Privacy Policy

DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

Association of Independent Tobacco Specialists (AITS)

1. Your personal data – what is it?
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

2. Who are we?
AITS is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. How do we process your personal data?
AITS complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes: –

  • To enable us to inform you or any changes to our trading policies;
  • To enable us to send you our newsletter;
  • To enable us to inform you of any new products;
  • To inform you of any events and exhibitions AITS are arranging;
  • To inform you of any event that may change the basis of trading with us;
  • To allow you access to our website;
  • To inform you of any legal matters which may affect you;
  • To inform you of any meetings which have been arranged for members of AITS;

4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

  • Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, changes to our trading policies, newsletters, forthcoming exhibitions and meetings.
  • Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement;
  • Processing is necessary for ensuring members annual subscriptions are processed:
  • Processing to account for dinners, luncheons and exhibitions organised by the AITS

5. Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential. We will not share your data with third parties.

6. How long do we keep your personal data?
We keep data in accordance with the ‘’GDPR’’ and we keep it until you request us to delete it or alter the data that we hold about you.

7. Your rights and your personal data
Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: –

  • The right to request a copy of your personal data which AITS holds about you;
  • The right to request that AITS corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for AITS to retain such data;
  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time
  • The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means].
  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;
  • The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics]
  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

8. Further processing
If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

9. Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact Mr Robin Page, AITS, 38 The Paddock, Headley, Bordon, Hampshire GU35 8QE Tel: 07748 724799
You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.