Privacy Notice

Marden Bowls Club Members Privacy Notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

 

Contact details

Post: Marden Bowls Club, Howlands Road, Marden, Tonbridge, Kent, TN12 9DT

Telephone: Secretary  07941485089

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What information we collect, use, and why

We collect to

– receive donations, Subscriptions, funding and organise fundraising activities:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses
  • Payment or banking details (only as necessary for Refund or expenses only).

We collect or use the following personal information for:

– Contacting Club Members for Club Activities:

  • Names and contact details
  • Addresses
  • Date of birth (under 18 years only)
  • Records of consent, where appropriate

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases your rights and lawful exemptions on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below.

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
    • Information exclusively held to facilitate Bowling events, social and fund raising for Club members only.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for Contacting Club Members for Club Activities are:

  • Consent – we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.
  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:
    • Information exclusively held to facilitate Bowling events ,social and fund raising for Club members only, which includes the Kent County Bowling Association and Bowls England( National Governing Body) which is held by them under their respective Data Protection Policies.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

 

Where we get personal information from

  • Directly from you

How long we keep information

Club Members throughout membership or 3 years after leaving. See Club Rules document.

For more information on how long we store your personal information or the criteria we use to determine this please contact us using the details provided above.

Others we share personal information with

  • Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons
  • Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal data, you can make a complaint to us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO.

The ICO’s address:

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow
Cheshire
SK9 5AF

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113

Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint

Last updated  March 2026

Secretary   Colin Smith

Treasurer  David Wells