About this Website and Privacy Policy 

Privacy Notice

Last Updated on 6th January 2026.

Your right to privacy is very important to us and we recognise that when you choose to provide us with information about yourself, you trust us to act in a responsible manner.

We will not provide any of your personal information obtained via the web to other companies or individuals unless required to by law.

This privacy policy describes the policies of SAB Society Wales, email sabs@sabsociety.wales, on the collection, use and disclosure of your information that we collect when you use our website www.sabsociety.wales (the "Service"). By accessing or using the Service you are consenting to the collection, use and disclosure of your information in accordance with this Privacy Policy. If you do not consent to the same, please do not access or use the Service.

We may modify this Privacy Policy at any time without any prior notice to you and will post the revised Privacy Policy on the Service. The revised Privacy Policy will be effective 180 days from when the revised Policy is posted on the Service and your continued use and access of the Service after such time will constitute your acceptance of the revised Privacy Policy. We therefore recommend that you periodically review this page.

Cookies

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site. This website uses third-party website tracking technologies to provide and continually improve our services.

We use cookies to help gather anonymous information on how our website is used. This information helps us to improve our website and provide a better service for our visitors. Additionally, the social media functionality that we use sets cookies.

Our cookies aren't used to identify you personally. They are just here to make the site work better for you. Indeed, you can manage and/or delete these small files as you wish.

To learn more about cookies and how to manage them, block them or delete them visit the About Cookies website.

What types of personal data do we process?

SAB Society Wales does not store any of the personal information captured about individuals who access the website. However, where you have voluntarily chosen to give us your personal details via email, or when enquiring about or applying for any of our services, the personal data provided will be used exclusively for providing you with the information or service you have requested. This information could include, but is not limited to:

• Contact details, including name, address, telephone number and email address.

How do we obtain your personal data?

The primary source of us obtaining your personal data is when you voluntarily provide it to us via email or other enquiry. We may obtain your personal data from other sources including:

• Public websites or social media interactions
• Professional networks that you are involved with that we partner with or support

How do we use your personal data?

We may use your personal data for one or more of the following purposes:

1. To contact you
2. For statistical and reference purposes
3. To comply with our legal obligations
4. To address queries from you and to respond to any actual or potential disputes concerning you

What is our lawful basis for processing your personal data?

SAB Society Wales may hold personal data about you in its capacity as a Data Controller.

The legal basis for our use of your personal data will generally be one or more of the following:

1. We need to process your personal data to satisfy our legal obligations
2. We need to process your personal data to carry out a task in the public interest or in the exercise of official authority in our capacity as a public body
3. We need to process your personal data to meet our contractual obligations to you
4. Processing of personal data is necessary in order to protect the vital interests of the data subject or of another natural person.

The organisations we may share your personal data with

SAB Society Wales is formed from members of Local Authorities across Wales. Your data may, therefore, be shared with these Authorities. In addition, we partner or cooperate with other external organisations and we may share your personal data with these organisations, especially where it helps us to provide a service you have requested or respond to a query that you have raised. These organisations include:

• Welsh Government
• The Welsh Local Government Association
• Other Partner Organisations as listed on the Service

Your data protection rights

Under data protection law, you have rights including:

• Your right of access - You have the right to ask us for copies of your personal information
• Your right to rectification - You have the right to ask us to rectify personal information you think is inaccurate. You also have the right to ask us to complete any information about you that you think is incomplete.
• Your right to be forgotten - You have the right to ask us to erase your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to restriction of processing - You have the right to ask us to restrict the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to object to processing - You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information in certain circumstances.
• Your right to data portability - You have the right to ask that we transfer the personal information you gave us to another organisation, or to you, in certain circumstances.

You are not required to pay any charge for exercising your rights. If you wish to make any such requests, please contact us on sabs@sabsociety.wales. We will respond to any requests in accordance with the applicable laws.

Disclaimer

SAB Society Wales seeks to ensure that the information contained in these pages is accurate. However, no liability, or responsibility is accepted arising from reliance on the information contained in these web pages or any other information accessed via this site or via links on this site to external sites. 

Copyright

All materials contained on this website, including without limitation, text, logos, icons, photographs, video and all other artwork is copyright material of SAB Society Wales or of the Local Authorities bywhich SAB Society Wales members are employed, unless otherwise stated. Use of this material may only be made with the express, prior, written permission of SAB Society Wales.