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Posted By : James Carruthers, 16-Sep-2004, 05:22pm
Craig could even link it to an interactive map and it could plot where everyone is... now wouldnt that be fun 
Be nice to be able to filter members as you suggest though...
Be nice to be able to filter members as you suggest though...
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Posted By : Andrew Bradford, 20-Sep-2004, 02:59pm
Surely if the information is avaliable when viewing profiles, its not breaking the DPA.-
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Posted By : Chris Mills, 20-Sep-2004, 04:05pm
You also have to remember that as good as the message board is, less than half of the members have registered to use it, and not all members have access to the internet.
Area's are doing well to get 10% of their local catchment to an area meet and it would be good to increase this figure.
TSSC national shows get around than 20% of members attending yet in excess of 50% live within 100 miles of Stafford.
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Posted By : Craig Gingell, 16-Sep-2004, 05:59pm
Andrew,
This is do-able, but we'd contravene the Data Protection Act and all that. Perhaps Suzie Singleton the AO for Southern Area can help you out. Suzie?
Rgds
Craig
This is do-able, but we'd contravene the Data Protection Act and all that. Perhaps Suzie Singleton the AO for Southern Area can help you out. Suzie?
Rgds
Craig
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Posted By : Doug Paterson, 16-Sep-2004, 06:52pm
It wouldn't break the DPA if restricted to members with profiles i.e. who have entered their towns etc. I think this would be a good idea if doable.
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Posted By : Huw Harrison, 17-Sep-2004, 11:07am
What about first two letters of post code - not too much info given away and slotted into members area ???
(V happy car just sailed through MOT)
Huw
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Posted By : Suzie Singleton, 19-Sep-2004, 07:37pm
Can't really help, I'm afraid. Very few people from Southampton area come to meets so I have no idea who has which cars. Haven't even got any on the Spitfire Register which look likely, but if they're early Spits and you can let me have the registrations (by email perhaps, rather than on an open board) I could see if they're on the Reg and, if so, contact them and pass on your contact details. Probably the safest way to work within the DPA.
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Posted By : Nigel Gibbins, 20-Sep-2004, 03:55pm
To cover the Data Protection issues, you simply make it a voluntary inclusion and give the member an opt-in to the scheme. This includes giving permissions to allow their information to be displayed.
It would be wise to not list email addresses as this would be a spammers delight, and you have to grant the member acces to their own information.-
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Posted By : James Carruthers, 20-Sep-2004, 04:01pm
I don't see why we can't have emails sent from the website... everywhere else does like that - and it works very well.
The person who is sending the email never sees the persons address of who they are sending it to - however the receipent gets an email with the senders address already on there... that way if they wish to reveal their email address they just reply to the message - if not they ignore.
There's no way that a spammer can get direct access to the emails that way - and sending of emails can easily be monitored/blocked.
James
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Posted By : Craig Gingell, 20-Sep-2004, 04:09pm
Hi Nigel,
As a Club, we're fully up to date on what we can and can't do with membership data with regards to the Data Protection Act. My original message was written with a viewpoint of how things stand right now.
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Posted By : Doug Paterson, 20-Sep-2004, 05:33pm
my location appears on my profile page.
Unless you are already contravening the act by displaying this, then adding search ability on location won't.
Obviously I'm not advocating this being searchable on the whole club, just those registered on the messageboard.-
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Posted By : Chris Mills, 20-Sep-2004, 05:59pm
We're not contravening the DPA because the action of including your personnel details within your profile is down to the member, a considerable number of TSSC MB users have not added profiles to their registration be it either that they don't know how to or don't wish to or for some other reason.
The suggestion would only really work if all members using the board added their profile and we can't really make this a requisite of MB use.
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Posted By : Doug Paterson, 20-Sep-2004, 06:37pm
Which is more or less my point.
Lots have added profiles - I accept not all have. But over time there will likely be enough to make this worthwhile.
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