Privacy Policy

This privacy policy applies solely to information collected by this website.
It will notify you of the following:

1. What personally identifiable information is collected from you through the website, how it is used and with whom it may be shared.
2. What choices are available to you regarding the use of your data.
3. The security procedures in place to protect the misuse of your information.
4. How you can correct any inaccuracies in the information.

Information, collection, use and sharing
We are the sole owners of the information collected on the site. We only have access to/collect information that you voluntarily give us via email or other direct contact from you. We will not sell or rent or give this information to anyone.

We will use your information to respond to you, regarding the reason you contacted us. We will not share your information with any third party outside of our organisation, other than as necessary to fulfil your request, e.g. to contact you.

Unless you ask us not to, we may contact you via email in the future to tell you about our news, opportunities, or changes to your membership or our policies.

Your access to and control over information
You may opt out of any future contact from us at any time. You can do this by contacting us via email, which is given on our website. You can ask us the following:

1. See what data we have about you, if any.
2. Change/correct any data we have about you.
3. Have us delete any data we have about you.
4. Express any concern you have about our use of your data.
5. Control what your data is used for.

Registration for membership
A user must first complete the registration form and make payment of membership fee. During registration a user is required to give certain information. This information is used to contact you about matters relevant to Mark Colbourne on our site in which you have expressed interest by virtue of visiting the site or becoming a member of the association. At your option, you may also provide demographic information (such as gender or age). This is not required.

Lawful base for holding data
We request information from you to complete your membership and rely on the lawful bases of contract and legitimate interest. This means under the relevant Data Protection laws of England and Wales you are entitled to ask to be erased from our database and the right to object to being included on the database.
We rely on the lawful base of consent for Children under the age of 16 and children using our site must have the express permission of their legal guardian to access the site and its content.

Purpose of processing data
We process your data for the sole purpose of Mark Colbourne.

Security
We take precautions to protect information. When you submit sensitive information via the website, your information is protected both online and offline.
Wherever we collect sensitive information (such as credit card data), that information is encrypted and transmitted to use in a secure way. You can verify this by looking for a closed lock icon at the bottom of your web browser or for looking for ‘https’ at the beginning of the address of the web page.
While we use encryption to protect sensitive information transmitted online, we also protect your information offline. Only employees who need the information to perform a specific job (for example, billing or customer service) are granted access to personally identifiable information. The computers/servers in which we store personally identifiable information are kept in a secure environment.

Updates
We reserve the right to amend/change our policy at any time and all updates will be posted on this page.

Complaints
If you feel we are not using your data in the way in which you are agreeing to you have the right to make a complaint. Please contact us in the first instance but you can also visit https://ico.org.uk/concerns/handling/ for further information.
If you feel that we are not abiding by this privacy policy you should contact us immediately via email.