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BABCP is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about the information we hold about you.
Using personal information allows us to develop a better understanding of our members and stakeholders and in turn to provide you with relevant and timely information about the work that we do.
The purpose of this policy is to give you a clear explanation about how we collect and use your personal data.
We use your information in accordance with all applicable laws concerning the protection of personal information.
This policy explains:
If you have any queries about this policy, please email babcp@babcp.com
The British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies is a membership organisation for those interested in the advancement of Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) in the UK and Ireland. Our registered charity number in England and Wales is 1098704 and we are also registered as a company limited by guarantee in England and Wales under registration number 4839948.
We collect various types of information and in a number of ways:
When you join BABCP, we will store personal information you give us such as your name, email address, postal address, telephone number and credit/debit card and bank details. Non-members who attend workshops or events organised by our branches and Special Interest Groups will also have their information held for the purpose of managing registration lists for those events.
When you visit our website, we will collect information about how you interact with our content. When we send you an email we keep a record of which ones you have opened and which links you have clicked on.
Data Protection law recognises that certain categories of personal information are more sensitive such as health information, race, religious beliefs and political opinions.
We will collect information as part of our membership and accreditation applications where members disclose details of previous or ongoing criminal or disciplinary actions. This information is not disclosed to third party data processors. However, in situations where such disclosures are made, we will exercise our right to approach the relevant authorities to seek clarification of such disclosures.
There are three bases under which we may process your data:
When you join BABCP, you are entering into a contract with us. In order to fulfil this contract we need to process and store your data. (For example, we may need to contact you by post, email or telephone to make you aware of your membership renewal for example or simply to administer your membership).
In certain situations, we collect and process your personal data for purposes that are in our legitimate organisational interests. However, we only do this if there is no overriding prejudice to you by using your personal information in this way.
For any situations where the two bases above are not appropriate, we will instead ask for your explicit consent before using your personal information in that specific situation.
We aim to communicate with you about BABCP in ways that you find relevant, timely and respectful.
To do this we use data that we have stored about you, such as workshops that you have attended as well as any preferences you may have told us about.
We use our legitimate organisational interest as the legal basis for communications by post and email.
You may object to receiving email at any time using the contact details at the end of this policy, or by selecting the ‘Unsubscribe’ option at the end of any marketing email sent to you.
In addition to marketing communications, we also process personal information as part of your membership with us in the following ways:
In order to improve our website, we may analyse information about how you use it and the content and ads that you interact with.
You have the right to object to any of this processing at any time.
If you wish to do this, please use the contact details at the end of this policy.
Please bear in mind that if you object this may affect our ability to carry out tasks above that are for your benefit.
There are certain circumstances under which we may disclose your personal information to third parties. These are as follows:
Where a complaint has been received, or you have been remove or rejected from a register, we may share data with other organisations running accredited registers. We have signed data sharing agreements with each of these. We have all agreed to inform each other about, and to take into account, decisions made through the other organisations' professional conduct proceedings which have resulted in an individual being removed from a register.
Cookies are small text files that are automatically placed onto your device by some websites that you visit. They are widely used to allow a website to function, as well as provide website operators with information on how the site is being used.
We use cookies to identify how the website is being used and what improvements we can make. By adjusting the settings of your browser, you can choose to accept or refuse cookies from the websites that you visit.
You can also decide to be informed when a cookie is about to be placed on your computer. Please consult your browser’s website for details on how to disable cookies. If you choose to block all cookies, this will have a negative impact upon the usability of many websites, including BABCP’s online services.
If you use your credit or debit card to pay for BABCP membership, accreditation or attend a workshop, we will ensure that this is carried out securely and in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard (PCI-DSS). You can find more information about this at www.pcisecuritystandards.org
If there are aspects of your record that are inaccurate or that you would like to remove, you can do this by contacting us.
Any objections you make to the processing of your data will be stored against your record on our system so that we can comply with your requests.
We will put in place appropriate safeguards (both in terms of our procedures and the technology we use) to keep your personal information as secure as possible.
We will ensure that any third parties we use for processing your personal information do the same.
You have a right to request a copy of the personal information that we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies in this data corrected. Please use the contact details at the end of this policy if you would like to exercise this right.
Please get in touch with us if you have any questions about any aspect of this privacy policy, and in particular, if you would like to object to any processing of your personal information that we carry out for our legitimate organisational interests.
For more information on GDPR, visit www.ico.org.uk
BABCP, Imperial House, Hornby Street, Bury, BL9 5BN
babcp@babcp.com