Collection and Use of Personal Information
As part of its effort to assist clubs and districts and facilitate communication with Rotarians, Rotary International and Rotary International in Great Britain and Ireland collects personal information about Rotary club members, and their partners and associates where appropriate, to be used solely for the purpose of conducting core business activities, these include:

  • Preparing the annual Rotary directories, including RIBI, Rotaract and Interact directories
  • Calculating semi-annual dues payable to Rotary International
  • Identifying prospective candidates for presidential and Foundation appointments to conferences, RIBI, RI and TRF committees, task forces, and other assignments
  • Supporting The Rotary Foundation
  • Providing information and updates to district governors, district officers and others involved in RI and RIBI programs and service projects
  • Providing goods and services to clubs and districts for their general activities
  • Providing guidance to clubs and districts in their general activities and public relations efforts
  • Communicating key organisational messages and information to district leaders and to clubs for dissemination at the club level
  • Facilitating conference, assembly and special event planning
  • Supporting ‘The Rotarian’ and the RIBI regional magazine ‘Rotary’
  • Identifying Rotarians who have specific language and/or professional skills

RIBI may also disclose information as required by law or if pertinent to judicial or governmental investigations.

The RIBI Support Centre follows the code of conduct for the principles of the Data Protection Act which requires data to:

  • Be obtained fairly and lawfully
  • Be held only for specific purposes
  • Not to be used or disclosed incompatibly with those purposes
  • Be accurate and kept up to date
  • Be kept no longer than necessary
  • Be made available to data subjects on request
  • Be appropriately protected against – unauthorised access, alteration, disclosure and destruction and accidental loss.

For details about the Rotary International privacy policy please click here.

In addition this website holds members names and email addresses for the purpose of the storage and management of usernames to enable access to the members area.

Cookies

We may collect information about your computer, including your IP address, operating system and browser type, for system administration and in order to create reports. This is statistical data about our users’ browsing actions and patterns, and does not identify any individual. 

The only cookies in use on our site are for Google Analytics. Google Analytics is a web analytics tool that helps website owners understand how visitors engage with their website. Google Analytics customers can view a variety of reports about how visitors interact with their website so that they can improve it. 

Like many services, Google Analytics uses first-party cookies to track visitor interactions as in our case, where they are used to collect information about how visitors use our site. We then use the information to compile reports and to help us improve our site. 

Cookies contain information that is transferred to your computer’s hard drive. These cookies are used to store information, such as the time that the current visit occurred, whether the visitor has been to the site before and what site referred the visitor to the web page. 

Google Analytics collects information anonymously. It reports website trends without identifying individual visitors. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site – for more information on opting out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites you use, visit this Google page