The Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers (AGWSD), is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy and to making only responsible use of your data.
This policy explains what information is collected about people who visit our website, register for events or any of our other services, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.
The Association of Guilds of Weavers, Spinners and Dyers (AGWSD) is a charity (registered charity number: 289590). We are staffed by volunteers who provide a number of different services to our member guilds and to members of the public.
We will collect personal information from you when you enquire about our activities, register for events or any of our other services.
This may include your name, title, email address, physical address and telephone numbers. We may also ask for some additional information in order to enable us to provide the relevant support/service. We will not collect any personal data that we do not need.
Your personal information will only be used to process your requests and to enable us to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into by you and us. We may seek your views or comments on the services we provide and notify you of changes to our services.
We will hold your personal information for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity and then it will be erased.
Authorised volunteers for the AGWSD have access your information in order to carry out functions in relation to your requests or any contracts entered into between you and us.
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties. We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
We may pass your information to our third party service providers, agents, subcontractors and other associated organisations for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for instance, providing accommodation, printing labels and sending mailings). However, when we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service and we have a contract in place that requires them to keep your information secure and not to use it for their own direct marketing purposes.
We have a responsibility to securely destroy your personal information when it is no longer needed. We only keep it for as long as necessary to provide the services you have requested and to comply with legal requirements.
We will not contact you for marketing purposes by email, phone or text message unless you have given your prior consent.
You have the right to ask for a copy of the information the AGWSD holds about you.
When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely and will take all reasonable precautions to prevent the loss, misuse or alteration of information you give us.
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.
As part of the services offered to you, the information which you provide to us may be transferred to countries outside of the United Kingdom (“UK”). By way of example, this may happen in the way our bank card payment management providers store details of transactions that have been carried out on the site. 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 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 policy.
Like many other websites, the AGWSD website uses cookies, small pieces of information sent to your computer and stored on your hard drive. This data does not identify you as an individual but may provide some other information that enables your device to be identified.
We use CookieYes to enable you to see and select which cookies you are prepared to accept from our website. Turning off cookies may result in a loss of functionality (e.g. being able to purchase subscriptions) when using our website.
Our website may contain links to external websites. This privacy policy applies only to our website, and a link to an external website is in no way intended to be an endorsement of the privacy policy used by that website. We cannot be responsible for the privacy policies and practices of other sites even if you access them using links from our website.
Other information
If you would like us to correct or update any information, or if you would like information deleted from our records, then please email us at info@wsd.org.uk.
This privacy policy may be updated from time to time, so please check it periodically.
If at any point you believe the information we process on you is incorrect you can request to see this information and have it corrected or deleted. If you wish to raise a complaint on how we have handled your personal data, you can contact us to have the matter investigated.
Note that this policy applies only to the information provided directly to the AGWSD and does not cover information provided by individuals to member guilds.
