The Builders’ Merchants’ Company, like all Livery Companies, has by law to comply with the requirements of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which first came into effect on 25th May 2018. This means that the Company has to obtain your explicit consent, as a member of the Company, to hold your personal data and to use it for specific, stated purposes.
Under GDPR, if you do not give your explicit signed consent to the Company holding and using your personal data, we are required by law to stop communicating with you by email or post until we have received your consent. This means, among other things, that we could not notify you of forthcoming functions and events if you have not given us your consent to do so.
In accordance with the Regulation, we have a Data Protection Policy and a Consent Form that we are asking all members to complete and sign. The full Policy and Privacy Notices are also downloadable below.
In order to minimise your time and effort, the Consent Form contains both a blanket and a detailed consent. By ticking a single box in section 1 and dating and signing this form, you will give your ‘blanket’ agreement – essentially this maintains the status quo of what the Company already does.
[LINK to document] WCoBM Privacy Notice
[LINK to document] WCoBM Guest Privacy Notice
[LINK to document] WCoBM Data Protection Policy
[LINK to document] GDPR Members’ Consent Form
