Privacy Statement
GRIMSBY TRIATHLON CLUB (Club) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. For any personal data you provide for the purposes of your membership,
GRIMSBY TRIATHLON CLUB is the Data Controller and is responsible for storing and otherwise processing that data in a fair, lawful, secure and transparent way.
What personal data we hold on you
You may give us information about you by filling in forms at an event or online, or by corresponding with us by phone, e–mail or otherwise. This includes information you provide when you register with the Club, subscribe to our newsletter, or participate in discussion boards on our website/Facebook group
The information you give us may include your name, date of birth, address, e–mail address, phone number.
We may also ask for relevant health information, disability, other data which is classed as special category personal data.
Why we need your personal data
The reason we need your Data is to be able to administer your membership, and provide the membership services you are signing up to when you register with the club.
Our lawful basis for processing your personal is that we have a contractual obligation to you as a member to provide the services you are registering for.
Reasons we need to process your data include:
For training and competition entry
• sharing personal data with club coaches or officials to administer training sessions;
• sharing personal data with club team managers to enter events;
• sharing personal data with facility providers to manage access to the track or check delivery standards; and
• sharing personal data with leagues, county associations (and county schools’ associations) and other competition providers for entry in events.
For membership and club management
• processing of membership forms and payments;
• sharing data with committee members to provide information about club activities, membership renewals or invitation to social events;
• club newsletter promoting club activity; and
• publishing of race and competition results
The club has the following social media pages; Facebook, Twitter, Instagram. All members are free to join these pages. If you join one of the Social Media pages, please
note that provider of the social media platform(s) have their own privacy policies and that the club do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data on the club social media pages.
Who we share your personal data with
The Club does not supply any personal data it holds to any other third party.
How long we hold your personal data
We will hold your personal data on file for as long as you are a member with us. Athlete data is updated every year on annual membership forms. Any personal data we hold on you will be securely destroyed after four years of inactivity on that member’s account. Your data is not processed for any further purposes other than those detailed in this policy.
Your rights regarding your personal data
As a data subject you may have the right at any time to request access to, rectification or erasure of your personal data; to restrict or object to certain kinds of processing
of your personal data, including direct marketing; to the portability of your personal data and to complain to the UK’s data protection supervisory authority, the Information
Commissioner’s Office about the processing of your personal data.
As a data subject you are not obliged to share your personal data with the Club. If you choose not to share your personal data with us we may not be able to register or
administer your membership.