PRIVACY POLICY

Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us. It is Southey Bowling Club’s policy to respect your privacy and comply with any applicable law and regulation regarding any personal information we may collect about you, including across our website, https://www.southeybowlingclub.co.uk, This policy is effective as of 1st August 2024.

 

Information We Collect

Information we collect includes both information you knowingly and actively provide us when using or participating in any of our activities or events and any information automatically sent by your devices in the course of our activities and events.

 

Log Data

When you visit our website, our server may automatically log the standard data provided by your web browser. It may include your device’s Internet Protocol (IP) address, your browser type and version, the pages you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on each page, other details about your visit, and technical details that occur in conjunction with any errors you may encounter.

Please be aware that while this information may not be personally identifying by itself, it may be possible to combine it with other data to personally identify individual persons.

 

Collection and Use of Information

We may collect personal information from you when you do any of the following on our website:

• Use a mobile device or web browser to access our content

• Contact us via email, social media, or on any similar technologies

• When you mention us on social media

 

Security of Your Personal Information

When we collect and process personal information, and while we retain this information, we will protect it within commercially acceptable means to prevent loss and theft, as well as unauthorized access, disclosure, copying, use, or modification.

Although we will do our best to protect the personal information you provide to us, we advise that no method of electronic transmission or storage is 100% secure, and no one can guarantee absolute data security. We will comply with laws applicable to us in respect of any data breach.

 

How Long We Keep Your Personal Information

We keep your personal information only for as long as you are a member of the club. If your personal information is no longer required, we will delete it.

However, if necessary, we may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting, or reporting obligation.

 

Children’s Privacy

We only hold information appertaining to children for essential club purposes.

 

Disclosure of Personal Information to Third Parties

The Administrator will disclose names, telephone numbers and email addresses to other members for club matters only on a need to know basis.

We may retain your personal information for our compliance with a legal, accounting or reporting obligation.

We may disclose personal information to:

• third party service providers for the purpose of enabling them to provide their services, for example, IT service providers, data storage, hosting and server providers, our existing or potential agents or business partners

• courts, tribunals, regulatory authorities, and law enforcement officers, as required by law, in connection with any actual or prospective legal proceedings, or in order to establish, exercise, or defend our legal rights

 

Your Rights and Controlling Your Personal Information

You always retain the right to withhold personal information from us, with the understanding that your experience of our website may be affected. We will not discriminate against you for exercising any of your rights over your personal information. If you do provide us with personal information you understand that we will collect, hold, use and disclose it in accordance with this privacy policy. You retain the right to request details of any personal information we hold about you.

If we receive personal information about you from a third party, we will protect it as set out in this privacy policy.

If you have previously agreed to us using your personal information for direct marketing purposes, you may change your mind at any time.

We will provide you with the ability to unsubscribe from our email-database or opt out of communications. Please be aware we may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity.

If you believe that any information we hold about you is inaccurate, out of date, incomplete, irrelevant, or misleading, please contact us using the details provided in this privacy policy. We will take reasonable steps to correct any information found to be inaccurate, incomplete, misleading, or out of date.

If you believe that we have breached a relevant data protection law and wish to make a complaint, please contact us using the details below and provide us with full details of the alleged breach. We will promptly investigate your complaint and respond to you, in writing, setting out the outcome of our investigation and the steps we will take to deal with your complaint. You also have the right to contact a regulatory body or data protection authority in relation to your complaint.

 

Use of Cookies

We use “cookies” to collect information about you and your activity across our site. A cookie is a small piece of data that our website stores on your computer, and accesses each time you visit, so we can understand how you use our site. This helps us serve you content based on preferences you have specified.

 

Limits of Our Policy

Our website may link to external sites that are not operated by us. Please be aware that we have no control over the content and policies of those sites, and cannot accept responsibility or liability for their respective privacy practices.

 

Changes to This Policy

At our discretion, we may change our privacy policy to reflect updates to our business processes, current acceptable practices, or legislative or regulatory changes. If we decide to change this privacy policy, we will post the changes here at the same link by which you are accessing this privacy policy.

If required by law, we will get your permission or give you the opportunity to opt in to or opt out of, as applicable, any new uses of your personal information.