1.0 OUR POLICIES REGARDING USER PRIVACY AND DATA PROTECTION

• User privacy and data protection are human rights

• We have a duty of care to the people within our data

• Data is a liability, it should only be collected and processed when absolutely necessary

• We dislike spam as much as you do

• We will never sell, rent or otherwise distribute or make public your personal information

 

2.0 RELEVANT LEGISLATION

Along with the business and internal computer systems, this website is designed to comply with the following national and international legislation with regards to data protection and user privacy:

UK Data Protection Act 1988 (DPA)

EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (DPD)

EU General Data Protection Regulation 2018 (GDPR)

Australian Privacy Act 1988 (APA)

 

This site’s compliance with the above legislation, all of which are stringent in nature, means that this site is likely compliant with the data protection and user privacy legislation set out by many other countries and territories as well. If you are unsure about whether this site is compliant with your own country of residences’ specific data protection and user privacy legislation you should contact us for clarification

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3.0 PERSONAL INFORMATION THAT THIS WEBSITE COLLECTS AND WHY WE COLLECT IT

This website collects and uses personal information for the following reasons:

 

3.1 Site visitation tracking

Like most websites, this site uses Google Analytics (GA) to track user interaction. We use this data to determine the number of people using our site, to better understand how they find and use our web pages and to see their journey through the website.

Although GA records data such as your geographical location, device, internet browser and operating system, none of this information personally identifies you to us. GA also records your computer’s IP address which could be used to personally identify you but Google do not grant us access to this. We consider Google to be a third party data processor.

 

GA makes use of cookies, details of which can be found on Google’s developer guides. FYI our website uses the Wix implementation of GA

 

Disabling cookies on your internet browser will stop GA from tracking any part of your visit to pages within this website.

In addition to Google Analytics, this website may collect* information (held in the public domain) attributed to the IP address of the computer or device that is being used to access it. 

 

 

3.2 Our blog

Should you choose to add a comment to any posts that we have published on our blog, the name and email address you enter with your comment will be saved to this website’s database, along with your computer’s IP address and the time and date that you submitted the comment. This information is only used to identify you as a contributor to the comment section of the respective blog post and is not passed on to any of the third party data processors detailed below. Only your name will be shown on the public-facing website Your comment and it’s associated personal data will remain on this site until we see fit to either 

 

1.) remove the comment 

2.) remove the blog post.

 

Should you wish to have the comment and its associated personal data deleted, please email us here using the email address that you commented with.

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If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before posting a comment on our blog.

NOTE: You should avoid entering personally identifiable information to the actual comment field of any blog post comments that you submit on this website.

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3.3 Contact forms and email links

Should you choose to contact us using any of the contact forms on our website or an email link  none of the data that you supply will be stored by this website or be passed to or be processed by any of the third party data processors defined below. Instead the data will be collated into an email and sent to us over the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP). Our SMTP servers are protected by TLS (sometimes known as SSL) meaning that the email content is encrypted using SHA-2, 256-bit cryptography before being sent across the internet. The email content is then decrypted by our local computers and devices.

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3.4 Email newsletter

If you choose to join our email newsletter, the email address that you submit to us will be stored in our website platform in the “shout Out” database that we use for our email marketing  We consider Wix to be a third party data processor. The email address that you submit will not be stored within this website’s own database or in any of our internal computer systems.

Your email address will remain within the Wix Shout Out database for as long as we continue to use Wix services for email marketing or until you specifically request removal from the list. You can do this by unsubscribing using the unsubscribe links contained in any email newsletters that we send you or by requesting removal via email. When requesting removal via email, please send your email to us using the email account that is subscribed to the mailing list.

If you are under 16 years of age you MUST obtain parental consent before joining our email newsletter.

While your email address remains within the Shout Out database, you may receive periodic newsletter-style emails from us relating to your club membership.

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4.0 HOW WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

If you submit a comment to a blog post published on this website some personal information will be stored. This is currently the only occasion where personal data will be stored on this website. This data is currently stored in an identifiable fashion; a limitation of the content management system that this website is built on (WordPress). In the near future we aim to change the storage of this data to a pseudonymous fashion meaning that the data would require additional processing using a separately stored ‘key’ before it could be used to identify an individual.

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Pseudonymisation is a recent requirement of the GDPR which many web application developers are currently working to fully implement. 

 

5.0 ABOUT THIS WEBSITE’S SERVER

This website is hosted by Wix.com within various secure data centres in the United States and Europe. From time to time we may transfer hosting from one location to another the current platform complies with the EU-US Privacy Shield Framework and the Swiss-US privacy shield framework as set forth by the U.S Department Of Commerce, regarding the collection, use and retention of personal information transferred from the European Union to the United States, and therefore adheres to the privacy shield principles Wix.com guarantees that the platform will be compliant with the new regulation from May 2018

 

6.0 OUR THIRD PARTY DATA PROCESSORS

We use a number of third parties to process personal data on our behalf. These third parties have been carefully chosen and all of them comply with the legislation set out in section 2.0 All of these third parties are EU-U.S Privacy Shield compliant.

 

Member Mojo provides the customer engagement platform that we use to fulfil your membership application. All personal information is taken directly by them and stored securely. No personal financial information is ever taken or stored as this is process is handled by Paypal so that neither Wix, Luton Angling Club or Member Mojo has access to your financial information

 

Wix (privacy policy)

Stripe (privacy policy)

PayPal (privacy policy)

Google (privacy policy)

Member Mojo (privacy policy)

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9.0 CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY

This privacy policy may change from time to time in line with legislation or industry developments. We will not explicitly inform our clients or website users of these changes. Instead, we recommend that you check this page occasionally for any policy changes. Specific policy changes and updates are mentioned in the change log below.

 

9.1 Change log

09/04/2018

Privacy policy instigated

19/04/2022

Added Stripe Privacy Policy