Privacy Policy

Abertillery Orpheus Male Choir - Privacy Policy and General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR)

Abertillery Orpheus Male Choir (Cor Meibion Abertyleri) retains information and data about its choristers and supporters. This information and data is held securely and will never be offered for sale or otherwise to any third party. Anyone can request a copy of all data held about them at any time and can request that it be deleted should they wish.

The law on data protection, based on the General Data Protection Regulation and formerly the Data Protection Act, sets out a number of different reasons for which a choir may collect and process your personal data, including: 

• To send you communications required by law or which are necessary to inform you about our changes to the services we provide you. For example, updates to this Privacy Notice.
• To develop, test and improve the systems, services and products we provide to you. We’ll do this on the basis of our legitimate business interests. 
• To send you survey and feedback requests to help improve our services. These messages will not include any promotional content and do not require prior consent when sent by email or text message. We have a legitimate interest to do so as this helps make our products or services more relevant to you. You are free to opt out of receiving these requests from us at any time by contacting us. 
• To confirm that we have carried out your instruction such as posting a job vacancy, concert promotion, choir rules and constitution, etc. 
• For promotion of our services and choral related products and services your choir may have an intertest in, including the choir Newsletter and selected third party mailings. You are free to opt out of receiving these requests from us at any time by contacting us at secretary@abertilleryorpheus.co.uk 
• We may hold Next of Kin contact details for Choir members where we are on tour and may need to contact the family in the event of illness or other emergencies.

Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we’ll only keep it for as long as is necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. If you request to unsubscribe to future mailings your data will deleted completely and a record of your unsubscription retained. Equally if the data changes, for instance the name of the choir contact changes, we will amend the email details accordingly. Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs (HMRC) requires us to keep records of contracts, payments and invoices for 7 years. We will therefore normally hold information of any contracts or advertisers for this long. 

We hope this Privacy Notice has been helpful in setting out the way we handle your personal data and your rights to control it. If you have any questions that haven’t been covered please contact us at secretary@abertilleryorpheus.co.uk Please note that this is a small choir with no specific Data Protection Officers so requests for information may take a little longer that larger businesses with dedicated Data Protection officers.