Name: UK and Republic of Ireland ACBS Chapter

Address: Oakmoore Court 11c Kingswood Road, Hampton Lovett, Droitwich, Worcestershire, WR9 0QH 

E-mail: [email protected]

We currently collect and process the following information:

• Personal identifiers, contacts, and characteristics (for example, name and contact details).
• Any links to job vacancies and events you advertise. 
• What you’re willing to be contacted about by users of the website. 
• Your social media links. 
• The address you supply us with.
• Information about your working life. 

Most of the personal information we process is provided to us directly by you for the following reason:

• Because it will allow you us to build a community of people. The list helps both those looking to find someone with relevant skills, and those wishing to be found for having those relevant skills. 

We also receive personal information indirectly, from the following sources:

• WordPress Forms.
• Eventbrite.

We use the information that you have given us in order to contact you about events that are likely to be of interest to you.

We may share this information with the international ACBS organization. 

Please note that if you submit any listing (map, job, or event) that the information (e.g. name, location, personal website, contact details, education, specialities, social media links and occupation) you submit will be available for the general public to view. Note also that you are able to alter the listing so that what appears to the general public is what you are comfortable with. 

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR), the lawful bases we rely on for processing this information are:

Your consent. You are able to remove your consent, and therefore remove all information about your, at any time. You can do this by contacting [email protected].

Your information is securely stored. 

We keep any details that you submit to our website for the duration of your membership with our website. Upon instruction, we will then dispose of your information by deleting any data associated with you. 

Additionally, if you post a listing and would like us to delete the listing entirely from our website (front end and back end) then please do contact us at [email protected].

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

Your right of access – You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information. 

Your right to rectification – You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete information you think is incomplete. 

Your right to erasure – You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to restriction of processing – You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances. 

Your right to object to processing – You have the the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.

Your right to data portability – You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you make a request, we have one month to respond to you.

Please contact us at [email protected] if you wish to make a request.

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a complaint to us at [email protected]. 

You can also complain to the ICO if you are unhappy with how we have used your data.

The ICO’s address: