As you will no doubt be aware the new General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) come into force on 25th May this year. The Membership Department has been working hard to ensure that all of our process are compliant and that we are in a good position to support you and your branches. More detailed information will be distributed very soon, but I wanted to reassure you that we are taking action and give you an overview of the progress we have made.
- We have amended the paragraph about data protection in the Handbook.
- We have created a Members Retention Schedule and added it to the Handbook
- We have amended the MS1 and MS1A form
- We have created Membership Terms & Conditions – to be published at the beginning of May
- We are amending all the forms where we collect personal data to include a statement about data protection and how the data will be used
- We have amended the membership application form – currently in production by our supplier, they will be distributed as soon as they are ready. The old form will become obsolete on 24th May, so branches must ensure they use the new one from 25th May
- We are preparing a GDPR information pack which will be sent to branches at the end of April.
- A copy of the pack will also be distributed to Clubs to encourage them to follow the same data protection principles
- We will produce a FAQ document and publish it on Office 365 (MAP)
