Privacy Policy

Our organisation is The Mistley Masonic Hall Company Ltd, South Street Manningtree Essex CO11 1BG, incorporated 3rd May 2001. Company number 04210831.

It is The Mistley Masonic Hall Company policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect from you or which you may provide to us, in the circumstances set out below.

Accordingly, we have developed this privacy policy in order for you to understand how we collect, use, communicate, disclose, safeguard and otherwise make use of your personally identifiable information (“Personal Data”).

We will only collect and use your Personal Data where: we have lawful grounds to do so, including to comply with our legal obligations; and where we have legitimate interests in using your Personal Data, and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

For the purposes of the EU General Data Protection Regulation ((EU) 2016/679) (“GDPR”), we are the “data controller”. If you have any questions about this policy or about how we use your Personal Data, please contact us via our contact details at the end of this policy.

This policy is effective as of 1st January 2023. We review our privacy practices on an ongoing basis, and as such we may change this privacy policy from time to time. Please check this page frequently to ensure you are familiar with its current content.

1.Personal Data we collect via our website. 

We only collect Personal Data where you choose to interact with us on the Website in the following ways:

• Activity: When you use the contact Form or our email address to contact us
• Types of Personal Data Collected: Email address & any Personal Data which you provide to us
• We do not automatically collect certain information when you visit our Website 

2. Use of your Personal Data

We will only use your Personal Data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we use your Personal Data to:

• process and respond to your messages & emails;
• respond to your questions, comments and requests;

3. Sharing of your Personal Data

We take your privacy seriously and will not share your Personal Data with others, except as permitted by applicable law.

4. Keeping your Personal Data secure

We have implemented security policies and technical measures to safeguard the Personal Data we collect. We maintain physical, electronic and procedural safeguards that comply with applicable law, including the GDPR, to safeguard Personal Data from accidental loss, destruction or damage and unauthorised access, use and disclosure.

5. Retention periods for use of your Personal Data

We will use and store your Personal Data only for as long as necessary, bearing in mind the uses of your Personal Data as described in this privacy policy and otherwise as communicated to you. We review the Personal Data we hold at regular intervals and delete permanently or anonymise any Personal Data which is no longer necessary.

6. Children

We do not retain data of anyone known to us as under the age of 16.

7.Access to and control over your Personal Data.

You have legal rights under applicable law in relation to your Personal Data. You can ask the following questions, or take the following actions, at any time by contacting us via email mistleymasonsconnect@gmail.com or via our postal address “South Street Manningtree Essex CO11 1BG” 

• Ask us who is holding it and who it could be disclosed to; 
• ask us to change / correct your Personal Data; 
• ask us to delete your Personal Data;
• object to the processing of your Personal Data; 
• ask us to restrict the processing of your Personal Data; 
• withdraw any consents you have given us to the processing of your Personal Data;
• express any concerns you have about third parties’ use of your Personal Data.

8. Change of purpose

We will only use your Personal Data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to have an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please contact us. If we need to use your Personal Data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

9. International transfers of your Personal Data

No data is passed to organisations outside the EU

10. Contact Us

Our full details are shown at the start of this policy.

Email for Privacy Questions: mistleymasonsconnect@gmail.com