Members' Area

Privacy and Cookie Policy

1. Introduction

The Defford Airfield Heritage Group (DAHG) takes your privacy and personal data seriously. This Privacy Policy sets out the way we obtain, process and retain your personal information.

All personal information we hold is processed in strict accordance with current General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and other data protection and privacy legislation, where applicable.

We will refer to this Policy when we ask you for your consent. We will keep this Policy updated to show you all the things we do with your personal information, so that you can be confident when sharing your information with us that it will be used only for what we say here.

2. Who we are and how to contact us

DAHG is an international membership organisation headquartered in the UK that seeks to preserve and share the story of Defford Airfield, the work of the Telecommunications Flying Unit and its role in the development of airborne radar during WWII and the Cold War that followed.

3. How we collect your personal information

We will collect personal information from you when you become a DAHG member, donate or lend artifacts to DAHG, make a monetary donation, or contact us through our website or by email. This may include your name, title, email address, physical address, telephone numbers, payment information, and any other information about you that you choose to divulge (e.g. family member’s RAF service history) that might assist DAHG’s activities and mission. No other information is collected through our website other than through cookies (see section 9).

4. How we use your personal information

The personal information you provide to us will be used for the purposes outlined at the time of collection or registration, in accordance with any preferences you express. Your personal data may be used for the following purposes:

  • Administration of membership
  • Administration of website access
  • Distribution of our publications
  • Administration of events or visits
  • Administration of artifact donations and loans
  • Administration of monetary donations
  • Communications from us about activities that we think may be of interest to you
  • Research and statistical analysis on memberships (reported only in the aggregate)

Personal data collected by us may be shared with the following third-party organisations by virtue of the technical support services they provide to us (i.e. as Data Processors):

  • Dynamize Group Ltd, who provide a managed service for maintenance, support and development of the website and email system
  • 20i Ltd, who provide hosting for the website and email system

Physical addresses, phone numbers and payment details will not be shared with these third-parties (but technically may be visible to them in emails should you have chosen to include such information).

We NEVER sell your personal information. We never share it with third parties other than as stated above. You are always in control of how we communicate with you. You can update your choices by contacting us as set out in section 11 below.

5. Retention

We retain your information for the shortest appropriate period for each of our purposes a set out in section 4 above, and we review these regularly to ensure we are not holding it for longer than necessary. Personal data relating to DAHG members will be deleted when membership ceases. Personal data relating to donations and loans will be held indefinitely in order to retain proof of transfer of title of ownership or custody of items.

6. Consent

Where we need your consent, we will ensure always that you are as fully informed as possible on what we do with your information, with whom it may be shared, and how long we will keep it, at the time you give it.

7. Your control over your personal data

At any time you can ask us to delete any or all of your data. You also have the right to ask us, in writing, for a copy of all the personal data held about you (this is known as a Subject Access Request).

If you request a copy of your personal data, it will be sent to you as soon as possible, but not later than 30 days after your request. If you ask us to delete it, we will do so within 30 days unless we are required to keep it for a longer period for legal reasons.

Please note that if you request deletion of your personal data, you will be deemed to have resigned your membership of DAHG, as we will be unable to manage your membership or distribute publications without it.

To request that your personal data be deleted, or to ask for a copy of it, please contact us as set out in section 11.

8. Updating and amending your personal information

If at any time you wish to update or amend your personal data or preferences, please contact us as set out in section 11. Such verification, updating, or amendment will take place within 30 days of receipt of your request.

9. Cookies and Google Analytics

We use cookies on our website to help us offer you a better service. None of the cookies on our site will collect personal information, although information such as an IP address could identify your internet connection of in some cases a particular device. We use Google Analytics to analyse the traffic to our site and how users navigate through it. This information is used in aggregated reporting, and your personal data is not disclosed.

You can download tools to opt out of Google Analytics at the Chrome store. Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this, please look at the menu on your browser, or look at the instruction on www.allaboutcookies.org . Please note, however, that turning off cookies may affect your use of our website.

By using our website you are agreeing to the use of cookies unless you opt out, as described above.

10. Links to other websites

This Privacy Policy applies solely to the personal data collected by DAHG, as described above. Our website may contain links to other websites that 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 that will be used by them in accordance with their privacy policies, which may differ from ours.

11. Our contact details

To request a change to your personal data, make a subject access request, or ask for further information about our Privacy Policy, please