Privacy Notice

BADGERS is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. We are the Data Controller for any personal data you provide for membership purposes. We handle your data fairly, lawfully, securely, and transparently. 

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. The information you give us may include your name, date of birth, gender, URN, email address, address, telephone number, name of the EA affiliated Clubs with which you are registered (Athletics Data). We may also ask for relevant medical details, emergency contact details and parent / guardian details (Special Category).

Why we need your personal data

The reason we need your Athletics 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 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 captains to enter events;

sharing personal data with leagues, county associations (and county schools’ associations) and other competition providers for entry in events.

For funding and reporting purposes 

sharing anonymised data with a funding partner as condition of grant funding e.g. Local Authority;

analysing anonymised data to monitor club trends; and

sending a club survey to improve your experience as a club member

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;

club newsletter promoting club activity; and

publishing of race and competition results

Marketing and communications

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(s) of e.g. fitness/ health checks or 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.

On occasion we may collect personal data from non-members (e.g. such as any non-member participant who fills in a health disclaimer or form at a taster event. This information will be stored for [52 weeks after an event] and then destroyed securely. Our lawful basis for processing data is consent. Therefore, we will also need explicit consent from non-members 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, Instagram, Strava]. 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’s data processing requires your personal data to be transferred outside of the UK for the purpose of cloud hosting.  Where the Club does transfer your personal data overseas it is with the appropriate safeguards in place to ensure the security of that personal data.

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. 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.  However, we will maintain your name and years that you were a member for admin and audit purposes. We may also keep your  date of birth for any relevant club records you may hold, until such time when the record has been broken. 

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.

Contact Us

How to request a copy of your personal data

You have the right to request a copy of your personal data that we hold. This is commonly referred to as a subject access request or 'SAR'.


Please use your SAR Form to request this.

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Links to Third Party Websites

Our website contains links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website.

Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement.

You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Disclaimer

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Whilst we have tried to ensure the accuracy of all content and sought permission to use any third-party data, we accept there may be some inconsistencies. If there is any issue with any part of the website, get in contact and we will be happy to discuss, accommodate and if necessary amend any reference.