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Privacy Policy

Campfire Team • 17 January 2025

Data protection

The World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts (WAGGGS) is a data controller registered with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office (registration number: ZA092177).

Keeping your personal information safe is very important to us. We are committed to complying with privacy and data protection laws and being transparent about how we use personal data.

We have policies, procedures and training in place to help our employees and volunteers understand their data protection responsibilities and follow the data protection principles.

We have a nominated member of staff who serves as our Data Protection Lead. If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please email [email protected]

This privacy policy relates to our use of any personal information about you.

WAGGGS policies fall into three main categories.

Constitutional governance policies
Decided by the World Conference: handle fundamental issues of mission, vision, values, strategy and priorities of the Movement.

World Board governance policies
Decided by the World Board: handle the specific governance responsibilities of WAGGGS Global Team and provide guidance for the implementation of the strategy of the organisation. Putting into practice the overall policy and strategy of WAGGGS; connecting and integrating activities and services to achieve the mission, vision and strategy.

Functional policies
Decided by the World Board and/or Chief Executive, as appropriate: handle major functional operations, provide the next level of detail to guide the work and are developed by the relevant groups working in functional areas.

This is a: functional policy and it applies to: all volunteers and staff or any others working with or on behalf of the World Association of Girl Guides and Girl Scouts

This version approved by the World Board, July 2018 (W.Board.4789)
Next update – no later than Dec 2020

For clarity, the version of this policy found the shared drive in location should be considered the correct version: https://www.wagggs.org/en/privacy-cookies/

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