Privacy policy

Last updated 17 October 2026

Vibes and Verses is an open mic night in Cork for poets, spoken word artists, storytellers and musicians. This page explains what personal information we collect, why, who we share it with, and the rights you have under the GDPR and Irish data protection law.

Who we are

Vibes and Verses is run by its founder, Franklin, in Cork, Ireland. For anything to do with your information, email us at vibes.and.verses.cork25@gmail.com.

What we collect and why

• Mailing list. Your name and email address, so we can tell you about upcoming nights and send members their ticket discount code. We only add you if you sign up, and you can unsubscribe from any email. Legal basis: your consent.
• Ticket purchases. Your name, email address and what you bought, so we can sell you a ticket, check you in and contact you if the night changes. Your card details go straight to our payment provider and we never see them. Legal basis: carrying out our agreement with you, and keeping financial records the law requires.
• Workshop bookings. Some events, like our writing workshops, are booked through Eventbrite. Eventbrite shares your name and email address with us so we can run the event.
• Performer sign-ups. If you sign up to perform through our form, on the night, or by message, we keep your name, contact details and what you plan to perform so we can put the lineup together. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in running the night.
• Messages. If you email us or message us on Instagram, we keep the conversation so we can reply.
• Photos and video. We photograph and film our events and share some of it on this website and on Instagram. Legal basis: our legitimate interest in recording and promoting the night. You can ask not to be photographed, or ask us to remove a photo of you, at any time.

This website

This website does not use cookies, analytics or tracking. Our fonts are served from the site itself, so loading a page doesn't send your details to a third party. Like any website, our hosting provider may keep short-term technical logs, such as IP addresses, to keep the site running and secure.

Who we share it with

We never sell your information. We use a small number of services to run the night, and they handle your information on our behalf:

• Sender.net sends our mailing list emails.
• Stripe processes card payments for tickets.
• Eventbrite handles bookings for some events.
• Google provides our email inbox and performer sign-up form.
• Instagram, owned by Meta, is where we post photos and talk to our community.

Some of these companies may move data outside the European Economic Area. Where they do, they rely on legal safeguards approved under the GDPR, such as the EU's Standard Contractual Clauses.

How long we keep it

• Mailing list details: until you unsubscribe.
• Ticket and payment records: six years, because Irish tax rules require us to keep financial records for that long.
• Performer sign-ups and messages: as long as they're useful for planning nights, and no longer than two years after your last contact with us.
• Photos and video: as long as they're part of our archive, unless you ask us to remove them.

Your rights

You can ask us to:

• tell you what information we hold about you and give you a copy
• correct anything that's wrong
• delete your information
• stop using your information, or limit how we use it
• take back your consent, for example by unsubscribing

Email vibes.and.verses.cork25@gmail.com and we'll reply within one month. If you're unhappy with how we've handled your information, you can complain to the Data Protection Commission at dataprotection.ie.

Changes

If we change this policy, we'll update this page and the date at the top.