Data Protection Policy

To: Club members, applicants to join The Club and users of the TESCOS` website.

In view of national and international data protection law, all organisations and companies which use data on private persons are required to take measures to ensure that such data are not shared with any third party without specific permission of the person involved.

Subsequently, the committee of the Club has implemented a data protection policy, as part of which we will not share information about our members with any third party, nor publish private data about our members on our website.

Who we are.

The English Speaking Club of Schaffhausen (TESCOS for short, hereinafter The Club) is a non-profit-making organisation, which has been in existence since 1973. Our website address is https://tescos-sh.com/. The Club is managed by a Committee elected by its members at its Annual General Meeting each year.

personal data we collect and why we collect it.

Essential data collected for the purposes of organising regular events and for informing members about events and development of the Club are typically: the names, addresses telephone numbers and Email addresses of members. Since establishing this website, uploaded to the internet on April 1st 2019, information about the number of visits made to the website per unit of time e.g. day, week, month etc. is gathered automatically. This is not person-specific. Photographic images of members may be taken at events or submitted by members themselves. Persons wishing to join The Club or to maintain their membership are required to approve of The Club making use of the aforementioned data and images. On its part, The Club declares its intention never to misuse such information in any way.

Members and users of the site have the right to know what information about them is being held by The Club. Alex Maitland, President of The Club, is responsible for maintaining the data protection privacy of The Club.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site, The Club collects the data shown in the comments form, the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string, to enable spam detection.

Media

Visitors to the website can download and extract location data from images on the website. If visitors upload images to the website, they should therefore avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included.

Contact forms, COOKIES

Embedded content from other websites

If articles from other websites are transferred to the TESCOS website, they may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in exactly the same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about the user, use cookies, embedded additional third-party tracking, and monitor their interaction with that embedded content, including tracking their interaction with the embedded content if they have an account and are logged in to that website.

Who do we share users` data with?

No one !

RIGHTS USERS HAVE OVER THEIR DATA

If a user has an account on this site or has left comments, they can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about them, including any data they have provided to us. They may also request that we erase any personal data we hold about them. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

How we protect users` data

Users` data are safe with us and we do not sell data to any third party