Privacy Law and Cookies

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Wetherby District Lions Club (CIO) can be contacted via email at secretary.wetherbylions@gmail.com or via this website using the ‘Contact Form’ - www.wetherbylions.org/contact.  We are also on most social media platforms, see any webpage header.  We process ‘personal data’ and/or ‘special category data’ (as defined in data protection legislation) as part of the membership services, fundraising and/or in our administration.  All data is held securely and for as long as it relates to the reasons for collection and/or if there is a statutory retention period.  Security of data and confidentiality are very important to us to protect everyone involved in our services.  If we want to use your photograph to show people what great fun we have fundraising and promote what we do, we will ask your permission.

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Data may be shared with third parties as part of our services, for our administration and/or if we are required by law to do so.  We cannot accept any liability for any processing conducted by a third party outside our remit.

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As part of our compliance, we have conducted a cookie audit on our website.  Cookies are internet files used by the system to view websites and their content.  The site utilises these files for analytical and content management purposes; we use Google Analytics to undertake this task.  We do not utilise any intrusive cookies through our website.  When you access other sites through our website, you leave our site and therefore we cannot accept any responsibility for the cookies utilised by these sites.

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None of the above affects your rights under the legislation, in particular your right to access the data we hold on you.  You may request a copy of the personal information we may hold on you, this should be submitted in writing or email (details on the website).  Please include enough information to enable us to identify you and search for appropriate data.

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If you are dissatisfied with this policy, have queries about our data protection procedures or wish to lodge a complaint, please contact the organisation in the first instance.  Thereafter you have the right to submit a complaint to the Supervisory Authority, the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) at The Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

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