Our Website Privacy and Photography Policy
This policy relates to our website and how we handle your personal information. Club membership has other terms and conditions as to how your personal information is used.
Your privacy is important to us and we are committed to making sure your personal information is protected.
This Website Privacy Policy explains how we use and disclose the personal information we collect from you. It also sets out your rights in relation to that personal information. Please take a moment to read and understand it.
1. Personal information
Personal information is information about an identifiable individual and includes the individual’s name, and email address,
This information is stored on our web server and is used solely for the purpose outlined below. We do not share any information with third parties.
2. Purposes for which we use your personal information
Personal information we collect and hold may be used by TSC to:
- provide you with services and member benefits.
- to allow us to provide the best experience when using our website.
- to enable us to use a newsletter programme to send you our newsletter.
- To allow you to access areas of the website that are not viewed by the general public.
- contacting you regarding TSC.
3. Using Photographs on the website and Social Media
From time to time the Thames Sailing Club would like to post photos on the website and Social media (Facebook). In most instances but not exclusively these photos may be of children involved in sailing activities. The purpose of the policy is to protect and safeguard children and young people and identify any breaches swiftly.
Parents/Caregivers will be asked to sign a consent form. Verbal consent alone will not be accepted under any circumstance. If parental/Caregiver consent is not given, we will inform members of those who are not to be photographed.
Images will focus on the activity, rather than individual children and young people where possible. Photographs will not be published on the website, print media or social media with the full name(s) of children and young people. First names only will be used where needed and no detailed personal information will be used.
The Club will inform children and young people on the day that photographs may be taken, the purpose of the photos and their right to not be photographed.
Images will be kept secure and not shared with any other person or organisation without the consent of the Parent or Caregiver.
4. Cookies and Tracking Technologies
Our website uses cookies to identify and track visitors, their actions on the site, and their website access preferences. These cookies contain the visitor’s IP and time of visits. Visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their browsers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using our website. Once you turn off cookies on your browsers, certain features of our site may not work properly without the aid of cookies.
5. Security of your information
We keep your information safe by storing our data in encrypted files and secure databases and by restricting access to club administrators and the website administrator.
We keep your information for the time you are a paid up member of the club at which point we securely destroy it by securely erasing all digital records.
6. Data Breach Procedures We Have in Place
If in any case, a breach of data such as loss, alteration, unauthorized disclosure or access, personal data transmission, storage, or otherwise processing happens, we will notify you immediately after we become aware of it.
7. Legal basis for collecting your personal information
We process your personal information based on your written or oral consent. You may withdraw your consent at any time. The withdrawal of consent will not affect the lawfulness of processing based on consent before its withdrawal.
8. Contacting TSC
Under the Privacy Act 2020, you have the right to access, and to ask us to correct, your personal information.
You have the right to ask for a copy of any personal information we hold about you, and to ask for it to be corrected if you think it is wrong. If you’d like to ask for a copy of your information or to have it corrected, please contact us at