NARF Sheffield and Rotherham Branch website privacy policy is in accordance with the The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), and includes a description what data we collect, what we do with your information, and the security of your personal information.
1. Introduction
NARF Sheffield and Rotherham Branch and the NARF South Yorkshire Membership Section (“we”, “us”, or “our”) is committed to protecting and respecting the personal data that we hold. This privacy statement describes why and how we collect and use personal data and provides information about individuals’ rights. It applies to personal data provided to us, both by individuals themselves or by others. We may use personal data provided to us for the purposes described in this privacy statement or as made clear before collecting personal data.
Personal data is any information relating to an identified or identifiable living person. When collecting and using personal data, our policy is to be transparent about why and how we process personal data.
We process personal data for numerous purposes, and the means of collection, lawful basis of processing, use, disclosure, and retention periods for each purpose are set out in the relevant sections below.
2. Security
We ensure we regularly review the appropriateness of the measures we have in place to keep the data we hold secure.
All information you provide to us is stored on secure media.
Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission from you is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.
3. Membership
Our Specific South Yorkshire Area Retired Firefighters Membership Data Protection Notice is available via this link - Data Protection
All data is used for the of purposes, as follows:
- Providing services to you.
- Data is processed in accordance with the purpose which we have collected it, and may sometimes be further clarified in written documentation supplied before any data processing may occur. The different reason why we may process your data includes:
- Individual needs. When communicating with and assessing the needs of members, personal data may be processed in order to ensure that their needs are appropriately satisfied.
- In order to manage and administer our records, we may collect and process personal data.
- We may from time to time be required to collect and process personal data in order to fulfil regulatory, legal or ethical requirements. This is limited to the verification of identity of individuals.
5. People who use our website
Personal data may be collected when individuals fill in forms on our websites or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. This includes information provided when an individual makes an enquiry. We only use strictly necessary cookies, as these cookies are essential in order to enable you to move around the website and use its features, such as accessing secure areas. These cookies:
- Identify your computer so that any page changes, item or data selection is remembered
- Detect software on your device, such as Javascript, which enables content on our website
These cookies are only stored for the duration of your visit to our website.
6. Sharing personal data
We will only automatically share your personal data with our National Association. Before we share your data with other third parties, we will ask you first.
However, If it is believed that your use of the site is unlawful or damaging to others, NARF Sheffield and Rotherham reserves the right to disclose the information that has been obtained through the site about you to the extent that it is reasonably necessary in our opinion to prevent, remedy or take action in relation to such conduct.
7. Locations of processing
All, personal data resides within the UK and will not be transferred to, and stored at, a destination outside the UK.
8 . Individual’s Rights
Individuals have certain rights over their personal data and data controllers are responsible for fulfilling these rights as follows:
- Individuals may request access to their personal data held by us as a data controller.
- Individuals may request us to rectify personal data submitted to us or, where appropriate, contact us via the relevant website registration page or by amending the personal details held on relevant applications with which they registered.
- Individuals may request that we erase their personal data.
- Where we process personal data based on consent, individuals may withdraw their consent at any time by contacting us or clicking on the unsubscribe link in an email received from us.
- Individuals may have other rights to restrict or object to our processing of personal data and the right to data portability.
- Individuals may request information about, or human intervention into, any automated data processing that we may undertake.
If you wish to exercise any of these rights, please send an email to info@narfsheffield.org.uk
9. Complaints
We hope that you won’t ever need to, but if you do want to complain about our use of personal data, please send an email with the details of your complaint to info@narfsheffield.org.uk. We will look into and respond to any complaints we receive.
You also have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK data protection regulator, the Information Commissioner's Office (“ICO”). For further information on your rights and how to complain to the ICO, please refer to the ICO website https://ico.org.uk/concerns
10. Data Controller and Contact Information
The data controller is the SY Area Treasurer.
If you have any questions about this privacy statement or how and why we process personal data, please contact us at: info@narfsheffield.org.uk or at the address below:
E J Mullins
15 Casson Drive
Harthill
South Yorkshire
S26 7WA
11. Changes to our privacy statement
Updates to this privacy statement will appear on the website. This privacy statement was last updated on11/12/2022.