SDCC Privacy Policy

Why We Have a Privacy Policy

In order to protect your personal data and ensure that it doesn’t get abused we have written this policy to govern the use of personal data by the Stirling and District Camera Club (SDCC).

The policy is designed to comply with the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) which you can find out more about at here. The GDPR was approved by the EU Parliament on 14 April 2016 with an enforcement date of 25 May 2018, after which time organizations (such as SDCC) found to be in non-compliance with the regulations may face heavy fines.

The GDPR is intended to protect personal data which is any information related to a natural person or ‘Data Subject’, that can be used to directly or indirectly identify the person. It can be anything from a name, a photo, an email address, bank details, posts on social networking websites, medical information, or a computer IP address.

What Type of Personal Data Do We Use and How Do We Use It?

The personal data that we will request from you is the minimum that we need for the daily running of our club (SDCC). The following describes the data we use and how we use it:

  • Your name: this is necessary to identify you as a legitimate SDCC member (i.e. someone who has paid the requisite membership fees for the current club session) and also to properly attribute your photographs in both internal/external club competitions and on the SDCC website (sdcc.org.uk), if appropriate.
  • Your Email address: Email communications are our primary means of communicating with our members and we require that all members provide us with a suitable Email address. Your can register your preferences for the types of Email communications we send you (see section ‘How Do We Obtain Personal Data and Your Consent to Use It?’).
  • Telephone number (optional): if you choose to share a telephone number with us we may use it to contact you for the purposes of Club business.
  • Emergency contact telephone number and address (optional): if you choose to share an emergency contact telephone number and address we will use these details in case of an emergency situation affecting you during a SDCC event/outing to inform others and/or return you to home (depending on circumstances). In the case of events (arranged outwith our normal meeting venue) a printed list of these details will be provided to the event leader(s) for possible use during the event. This list will be destroyed by the event leader(s) after the event.
  • Your computers IP address: when you visit our club website (sdcc.org.uk) we record your computers IP address as a security measure to help prevent security breaches of our site. Your IP address is not associated with any other type of personal data so we cannot identify you personally through your IP address (unless your are a registered administrator of the website). Note our website uses ‘cookies’ and we have a policy governing their use (see our Cookie Policy).

How We Protect Your Data

Your personal data will be held online at the following locations:

  • Name, Email address, telephone number and preferences: will be held securely in the clubs MailChimp account (see MailChimp website) and can only be accessed by yourself and appropriate SDCC committee members (via designated username and password access). Mailchimp have their own privacy policy which can be viewed at this link.
  • Emergency contact telephone number and address: will be held securely in the clubs MailChimp account (see MailChimp website) and can only be accessed by yourself and appropriate SDCC committee members (via designated username and password access). In the case of events (arranged outwith our normal meeting venue) a printed list of these details will be provided to the event leader(s) for possible use during the event. This list will be destroyed by the event leader(s) after the event.
  • Name: will be used on the SDCC website to give attribution to your photographs and identify your entries in competition score/result sheets (provided you have given prior consent).

Please note that the Club has a private Facebook group that members will be invited to use and we will use your Email address simply to send you an invitation to join the group. Any personal data you may choose to disclose on the Facebook group is not governed by this Privacy policy but is governed by Facebooks own Terms and Conditions (see link).

How Do We Obtain Personal Data and Your Consent to Use It?

To gather your personal data and record your consent to use this data we use the online service provided by Mailchimp (see https://mailchimp.com). This can be accessed via a link provided in the footer of our Email communications to you. Your personal information and consent can be updated, or withdrawn, at any time via this service.

How Long Do We Retain Your Data?

Unless you specifically request that we delete your personal data (see ‘Can You Delete Your Data?’) we will retain your data as long as you remain a legitimate SDCC member (i.e. you have paid the appropriate membership fee for the current session).

A few months after the start of a new club season, and if you have not paid your membership fees, we will delete all of the personal data we hold for you with the exception of any accreditation data on our website (e.g. photograph accreditations and competition score/result sheets). We need to keep this type of data (basically your name) since we need to be able to look at past competition scores to decide what images to enter to inter-club competitions and to check we have not previously entered a particular image.

Can You Delete Your Data?

If you wish us to delete your personal data that we hold about you please contact us to request deletion. Once we have verified that the request is a legitimate request (i.e. it comes from you) we will delete all data we hold (including personal data on the website) within a reasonable period.

Please note that in the case of members whose name may be engraved onto competition trophies, as winners of particular competitions) that we will be unable to delete this particular type of personal information.

What We Do Should Your Data is Accidentally Disclosed

In the event that we become aware of a breach of the data protection measures in place to protect your personal data we will endeavour to inform you of this breach within 72 hours. We will also inform the Data Protection Authority of any such breach.