SLBKA Privacy Policy & Cookies
Skye and Lochalsh Beekeepers Association = SLBKA
Skye and Lochalsh Beekeepers Association (SLBKA) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This Notice explains when and why we collect personal data that relates to a living individual, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
We may change this Notice from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes.
Any questions regarding this Notice and our privacy practices should be sent by email to info@skyelochalshbees.co.uk
Who are we?
SLBKA is a club for beekeepers in Skye and Lochalsh. We aim to promote all aspects of beekeeping in the Skye and Lochalsh area.
How do we collect information from you?
Website:
The SLBKA website system will record personal information if you:
- Provide information by filling in one of the forms on our website.
- We also collect personal information on membership forms or surveys which you may receive by email.
What type of information is collected from you?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, IP address, payments to the Association and information about your beekeeping. We may also take photographs or make recordings of events we hold. Wherever possible we will seek additional consent for these actions.
How is your information used?
We may use your information now or in future to:
- operate SLBKA
- administer membership and newsletter records
- inform individuals of news, events and activities related to SLBKA
- contact members via surveys to conduct research
- maintain SLBKA accounts and records
- manage volunteers
We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. In future we may be legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations (for example, for reporting on bee health). We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity.
What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
Consent of individuals (data subject)
In future: legal obligations – processing may be necessary to comply with bee health monitoring and reporting.
Who has access to your information?
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will be shared only with other organisations to comply with a legitimate interest or a legal obligation, for example notification of bee diseases.
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
How long do we keep your personal data:
The time period for which we keep information varies according to what the information is used for. In some cases, there will be legal requirements to keep data for a minimum period. Unless there is a specific legal requirement for us to keep the information, we will retain it for no longer than is necessary for the purposes for which the data was collected or for which it is to be further processed.
Your choices
You can change your preferences at any time by contacting us by email: info@skyelochalshbees.co.uk
How you can access and update your information
The accuracy of your information is important to us. If you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please email us at info@skyelochalshbees.co.uk
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information SLBKA holds about you.
Security precautions are in place to protect the loss, misuse or alteration of your information.
Non-sensitive details (your email address etc.) are transmitted normally over the Internet, and this can never be guaranteed to be 100% secure. As a result, while we strive to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of any information you transmit to us, and you do so at your own risk. Once we receive your information, we make our best effort to ensure its security on our systems.
Use of ‘cookies’
This Cookie Policy was last updated on 10 August 2022 and applies to citizens and legal permanent residents of the United Kingdom.
1. Introduction
Our website, https://skyelochalshbees.co.uk (hereinafter: “the website”) uses cookies and other related technologies (for convenience all technologies are referred to as “cookies”). Cookies are also placed by third parties we have engaged. In the document below we inform you about the use of cookies on our website.
2. What are cookies?
A cookie is a small simple file that is sent along with pages of this website and stored by your browser on the hard drive of your computer or another device. The information stored therein may be returned to our servers or to the servers of the relevant third parties during a subsequent visit.
3. What are scripts?
A script is a piece of programme code that is used to make our website function properly and interactively. This code is executed on our server or on your device.
4. What is a web beacon?
A web beacon (or a pixel tag) is a small, invisible piece of text or image on a website that is used to monitor traffic on a website. In order to do this, various data about you is stored using web beacons.
5. Cookies
5.1 Technical or functional cookies
Some cookies ensure that certain parts of the website work properly and that your user preferences remain known. By placing functional cookies, we make it easier for you to visit our website. This way, you do not need to repeatedly enter the same information when visiting our website and, for example, the items remain in your shopping cart until you have paid. We may place these cookies without your consent.
5.2 Marketing/Tracking cookies
Marketing/Tracking cookies are cookies or any other form of local storage, used to create user profiles to display advertising or to track the user on this website or across several websites for similar marketing purposes.
5.3 Social media buttons
On our website we have included buttons for Facebook to promote webpages (e.g. “like”, “pin”) or share (e.g. “tweet”) on social networks like Facebook. These buttons work using pieces of code coming from Facebook themselves. This code places cookies. These social media buttons also can store and process certain information, so a personalized advertisement can be shown to you.
Please read the privacy statement of these social networks (which can change regularly) to read what they do with your (personal) data which they process using these cookies. The data that is retrieved is anonymized as much as possible. Facebook is located in the United States.
6. Placed cookies
7. Consent
When you visit our website for the first time, we will show you a pop-up with an explanation about cookies. As soon as you click on “Save preferences”, you consent to us using the categories of cookies and plug-ins you selected in the pop-up, as described in this Cookie Policy. You can disable the use of cookies via your browser, but please note that our website may no longer work properly.
7.1 Manage your consent settings
8. Your rights with respect to personal data
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data:
- You have the right to know why your personal data is needed, what will happen to it, and how long it will be retained for.
- Right of access: You have the right to access your personal data that is known to us.
- Right to rectification: you have the right to supplement, correct, have deleted or blocked your personal data whenever you wish.
- If you give us your consent to process your data, you have the right to revoke that consent and to have your personal data deleted.
- Right to transfer your data: you have the right to request all your personal data from the controller and transfer it in its entirety to another controller.
- Right to object: you may object to the processing of your data. We comply with this, unless there are justified grounds for processing.
To exercise these rights, please contact us. Please refer to the contact details at the bottom of this Cookie Policy. If you have a complaint about how we handle your data, we would like to hear from you, but you also have the right to submit a complaint to the supervisory authority (the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO)).
9. Enabling/disabling and deleting cookies
You can use your internet browser to automatically or manually delete cookies. You can also specify that certain cookies may not be placed. Another option is to change the settings of your internet browser so that you receive a message each time a cookie is placed. For more information about these options, please refer to the instructions in the Help section of your browser.
Please note that our website may not work properly if all cookies are disabled. If you do delete the cookies in your browser, they will be placed again after your consent when you visit our websites again.
10. Contact details
For questions and/or comments about our Cookie Policy and this statement, please contact us by using the following contact details:
Skye & Lochash Beekeepers Association
Carnmore, Badicaul, Kyle of Lochalsh, IV40 8BB
United Kingdom
Website: https://skyelochalshbees.co.uk
Email: ku.oc.seebhslahcoleyks@ofni
This Cookie Policy was synchronised with cookiedatabase.org on 1 August 2022
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Links to other websites
Our website contains links to other websites run by other organisations. This privacy notice applies only to our website‚ so we encourage you to read the privacy statements on the other websites you visit. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
In addition, if you linked to our website from a third party site, we cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of the owners and operators of that third party site and recommend that you check the notice of that third party site.
16 or Under
We are concerned to protect the privacy of children aged 16 or under. If you are aged 16 or under‚ please get your parent/guardian’s permission beforehand whenever you provide us with personal information.
Transferring your information outside of the UK
The information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside the United Kingdom (“UK”). By way of example, this may happen if any of our servers (cloud based storage) are from time to time relocated in a country outside of the UK or EU. These countries may not have similar data protection laws to the UK. By submitting your personal data, you’re agreeing to this transfer, storing or processing. If we transfer your information outside of the UK or EU in this way, we will take steps to ensure that appropriate security measures are taken with the aim of ensuring that your privacy rights continue to be protected as outlined in this Notice.
Review of this Notice
We will keep this Notice under regular review. This Notice was last updated in August 2022.