THORPE SPORTS AND SOCIAL CLUB

PRIVACY POLICY

Maintaining the security of your data is a top priority at Thorpe Sports and Social Club and we are fully committed to respecting your privacy rights.

We aim to handle your data legally and fairly at all times. We are dedicated to being transparent about how we use data and what data we collect about you.

Personal Data we collect

Thorpe Sports and Social Club may collect the following information about you:
• Your name
• Your contact details: postal address, telephone numbers (including mobile numbers) and e-mail address;
• Purchases made by you;
• Your on-line browsing activities on our website;
• Your communication and marketing preferences;
• Your feedback and survey responses;
• Your location;
• Your correspondence and communications;
• Other publicly available personal data, including any which you have shared via a public platform (such as a Twitter feed or public Facebook page).

This list is not exhaustive, and, in specific instances, we may need to collect additional data for the purposes set out in this Policy.

Some of the above personal data is collected directly, for example when you apply for / renew your membership with our club or send an email to our staff.

Other personal data is collected indirectly, for example when paying for good with a membership card.

We may also collect personal data from third parties who have your consent to pass your details to us, or from publicly available sources.

How we use personal data

Thorpe Sports and Social Club uses your personal data:

• To verify your identity.
• Send you our newsletter and other marketing communications relating to our club which we think may be of interest to you by email.
• You can inform us at any time if you no longer require marketing communications.
• For market research purposes – to better understand your needs.
• Where we have a legal right or duty to use or disclose your information (for example in relation to an investigation by a public authority or in a legal dispute).

We may also use your information to:

• Send you email notifications which you have specifically requested.
• Deal with enquiries and complaints made by or about you relating to your membership with the club.
We will not provide your personal information to any third parties for the purpose of direct marketing.

Newsletter and Marketing

We would sometimes like to send you information about events which may be of interest to you but will only do so if your consent has been given.

If you no longer wish to be contacted for marketing purposes, please email us at: secretary@thorpesportsandsocialclub.com

Your rights

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date.

You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

You can always choose whether you wish to receive emails, SMS messages, telephone calls and postal mail from Thorpe Sports and Social Club.

You may instruct us to provide you with any personal information we hold about you.

Provision of such information will be subject to the supply of appropriate evidence of your identity (for this purpose, we will usually accept a photocopy of your passport certified by a solicitor or bank plus an original copy of a utility bill showing your current address).

We may withhold such personal information to the extent permitted by law. You may instruct us not to process your personal information for marketing purposes by sending an email to us. In practice, you will usually either expressly agree in advance to our use of your personal information for marketing purposes, or we will provide you with an opportunity to opt out of the use of your personal information for marketing purposes. You also have the following rights:

• The right to ask for a copy of personal data that we hold about you (the right of access);
• The right (in certain circumstances) to request that we delete personal data held on you; where we no longer have any legal reason to retain it (the right of erasure or to be forgotten);
• The right to ask us to update and correct any out-of-date or incorrect personal data that we hold about you (the right of rectification);
• The right to opt out of any marketing communications that we may send you and to object to us using / holding your personal data if we have no legitimate reasons to do so (the right to object);
• The right (in certain circumstances) to ask us to ‘restrict processing of data’; which means that we would need to secure and retain the data for your benefit but not otherwise use it (the right to restrict processing); and
• The right (in certain circumstances) to ask us to supply you with some of the personal data we hold about you in a structured machine-readable format and/or to provide a copy of the data in such a format to another organisation (the right to data portability).
• If you wish to exercise any of the above rights, please contact us using the contact details set out below.

Cookies Our website uses cookies.

By using our website and agreeing to this policy, you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this policy. Cookies are small files placed on your computer by websites you have visited.

They are normally used to make websites work but can also be used to collect data.

Disclosures We may disclose your personal information to any of our employees, insofar as reasonably necessary for the purposes set out in this privacy policy. In addition, we may disclose your personal information:

• To the extent that we are required to do so by law;
• In connection with any ongoing or prospective legal proceedings;
• In order to establish, exercise or defend our legal rights (including providing information to others for the purposes of fraud prevention and reducing credit risk)
• Except as provided in this privacy policy, we will not provide your information to third parties.

Security of your personal information

We will take reasonable technical and organisational precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of your personal information.

We will store all the personal information you provide on our secure (password and firewall-protected) computers.

You acknowledge that the transmission of information over the internet is inherently insecure, and we cannot guarantee the security of data sent over the internet.

You are responsible for keeping your membership details confidential.

Policy amendments We may update this privacy policy from time to time by posting a new version on our website.

You should check this page occasionally to ensure you are happy with any changes. This policy was last updated in May 2021.

Updating information

Please let us know if the personal information which we hold about you needs to be corrected or updated.

How to contact us

Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you: by email: secretary@thorpesportsandsocialclub.com or by writing to:

Thorpe Sports and Social Club
Station Road
Thorpe le Soken
Essex
CO16 0HD
Tel 01255 861259