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Bloody GDPR - again!
« on: May 25, 2018, 07:24:40 pm »
No doubt you have all been inundated with e-mails begging you to give various nefarious organisations express permission to do all sorts of nasty things with your most intimate details even though they promise they never will.

Well, this is another one; sort of.

In the light of the General Data Protection Regulations we felt that it was appropriate that we make a statement about what data we, the administrators and moderators of EuroKClub, hold and what we do with the data you give when you apply for membership of the forum.


Our contact with members:

As a forum, the organisers, and I use that term loosely, are not in the business of contacting our members, either en-masse or individually and are not even sure that the General Data Protection Regulations apply to forums in any case. (If you are a member and are also an expert on the innermost workings of GDPR and think differently, we would love to hear from you.)

The one exception to this rule is mass mails we may send to members informing them of unplanned and extraordinary loss of service of the forum. You cannot opt out of this mailing except by requesting an account deletion and leaving the forum and by remaining a member you are, in effect, agreeing to us contacting you in this way.


The data we hold on members:

As well as the details you give when you apply for membership of the forum, the software used to generate the forum (SMF by Simple Machines) also provides information about your use of the forum such as the last time you were active in the forum, the number of posts you have made and the number of posts per day as an average.

The information EuroKClub has about members is shown in each member's profile and can be viewed by the member at any time.

In the case of guests to the forum, we have and keep no data other than the number of them who visit the forum.


What we do with the data held on members:

- essentially nothing, (we are motorcyclists, not entrepreneurs)
- we don't use your data for marketing (we don't do any), pass it on to any 3rd party (most of us don't know any 3rd parties) and will never sell it (we should be so lucky)
- you won't be asked to 'opt in' (you already did that by joining the forum)


Where is member's data held:

- backups of the forum are kept securely by Natty Web Developments Ltd. (who host and maintain the forum) for the purposes of, well, maintaining and re-populating the forum in the case of corruption (no, not that sort ) and also by at least one of the administrators (in case Natty Web Developments Ltd. are abducted by aliens or win the lottery)
- there are no personal data held that cannot be seen by a member (so no member need make any request for a full copy of the data held on them).


What to do if you do not want your data held by us:

- you can request a complete account deletion by emailing admin@eurokclub.com
- however, if you decide that you want your posts deleted, you will need to do that yourself BEFORE you request an account deletion  ::)


In a nutshell, which it obviously isn't, that's it!