Privacy Policy

South Wessex Community Rail Partnership CIC (South Wessex) is a Community Interest Company registered at Companies House as Company No.13624477. South Wessex seeks to promote the importance of the railway to our local communities along the Southern portion of the Heart of Wessex Line in Somerset and Dorset and to aid their economies through involvement with all aspects of community interface with railway activity and encouragement and promotion of increasing usage of public and sustainable transport for the benefit of people living in, working in or visiting the area.

This privacy notice explains how we use any personal information we collect about you:

What information do we collect about you?

We may collect information about you when you approach us regarding aspects of our activity, or if you apply to become a Volunteer or Member of an affiliated User Group or Friend of a Station group. We may also collect information if you voluntarily complete surveys or give feedback. We will only ask for such information as is necessary for the efficient administration of South Wessex. We do not collect ‘sensitive personal data’ unless there is a legitimate reason for this – for example, where a volunteer may need particular support to be able to participate in an activity.

How will we use the information about you?

We collect information about you in order to process contacts, manage volunteers at stations and for any other administrative functions of South Wessex.
Access to this data will be restricted to our Board of Directors and those personnel who administer the activities of South Wessex.

Legal Basis
Personal data will not be collected and processed without your unconditional consent or where there is a legitimate interest.

Access to your data and correction

You have the right to request a copy of the information that we hold about you. This can be obtained, without charge, by application to the Community Rail Officer (email: info@southwessexcrp.org.uk).

We want to make sure that your personal information is accurate and up to date and all reasonable efforts will be made to ensure this is the case. You may ask us to correct or remove information you think is inaccurate.

Retention of data

Data may be retained according to South Wessex Data Protection Policy by application to the Community Rail Officer (as above)

Do we share this information with anyone else?

We will not pass collected data to any third party unless required to do so by law.

Other Websites

Our website provides links to other websites. This privacy notice only applies to the South Wessex website, so when you link to other websites you should read their own privacy notices.

Social media platforms

Communication, engagement and actions taken through external social media platforms that we participate in are subject to the terms and conditions and the privacy policies of each individual social media platform.

Users are advised to use social media platforms wisely and communicate / engage upon them with due care and caution with regard to their own privacy and personal details. We will never ask for personal or sensitive information through social media platforms and encourage users wishing to discuss sensitive details to contact us through primary communication channels such as by telephone or email.

We may use social sharing buttons which help share web content directly from web pages to certain social media platform. If you use such social sharing buttons you do so at your own discretion. The social media platform may track and save your request to share a web page through your social media platform account.

Shortened links in social media

We may share web links to relevant web pages through their social media platform accounts . Some social media platforms may shorten lengthy urls.

Please use caution and good judgement before clicking any shortened urls published on social media platforms to be sure you have the correct page. Despite the best efforts to ensure only genuine urls are published many social media platforms are prone to spam and hacking and we cannot be held liable for any losses, damages or other consequences caused by clicking any shortened link.