Privacy Policy

We are committed to ensuring privacy of both users of our website and members of Skateboard Scotland. The following is information about the data we may collect for visitors to our website and additional information that is supplied as part of applying to become a member of Skateboard Scotland.

Who are we?

Skateboard Scotland is the governing body for Skateboarding in Scotland. You can read more about us and our aims and objectives on our About Us page.

Your personal data – what is it?

Visitors to our website: Our website uses third-party Google Analytics tracking software so that we can see which pages have been visited and overall visitor traffic to our website. This means that information such as your IP address and the pages you viewed on our site are passed to systems under Google’s control. Information about Google’s privacy compliance can be found on their compliance site at https://privacy.google.com/businesses/compliance/. For the purposes of this information Google is considered the data controller of this information. Additional to this information we also log anonymous IP addresses of visitors to our website directly on the server that our website runs on, for this information Skateboard Scotland is considered the data controller.

Membership information: For users who become a member of Skateboard Scotland we use the third-party Mailchimp service to collect your registration information and to subsequently use the information you provide on this form to contact you about membership specific information such as news, notification of events like Skateboard Scotland meetings, AGMs and competitions. For the purposes of this information Mailchimp is considered the data controller. We treat this information with respect and will not transfer the information supplied here to third parties.

How do we process your personal data and how do we use it?

Visitors to our website: Both Skateboard Scotland and Google as relevant data controllers comply with their obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data. The information gathered via Google Analytics is used to determine overall visitor numbers to our website.

Membership information: Mailchimp as the relevant data controller complies with their obligations under the GDPR by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data. The information gathered via Mailchimp is used to enable us to contact you regarding a person’s status as a Skateboard Scotland member. Skateboard Scotland may at times may export this membership list data for use in offline-processing to establish statistics and to better understand the membership of Skateboard Scotland. At no time will this information be transferred to third parties without your consent, only Skateboard Scotland and Mailchimp has any access to your data. You can change your mind about your Membership permissions at any time by clicking the “Update Profile” link in the footer of any email you receive from us, or alternatively by contacting us at members@skateboardscotland.com.