Terms of use, Privacy and Cookie consent

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SAIF has made all reasonable efforts to ensure that all information provided through SAIF’s website on the internet is accurate at the time of inclusion. However, there may be inadvertent and occasional errors for which SAIF apologises. SAIF has made all reasonable attempts to satisfy the requirements of Copyright. Should any Copyright issues arise please contact SAIF immediately, so that direct action can be taken.

SAIF makes no representations or warranties about the information provided through this website, including hypertext links or any other items used either directly or indirectly from SAIF’s website, and reserves the right to make changes and corrections at any time, without notice.

SAIF accepts no liability for any inaccuracies or omissions in SAIF’s website and any decisions based on information contained in this website are the sole responsibility of the visitor. SAIF accepts no liability for any direct, special, indirect, or consequential damages, or any other damages whatsoever kind, resulting from whatever cause through the use of any information obtained either directly or indirectly.

SAIF’s website. Any visitor to the website providing information to SAIF agrees that SAIF has unlimited rights to such information as provided and that SAIF may use such information in any way SAIF chooses. Such information as provided by the visitor shall be non-confidential.

Personal data

Under the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) personal data is defined as:

“any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person ('data subject'); an identifiable natural person is one who can be identified, directly or indirectly, in particular by reference to an identifier such as a name, an identification number, location data, an online identifier or to one or more factors specific to the physical, physiological, genetic, mental, economic, cultural or social identity of that natural person”.

How we use your information

This privacy notice tells you how we, The National Society of Allied and Independent Funeral Directors (SAIF) will collect and use your personal data for provision of services, cookies, complaints etc.

Why does SAIF need to collect and store personal data?

In order for us to provide you with the requisite membership services we need to collect personal data for fulfilment of the membership and any related correspondence. In any event, we are committed to ensuring that the information we collect and use is appropriate for this purpose, and does not constitute an invasion of your privacy.

In terms of being contacted for marketing purposes SAIF would contact you for separate consent.

Will Organisation Name share my personal data with anyone else?

We may pass your personal data on to third-party service providers contracted to SAIF in the course of dealing with you. Any third parties that we may share your data with are obliged to keep your details securely, and to use them only to fulfil the service they provide on behalf of SAIF When they no longer need your data to fulfil this service, they will dispose of the details in line with SAIF’s procedures. If we wish to pass your sensitive personal data onto a third party we will only do so once we have obtained your consent, unless we are legally required to do otherwise.

How will SAIF use the personal data it collects about me?

SAIF will process (collect, store and use) the information you provide in a manner compatible with the EU’s General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will endeavor to keep your information accurate and up to date, and not keep it for longer than is necessary. SAIF is required to retain information in accordance with the law, such as information needed for income tax and audit purposes. How long certain kinds of personal data should be kept may also be governed by specific business-sector requirements and agreed practices. Personal data may be held in addition to these periods depending on individual business needs.

Under what circumstances will SAIF contact me?

Our aim is not to be intrusive, and we undertake not to ask irrelevant or unnecessary questions. Moreover, the information you provide will be subject to rigorous measures and procedures to minimise the risk of unauthorised access or disclosure.

Can I find out the personal data that the organisation holds about me?

SAIF at your request, can confirm what information we hold about you and how it is processed. If SAIF does hold personal data about you, you can request the following information:

• Identity and the contact details of the person or organisation that has determined how and why to process your data. In some cases, this will be a representative in the EU.
• Contact details of the data protection officer, where applicable.
• The purpose of the processing as well as the legal basis for processing.
• If the processing is based on the legitimate interests of SAIF or a third party, information about those interests.
• The categories of personal data collected, stored and processed.
• Recipient(s) or categories of recipients that the data is/will be disclosed to.
• How long the data will be stored.
• Details of your rights to correct, erase, restrict or object to such processing.
• Information about your right to withdraw consent at any time.
• How to lodge a complaint with the supervisory authority.
• Whether the provision of personal data is a statutory or contractual requirement, or a requirement necessary to enter into a contract, as well as whether you are obliged to provide the personal data and the possible consequences of failing to provide such data.
• The source of personal data if it wasn’t collected directly from you.
• Any details and information of automated decision making, such as profiling, and any meaningful information about the logic involved, as well as the significance and expected consequences of such processing.

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Except as stated herein, SAIF (including its directors, officers, employees and agents) accepts no responsibility or liability to any person whatsoever for any loss, injury or inconvenience suffered or arising out of or in connection with any information, material, offer, product or service on or in this site or the contents or appearance of all or any part of any third party website capable of being accessed from this site, whether any such link is under the control or direction of SAIF or not. (SAIF does not limit its liability for death or personal injury only to the extent such arises as a result of the negligence of SAIF, its directors, officers, employees or agents.)

All references herein to “SAIF” are references to SAIF, any subsidiary or holding company of SAIF and any other subsidiary of such holding company (as these terms are defined in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985).

Copyright in all material (including all text and images) appearing on this website is owned by SAIF or its licensee, and all rights in relation to all such material are hereby expressly reserved.

No material appearing on this site may be modified, reproduced or transmitted in any form or medium (whether known now or not) or by any means without SAIF’s written permission, save for transmission by end users accessing this site for purely personal, non-commercial purposes through the internet and transient reproduction on screen by such persons for such purposes.

Written permission must also be obtained from SAIF before any material on this site is stored (however temporarily) in a retrieval system of any kind. All references herein to “SAIF” are references to SAIF, any subsidiary or holding company of SAIF and any other subsidiary of such holding company (as these terms are defined in section 736 of the Companies Act 1985).