Privacy Policy

General Data Protection Regulation 2018

Worplesdon Garden Club (the Club) stores basic essential information about its members and 'Friends of Worplesdon Garden Club' both as selected paper copies and in electronic format.  This information may be held by the Chairman, Treasurer, Secretary, and members of the Committee.  Contact information is not shared with any other organization and is used for collection of subscriptions, and sending information about the Club and the Club’s events, including newsletters.

We may process and store your name, address, email address, telephone number, photographs, records of any awards or cups won, reservation and bookings for outings or other Club events that require bookings.   We hold records of payments made by you or made to you.  Financial information and financial transactions of the Club will be made available to our independent Auditor of Club Accounts.

Some information such as Annual Show participants and winners, and photographs from Club activities may be published in the newsletter, on the website, on the Club's Facebook page, and the local press.  This information may be viewed by the general public.  Some Committee member details may also be published as contacts for Club activities with their personal approval.  

Joining Worplesdon Garden Club or renewing membership will authorize the Club to retain your contact details for as long as you are a member.  Names and email addresses of non-members and ex-members of the Club may also be stored for ongoing distribution of Club information and Newsletters.  You may at any time request that the Club deletes your contact details and no further communication will be made.  Some information such as names and previously public information may be retained as part of the historical record of the Club.

Members and non-Members have the right to request access to, changes to, or erasure of personal data by contacting the Chairman or Secretary, and to complain to the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office, about the processing of personal data if you feel the Club have used it for a purpose not stated above.

The Use of Cookies on the Worplesdon Garden Club Website

Worplesdon Garden Club is hosted by Google Sites and uses the Google Analytics tool to track overall browsing patterns on the website.  For example, it helps to identify which links are being clicked on and whether a user has visited the site before.  There is no personally identifiable information stored with any of these cookies.