Privacy Policy & Cookies

How we respect privacy when we deal with personal information collected by our organisation

This Privacy Policy applies to information that we, 228 (Bromley) Squadron Air Training Corps (228 Squadron), collect about individuals who interact with our organisation. It explains what personal information we collect and how we use it.

If you have any comments or questions about this notice, feel free to contact us at 228@rafac.mod.gov.uk.

1. Personal data that we process

The following lists the types of data we collect and the legal basis under which the data is processed in accordance with current data protection legislation.

Name, email address and message - collected when the website user submits a message to 228 Squadron via our website. Information is held under Legitimate Interest in order for us to respond to queries. Website users may, should they choose to, include additional classes of information such as phone numbers within their message, any such information shall be held under the same terms.

2. How we use your data

We will only use your data in a manner that is appropriate considering the basis on which that data was collected, as set out above.

For example, we may use your personal information to:

reply to enquiries sent to us by website users;
where specifically requested or agreed, send recruitment or relevant marketing communications by email relating to 228 Squadron.

3. When we share your data

We will only pass your data to third parties under the following circumstances:

you have provided your explicit consent for us to pass data to a named third party;
we are using a third party purely for the purposes of processing data on our behalf and we have in place a data processing agreement with that third party that fulfils our legal obligations in relation to the use of third party data processors; or
we are required by law to share your data.

In addition, we will only pass data to third parties outside of the EU where appropriate safeguards are in place as defined by Article 46 of the General Data Protection Regulation.

4. How long we keep your data

We take the principles of data minimisation and removal seriously and have internal policies in place to ensure that we only ever ask for the minimum amount of data for the associated purpose and delete that data promptly once it is no longer required.

Where data is collected on the basis of consent, we will seek renewal of consent at least every three years.

5. Rights you have over your data

You have a range of rights over your data, which include the following:

Where data processing is based on consent, you may revoke this consent at any time and we will make it as easy as possible for you to do this (for example by putting ‘unsubscribe’ links at the bottom of all our marketing emails).
You have the right to ask for rectification and/or deletion of your information.
You have the right of access to your information.
You have the right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner if you feel your rights have been infringed.

A full summary of your legal rights over your data can be found on the Information Commissioner’s website here: https://ico.org.uk/

If you would like to access the rights listed above, or any other legal rights you have over your data under current legislation, please get in touch with us by email (228@rafac.mod.gov.uk).

Please note that relying on some of these rights, such as the right to deleting your data, will make it impossible for us to continue to deliver some services to you. However, where possible we will always try to allow the maximum access to your rights while continuing to deliver as many services to you as possible.

6. Cookies & usage tracking

This website is built on the GoDaddy platform which uses cookies to track performance data to help maintain and improve the platform.

Cookies are not used by 228 Squadron to collect personal data.

7. Modifications

We may modify this Privacy Policy from time to time and will publish the most current version on our website.