Clubs and county associations are vital to delivering Squash on a daily basis at venues around the country. Of course, in order to run your organisation and deliver events, competitions and other sessions that contribute to the sport, you need to handle some personal data about players, volunteers, parents and spectators. Our aim at England Squash is not only to help make you aware of what your obligations are, but to help you understand how you can ensure that your activities are fully compliant with all the relevant regulations.

In order to help you with this, we have developed a simple guide to provide relevant information for clubs and counties.

As outlined in the guide, a good starting point to ensure compliance is to understand the seven data protection principles. These are:

1. Lawfulness, transparency and fairness
2. Purpose Limitation
3. Data Minimisation
4. Accuracy
5. Storage Limitation
6. Integrity and Confidentiality
7. Accountability

There are a number of areas in which data protection regulations apply. Some of the key ones for clubs and county associations are:

Collecting, storing and sharing data

This is perhaps the most obvious area, and one that affects almost all clubs and county associations. It is important to understand not only what data you collect and why you collect it, but how this data should be shared - whether amongst volunteers or employees within your organisation or with others. In addition, you will need to understand how you should securely store personal data once it has been collected, and how long it should be kept for.

All this might sound intimidating, but it doesn't need to be - the England Squash guidance should be a helpful starting point for your organisation to understand what it needs to do!

Sharing data with England Squash

Sharing data with England Squash should only be done under the same conditions as anyone else - you will need to ensure that you have the permission of the data subject before you share their data with any other organisation. This includes using the England Squash website to share details of your members with us.

This is very important as you will need to confirm that you have the member's permission to share their personal data with us before you can add their details to your members list on englandsquash.com. However, to help you out we have created a sample membership form which enables you to collect the appropriate permission from your members. This membership form forms part of a range of Club Membership Resources which you will find helpful in managing your club's England Squash affiliation.

Download a copy of the sample membership form

Accessing data on englandsquash.com

In order to access data collected by England Squash on englandsquash.com via your club or county admin dashboard, you will need to opt-into a Data Sharing Agreement (for clubs) or Data Processing Agreement (for counties and others accesing our data). This is a legal requirement we have implemented to ensure that you understand your obligations when dealing with England Squash data. The key point to note is that it ensures that clubs and county associations are aware of the reason they have been given access to the data - to administer squash activities on England Squash's behalf. The aim is also to ensure that you understand the permissions that England Squash have from its data subjects - in other words the data should not be downloaded and used for marketing purposes by any clubs or county associations.

Resources

In addition to the England Squash guidance, we have provided a number of other external resources below, which you should find useful.

You may also find the Club Membership Resources helpful too. These are available to all englandsquash.com club admins (log in required), and along with full guidance on how to adminster your club's England Squash affiliation, include useful resources such as the sample membership application form.