From Lucy Randall, RFU.
The GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) is a new European regulation intended to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union (EU). This will also be transposed over the next two years into UK law as part of the Data Protection Bill.
In simple terms the GDPR will help protect our players, members and clubs. Organisations holding personal data (including clubs and CB) will need to give more information to people about what they do with those people’s data, why, and for how long.
The RFU, our member clubs and Constituent Bodies (CBs) process and control personal data and are all required to take steps to be GDPR compliant, by 25th May 2018, when the regulation comes into force.
We will be providing further guidance and a toolkit for how clubs and CBs can work towards GDPR compliance in due course. However, in the meantime, if you receive any enquiries from clubs or CBs within your area, please advise them that the best thing they can do is ensure their data is up-to-date in GMS and ask that they contact the RFU Legal Helpline for any general data protection issues.
Over the coming months we will be providing further guidance to individual teams across the organisation detailing exactly what they need to do to ensure compliancy and / or assist clubs in being compliant.
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