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Privacy Policy

Who we are

The National Association of Women’s Clubs is committed to protecting and respecting the privacy of all those who use our website and our services. In line with the EU General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) it is important to us that our visitors and customers understand what personal data we collect from you and how it will be processed.

What personal data do we collect?

We collect information about you during the signup process as well as some basic activities such as the dates you make purchases, login to the site, or cancel/resume your subscriptions with us.

When you subscribe with us, we’ll ask you to provide a name and email address. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and subscriptions. This may include payment receipts, password reset emails, and payment reminders.
  • Create your membership account

How do we use your personal data?

We limit the use of personal data to ensuring we deliver the service you have requested. Furthermore, we retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary to deliver you this service. Under certain circumstances we will retain your personal data longer if it is part of an accounting record which we are obliged by law to retain for 7 years. Where this is the case, your personal data will be archived. Records in an archived state means access to them is greatly restricted.

Third Parties

We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.

We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.

We may pass your information to third party service providers who we have engaged for the purpose of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf. We disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service.

How we use cookies?

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

This site uses Google Analytics which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solution on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. The data gathered by this cookie is anonymous and is used to enhance the usability of the website. Further information is available from https://www.google.com/analytics/learn/privacy.html

You can choose to accept or decline cookies. Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

Online Shop

While you visit our site, we’ll track:

  • Products you’ve viewed: we’ll use this to, for example, show you products you’ve recently viewed
  • Location, IP address and browser type: we’ll use this for purposes like estimating taxes and shipping
  • Shipping address: we’ll ask you to enter this so we can, for instance, estimate shipping before you place an order, and send you the order!

We’ll also use cookies to keep track of cart contents while you’re browsing our site.

When you purchase from us, we’ll ask you to provide information including your name, billing address, shipping address, email address, credit card/payment details and optional account information like username and password. We’ll use this information for purposes, such as, to:

  • Send you information about your account and order
  • Respond to your requests, including refunds and complaints
  • Process payments and prevent fraud
  • Set up your account for our store
  • Comply with any legal obligations we have, such as calculating taxes
  • Improve our store offerings
  • Send you marketing messages, if you choose to receive them

If you create an account, we will store your name, address and email, which will be used to populate the checkout for future orders.

We generally store information about you for as long as we need the information for the purposes for which we collect and use it, and we are not legally required to continue to keep it. For example, we will store order information for 6 years for tax and accounting purposes. This includes your name, email address and billing and shipping addresses.

We will also store comments or reviews, if you choose to leave them.

Links to other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

What are your Data Protection Rights?

Data Request: You may request a copy of any data we hold about you.

Amending your data: The accuracy of your information is important to us. If you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please contact us so we may correct our records.

Your right to be forgotten: You have the right to request erasure of your personal information. Unless there is a compelling reason for the data not to be erased (for example, if we need to use that data to fulfil our contractual or legal obligations), your personal data will be deleted on request.

To contact us regarding these rights please write to our compliance officer by email nawc@btconnect.com or at our postal address: The National Association of Women’s Clubs, The Army Reserve Centre, 312 London Road, Romford, Essex RM7 9NH

Security

The National Association of Women’s Clubs takes security seriously. In order to protect your information from loss, misuse or unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect. These steps include the following:

  • Data minimisation
  • Password best practice
  • Security best practice concerning devices (PCs, laptops, mobile devices), online accounts, website hosting, physical access and storage

Changes to this Privacy Policy

We may change this Policy from time to time so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our services, you’re agreeing to be bound by this Policy.

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April Update

I start this Newsletter by paying tribute to HRH Prince Philip, The Duke of Edinburgh who died on Friday 9th April. Your committee has sent a letter of condolences to the Queen on behalf of NAWC but for all of us it is a sad day he has always been in our lives. He had been involved in many charities but the one he will always be remembered for is The Duke of Edinburgh Award Scheme, it gave millions of young people the chance to do something adventurous, be part of social care and to be socially interactive with others as well as having fun. We think of our Queen at this time, she has lost her husband of 73 years and many in our Association will be able to identify with her. Our thoughts are with her and her family at this sad time.

After an unbelievable year it looks like we could be back on track, or is it a road map? Not quite there but if all goes to plan groups such as ours could be allowed to meet after 17th May. It is still a bit confusing so we must wait and see but definitely after 21st June we should be back to normal. I don’t suppose many clubs will be back in their halls until September but if the venue allows and the club feels able you can go back in the summer if you want to. This would, of course, be entirely up to the individual club NAWC can only advise.

Clubs could, however, take advantage of the good weather to come and meet up in parks, go for walks, have a lunch or afternoon tea, coffee mornings anything so that we get together again and can enjoy each other’s company once more. It might be a bit strange to go out after all this time but persevere ladies and you will get there. We will be fundraising for NAWC and Marie Curie Nurses so how about “Walk a Marathon” in a month. We can provide sponsor sheets and it is amazing how a little walk each day mounts up, not only are you raising money for a worthy cause but getting that all important exercise as well.

Our clubs are all about friendship and though the physical contact has not been there we have been able to keep together by letter, emails, ‘what’s app’ groups and telephone calls, all those who have been keeping in touch with members are to be congratulated.

We are starting to organise our events again and this year we are hoping to have a weekend away in Norwich and we are looking into the possibility of having two Christmas concerts. Next year we have lunches booked on the Thames and in the West Midlands and hopefully an afternoon tea in Derbyshire. Our conference has been moved to May 2022 as it would have been nigh impossible to get it organised for September this year. However, this would be a one-off hopefully back to normal in 2023.

As we said in our letter to the clubs the committee are all willing to stand again to see us through, and a decision has been made that the subscriptions for last year 2020/2021 are suspended and those who paid have had them carried forward to this year 2021/2022 we don’t know of many other organisations who have been that generous but it was the way the committee felt was fair.

So, Ladies it is back to business, fingers crossed, and if anyone is looking at this website for the first time see if there is a club near you, or maybe start one.

You would get plenty of help to get going, for many members being a part of NAWC has been a lifesaver during this lockdown.

Our best wishes to you all and as always stay safe,

Chris and the Committee