The Officers’ Association (OA) is a registered charity (Charity Commission No. 201321)
established under Royal Charter with our main office at
First Floor, Mountbarrow House, 6-20 Elizabeth Street, London SW1W 9RB.
In meeting its charitable purposes, the Officers’ Association (OA) as a data controller processes the personal data of the following categories of people:
The OA undertakes to collect, record, store and use such information in accordance with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR) and any other relevant data protection legislation.
The individual privacy notices noted above give details of how the different categories of data are handled. All staff and volunteers are trained in the principles of data protection and are required to comply with this policy and the data handling policy.
“Personal data” is information that relates to an identifiable person who can be directly or indirectly identified from that information, for example, a person’s name, identification number, location, online identifier. It can also include pseudonymised data.
“Special categories of personal data” are data which relates to an individual’s health, sex life, sexual orientation, race, ethnic origin, political opinion, religion, and trade union membership. Special categories also include genetic and biometric data (where used for ID purposes).
“Criminal offence data” is data which relates to an individual’s criminal convictions and offences.
“Data processing” is any operation or set of operations which is performed on personal data or on sets of personal data, whether or not by automated means, such as collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.
Under GDPR, all personal data obtained and held by us must be processed according to a set of core principles. In accordance with these principles, we will ensure that:
As noted in the individual privacy notices, people whose personal data we process have the right:
The OA website uses “cookies”. Here is our cookie policy.
By using the website, you agree to abide by the website terms and conditions.
You can find out more about how we handle your data when you make an online enquiry via the website in the individual privacy notices listed above.
The OA uses HTTPS technology for secure communication between our website and its users to protect your privacy and security. Learn more about HTTPS.
The Website may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our partner networks, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.
Anyone who follows us on social media can read our social media policy on how we use social media and your data.
You can read here how we handle actual or suspected data protection breaches.