Growing in Capel St. Mary
Here we set out our Privacy Policy on what information we collect and how we use this data
Our privacy policy (including any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which we process any personal data that we collect from you or about you that you provide to us or that we receive from other sources. By processing, we mean when we collect, use, store, delete and otherwise manipulate or access personal data.
If we ask you to provide information from which you can be identified, including as a result of using our website, it will be used in accordance with this privacy policy, as it is varied from time to time.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. We recommend that, from time to time, you visit our website to review this policy to stay up to date with any changes to it.
Since our Allotment Association processes only information which is relevant to managing our allotment sites and the affairs of our Association we do not need to register with the Information Commissioner.
However, we must still obey the current legal requirements in the processing we do.
Capel St Mary Allotments Association is required to process your personal data in accordance with the law.
The Data Protection Act 1998 (DPA) implements the EU Data Protection Directive 1995 (EU Directive 95/46/EC).
From 25 May 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (EU Regulation 2016/679) will come into force; it replaces the DPA.
This privacy policy complies with the DPA, and has been updated to comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (the “GDPR”).
To manage your membership of the allotments association, we will process personal data about our members, such as your full name, postal address, e-mail address, and landline and/or mobile phone numbers.
If relevant, we may also collect and hold data such as details about your plot and/or polytunnel rentals, and other information that helps us to provide our members with a better service that is capable of being tailored to specific requirements or particular needs.
This is the personal data that you provide to us, for example by filling in forms on our website (www.capelallotments.co.uk) or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail, post, social media or otherwise.
This personal data would relate to applications for membership, requests to rent a plot or polytunnel, entering our annual show, or any other communications relating to your membership of the association.
We monitor website behaviour through Google Analytics. We collect information about how each visitor uses our site. These are then used to compile reports and to help us improve our site. Information is collected in an anonymous form, including:
Capel St Mary Allotments Association wants to provide you with the best possible service. We are always looking for ways to improve. This includes improving our website so that it provides the information that you need, on a regularly updated basis and in an easily accessible way.
To improve and keep our website up-to-date, we collect information about your visit and we may share some of this information with our third party data analytics service providers to help us assess and improve our website. When this website data is shared with third-parties, it will be provided as anonymised, aggregated data with personal data no longer identifiable.
Like most websites, our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users. These are small text files stored in your web browser, which can identify you (or your device) when visiting our website. This helps us to check on the effectiveness of your experience and devise ways to improve our website to improve its content, search functions, and make it more user friendly.
Information that we may collect from your visit includes your device’s Internet protocol (IP) address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, the full Uniform Resource Locators (URL), clickstream to, through and from our site (including date and time), services you viewed or searched for, page response times, and length of visits to certain pages.
If you prefer, you can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies via your browser settings. Like most websites, if you turn your cookies off, some of our services may not function properly.
To meet requirements of the GDPR the association will:
To fulfil our statutory obligation with regards to the Capel St Mary Parish Council and the association membership of The National Allotment Society, it may be necessary for Capel St Mary Allotments Association to share your personal data with others, including:
When entering into any agreements that involve the sharing or disclosure of personal data, Capel St Mary Allotments Association requires that these third parties comply with our data protection and information security policies or have substantially similar policies of their own in place.
The GDPR provides you with a number of rights in relation to your personal data. These include rights to the rectification or erasure of your personal data, and to restrict or object to its processing.
If you find that any of the personal data that we hold about you is inaccurate, incomplete or contains errors, please notify us in writing and we shall undertake to make the appropriate corrections at the earliest opportunity.
Should you wish to have some or all of your personal data erased, we will endeavour to do so although there may be instances where legitimate interests or the performance of our statutory obligations prevent us from doing so. The erasure of your personal data could result in an inability to provide you with some or all of our services.
If at any time you would like to unsubscribe from receiving future emails from us, we include detailed unsubscribe instructions at the bottom of each email, however doing so will result in not being notified of the following:
If you wish to object to or restrict how your personal data is processed by us, you can do so by writing to us. Please see our contact details below. Please be aware that such requests could result in an inability to provide you with some or all of our services.
You may request that Capel St Mary Allotments Association provide the personal data that we hold about you to another data controller in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format.
You may request to be told whether or not personal data about you is being processed by Capel St Mary Allotments Association. If your personal data is being processed, you are entitled to receive a response from us that provides you with a description of that personal data, the purpose for which it is processed, the recipients or category of recipients to whom that data is disclosed (including any recipients located outside the EEA), the source of the personal data, and information about its retention and storage. A copy of the personal data that is undergoing processing shall be provided to you.
To make such requests, you can email us at admin@capelallotments.co.uk or write to us at our allotment site Data Protection, Store Parish Allotments, Pound Lane, Capel St Mary, Suffolk, IP9 2JB
If in the future we make any changes to our privacy policy, the latest version of our privacy policy will be posted on our website.
Your questions, comments or requests relating to our processing of your personal data or this policy are welcome, and you may contact us via our Contact Us page. This page provides a number of contact details relating to our different interests.
Alternatively, you may contact us in relation to data protection matters by emailing us at:
Email: admin@capelallotments.co.uk
Version Last Updated On 29 August 2019.
