Data Protection Policy

This data protection policy sets out Hornsey Historical Society’s commitment to protecting personal data and how we implement that commitment with regards to the collection and use of personal data.

More details about how we give effect to the principles in this policy can be found in our Privacy Policy.

We are committed to:

  • Ensuring that we comply with the eight data protection principles, as listed below
  • Meeting our legal obligations as laid down by the Data Protection Act
  • Ensuring that data is collected and used fairly and lawfully
  • Processing personal data only in order to meet our operational needs or fulfill legal requirements
  • Taking steps to ensure that personal data, as far as possible, is up to date and accurate
  • Establishing appropriate retention periods for personal data
  • Ensuring that data subjects’ rights can be appropriately exercised
  • Providing appropriate measures to protect personal data
  • Ensuring that a nominated officer is responsible for data protection compliance and provides a point of contact for all data protection issues
  • Ensuring that responsible officers are made aware of good practice in data protection
  • Ensuring that everyone handling personal data knows where to find further guidance
  • Ensuring that queries about data protection, internal and external to the organisation, are dealt with effectively and promptly
  • Regularly reviewing data protection procedures and guidelines within the society

Data Protection principles

  1. Personal data shall be processed fairly and lawfully
  2. Personal data shall be obtained for one or more specified and lawful purposes, and shall not be further processed in any manner incompatible with that purpose or those purposes
  3. Personal data shall be adequate, relevant and not excessive in relation to the purpose or purposes for which they are processed
  4. Personal data shall be accurate and, where possible, kept up to date
  5. Personal data processed for any purpose or purposes shall not be kept for longer than is necessary for that purpose or those purposes
  6. Personal data shall be processed in accordance with the rights of data subjects under the Data Protection Act
  7. Appropriate measures shall be taken against unauthorised and unlawful processing of personal data and against accidental loss or destruction of, or damage to, personal data
  8. Personal data shall not be transferred to a country or territory outside the UK unless that country or territory ensures an adequate level of protection for the rights and freedoms of data subjects in relation to the processing of personal data.

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