Temporary Membership Application

Terms and Conditions

Available here: https://www.britishfencing.com/members/membership-info/membership-types/temporary-membership/


All fencers require a BF membership to participate in a competition.


Temporary Membership is a one competition membership for International Visitor Fencers who are members of their National Federation and wish to travel to the UK and compete in a Fencing competition.


Holders of Temporary Membership are not entitled to a place on the BF rankings and they are not entitled to represent a UK club whilst competing in the UK.


A maximum of two Temporary Memberships can be granted to one fencer in any 12 month period. If you are looking to enter more than 2 competitions in a year, please purchase a full British Fencing compete membership: https://www.britishfencing.com/members/membership-info/membership-types/compete-membership/


No discount is available on any subsequent upgrade to a standard membership product.


Holders of temporary memberships are not entitled to a place on the ranking.


In the event that a temporary membership holder becomes a standard compete member, only those points earned after the standard compete membership start date shall count towards ranking and no previously published rankings will be amended.


ELIGIBILITY

Fencers must NOT:

  • Be UK residents
  • Be studying, training, living and/or working in the UK
  • Attend or represent a UK club


EVIDENCE

To apply for a temporary membership International Visitors must provide evidence including:


A valid membership of their own National Federation

Confirmation of their travel bookings to and from the UK for the competition dates.


International Visitors are expected to ensure that they have suitable travel insurance policies in place to cover competing in a fencing event.




COST - £5 per competition.


EVENTS INCLUDED - The competitions on the date for which the membership is valid for.

If you have a Northern Ireland - Fencing Ireland associate membership please add your British Fencing membership number.

Please provide the name and date of the competition, including the competition gender category (eg Men's Epee, Women's Foil)

Copies of

  1. A valid membership of your own National Federation
  2. Confirmation of their travel bookings to and from the UK for the competition dates.
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I accept the Terms and Conditions which includes:


I confirm that I am not:

  • a UK resident
  • studying, training, living and/or working in the UK
  • attending or representing a UK club


I understand that I am required to operate in accordance with all BF Policies for the duration of the competition and any associated activities.


I confirm that I have (or will have) suitable travel insurance policies in place to cover competing in a fencing event.


I understand that all membership payments made are non-refundable.

Data collected through this form will be held in accordance with the British Fencing Privacy Policy that can be found here: https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/.


The personal data you have provided in this form will be used by BF for the following purposes:


  • To contact you in relation to the information provided on this form.
  • To process your temporary membership application


BF will store and retain the personal data you have provided in this form for 24 months after your request has been processed.


Complaints or Queries

Under the UK General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018, you have rights as an individual which you can exercise in relation to the information we hold about you. BF tries to meet the highest standards when collecting and using personal information. For this reason, we take any complaints we receive about this very seriously. We encourage people to bring it to our attention if they think that our collection or use of information is unfair, misleading or inappropriate. We would also welcome any suggestions for improving our procedures.


This Privacy Notice was drafted with brevity and clarity in mind. It does not provide exhaustive detail of all aspects of the BF’s collection and use of personal information. However, we are happy to provide any additional information or explanation needed.


Any requests for this should be sent to the Data Protection Officer at the address below. If you want to make a complaint about the way we have processed your personal information, you should also contact the Data Protection Officer at the address below.


Access to your data BF tries to be as open as we can be in terms of giving people access to their personal information.


Individuals can find out if we hold any personal information by making a ‘subject access request’. If we do hold information about you, we will:


• give you a description of it;

• tell you why we are holding it;

• tell you who it could be disclosed to; and

• let you have a copy of the information in an intelligible form.


Errors: If we do hold information about you, you can ask us to correct any mistakes by, once again, contacting the Data Protection Officer as detailed below.


Erasure: You can also ask us to delete the data we hold about you by, once again contacting the Data Protection Officer as detailed below.


How to contact us: If you want to see BF’s Privacy Statement and full Privacy Policy you can find these on the website in the Policies section at the foot of every webpage, https://www.britishfencing.com/policy-zone/gdpr-data-protection/, or you can request a copy by email from the BF Data Protection Officer who can be contacted by email or in writing, details below:


BF Data Protection Officer

British Fencing Head Office

1 Baron's Gate 33-35 Rothschild Road

London

W4 5HT

or

dataprotection@britishfencing.com


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