Privacy Notice
ITI West Midlands Group Privacy
Notice
The ITI West Midlands Group
(WMG) is committed to protecting your personal information. We are a data
controller. This means we are responsible for deciding how we hold and use
personal information about you. This notice explains to you what decisions we
have taken in relation to that information.
What is our legal basis for processing your personal information?
We process limited
personal information and no sensitive personal information. Our interests are
those of our members and participants. There is little or no risk to privacy. We
therefore use legitimate interest as the legal basis for most information
processing. However, we always ask for explicit written consent before
publishing personal information in print or on the internet, and consent is the
legal basis in these cases.
What personal information about you do we use?
We only collect and use personal information that we need for
operating the ITI West Midlands Group. This includes:
● personal
and contact details, such as title, full name, email address, telephone numbers
● professional
status details, such as ITI membership status, working languages, areas of
specialism
● photographs
(not usually considered personal information by themselves, but we may use them
together with other information, e.g. a member’s name)
How do we use your personal information?
We use your personal information for the following
purposes:
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to process your membership application
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to contact you about WMG events and activities
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for the planning and delivery of events and
activities
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to enable the efficient operation of the WMG
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to promote our members’ professional interests
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to exercise our legal and regulatory obligations
How do we collect your personal information?
We collect personal information from the following
sources:
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from you directly
●
information generated by your activity in WMG,
such as events attended
●
history of financial transactions
When do we share your personal information with other organisations?
We may share information with the following third
parties:
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financial institutions (e.g. information about executive
members as required for operation of bank accounts)
●
event and activity providers
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social media (closed groups only)
●
industry press (e.g. event reports in the ITI
Bulletin)
●
public internet (if you ask us to do so, we may
post your information on our website and Twitter feed)
For how long do we keep your personal information?
We keep your personal information based on the
following criteria:
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for as long as you are a member of the WMG
●
until the event or scheme you participated in
has finished
●
in line with legal and regulatory requirements
or guidance
What should you do if your personal information changes?
You should tell us by contacting the membership
secretary so that we can update our records. Our membership secretary is Liz
Smith. You can contact her at liz.smith@blueyonder.co.uk.
What are your rights?
You can ask
to see the personal information we hold about you, and ask for it to be
corrected or removed. If you have any questions about this privacy notice, or want
to make a complaint about how we have handled your personal information, you
can contact our data protection manager. Our data protection manager is Nick
Crosby. You can contact him at nick@nctranslation.co.uk.
If you
are not satisfied with our response or believe our processing of your personal
information is not in accordance with the law, you can complain to the
Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO).
.JPG)
