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Swansea Bay Advanced Motorists (SBGAM) is an independent registered UK road safety charity, affiliated to IAM RoadSmart, as part of their support for Associate Members preparing for the advanced test. We help to improve driver and rider skills through coaching and education.
SBGAM is run by volunteers, represent a unique resource with unparalleled experience and expertise. We also provide a social focus meeting and enjoying the company of fellow driving and motorcycling enthusiasts.
SBGAM acts as the data controller/data processor when collecting and processing your data.
This Privacy Notice covers SBGAM in relation to the collection and use of the information you give us. We may change this Policy from time to time. If we make any significant changes we will advertise this on our website or contact you directly with the information. Please check this page occasionally to make sure you are happy with any changes.
If you have any questions about this Notice or concerning your personal information please contact us using the details provided at the bottom of this Notice.
SBGAM aims to be very clear when we collect your personal data and will not do anything you wouldn’t reasonably expect in order to provide the products and/or services that you request, to communicate with you, and to personalise our information we send to you.
We will process your personal data because you have given consent to do so for us to manage SBGAM and its activities.
We use your information to:
Pictures, videos and written updates of SBGAM events and activities at which you may be in attendance, or referred to by name, may also be regularly published on social media sites, in group newsletters/magazines and on group related websites.
We will use your personal information in a number of ways which reflect the legal basis applying to processing of your data. To enable us to contact you in relation to an enquiry you have made, Group events and to manage your membership.
The personal data that we collect from is:
We do not collect data regarded as being in a special category.
If you provide us with bank, credit or debit card details in order to pay for membership or activities , we will keep such details for a period of 13 months (ie a whole years membership plus 1 month.
We may ask for additional information from you in order to deliver the specific product or service purchased.
As required by the General Data Protection Regulation, we follow strict security procedures in the storage and disclosure of information you have provided to us. You have the right to object to this processing. Please bear in mind that if you object this may affect our ability to deliver the products and services you have requested.
SBGAM will not share your details with third parties except:
Third parties may deliver some of our products to you or provide all or part of the service requested by you. In these instances, whilst the information you provide will be disclosed to them, it will be kept secure, it will only be used for the administration of the service provided and to maintain management information for business analysis. In order to deliver these products and services, IAM RoadSmart may utilise the following third parties:
3rd Party Services | Information shared and reason to doing so |
IAM RoadSmart | SBGAM may pass on your details to IAM RoadSmart for the administration of the service. |
We may also disclose your personal information if we are required to do so under any legal obligation and may use external data for the purposes of fraud prevention and credit risk reduction, or where doing so would not infringe your rights, but is necessary and in the public interest.
We will not knowingly provide your information to a third party (either a provider of a product or service, or an external data processing agency such as a mailing house) other than IAM RoadSmart or other IAM Groups.
In addition, we will restrict the information disclosed to the absolute minimum necessary, for example, to provide the product or service.
SBGAM may send you information about membership, its activities or courses You may contact us via our website sbgam.uk or email enquiries.sbgam@gmail.com if you no longer with to receive communications from us.
How we use cookies
Please refer the IAM Privacy Notice at the foot of this webpage for details of any cookies.
"Cookies" are small pieces of information sent by a web server to a web browser, which enables the server to collect information from the browser.
When you visit a site that uses cookies for the first time, a cookie is downloaded onto your computer/mobile device so that the next time you visit that site, your device will remember useful information such as items added in the shopping cart, visited pages or logging in options.
You may refuse to accept cookies by activating the setting on your browser which allows you to block cookies. However, if you select this setting you may be unable to access certain parts of our site, including services and on-line shopping. Unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you log on to our site. Details of how to disable the Cookie function can be found at the help menu on your browser.
The SBGAM website is hosted by IAM, and details of cookies may be found here Privacy Notice (iamroadsmart.com)
We will hold your personal information for as long as it is necessary for the relevant activity. By way of example, we hold records of payment you make for at least six years so we can fulfil our statutory obligations for tax purposes
We may retain information after your association with us has come to an end. Some information may be retained indefinitely for historical, statistical or research purposes. As stated below, you have the right to require us to erase personal data.
You have a number of legal rights to control what IAM RoadSmart can do with your information. For example:
Please note that:
In some cases, exercising these rights may mean that we are no longer able to provide you with our products and services.
We will not administer requests by a third party unless accompanied by evidence that the third party is entitled to act on behalf of the individual.
Please also note that the above rights are not absolute, and we may be entitled to refuse requests where exceptions apply.
This Notice may be changed from time to time. If we make any significant changes we will advertise this on our website or contact you directly with the information.
Do please check this Policy each time you consider giving your personal information to us.
Please contact us if you have any questions about our privacy policy or information we hold about you:
This Policy was last updated on 23 May 2023