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GDPR Policy

Midlands National Flying Club (MNFC)

PRIVACY STATEMENT

The President, Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary and members of the MNFC Committee are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This notice is to explain how we may use personal information we collect before, during and after your membership or contact with us. This notice explains how we comply with the law on data protection, what your rights are and for the purpose of data protection we will be the controller of any of your personal information.

This notice applies to you if you are either:

  • a member of the Midlands National Flying Club ;
  • and/or a user of the Midlands National Flying Club website at (www.mnfc.org.uk

References to we, our or us in this privacy policy are to the Midlands National Flying Club.

PERSONAL INFORMATION WE MAY COLLECT FROM YOU

  • Personal contact details such as name, title, postal address, email addresses, telephone numbers, and mobile numbers;
  • membership details including loft numbers, loft locations, rings records, membership payment history and any other items covered by the Midlands National Flying Club and RPRA Rules;
  • records of your interactions with us such as telephone conversations, emails and other correspondence.
  • use of and movements through our online members portal, passwords, personal identification numbers,
  • information relating to your pigeons, performances and images in video and/or photograph form and voice recording
  • The MNFC has a domestic set of rules that may change at any annual general meeting, which the membership both agree to observe, and are obligated to follow. The club is affiliated to the Royal Pigeon Racing Association (RPRA), and governed overall by the rules of the RPRA. These rules can be viewed at www.rpra.org
  • Some personal information collected, will by necessity be shared with our Governing Body – The Royal Pigeon Racing Association - along with the club’s Marking Station officials, should you wish to compete in any race.
  • Information collected will not be shared in any way with any organisation, other than as detailed above, unless you give express consent to our Press Officers for them to publicise your achievements, and we promise to keep your details confidential, safe and secure.
  • Race results containing the details of members and their approximate geographical locations and positions, will be advertised both in the UK Fancy Press; on the MNFC’s web site, and potentially other web sites world-wide, along with hard copy publications in other Countries.

WHERE WE COLLECT YOUR INFORMATION

  • We typically collect personal information
  • via our meetings, annual membership renewal applications and/or new membership form;
  • when you logon to our websites to purchase any service or product
  • when you make a query and/or complaint
  • or when you correspond with us by phone, email or some other way.
  • This information may be held by the Midlands National Flying Club and passed to organisations to which we are affiliated such as the RPRA, marking station officials, clock station officials where you compete in any race.

If a Data Breach is Suffered

A personal data breach means a breach of security leading to the complete destruction, loss, unauthorised access or disclosure of personal data.

Any personal data breach must be reported to the club Secretary or Treasurer and they will investigate if the data breach was likely to result in a risk to the individual(s); for instance damage to reputation; financial loss, and if this is the case the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) must be informed within 72 hours.

The MNFC is registered with the ICO and the ICO helpline phone number is 0303 123 1113

Access to Personal Data

If a club member (past or present) wishes to have access or knowledge concerning any personal data we may hold on them, they need to apply in writing to an officer of the club, whose details can be found on the MNFC web site www.mnfc.org.uk

Steps must be taken to confirm the identity of the individual before supplying the requested information, which will require both photographic identification, and proof of address.

Changes requested by the individual such as “right to be forgotten” (removal) must be actioned as soon as possible.

Data Changes

It is important that the information members have provided is kept up-to-date and accurate. You should let us know as soon as possible if anything changes, such as telephone or ‘e’-mail addresses. Please login to your member’s area on the MNFC website and check your members details.

How we use cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer's hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps us analyze web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

We use traffic log cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION

The table below describes the main purposes for which we process your personal information, the categories for your information and our lawful basis for being able to do this.

Purpose

Personal Information Used

Lawful basis

To administer any membership you have with us and managing our relationship with you, and dealing with payments and any support, service or product enquiries made by you

All contact and membership details, transaction and payment information, records of your interactions with us, and marketing preferences if supplied by you.

This is necessary to enable us to properly manage and administer your membership contract with us.

To arrange and manage any contracts for the provision of any merchandise, products and/or services

All contact and membership details, transaction and payment information

This is necessary to enable us to properly administer and perform any contract for the provision of merchandise, products or services. E.g. rings, subscriptions and race entry.

To send you marketing information if you have explicitly instructed us to do so.

E.g. Your MNFC Handbook

All contact and membership details and marketing preferences.

Where you have given your explicit consent to do so, or we consider the sending of such information to be in your legitimate interests.

To answer your queries and complaints

Contact details and records of your interactions with us

We have a legitimate interest to provide complaint handling services to you in case there are any issue.

Retention of records

All personal information we collect.

We have a legitimate interest in retaining records whilst they may be required in relation to complaints or claims. We need to retain records in order to properly administer and manage your membership and in some cases, we may have a legal or regulatory obligation to retain records.

Security of our IT systems

All online transactions are completed by RBS WorldPay

Your usage of our IT systems and online portals

We have a legitimate interest to ensure that our IT systems are secure.

For the purposes of promoting the sport of pigeon racing and events organised by us.

E.g Race reports

Images in video and /or photographic form.

Where you have given us your explicit consent to do so, or where the use of such images is compliant with the ‘Special Purposes’ as defined within Clause 24(1) or the GDPR

To comply with health and safety requirements

Records of attendance

We have a legal obligation and a legitimate interest to provide you and members of our organisation with a safe environment in which to participate in the sport and at events organised by us.

For some of your personal information you will have a legal and 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 you position as a member. 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 benefits or services to you.

DIRECT MARKETING

The Midlands National Flying Club may from time to time use your information to inform you via email, post or SMS of events, news or other general information relating to your membership of the Midlands National Flying Club.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our websites may contain links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy policy applies only to our websites‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access those using links from our website.

In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the policy of that third party site.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We share personal information with the following parties:

Clock Station officials to aid the production of race results.

TRANSFERRING YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION INTERNATIONALLY

The personal information we collect may be transferred to and stored in countries outside of the UK and the European Union. Some of these jurisdictions require different levels of protection in respect of personal information and, in certain instances, the laws in those countries may be less protective than the jurisdiction you are typically resident in. We will take all reasonable steps to ensure that your personal information is only used in accordance with this privacy notice and applicable data protection laws and is respected and kept secure and where a third party processes your data on our behalf we will put in place appropriate safeguards and required under data protection laws. For further details please contact us by using the details set out in the “Contact Us” section below.

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 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 the usual commercial practice and regulatory requirements. Generally, where there is no legal requirement we retain all physical and electronic records for a period of six years after your last contact with us. Exceptions to this rule are:

Public members’ personal information relating to stray reports may be retained up to three months.

Information that may be relevant to personal injury claims 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 you have worked for us.

Past members’ personal information will be kept up to 20 years after your membership lapses to enable us to assist the repatriation of strays or validation of pigeon performances. 

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. 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 personal information.
  • You should note that some of these rights, for example the right to request 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 rights 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/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 “Contacting Us” section below.

If you are unhappy with the way we are using your personal information, you can complain to the UK Information Commissioner’s Office or your local data protection regulator. We are here to help and encourage you to contact us to resolve your complaint first.

CHANGES TO THIS NOTICE

We may update this privacy notice from time to time. When we change this notice in a material way, we will update the version date at the bottom of this page. For significant changes to this notice we will try to give you reasonable notice unless we are prevented from doing so. Where required by law we will seek your consent to changes in the way we use your personal information.

CONTACTING US

In the event of any query or complaint in connection with the information we hold about you, please email us at This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

Version MNFC PS 01 

Dated :  26th January 2019