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Privacy Policy


Our contact details:

Name: Cranborne Chase Astronomy Club

Address: c/o 3 Cann Lodge Gardens, Shaftesbury, SP7 8HU

E-mail: info@cranbornechaseastro.club

The type of personal information we collect:

We currently collect and process the following information:

How we get the personal information and why we have it

All the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you when you include your email address in a message to us and ask to be added to our email list.

We use the information that you have given us in order to inform you about upcoming events and membership status and other pertinent communications related to the Club.

We may share this information with Committee members of the Cranborne Chase Astronomy Club only. We will never share your information with anyone outside the Committee of the Club.

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:
(a) Your consent. You are able to remove your consent at any time. You can do this by contacting info@cranbornechaseastro.club. You don’t need to provide a reason, and we will remove you immediately.

How we store your personal information

Your information is securely stored in an email list service, currently Intuit MailChimp.

We keep your name and email address with MailChimp until such time as you tell us otherwise, or for a maximum of 12 months (until the next Club year when a new membership list is generated). We will then dispose your information by removing it from the email service we use.

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information.

Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete.

Your right to erasure - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to object to processing - You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at info@cranbornechaseastro.club if you wish to make a request.

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at info@cranbornechaseastro.club.

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

ICO website: https://www.ico.org.uk