Rotary in Great Harwood & Rishton Privacy Notice
The Rotary Club of Great Harwood and Rishton
Privacy Policy
The Rotary Club of Great Harwood and Rishton (“we”,”us”) promise to respect the confidentiality of any personal data you share with us, or that we have access to through The Data Management System (DMS) to keep it safe, and we will always take every effort to protect your privacy. We pride ourselves on our honesty and openness and will always be clear how, when and why we collect and process your information; we promise we will never do anything with your details that you wouldn’t reasonably expect.
Developing a better understanding of our members is crucial, and your personal data allows us to manage your membership and provide the services you are entitled to.
We collect information in the following ways:
When you
give it to us DIRECTLY
There are many ways you may give us your information. For example, when you
join as a member, begin volunteering, make a donation, or communicate with us
either by phone, in writing, including email or in person. We are responsible
for your data at all times.
Via
Social Media
Depending on your settings or the privacy notices for social media and
messaging services like Facebook, or Twitter, you might give us permission to
access information from those accounts or services.
Via
information available publicly
This may include information found in places such websites (club, district,
action groups etc), Companies House and information that has been published in
articles/newspapers.
What
personal information we collect and how we use it
We will only ever capture the minimum amount of information that we need to in
relation to your membership, donation or services we provide to you and we
promise to keep your information secure. The personal data we will usually
collect is:
- Your name
- Your contact details
- Your date of birth
- Your photograph will only be visible in the members only section of our website if you agree to us using it
- We may use your photograph on some occasions on our public website, press releases and social media if you have attended an event where photographs have been taken. You must inform the Secretary if you do not want this.
Where it is appropriate, we may also ask for additional information
How we
will use your data
We will use your personal data for the legitimate interest of conducting core
business activities, these will include:
- Administer your membership or donation, including processing Gift Aid
- Communicating organisational messages and information to members, district and club officers
- Supporting ‘The Rotarian’ and ‘Rotary’ magazines
- Supporting The Rotary Foundation (TRF) and the Rotary Foundation United Kingdom
- Preparation of Rotary handbooks.
- Appointments to committees, club offices, To present our website and its contents to you and to allow you to participate in interactive features on our website
- Keep a record of your relationship with us
- Understand how we can improve our services, or information
- In any other way we may describe when you provide the information
- For any other purposes with your consent
Sensitive
information
We do not collect any personal information on members classified as ‘sensitive’
under The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
Rotakids and under 18’s data
We do not collect information from under 18’s.
INFORMATION SHARING
1)
Sharing within the Rotary organisation
The Rotary organisation is made up of Rotary International (RI), The Rotary
Foundation (TRF), Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland (RIBI), the
Rotary Foundation United Kingdom (RFUK) and the RIBI Donations Trust.
When you give information to us it will be shared within the wider organisation to facilitate your membership or donations and to provide the service afforded to you as part of that membership/donation. We will ensure that data processing agreements, compliant to GDPR, are in place before sharing your data within the wider organisation.
Rotary clubs and districts within Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland are data processors for some of your personal information associated with your membership and will process your data in accordance with the RIBI privacy notice. Clubs also collect personal data for their individual club and are therefore also independent data controllers. This means we are also legally responsible for protecting your data under GDPR legislation whilst in our safekeeping and will have their own privacy notices in this respect.
2)
Sharing with third parties
We will never commercially sell your personal data to anyone else.
We will only ever share your personal data in other circumstances, not listed
above, if we have your explicit and informed consent at the time of collection.
However, we may need to disclose your details if required to the police, other
agencies, for example HMRC, regulatory bodies or our legal advisors.
How we
keep your information safe and who has access to it
We ensure that there are appropriate physical and technical controls in place
to protect your personal details. For example, confidential paper records are
securely stored, Confidential paper waste is shredded by the Secretary.
We undertake regular reviews of who has access to information that we hold to ensure that your personal information is only accessible by identified administrators.
We have a duty to report certain types of personal data breaches to the relevant supervisory authority, and where feasible, we will do this within 72 hours of becoming aware of the breach. If a breach is detected and likely to result in a high risk of adversely affecting you, we will inform you without undue delay.
Where we
store your information
Your personal information is held in the DMS, in the members only section of the website, in the secretary’s computer, in a cloud-based
filing system and on a Memory stick held by the secretary. The DMS has its own secure system and the secretary's computer has an Internet secure system.
You can view RI’s privacy notice by visiting their website at:
https://my.rotary.org/en/privacy-policy
You can view RIBI’s privacy policy by visiting their website at:
https://www.rotarygbi.org/privacy-policy/
How long
we retain your information and how we keep it up to date
We will only keep your information for as long as we need it to assist you with
your enquiry, process your membership, donation, event registration or other
services associated to your Rotary membership. There are statutory timescales
on how long we should keep your information, for example, gift aid transactions
must be retained indefinitely, financial records must be kept for 7 years,
information associated with Health & Safety for three years after an event.
We shall delete your information according to these statutory limits, or
according to guidance issued by the Information Commissioner.
Individual members are responsible for keeping their own personal data up to date and have access to the RIBI Data Management System (DMS) or My Rotary on the RIBI website for this purpose. In addition, where necessary, we will keep your information accurate and up-to-date.
Your
rights
The General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) gives you certain rights and
these are listed below for your convenience, further clarification of your
rights is available on the Information Commissioners website at:
https://ico.org.uk/
- You have a right to be informed when your personal data is being collected, what is collected and how it will be used or shared.
- You have a right of access to your personal data: the right of access allows you to be aware of and verify the lawfulness of the processing of your personal data. Members and donors have access to their personal data via self-service systems such as the RIBI Data Management System (DMS) or My Rotary via the RI website. You can also request a copy of the information which we hold on you. You have a right in certain circumstances to have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked (restrict processing), erased (right to be forgotten), or destroyed.
- You have a right in certain circumstances to object to the processing of your personal data for such reasons as direct marketing, automated decision making, profiling; although we can confirm we make no decisions on you using an automated process.
- You have a right in certain circumstances to data portability.
In certain situations, these rights may not apply, for example if you are a valid member we will need to communicate with you about your membership and those services afforded to you as part of that membership; you hold a club or district office and we need to communicate with you in relation to that office, in which case you will not be able to unsubscribe from these communications.
We collect and process your personal data through legitimate interests or because you have provided it to us to enable us to deliver a service to you. We will only process your personal data as you would reasonably expect us to. You can opt out of our general member mailings at any time.
Finally, if you are unhappy with how we have processed your information, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the Office of the Information Commissioner, contact details below.
Changes
to this privacy notice
We may change this privacy notice from time to time. If we make any significant
changes in the way we treat your personal information we will make this clear
on our website www.rotarygbi.org or by notifying you directly.
Complaints
If you are unhappy with how we have processed your personal information, please
firstly contact the club Secretary. If
you are still unhappy you may contact the following:
Information
Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire, SK9 5AF
Helpline: 0303 123 1113 (local rate) or ++44 1625 545 745
Club contact details
https://www.rotary-ribi.org/clubs/contact.php?ClubID=1158
[This privacy notice was last reviewed and updated 18 January 2024
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