1. The good stuff
- We will only use your data to ‘up’ your experience!
2. Locked down
- We’ll protect your data like it’s our own!
3. Straight talking
- We’ll always talk your language and have your back – no nonsense, no surprises!
4. No spam
- You decide what and how you hear from us!
5. Just the essentials
- Your info won’t just hang about – if we don’t need it, we’ll delete it!
Protecting Your Privacy
At the Association for Physical Education, we are 100% committed to protecting the privacy and security of our members and site visitors (yes, we mean you). The staff at the Association for Physical Education are members themselves – so we totally appreciate and respect how important privacy is. If you have any questions about how we Protect Your Privacy, drop us a line at enquiries@afpe.org.uk
For all our services, the data controller — the company that’s responsible for your privacy, is the Association for Physical Education and the registered Data Protection Officer is Simon Leach.
How we use your information
How we use your contact history
- We’ve got to do this to perform our contract with you, after all, you expect the best service from us
- Provide customer service and support
- So that, when you contact us, you get the best possible customer service
Information about your phone or laptop, and how you use our website
Information you give us when you browse our site or use, including your IP address and device type and, if you choose to share it with us, your location data, as well as how you use our website.
- Improve our website and set default options for you (such as language and currency)
- Protect our website
- To prevent and detect fraud against either you or the Association for Physical Education – unfortunate, but absolutely essential — and to meet our legal obligations about looking after your data
We do not, and will not, sell any of your personal data to any third party – including your name, address, email address or credit card information. We want to earn and maintain your trust, and we believe this is absolutely essential in order do that.
If you have said we can, we’ll send you marketing messages by email, to keep you aware of what we’re up to and to help you see and find our range of membership services, events, resources and news from the sector.
How to stop marketing messages from the Association for Physical Education? You can stop receiving marketing messages from us at any time.
You can do this:
- By clicking on the ‘unsubscribe’ link in any email
- By contacting us
Once you do this, we will update your profile to ensure that you don’t receive further marketing messages.
We’ll hold on to your information for as long as you have your account/membership, or as long as is needed to be able to provide the services to you, or (in the case of any contact you may have with our Customer Care team) for as long as is necessary to provide support-related reporting and trend analysis only.
If reasonably necessary or required to meet legal or regulatory requirements, resolve disputes, prevent fraud and abuse, or enforce our terms and conditions, we may also keep hold of some of your information as required, even after you have closed your account/membership or it is no longer needed to provide the services to you.
You have a lot of rights relating to your personal information:
- The right to be informed about how your personal information is being used (like this notice!)
- The right to access the personal information we hold about you
- The right to request the correction of inaccurate personal information we hold about you
- The right to request that we delete your data, or stop processing it or collecting it, in some circumstances
- The right to stop direct marketing messages, and to withdraw consent for other consent-based processing at any time
- The right to request that we transfer or port elements of your data either to you or another service provider
- The right to complain to your data protection regulator — in the UK, the Information Commissioner’s Office
If you want to exercise your rights, have a complaint, or just have questions, please contact us.
We may change this page from time to time, to reflect how we are processing your data.
If we make significant changes, we will make that clear on the Association for Physical Education website, or by some other means of contact such as email, so that you are able to review the changes.
We use cookies when you visit our site. There are four main types of cookies – here’s how and why we use them.
(1) Site functionality cookies – these cookies allow you to navigate the website.
(2) Site analytics cookies – these cookies allow us to measure and analyse how our customers use the site, to improve its functionality.
(3) Customer preference cookies – when you are browsing on the Association for Physical Education website, these cookies will remember your preferences (like your language or location), so we can make your website experience as seamless as possible, and more personal to you.
(4) Targeting or advertising cookies – these cookies are used to deliver ads relevant to you. They also limit the number of times that you see an ad and help us measure the effectiveness of our marketing campaigns.
By using our site, you agree to us placing these sorts of cookies on your device and accessing them when you visit the site in the future. If you want to delete any cookies that are already on your computer, the “help” section in your browser should provide instructions on how to locate the file or directory that stores cookies. Further information about cookies can be found at https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-pecr/cookies-and-similar-technologies/. Please note that by deleting or disabling future cookies, your user experience may be affected and you might not be able to take advantage of certain functions of our site, and the complete Association for Physical Education user experience that we pride ourselves on providing our customers.
We always want to hear from our members (especially if you feel we’ve let you down or could do better).
If you:
- Have any questions or feedback about this notice
- Would like us to stop using your information
- Want to exercise any of your rights as set out above, or have a complaint
please don’t hesitate to contact our team, who will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
You can contact us at enquiries@afpe.org.uk, or call 01905 673960. Or if you’d like to, you can write to us at:
Association for Physical Education, Unit 1 Elgar Business Centre, Moseley Road, Hallow, Worcester, WR2 6NJ.
