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Privacy Policy

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Datchet Dashers are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. For any personal data you provide for the purposes of your membership, Datchet Dashers Running Club are the Data Controller and are responsible for storing and otherwise processing that data in a fair, lawful, secure and transparent way.

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What personal data we hold on you

 

You may give us information about you by filling in forms at an event or online, or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information members provide when registering with the Club. The information you give us may include your name, date of birth, address, e-mail address, phone number, name of the EA affiliated Clubs with which you are registered and gender (Athletics Data). We may also ask for relevant health information, and an in case of emergency contact data which is classed as special category personal data.

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Why we need your personal data

 

The reason we need your athletics data is to be able to administer your race entry or membership and provide the services you are signing up to when you register with the club for an event or membership. Our lawful basis for processing your personal information is that we have a contractual obligation to you to provide the services you are registering for.

 

Reasons we need to process your data include:

 

For training and competition entry

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  • sharing personal data with club coaches or officials to administer training sessions or running events;

  • sharing personal data with club team managers to enter events;

  • sharing personal data with leagues, county associations and other competition providers for entry in events.

 

For funding and reporting purposes

 

  • analysing anonymised data to monitor club trends; and

  • sending an annual club survey to improve your experience as a club member

 

For membership and club management

 

  • processing of race entry and membership forms and payments;

  • sharing data with committee members to provide information about club activities, membership renewals or invitation to social events;

  • club emails promoting club activity;

  • publishing of race and competition results.

 

Marketing and communications (where separate consent is provided)

 

  • sending information about promotions and offers from sponsors;

  • sending information about selling club kit, merchandise or fundraising.

 

Any special category health data we hold on you is only processed for the purpose of passing health data to coaches to allow the safe running of training sessions. We process this data on the lawful basis of consent. Therefore, we will also need your explicit consent to process this data, which we will ask for at the point of collecting it.

 

The club has the following social media pages: Facebook, Twitter and Instagram. All members are free to join these pages. If you join one of the Social Media pages, please note that provider of the social media platform(s) have their own privacy policies and that the club do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data on the club social media pages.

 

Who we share your personal data with

 

When you become a member of the Club, you will also automatically be registered as a member of England Athletics Limited. We will provide England Athletics Limited with your Athletics Data which they will use to enable access to the MyAthletics portal. England Athletics Limited will contact you to invite you to sign into and update your MyAthletics portal. You can set and amend your privacy settings from the MyAthletics portal. 

 

If you have any questions about the continuing privacy of your personal data when it is shared with England Athletics Limited, please contact dataprotection@englandathletics.org.

 

The Club does not supply any personal data it holds for this purpose to any other third party. The Club does not store or transfer your personal data outside of the UK.

 

How long we hold your personal data

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We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as you use the service you have requested, and remove it in the event that the purpose has been met.

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We hold member data on file for as long as you are a member with us. Athlete data is updated every year on annual membership forms. Any personal data we hold on you will be securely destroyed after four years of inactivity on that member’s account in line with England Athletics Limited’s retention policy.

 

Your data is not processed for any further purposes other than those detailed in this policy.

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Your rights regarding your personal data

 

As a data subject you may have the right at any time to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data; to restrict or object to certain kinds of processing of your personal data, including direct marketing; to the portability of your personal data and to complain to the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office about the processing of your personal data.

As a data subject you are not obliged to share your personal data with the Club. If you choose not to share your personal data with us we may not be able to register or administer your membership.

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