Europa Club Privacy and GDPR Policy
At the Europa Club hereafter referred to as “the club”, we’re committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.
We have now appointed Paul Mansfield as Data Protection Officer, Paul has overall responsibility for data protection compliance in our club. Contact details are set out in the "Contacting us" section at the end of this privacy notice.
This notice explains when and why we collect personal information about people who join the club by whatever means, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and your rights in relation to your personal data.
We may change this notice from time to time so please check the website at https://www.theeuropaclub.org/
or request a copy occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By becoming a member of the club, you’re agreeing to be bound by this notice.
Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to the GDPR representative indicated below
or by writing to The Europa Club Secretary, 4 Ashbourne Road, Blackbrook, Derbyshire DE56 2LD. Alternatively, you can telephone +44(0)1773-825864.
How do we collect information about you?
We obtain information about you when you apply to become a member of the Europa Club.
What type of information is collected about you?
The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, telephone number, gender and IP address.
The legal bases for the processing of your personal data are to enable the club to fulfil our contractual obligations and provide membership services.
How is your information used?
We may use your information to:
• process your membership;
• to carry out our obligations arising from your membership;
• seek your views or comments on matters relating to the club and sport flying
• notify you of changes to our services;
• send you information that may be of interest to you. This may include information about our events and other club related matters, also information from the Europa Club that may be of interest.
• send you information about the club via the dedicated WhatsApp group.
How long do we retain your information?
We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary to carry out our obligations in relation to your membership, or as long as is set out in any relevant agreement between us. Where an individual person’s club membership lapses your information will be securely kept indefinitely on our secure database unless a specific request in writing is received to delete said data. See “the right to erasure” below.
Who has access to your information?
We will not sell or rent your information to third parties.
We will not share your information with third parties for marketing purposes.
Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties beyond the club unless we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.
How you can access and update your information?
The accuracy of your information is important to us. You can check the information we hold is correct on the members profile area of the Europa Club website and update the information if necessary directly through the website, or by email to the GDPR representative indicated below
or write to us at: The Europa Club Secretary, 4 Ashbourne Road, Blackbrook, Derbyshire DE56 2LD. Alternatively, you can telephone +44(0)1773-825864.
What are your rights?
(i) the right to access;
You have the right to confirmation as to whether or not we process your personal data and, where we do, access to the personal data, together with certain additional information. That additional information includes details of the purposes of the processing, the categories of personal data concerned and the recipients of the personal data. Providing the rights and freedoms of others are not affected, we will supply to you a copy of your personal data. The first copy will be provided free of charge, but additional copies may be subject to a reasonable fee. You can access your personal data by visiting the “members” tab “profile” when logged into our website.
(ii) the right to rectification;
You have the right to have any inaccurate personal data about you rectified and, taking into account the purposes of the processing, to have any incomplete personal data about you completed.
(iii) the right to erasure;
In some circumstances you have the right to the erasure of your personal data without undue delay.
(iv) the right to object to data processing;
You have the right to object to our processing of your personal data for direct electronic communications purposes. If you make such an objection, we will cease to process your personal data for this purpose.
Please note a request for data erasure for a current member would require that member to forfeit membership. The data is required for the club to fulfil its obligations.
(v) the right to data portability;
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal data is that the processing is necessary for the performance of a contract to which you are party and such processing is carried out by automated means, you have the right to receive your personal data from us in a structured, commonly used and machine-readable format. However, this right does not apply where it would adversely affect the rights and freedoms of others.
(vi) The right to complain to a supervisory authority;
If you consider that our processing of your personal information infringes data protection laws, you have a legal right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office. https://ico.org.uk
(vii) the right to withdraw consent;
To the extent that the legal basis for our processing of your personal information is consent, you have the right to withdraw that consent at any time. Withdrawal will not affect the lawfulness of processing before the withdrawal.
You may exercise any of your rights in relation to your personal data by written notice to us OR by using your Europa Clubs members tab when logged into their website.
Version 2 - Dated 6th December 2023
Paul Mansfield
Flying has been a dream for as long as I can remember, but my earliest adventures in aviation were as a skydiver. I started jumping in 1980 and it soon developed from a passion to an obsession - by 1996 I had completed 2,000 jumps, managed to win 10 British Championships, and captained the British Team at 4 World Championships, finishing 6th on 3 occasions...but that wasn't enough - I wanted to fly aeroplanes not just jump out of them...
I started flying when I retired from competitive skydiving and have flown around 1,000 hours in the 30 years since then, starting in the usual Cessnas etc, then flying 100s of aerobatic hours in Chipmunks plus a few dozen hours in Comanches and Jet Provosts, to name a couple of "different" types.
I resolved to build a Europa and started Monowheel G-PLPM in 2000, finishing her in record time of just 20 years(!) and conducting the first flight on her in Feb 2020, then all the test flying. Since then, we have flown 300 hours in 4 years (including the COVID year and deployments overseas for 2-3 months every year). Touring is the main attraction and we have happily cruised the length of Britain, through Scotland, the Netherlands, France, and Italy many times in just a few years - the Europa's resin d'être, Shirley?!
Workwise, I served as logistics officer in the Royal Air Force for 12 years, then spent 15 years in compliance and safety in the private jet world, before arriving at Airbus on the Zephyr Programme - the solar-electric UAV that flies for 60+ days in the stratosphere. It’s my job to obtain the approvals to fly in various parts of the world, including over international waters and crossing FIR boundaries (where no international standards or agreements exist at present!) I then take my place in the team of pilots and mission planners who operate the aircraft in shifts for months at a time. So, never a dull moment...
