Privacy Statement

Penistone Scouts take the issue of privacy very seriously and is committed to protecting and respecting our users’ privacy online. This Privacy Statement sets out our current data processing practices. If you have any queries or concerns regarding these practices, you should contact us at [email protected]

  1. The information we collect

The only circumstances in which we will provide any of your personal data to a third party such as sharing information with The Scout Association are those contained in this Privacy Policy.

  1. Registration information

When you submit your information via our website, we ask for your name, email address and postcode. We usually also capture your IP address at the time you register.

  1. Sharing of data

We may share data supplied by you (or collected about you) with other parts of The Scout Association eg Scout Shops Ltd. We do not store credit card details nor do we share customer details with any third parties, for marketing purposes. We use third-party IT providers to process your information and never send your details abroad.

  1. Advertising

We do not pass on your details to third parties for marketing purposes and only use your information for legitimate interests and passing on information regarding donations and fundraisers for Pensistone Scouts.

  1. Legal jurisdiction

All personal information and details held on and processed by computers situated in the United Kingdom.

  1. Further information

www.penistonescouts.uk will as part of its normal operation send out information emails. Members can decide to ask for these emails as they register on our website.

  1. Disclosure of data by order of a Court and Security

We reserve the right to communicate a Member’s personal information that we hold to third parties who are empowered by regulation, statute or order of a court.

The Scouts Association have security measures in place to protect the customer database. Access to this database is restricted internally. However, it remains each Member’s responsibility:

  • to keep their password secret
  • to protect against unauthorised access to your personal details
  • to log off from the www.scouts.org.uk service when not using it; and
  • to ensure against use by anyone else of the www.scouts.org.uk Service through the machine that Member uses while they are “logged on” to the www.scouts.org.uk service
  • to search and obtain only the data specifically required and allowed for relating to their role.

Please refer to The Scout Associations Privacy Notice which runs alongside Penistone Scout Group Charity Privacy Notice.

  1. Use of cookies by The Scout Association

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. We use cookies on our website www.penistonescouts.uk.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

  1. The Data Protection act

You can obtain further information about data protection laws by visiting the Information Commissioner’s website at http://ico.org.uk/for_organisations/data_protection.

  1. Contacting Penistone Scout Group

If you want to contact us to raise any questions about this privacy statement, or any general matters relating to www.scouts.org.uk, you can contact us using this email address: [email protected]

Please use this address if you wish to request from us a copy of the personal data we hold about you. Please note that under English law we are entitled to charge you a fee for providing this service.