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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 31/07/2020
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Shepton Mallet Chamber of Commerce take protecting your privacy extremely seriously. It’s important to us that you trust us with your personal information, so we want to make you aware of what information we hold about you and how we collect, store and process it to provide our services to you.
Please read this privacy policy carefully.  If you have any questions about this policy or what we do with your personal information, please contact us and we’ll be happy to advise further.

What personal information do we collect?
The information we collect from you will depend on the service you have requested from us. This information may include your full name, business email address, business telephone number, business name, physical business address and website address.

What do we use your personal information for?
We will process the information that you provide to us in the following ways for the purpose of (and on the basis of) providing the services we have been engaged to deliver to you:
  • to contact you about events we are organising
  • to provide you with regular updates on topics relevant to the services we are providing
  • where you have consented to us doing so, to provide you with further information about Shepton Mallet Chamber of Commerce and other services.
 
How do we protect your personal information?
We aim to protect your personal information in the following ways:
  • keeping information up to date, primarily through regular contact with you
  • storing information in secure locations, including information stored electronically
  • destroying information which is no longer relevant, unless we have a legitimate reason or statutory obligation to retain it
  • minimising, wherever practicable, the number of staff or third parties who have access to your information.
 
How long do we keep your personal information?
Wherever practicable, we will retain your personal information for no longer than is necessary; however, there are circumstances in which we will keep your information for longer, including;
  • where we have a statutory or regulatory obligation to retain the information (we are required to keep certain information for specified minimum periods, and in some cases indefinitely, depending on the services we provide)
  • to ensure our business is properly run in an efficient and compliant manner.

Accessing your personal information
You have the following rights regarding your personal information:
  • to make a request to see the personal information we hold about you
  • to change/update the personal information we hold about you
  • to ask us to erase the personal information we hold about you, unless there is a statutory, regulatory or otherwise legitimate reason for us not to comply (we will always provide you with more details about your rights in our response to your request)
  • to ask us to provide you or a third party with the personal information we hold about you.
If you wish to exercise any of your rights regarding your personal information, we hold about you, contact us by email on sheptonchamber@gmail.com.
 
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