Privacy & cookies

Here at Chepstow and Caldicot Lions, we are committed to protecting your privacy and ensuring that any personal information you provide to us is handled securely and in compliance with data protection laws. This privacy policy outlines how we collect, use, and store your personal information.

PRIVACY & COOKIES

Chepstow and Caldicot Lions can be contacted by email – chepstowcaldicotlions@btinternet.com or through the Contact page on this website. We are also on Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, YouTube, and Instagram. We can also be contacted by phone on 0345 833 9565.

We process “personal data” and/or “special category data” (as defined in data protection legislation) as part of the membership services, fund-raising and/or in our administration.  All data are held securely and for as long as they relate to the reasons for collection and/or if there is a statutory retention period.   Security of data and confidentiality are very important to us to protect everyone involved in our services.  If we want to use your photograph to show people what great fun we have fund-raising and promote what we do, we will ask your permission (unless already given).

Data may be shared with third parties as part of our services, for our administration and/or if we are required by law to do so.  We cannot accept any liability for any processing conducted by a third party outside our remit.

As part of our compliance, we have conducted a cookie audit on our website.  Cookies are internet files used by the system to view websites and their content.  We utilise cookies for security purposes.  However, we do utilise Google and YouTube which may place cookies on your system – we are not responsible for these cookies or their use.

None of the above affects your rights under the legislation, in particular your right to access the data we hold on you.  You may request a copy of the personal information we may hold on you – this should be submitted in writing or email (as above).  Please include enough information to enable us to identify you and search for appropriate data.

If you are dissatisfied with this policy, have queries about our data protection procedures or wish to lodge a complaint, please contact the organisation in the first instance.  Thereafter you have the right to submit a complaint to the Supervisory Authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO):

The Information Commissioner’s Office

Wycliffe House

Water Lane

Wilmslow

Cheshire SK9 5AF