Privacy Notice

What is this privacy notice?

This Data Privacy Notice describes the categories of personal data the 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group process and for what purposes. 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group is committed to collecting and using such data fairly and in accordance with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR), the regulations set by the European Union, and Data Protection Act 2018 (DPA 2018), the law in the UK that encompasses the GDPR.

 

This Privacy Notice applies to members, parents/guardians of youth members, volunteers, employees, contractors, suppliers, supporters, donors and members of the public who will make contact with 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group.

 

Who are we

The 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group are a registered charity with the Charity Commission for England & Wales: Charity Number 303823.

 

The Data Controller for the 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group is the Executive Committee who are appointed at the Groups’ Annual General Meeting and are Charity Trustees. The Chair of the Charity Trustees is Maggie Vivian who can be contacted via email: chair@13thtwickenhamscouts.org

 

From this point on 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group will be referred to as “we”.

 

Being a small charity, we are not required to appoint a Data Protection Officer.

 

What data may we process

The majority of the personal information we hold is provided to us directly by you or by the parents or legal guardians of youth members verbally, in paper form, digital form or via our online membership systems Compass and OSM (Online Scout Manager). In the case of adult members and volunteers, data may also be provided by third parties, such as the Disclosure and Barring Service (DBS).

 

Where a member is under the age of 18, this information will only be obtained from a parent or guardian and cannot be provided by the young person.

 

We may collect the following personal information:

 

The lawful basis we process your data by

We comply with our obligations under the GDPR and DPA 2018 by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

 

In most cases, the lawful basis for processing will be through the performance of a contract for personal data of our adult volunteers and legitimate interest for personal data of our youth members. Sensitive (special category) data for both adult volunteers and our youth members will mostly align to the lawful basis of legitimate activities of an association. Explicit consent is requested from parents/guardians to take photographs of our members. On occasion, we may use legitimate interest to process photographs where it is not practical to gather and maintain consent such as large-scale events. On such occasions, we will make it clear that this activity will take place and give individuals the opportunity to exercise their data subject rights.

 

We use personal data for the following purposes:


We use personal sensitive (special) data for the following purposes:

 

Our retention periods

We will keep certain types of information for different periods of time in line with our retention policy. All data will be held for the length of time a young person or adult is a member of the group and for no more than 4 years, after a member has left 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group.

 

The Scout Association’s Data Protection Policy can be found here and the Data Privacy Notice here.

 

Sharing your information

Young people and other data subjects

We will normally only share personal information with adult volunteers holding an appointment in the 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group.

 

We will share the personal data of youth members and their parents/guardians with The Scout Association Headquarters for the purpose of managing safeguarding cases. The privacy and security notice for The Scout Association can be found here: https://www.scouts.org.uk/DPPolicy.  The sharing of this data will be via the Online Scout Manager platform which is used by 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group to manage youth membership. The privacy and security notice for OSM can be found here: https://www.onlinescoutmanager.co.uk/security.html 

 

Adult volunteers

We will normally only share personal information with adult volunteers holding appropriate appointments within the line management structure of The Scout Association for the 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group as well as with The Scout Association Headquarters as data controllers in common.

 

All data subjects

We will however share your personal information with others outside of 13th Twickenham (St Mary’s) Scout Group where we need meet a legal obligation. This may include The Scout Association and its insurance subsidiary (Unity Insurance Services), local authority services and law enforcement.  We will only share your personal information to the extent needed for those purposes.

 

We will only share your data with third parties outside of the organisation where there is a legitimate reason to do so.

 

We will never sell your personal information to any third party.

 

Sometimes we may nominate a member for national awards, (such as Scouting awards or Duke of Edinburgh awards) such nominations would require us to provide contact details to that organisation.

 

Where personal data is shared with third parties we will seek assurances that your personal data will be kept confidential and that the third party fully complies with the GDPR and DPA 2018.

 

How we store your personal data?

We generally store personal information in the following ways:

 

Compass - is the online membership system of The Scout Association, this system is used for the collection and storage of adult volunteer personal data.

 

Online Scout Manager - is the online membership system of Online Youth Manager, this system is used for the collection and storage of youth member personal data.

 

In addition, adult volunteers will hold some personal data on local spreadsheets/databases.

 

Printed records and data - paper is sometimes used to capture and retain some data for example:


Paper records are used rather than relying on secure digital systems, as often the events are held where internet and digital access will not be available.  We will minimise the use of paper to only what is required for the event and destroyed shortly afterwards.

 

Further Processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions.  Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

 

How we provide this privacy notice

A link to this website page is provided to those whose data is being processed by us.  A printed version is also available on request.

 

Your rights

As a Data Subject, you have the right to object to how we process your personal information.  You also have the right to access, correct, sometimes delete and restrict the personal information we use.  In addition, you have a right to complain to us and to the Information Commissioner’s Office (www.ico.org.uk).

 

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR and DPA 2018, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

 

Website Cookies

Forms related cookies

When you submit data through a form such as those found on our contact pages or comment forms, cookies may be set to remember you your user details for future correspondence.

 

Third Party Cookies

In some special cases we also use cookies provided by trusted third parties.  The following section details which third party cookies you might encounter through this site.

 

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience.  These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content.  For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Privacy information page.

 

We also use cookies provided by trusted third parties, such as submitting data via google forms or Microsoft forms. See link for Microsoft and Google’s own privacy statements.

https://policies.google.com/

https://privacy.microsoft.com/en-gb/privacystatement

 

Who to contact

If you have any queries relating to this Privacy Notice or our use of your personal data, please contact us by emailing the Executive Committee.  The Chair of the Charity Trustees is Maggie Vivian who can be contacted via email: chair@13thtwickenhamscouts.org

 

 Version 1 – 28 October 2022