Bishopton Emerald CSC takes your privacy seriously. We are a “controller” of the personal information that you provide to us and this privacy notice sets out how, why and for how long we will use your personal data, as well as who it is shared with. It also explains your legal rights as a data subject and how to exercise them.
What we need from you
When you register as a member of the club or renew your membership (including if you are registering or renewing on behalf of a young person aged 16 or under), we may ask you for some or all of the following personal information:
· Contact details – eg. name, address, email address and phone number.
· Date of birth – to calculate membership category
· Season book number – for reference
If you do not provide us with all of the personal information that we need this may affect our ability to offer you our membership services and benefits.
Why we need your personal information
Contractual purposes
We need to collect our members’ and customers’ personal information so that we can manage your relationship with us. We may use our members’ personal information to:
· Provide you with core member services, including confirmation of membership, membership card, end of year renewal.
· Organise club activities
Legitimate purposes
We also process our members’ personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interests to:
· Provide you with news and updates about the activity of the club, opportunities to get involved in club meets, general meetings or other events.
· Respond to and investigate your questions, comments, support needs, complaints, concerns or allegations.
Legal obligations
We are under a legal obligation to process certain personal information relating to our members for the purposes of complying with:
· The Protection of Vulnerable Groups (Scotland) Act 2007, which requires us to check that our coaches and volunteers are able to undertake regulated work with children and vulnerable adults.
· The Equality Act 2010, which requires us to process personal information to make reasonable adjustments where necessary.
Other uses of your personal information
We may ask you if we can process your personal information for other purposes. Where we do so, we will provide you with an additional privacy notice explaining how we will use your information for these purposes.
How we protect your personal information
Your personal information is accessed by our committee only for the purposes set out above. It is stored by our club in a secure online format with strict access controls.
How long we keep your personal information
We only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with membership services. Unless you ask us not to, we will review and delete your personal information where you have not renewed your membership with us for 2 years.
You have a right to:
· Change your communication preferences or restrict the processing of your personal data for specific purposes.
· Request that we correct your personal data if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete.
· Access the personal data that we hold about you through a “subject access request”.
· Request that we delete your personal information.
You can contact us at info@bishoptonemerald.com
If you are dissatisfied, you have a right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk