Privacy

What you send us

When you use the contact form, you give us your name, your email address, your company if you choose to add it, and your message. That's everything.

If you're going through something, you're welcome to tell us. But please don't feel you need to put details about your health in the form. Only the committee reads it, and we'd rather talk properly than have it sitting in a message.

What the site doesn't do

The site doesn't run advertising tools or tracking cookies, and we don't build a profile of you from the pages you look at. Like most websites, our host may record basic, anonymous visit numbers so we know the site is working.

If a page has something from another service on it, like a Spotify player, that service may set its own cookies when you use it.

What we do with it

We use what you send to reply to you. If your message is about an event or getting involved, we use it to sort that out.

We do this because we have a genuine interest in replying to people who get in touch and in running the community. That's the legal basis, in plain terms.

We don't sell your details, we don't pass them to advertisers, and we don't add you to a marketing list you never asked for.

Who sees your message

It comes through to the people who run The Boys Club, so one of us can answer you properly. It isn't shared outside the committee.

The site is hosted on Lovable. Lovable, and the services it uses to send email, handle your message on our behalf so that it reaches us. Some of those services may be based outside the UK; where they are, UK data protection law requires safeguards to be in place.

How long we keep it

Your message lands in our inbox, and a copy may also be held securely by our website host. We keep it for as long as it takes to reply and keep the conversation going, and no longer than we need to.

If you'd rather it was deleted, tell us and we'll remove it.

The Facebook Group and events

When you ask to join the Facebook Group, it asks you a few questions, such as your company and role. The committee reads your answers to decide on your request, and we use them for nothing else. Facebook holds them under its own privacy policy.

If you sign up for an event, we use your name and contact details to organise it and keep you posted about it. Nothing more.

Links to other people's sites

The Facebook Group, Spotify and the support organisations we point to are their own places, run by other people. Once you click through, their privacy terms apply, not ours.

The support organisations we list are independent. We aren't formally affiliated with them and we don't speak for them.

Your say

You can ask to see what you've sent us, correct it, have it deleted, or object to how we use it. Email Ben at the address above or use the contact form. The same goes for any question about this note.

You also have the right to raise a concern with the Information Commissioner's Office (ico.org.uk) if you think we've handled something badly.

If this changes

If we start doing anything different with people's details, we'll update this page so it stays accurate.