Privacy & Cookies

Privacy Policy

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

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 you provide when you register with the Club, or participate in discussion boards on our website www.ashwellacademicals.com. The information you give us may include your name, date of birth, address, e-mail address, phone number, gender, relevant health information.

Why we need your personal data

The reason we need your data is to be able to administer your membership, and provide the membership services you are signing up to when you register with the club. Our lawful basis for processing your personal data is that we have a contractual obligation to you as a member to provide the services you are registering for.

Reasons we need to process your data include:

For training and competition entry

  • sharing personal data with club coaches or officials to administer training sessions;
  • sharing personal data with club team managers to enter events;
  • sharing personal data with facility providers to manage access to the pitch or check delivery standards; and
  • sharing personal data with leagues, sporting associations and other competition providers for entry in events.

For membership and club management

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

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.

Who we share your personal data with

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

How long we hold your personal data

We will hold your personal data on file for as long as you are a member with us. Membership data is updated every year upon renewal. Any personal data we hold on you will be securely destroyed 3months after membership ceases. Your data is not processed for any further purposes other than those detailed in this policy.

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; 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.

Cookies

This website, along with most other major websites, uses ‘cookies’.

Cookies are pieces of information that a website transfers to the cookie file on your computer’s hard disk. Cookies enable users to navigate around websites and (when necessary) enable us to tailor the content to fit the needs of visitors who have accessed the site and help us improve the user experience. Without cookies enabled we cannot guarantee that the website, and your experience whilst visiting, are as we intended it to be. Without these cookies services you have asked for like accessing a secure area cannot be provided.  Please note that no personal data is captured through the use of cookies.

By using this site you are agreeing to the use of cookies being stored on your computer’s hard disk.

To stop cookies being stored on your computer you will need to alter the settings of your internet browser. You can find instructions on how to do this either through click ‘Help’ in the menu bar, or following these browser-by-browser instructions from AboutCookies.org.

If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, you will need to locate the file or directory that your computer stores them in.

Use of 3rd Party Cookies.

Our website also uses Google Analytics,  a web analytics service provided by Google, Inc.  Google Analytics sets a cookie in order to evaluate your use of our website and compile reports for us
on your activity.  Google stores the information collected by the cookie on servers in the United States. Google may also transfer this information to third parties where required to do so by law,
or where such third parties process the information on Google’s behalf.  Google will not associate your IP address with any other data held by Google. Please read www.google.com/intl/en/privacypolicy.html to understand how to reject the cookie.

Further information on deleting or controlling cookies is available at www.aboutcookies.org

As happens with most websites, our server will automatically log data regarding each visit such as your IP address, browser type, referring/exit pages, and operating system. We may use this information to monitor server errors, server administration or visitor behaviour. It is not possible for this to be disabled on a per-user basis, so you must leave this website if you do not agree to this happening.