Privacy Policy

1. Privacy Policy:

(i)      SHVPS respects members right to privacy and any personal information collected will be stored on the society registration database; the society will make every reasonable effort to keep all information collected secure.

(ii)      The type of information collected by the Society on its membership forms generally include, members name, address, telephone numbers and other contact details, along with vehicle registration details.

(iii)     All personal information which members provide to us will be used by the Society for communication purposes, between Society and member.

(iv)    No personal information will be passed on to third parties, unless the Society has the consent of the member involved.

(v)     The Society cannot be held responsible for any personal information printed in the club magazine/newsletter, if the information provided is given willingly e.g. name, telephone numbers, address, email.

(vi)    Members shall be given the opportunity to withhold personal details from being printed in the Society’s yearly workshop manual.

(vii)    Member’s details will be removed from the Society’s database if renewal is not taken; however name and membership number only will be retained as this may be re-issued to the member/s, if said member/s rejoin.

(viii)   By providing the Society with your email, you consent to the Society contacting you by email with information about short-notice, forthcoming activities/events or news that may be of interest to you.

(ix)     The Society will not sell, trade, rent or otherwise share your information with any other party, unless requite t do so for law enforcement purposes.

(x)       MailChimp is used as the Society’s online platform to create, send, and manage email newsletters. The service uses a distribution list, which only contains the names, membership number and email addresses of our subscribers, i.e. members who have provided email addresses to receive this electronic newsletter.  Our distribution list is stored on a secure MailChimp server.  MailChimp’s own privacy policy and terms of use stipulate that they will never sell our list, contact people on our list market to people on our list, steal our list, or share our list with any other party, unless required to do so by law.  (http://mailchimp.com/legal/privacy/)

All SHVPS+ Mailchimp newsletters include an unsubscribe link which, if selected, will automatically remove a member’s details from the distribution list.