Privacy Policy

The Diplomatic Spouses Club in London (DSCL) provides a platform for members who are the spouses/partners of Diplomatic Officers posted in the UK, both the Foreign Diplomatic Corps and British Diplomatic Corps from the Foreign and Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO).

We collect and use personal information in order to help us proceed with memberships applications, offer individuals appropriate information and support and to keep them updated of our activities according to their preferences. We are committed to ensuring that personal information is protected and managed in accordance with the Data Protection Act of 2018 (DPA 2018)

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Our commitment to privacy will be based on UK standards and internationally accepted privacy principles and fair information practices in accordance with the DPA 2018

When we ask our members for their personal information, we will:

• explain why we need personal information and only ask for the information we need.

• protect the information we are given and make sure that only those who need access are able to do so.

• only share the information with other organisations where such sharing is necessary for event coordination with third parties or where we have the individual’s consent.

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Use of personal information

We process personal information collected via this website or otherwise for the purposes of:

• Providing and personalising information;

• Keeping you informed of our activities and events;

• Dealing with your queries and taking on board your valuable comments;

• Maintaining information as a reference tool or general resource.

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Cookies

This site uses cookies – small text files that are placed on your machine to help the site provide a better user experience. In general, cookies are used to retain user preferences, provide information to the owner of the sites and anonymised tracking data to third party applications like Google Analytics. Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings. To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, visit www.allaboutcookies.org.

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Other websites

Our website may contain links to other websites which are outside our control and are not covered by this Privacy Policy. If you access other sites using the links provided, the operators of these sites may collect information from you which will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policy which may differ from ours.

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