Privacy Notice

Other than trainer(s) and any accommodation provider for this course, Scottish Mountain Rescue (SMR) will not disclose your information to any company or person, except to help prevent fraud, or if required to do so by law. SMR believe that using your data in this manner is a legitimate interest.

You have the right to see any information about you that SMR keep and you also have the right for this information to be deleted at any time. Send an email to info@scottishmountainrescue.org clearly stating you wish SMR to delete your details and we will do so within 10 working days.

SMR will send you a feedback form shortly after the event and we are grateful for any feedback. Your feedback will be anonymised for the purposes of statistics and review of the training we deliver.

Photographs may be taken at the event and may be used in publications or social media related to Scottish Mountain Rescue. We will seek consent prior to using photographs with recognisable faces. Where individuals are not facially recognisable we will use photographs without seeking consent.

We will delete personally identifiable information collected in each financial year on April 1st each year for the financial year that commenced 4 years previously. For example in April 2023 we will delete all personally identifiable information collected in financial year 2019/20 and continue this process on a rolling annual basis. Any data we keep beyond that time for statistical and reference purposes will be anonymised.

In the event of incident that requires medical treatment and completion of accident form we are required to retain this record for 7 years.

For further information on Scottish Mountain Rescues' Privacy information please see http://www.scottishmountainrescue.org/privacy/

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