1. Your personal data - what is it?
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller's possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the "GDPR").

2. Who are we?
The Committee of The Midlands West Fell Pony Support Group is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. How do we process your personal data?
The Committee of The Midlands West Fell Pony Support Group complies with its obligations under the "GDPR" by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes: -

• To administer Group membership records.
  
• To fundraise and promote the interests of the Group and the Fell Pony Society.
  
• To maintain our own accounts and records.
  
• To inform you of news, events, and activities.

4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

• Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, and Group activities.
  
• Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement.
  
• Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body provided:
  
  the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and
  
  there is no disclosure to a third party without consent.
  

5. Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will not be shared with other members of the Group or third parties outside of the Group without your consent.

6. How long do we keep your personal data ?
We keep data while you are a member of the Group and for three years after your membership ceases.

7. Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: -

• The right to request a copy of your personal data which the Committee of The Midlands West Fell Pony Support Group holds about you.
  
• The right to request that the Committee of The Midlands West Fell Pony Support Group corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date.
  
• The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the Committee of Great The Midlands West Fell Pony Support Group to retain such data.
  
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time.
  
• The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), where applicable.
  
• The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing.
  
• The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable).
  
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

8. Further processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Policy, then we will provide you with a new policy explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

9. Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the Group Leader - Mrs Diane Key, Ivy Cottage, Seighford, Stafford. ST18 9PQ. Tel: 01785 282922 or email: diane@fellpony.me.uk

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.