We are committed to respecting your privacy. This notice is to explain how we may use personal information we collect before, during and after your membership with us. This notice applies to you if you have registered to become or are a member of our club. This notice explains how we comply with the law on data protection, what your rights are and that for the purposes of data protection we will be the controller of any of your personal information.
References to we, our or us in this privacy notice are to SOUTHGATE HOCKEY CLUB.
We have not appointed a Data Protection Officer to oversee our compliance with data protection laws as we are not required to do so, but our CLUB SECRETARY has overall responsibility for data protection compliance in our organisation. Contact details are set out in the “Contacting us” section at the end of this privacy notice.
Personal information we may collect from you
When you register as a member with us or renew your membership (including if you are registering or renewing on behalf of a child under the age of 16) you may initially provide us with or we may request personal information about you, such as information regarding your:
- personal contact details that allows us to contact you directly such as name, title, email addresses and telephone numbers;
- date of birth;
- gender;
- membership start and end date;
- where applicable for a role such as a coach, references and other information included in a CV or cover letter or as part of the application process for membership;
- records of your interactions with us such as telephone conversations, emails and other correspondence and your instructions to us;
- any credit/debit card and other payment details you provide so that we can receive payments from you and details of the financial transactions with you;
- use of and movements through our online portal, passwords, personal identification numbers, IP addresses, user names and other IT system identifying information;
- records of your attendance at any events hosted by us;
- images in video and/or photographic form and voice recordings;
- your marketing preferences so that we know whether and how we should contact you;
- identification documents such as passport and identity cards;
- details of next of kin, family members, coaches and emergency contacts;
- records and assessment of any player rankings, grading or ratings, competition results, details regarding [events/matches/games] attended and performance (including that generated through player pathway programme); and
- any disciplinary and grievance information.
Special categories of personal information
We may also collect, store and use the following ‘special categories’ of more sensitive personal information regarding you:
- information about your health, including any medical condition, health and sickness records, medical records and health professional information.
We may not collect all of the above types of special category personal information about you. In relation to the special category personal data that we do process we do so on the basis that:
- the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest, on a lawful basis;
- it is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims;
- it is necessary for the purposes of carrying out the obligations and exercising our or your rights in the field of employment and social security and social protection law; or
- based on your explicit consent.
If you are employed as a coach or as a volunteer working with members of our youth section, we may also collect criminal records information about you. We are under a legal obligation to process certain personal information relating to our members for the purposes of complying with our obligations to check that our coaches and volunteers are able to undertake regulated work with children and vulnerable adults.
Where we collect your information
We typically collect personal information about our members when you apply to become a member of the club, when you purchase any services or products we offer, when you make a query and/or complaint or when you correspond with us by phone, e-mail or in some other way.
We also may collect personal information about you from any third party references you provide as part of the application process for membership.
If you are providing us with details of referees, next of kin, beneficiaries, family members and emergency contacts they have a right to know and to be aware of what personal information we hold about them, how we collect it and how we use and may share that information. Please share this privacy notice with those of them whom you feel are sufficiently mature to understand it. They also have the same rights as set out in the “Your rights in relation to personal information” section below.
For some of your personal information you will have a legal, contractual or other requirement or obligation for you to provide us with your personal information. If you do not provide us with the requested personal information we may not be able to admit you as a member or we may not be able to properly perform our contract with you or comply with legal obligations and we may have to terminate your membership. For other personal information you may not be under an obligation to provide it to us, but if you do not provide it then we may not be able to properly perform our contract with you.
Where you have given us your consent to use your personal information in a particular manner, you have the right to withdraw this consent at any time, which you may do by contacting us as described in the ‘Contacting us’ section below.
Please note however that the withdrawal of your consent will not affect any use of the data made before you withdrew your consent and we may still be entitled to hold and process the relevant personal information to the extent that we are entitled to do so on bases other than your consent. Withdrawing consent may also have the same effects as not providing the information in the first place, for example we may no longer be able to provide certain member benefits to you.
Direct Marketing
Email: from time to time, we may contact you by email with information about products and services we believe you may be interested in, such as club events and match results.
We will only send marketing messages to you in accordance with the marketing preferences you set. You can then let us know at any time that you do not wish to receive marketing messages by emailing us at secretary@southgatehc.org.uk.
Disclosure of your personal information
We may share personal information with the following parties:
- Any party approved by you.
- Any governing bodies or regional bodies for the sports covered by our club: to allow them to properly administer the sports on a local, regional and national level.
- The Government or our regulators:where we are required to do so by law or to assist with their investigations or initiatives.
- Police, law enforcement and security services:to assist with the investigation and prevention of crime and the protection of national security.
In the event that we do share personal information with external thirds parties we will only share such personal information strictly required for the specific purposes and we will take reasonable steps to ensure that recipients shall only process the disclosed personal information in accordance with those purposes.
How long do we keep personal information for?
The duration for which we retain your personal information will differ depending on the type of information and the reason why we collected it from you. However, in some cases personal information may be retained on a long-term basis: for example, personal information that we need to retain for legal purposes will normally be retained in accordance with usual commercial practice and regulatory requirements. Generally, where there is no legal requirement we retain all physical and electronic records for a period of 2 years after your last contact with us or the end of your membership. Exceptions to this rule are:
- details regarding unsuccessful membership applicants where we hold records for a period of not more than 12 months; and
- information that may be relevant to personal injury or discrimination claims may be retained until the limitation period for those types of claims has expired. For personal injury or discrimination claims this can be an extended period as the limitation period might not start to run until a long time after the event.
It is important to ensure that the personal information we hold about you is accurate and up-to-date, and you should let us know if anything changes, for example if you change your phone number or email address. Alternatively, you can contact us by using the details set out in the Contacting us section below.
Your rights in relation to personal information
You have the following rights in relation to your personal information:
- the right to be informed about how your personal information is being used;
- the right to access the personal information we hold about you;
- the right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you;
- the right to request the erasure of your personal information in certain limited circumstances;
- the right to restrict processing of your personal information where certain requirements are met;
- the right to object to the processing of your personal information;
- the right to request that we transfer elements of your data either to you or another service provider; and
- the right to object to certain automated decision-making processes using your personal information.
You should note that some of these rights, for example the right to require us to transfer your data to another service provider or the right to object to automated decision making, may not apply as they have specific requirements and exemptions which apply to them and they may not apply to personal information recorded and stored by us. For example, we do not use automated decision making in relation to your personal data. However, some have no conditions attached, so your right to withdraw consent or object to processing for direct marketing are absolute rights.
Whilst this privacy notice sets out a general summary of your legal rights in respect of personal information, this is a very complex area of law. More information about your legal rights can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website at https://ico.org.uk/for-the-public.
To exercise any of the above rights, or if you have any questions relating to your rights, please contact us by using the details set out in the Contacting us section below.
Contacting Us
In the event of any query or complaint in connection with the information we hold about you, please email secretary@southgatehc.org.uk
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