Privacy Notice

When you register as a member of SAKMC or renew your membership, we may ask you for some or all of the following personal information: 

• Contact details: Name, address, email address and phone number.

• Date of birth: To verify eligibility for club membership, events and courses.

• Participation details: Whether you are an existing BMC or White Spider member.

• Next of kin details, in case of emergency.

If you do not provide us with all of the personal information that we need this may affect our ability to offer you our membership services and benefits.

Contractual purposes

We need to collect our members’ personal information so that we can manage your relationship with us. We may use our members’ personal information to:

• Provide you with core member services, including confirmation of membership, membership card, end of year renewal.

• Organise club activities and manage risk and safety.

• Register your membership with the BMC, to provide you with insurance cover, magazine subscription and other benefits they offer to members of clubs.

Legitimate purposes

We also process our members’ personal information in pursuit of our legitimate interests to:

• Provide you with news and updates about the activity of the club, opportunities to get involved in club meets, training, general meetings or other events.

• Raise awareness of the club’s activities by capturing photos, videos, or live streaming at events. We will use this for promotion, education and development purposes.

• Respond to and investigate your questions, comments, support needs, complaints, concerns or allegations.

The BMC

As a BMC-affiliated club we will provide your name, contact details and date of birth to the BMC to administer your membership of the BMC including your combined liability insurance cover. The BMC will use your data to communicate with you about your membership. The BMC will contact you to invite you to create a 'Member Profile' which, amongst other things, allows you to set and amend your privacy settings. More information about how the BMC uses data can be found at www.thebmc.co.uk/privacy.

Other SAKMC members

SAKMC operates a number of mailing lists to facilitate communication between members. If you use a club mailing list to send a message, your name and email address will be shared with all recipients. 

Third party suppliers

SAKMC may use third party suppliers to provide services. These suppliers may process personal data on our behalf as "processors" and are subject to contractual conditions to only process that personal information under our instructions and protect it.

In the event that we share personal information with external third parties, we only share such information strictly required for the specific purposes and take reasonable steps to ensure recipients shall only process the disclosed personal information in accordance with those purposes.

• GoCardless collect payments for us via Direct Debit, including membership fees, hut fees and other event fees. Your email address will be shared with them in order to set up the Direct Debit, however your bank details will not be stored or passed via SAKMC, but will be collected and processed directly by GoCardless.

• Google Workspace is used to manage club affairs.  Records of your personal details are stored electronically using Google Drive, and may be processed in related services such as Gmail (for membership administration) and Google Groups (for our mailing lists). 

• Instructors, coaches and event organisers may receive details of participants.

Your personal information is accessed by our elected committee members only for the purposes set out above. It is stored electronically by our club in Google Workspace, providing a comprehensive set of technical measures to keep your personal information secure.  Only current committee members are permitted to access club records. 

We only keep your personal information for as long as necessary to provide you with membership services. We will review and delete your personal information where you have not renewed your membership with us. Your data will be deleted within 3 months of termination of membership.

You have a right to:

• Change your communication preferences or restrict the processing of your personal data for specific purposes.

• Request that we correct your personal data if you believe it is inaccurate or incomplete.

• Access the personal data that we hold about you through a “subject access request”.

• Request that we delete your personal information.

You can contact us by email to committee@sakmc.org. 

If you are dissatisfied, you have a right to raise a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office at www.ico.org.uk.