Privacy Policy – 1st North Worle Scout Group

Last updated on: 14 May 2018

1 Introduction

1.1 1^st North Worle Scout Group (“we”, “us”, or “our”) are committed to respecting and protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy (the “Policy”) explains how we will collect, store and use any personal data you provide via our website, email, paperwork or meeting with our Group and when you otherwise communicate with us (including in the course of the services we provide or the running of the Group).

1.2 This Policy may change from time to time and, if it does, the up-to-date version will always be available on our website and becomes effective immediately.

1.3 Please take the time to read this Policy, which contains important information about the way in which we process personal data.

1.4 For the purposes of this Policy, “European Data Protection Legislation” is defined as, for the periods in which they are in force, the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC, all laws giving effect or purporting to give effect to the European Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC (such as the Data Protection Act 2018) or otherwise relating to data protection (to the extent the same apply) and, from 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (Regulation (EU) 2016/670) (“GDPR”) or any equivalent legislation amending, supplementing or replacing the GDPR.

2 Information we may collect about you

2.1 We may collect and process information about you through various means, including but not limited to:

in the course of our Group meetings
via our website (e.g. on our ‘Contact Us’ page, through your login information, via Social Media, via OSM or any applications made via our site etc.)
by email or other electronic correspondence
by telephone
networking (e.g. at activities and/or other meetings or events either hosted or attended by us)
otherwise through providing our services or the running of our Group.

2.2 The personal data you give to us may include:

personal details, e.g. your date of birth
contact information, including telephone number, postal address and email address
information relating to your location, preferences and / or interests
photographic identification
in certain circumstances, yours’ and others’ signature(s), financial details such as bank account details and details of any relevant sanctions or similar restrictions if deemed necessary for purpose
in certain circumstances, data relating to health (including disabilities), ethnicity, race, religious beliefs, and other ‘special category personal data’
the content of any enquiry submitted over our website
any other personal data we collect in the course of running our Group.

2.3 Each time you visit our website, we may automatically collect the following information:

Web usage information (e.g. IP address), your login information, browser type and version, time zone setting, operating system and platform.
Information about your visit, including the full Uniform Resource Locators (URLs) clickstream to, through and from our website (including date and time); time on page, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information (such as scrolling, clicks and mouse-overs).
Location, device and demographic information

2.4 We may ask you for information when you report a problem with our website.

2.5 If you contact us, we may keep a record of that correspondence.

2.6 The personal data described above may relate to any of the following categories of person:

You/your dependants
our Young Persons, Leaders, Adult Volunteers, Committee members etc
those emergency contacts whose details have been provided to us
third party processors of data with whom we have contact by virtue of providing services
our contacts at professional advisors or others with whom we work in the running of our Group
those who submit enquiries through our website or whose details are otherwise entered into our members’ relationship management systems
any other visitor to our premises.

3 Cookie Policy

3.1 Our website may occasionally use cookies to distinguish you from other users, to improve your experience on our website, and, to recommend content that may be of interest to you.

4 How we will use your information

4.1 We may use your information for the following purposes:

to respond to any query that you may submit to us
to manage our relationship with you
to complete our Group and contractual obligations to you
to send you any relevant information on our services and events that may be of interest to you using the email and/or postal address which you have provided, but only if you have given us your consent to do so or we are otherwise able to do so in accordance with applicable European Data Protection Legislation
to process any application/request you have submitted
to ensure that our website’s content is presented in the most effective manner for you and your device
to customise our website according to your interests
to administer our website and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey responses
to allow you to participate in interactive features on our website when you choose to do so
as part of our efforts to keep our website safe and secure
to ensure we appropriately administer any attendance / visits to our premises
to comply with any other professional, legal and regulatory obligations which apply to us or policies that we have in place
as we feel is necessary to prevent illegal activity or to protect our interests.
to carry out any relevant checks (including but not limited to DBS checks, or other checks required in the course of running our Group)

5 Legal grounds for processing your information

5.1 We will rely on the following legal bases under European Data Protection Legislation for processing your personal data:

a) Performance of, or entry into, a contract. The personal data that we are required to collect in order to comply with any other professional, legal and regulatory obligations which apply to us must be provided to us in order for us to perform this contract – we would not be able to act for you without this personal data.
b) Compliance with a legal obligation to which we are subject.
c) We have a legitimate interest in doing so (and where our legitimate interests are not overridden by your (or the relevant individual’s) own interests or fundamental rights or freedoms).
d) Where processing of ‘special category data’ is necessary in the context of the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims.
e) in certain circumstances, such as those described in paragraph 4.1(n) above or where we need to process ‘special category data’ in the context of running our Group but outside the scope of paragraph 5.1(d) above, where we have obtained your express consent to do so. As we will explain at the time we collect your consent, you may withdraw it at any time in accordance with the information we provide to you at that time.

6 Sharing your information

6.1 We may share your details with carefully selected third parties. These may include service providers, support services and third parties instructed to enable us to fulfil our contractual obligations to you in the running of our Group.

6.2 If we share your information with third parties they will process your information as either a data controller or as our data processor and this will depend on the purposes of our sharing your personal data. We will only share your personal data in compliance with the European Data Protection Legislation.

6.3 We may disclose your information to third parties when:

you specifically request this or it is necessary to provide our services to you
if our website or substantially all of its assets are acquired by a third party, in which case personal data held by it about its customers will be one of the transferred assets
if we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation or to protect the rights, property or safety of our website, or others. This includes exchanging information with other companies and organisations for the purposes of fraud protection and credit risk reduction.

6.4 The third parties include:

our bank
our insurers
our auditors
other professional advisors or third parties with whom we engage as part of our roles in the Group
any professional bodies that we are a member of
our data processors providing security, email security, data governance, archiving and other IT and business/Group support services
our email marketing platform provider and our website platform provider
selected partner digital agencies
analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our website
any third party you ask us to share your data with.

6.5 Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of advertisers and partners. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

6.6 We will not rent or sell our users’ or other contacts’ details to any other organisation or individual.

7 Storage and retention of your personal data

7.1 We follow strict security procedures as to how your personal information is stored and used, and who sees it, to help stop any unauthorised person getting hold of it. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure and although we do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot absolutely guarantee the security of your data.

7.2 We will keep your information stored on our systems for as long as it takes to provide the services to you. We may keep your data for longer than our stated retention period if we cannot delete it for legal, regulatory or technical reasons. We may also keep it for research or statistical purposes. If we do, we will ensure that appropriate safeguards are in place to protect your privacy and only used for those purposes.

7.3 The third parties we engage to provide services on our behalf will keep your data stored on their systems for as long as is necessary to provide the services to you.

7.4 We will, subject to paragraph 7.2, not store your information for longer than is reasonably necessary or required by law.

8 Sending your information outside of the EEA

8.1 If we need to share your personal data with a recipient outside the European Economic Area (“EEA”) (e.g. a professional advisor or third party engaged by us or you) we will ensure we do so in compliance with European Data Protection Legislation, including where applicable by ensuring that the transfer is necessary to perform a contract in place with you or a contract entered into in your interests.

8.2 Our authorised users may access our systems remotely. Where they do so, they are required to use our systems and access any personal data in accordance with all the usual policies and procedures.

9 Withdrawal of consent

9.1 Where we process your personal data we do so on the basis that you have provided your consent for us to do so for the purposes set out in this Policy when you submitted your personal data to us. You may withdraw your consent to this processing at any time by contacting us via the web form on our Contact Us page

9.2 If you do withdraw your consent, we may still be able to process some of the data that you have provided to us on other grounds and will notify you of these at such time.

10 Your information rights

10.1 European Data Protection Legislation gives you the right to access information held about you. You are entitled to be told by us whether we or someone else on our behalf is processing your personal information; what personal information we hold; details of the purposes for the processing of your personal information; and details of any third party with whom your personal information has been shared.

10.2 You can access the personal information we hold on you by requesting it via our web form via our Contact Us page.

10.3 We will ask you to provide proof of identity before we show you your personal information – this is so we can prevent unauthorised access.

10.4 Please note: any access request made is free of charge, however, in the event that an access request is unfounded, excessive or especially repetitive, we may charge a ‘reasonable fee’ for meeting that request. Similarly, we may charge a reasonable fee to comply with requests for further copies of the same information. (That fee will be based upon the administrative costs of providing the information).

10.5 You have the additional right to request rectification and erasure of your personal data and to request restriction of, and to otherwise object to, our processing of your personal data and you can exercise these rights at any time by completing our web form via our Contact Us page. Please note however, in this case that we may not be able to continue our Group obligations with you and therefore your/your dependants’ relationship with the Group may be ceased.

10.6 From 25 May 2018, you will also be entitled to receive the personal data that you have provided to us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format, and to transmit that data to another data controller. You can exercise this right by completing our web form via our Contact Us page.

11 Complaints

11.1 If you consent to us contacting you, we will always aim to be respectful, relevant and appropriate. If at any time you do not think that we have complied with this, please contact us straight away to let us know.

11.2 You also have the right to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office. For more details please visit the ICO website.

12 Contact

Questions, comments and requests regarding this Policy should be made via the Contact Us section of our website.