The data we routinely collect includes members’ names, addresses and email addresses. We collect this data directly from our members when they join the club.

We collect the scores from games you play, which are displayed on our results pages and used in maintaining the EBU’s National Grading Scheme (NGS) and the Master Point scheme.

We use members’ data for the administration of your membership, the communication of information, and the organisation of events. We provide your data to the English Bridge Union (EBU) for their use as explained in the section below.

Your membership data is passed on to the EBU, of which you become a member when you join. The EBU shares data with its associated charity, English Bridge Education and Development (EBED), since it shares offices and data systems with them, and with Berks & Bucks Bridge or any other county that you may have nominated as your county of allegiance.

Information from your results is also passed on to the EBU for use in its master point and NGS schemes and, unless you have chosen to have your NGS grade kept private, this may also be used for stratification and handicap purposes.

Some of your data will be available for use by Pianola and Bridgewebs acting as a Data Processor on our behalf. They are not free to pass this on to other organisations that are not connected with Chalfont Bridge Club. Your personal data is not passed on by us to organisations other than those indicated above, whether connected with bridge or not.

Data for most of our members comes from them when they join Chalfont Bridge Club or when they update their information either directly or via their EBU record.

The information held by the EBU may be updated by your club if you have given it permission to change your record. You can change this permission on My EBU by going to Account -> My Details.

If you are a direct member of the EBU, you will instead have provided your personal data directly to us when you joined Chalfont Bridge Club, or when you updated your record with us.

Scoring data comes directly from the results of the club games in which you play.

This information is mainly stored in digital form on computers. We use Pianola and Bridgewebs as our Data Processor for this purpose. Any information that is stored remotely is stored in the EU in compliance with the GDPR.

Under the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) we do not have a statutory requirement to have a Data Protection Officer. The person who is responsible for ensuring Chalfont Bridge Club discharges its obligations under the GDPR is David Martin.

Members of the committee of Chalfont Bridge Club have access to members’ data for them to carry out their legitimate tasks for the organisations.

Chalfont Bridge Club collects personal data that is necessary for the purposes of its legitimate interests as a membership organisation and participant in an internationally recognised and regulated, competitive mind sport.

For some data, such as that relating to financial matters, the basis for its collection and retention is to comply with our legal obligations.

If you want to see the basic membership data we hold about you, you should contact David Martin.

You can contact us with a “Subject Access Request” if you want to ask us to provide you with any other information we hold about you. If you are interested in any particular aspects, specifying them will help us to provide you with what you need quickly and efficiently. We are required to provide this to you within one month.

There is not usually a fee for this, though we can charge a reasonable fee based on the administrative cost of providing the information if a request is manifestly unfounded or excessive, or for requests for further copies of the same information.

The GDPR refers to sensitive personal data as “special categories of personal data”. 

We do not record any such special data of these categories. The only data we may record will relate to the disabilities of members who have explicitly requested it to be recorded to giving them stationary positions in our competitions (which we aim to do wherever feasible). If you wish to change this data on your record.

There are various ways in which you can limit how your data is used.

• If you wish you could become an “anonymous” member. This would involve you having a pseudonym with an EBU number under which you would play. If you do this however, you would not be able to access any EBU membership benefits such as the magazine or playing in EBU tournaments.
• you can do so at any time by contacting a member of the committee.
• You could maintain your club membership with your correct name but with limited contact details. However, we do need to have at least one method of contacting you. You could for example simply maintain an up-to-date email address, but of course this would limit what we and the EBU are able to provide you with in the way of written information, so you would not be able to get English Bridge in printed form or any other benefits that require a mailing address.
• You do not need to provide us with your date of birth unless you wish to enter age-limited (junior or seniors) events or gain concessions based on age.
• If you do not want your NGS grade to be public, you may choose for it to be kept private. You can change this option as often as you wish.
• You may choose not to appear in master point promotions lists.
• You may choose not to receive information emails from Chalfont Bridge Club (we do not send any out on behalf of other organisations).
• Any of these options can be implemented for your club membership by contacting a member of the committee.
• Any of these options can be implemented for your EBU membership by logging on to My EBU, going to Account –> My Details and editing your record there, either to correct erroneous data or to delete information you do not wish us to have. If you need any assistance with this, you may contact the Office Manager membership@ebu.co.uk.

• We normally keep members’ data after they resign or their membership lapses in case they later wish to re-join. However, we will delete any former member’s contact details entirely on request.
• Since underlying statistical data, like scores from bridge games, continues to be necessary in relation to the purpose for which it was originally collected and processed, results from events used for the NGS are not deleted by Chalfont Bridge Club or the EBU although they will no longer be attributed to a player who does not want their data to be kept.
• Historical ranking lists and prize lists are required for archiving purposes and names cannot be removed from them.
• Other data, such as that relating to accounting or personnel matters, is kept for the legally required period.

We normally keep members’ information after they die. If requested by their next-of-kin to delete it, we will do so on the same basis as when requested to remove data by a former member.

Your session data that is held by the EBU can be downloaded as a csv spreadsheet. You can do this by logging on to My EBU and in your Sessions list, clicking on “Download as CSV”. To access data held by Chalfont Bridge Club contact David Martin or a committee member.