Our privacy policy
We are very concerned at the OA Club to respect the privacy of our members.
- Our database
We maintain a database of Old Aluredian Club members. This contains contact details for members as well as information about the interests in relation to the Club's activities. We also have information about a members activities where it has been submitted by the member. - Collection of data
Most of our data is based on information passed on to us by the school when pupils leave and on existing data held by the club. We are actively collecting more data in order to keep our records up to date and to offer members more benefits. We will not, however, in future collect information about members unless it is supplied to us by that member. The only exception to this is where a member is referred to in a personal context by another member in a "bulletin" news update. A log of website usage is maintained for the purposes of security and website development. - Use of the data
Date held about members will only be used for club purposes. Data will not be passed on to any commercial third party. On occasions access to the database will be given to individuals hoping to start a new club related activity (for example, setting up a new sports society) or to the school for correspondence purposes. - Inspecting data held
Under the Data Protection Act, any member of the club may request to see any information held on them. Members hoping to do this should write to: Guy Poland, Neate's House, Bishopswood, Chard, Somerset, TA20 3RS, UK and a written statement will be sent out as soon as possible. - Requests to have information
removed
Members wishing to have no further contact with the Old Aluredian Club can write to: Guy Poland, Neate's House, Bishopswood, Chard, Somerset, TA20 3RS, UK or jchewitt@kings-taunton.co.uk. The data will then be no longer used by the club except in the online "OA Directory" where only the member's name, house and year of leaving (but no personal data) will be maintained for historical reasons. - Use of information
on the website
Great efforts have been made to make the website accessible to members only. By default, personal information shown on the website includes a listing of each registered user's name, house and year of leaving. It also shows most news bulletins submitted since the beginning of 2001. Where an email address for a member is on record, a facility on the website lets other users send an email to that member. Members sending the email, however, are unable to see the recipient's email address. Any members wishing not to be contacted using this facility may request this by emailing jchewitt@kings-taunton.co.uk jchewitt@kings-taunton.co.uk - Other uses of email
addresses
By registering your email address with the OA Club and using the website you are added to the OA Club mailing list which will be used for Club related uses only. Even if you have requested that other members are unable to email you via the website, your email address will remain on the mailing list. Requesting that you are removed from this list (by writing to Guy Poland, Neate's House, Bishopswood, Chard, Somerset, TA20 3RS, UK or jchewitt@kings-taunton.co.uk) will mean that you will be unable to use the OA website.
