccuracies in that data;
• To object to or restrict processing (in certain circumstances);
• For your data to be ‘erased’ (in certain circumstances); and
• To lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) who is our independent regulator for data protection.

The contact details for the Information Commissioner’s Office are: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF. Phone: 0303 123 1113. Website: www.ico.org.uk

If you have any further questions about how the data provided as part of this study will be used by the Welsh Government or wish to exercise your rights using the UK General Data Protection Regulation, please contact:

Name: Sophie Roberts

E-mail address: Sophie.Roberts021@gov.wales

The Welsh Government’s Data Protection Officer can be contacted at:

Welsh Government, Cathays Park, Cardiff, CF10 3NQ, Email: DataProtectionOfficer@gov.wales.