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THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: February 17th, 2021, 6:10 pm
by admin
This locked topic tells you most of what you need to know to get by in the forum.

It contains:

1 THE BASIC FORUM RULES

2 WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET LOCKED OUT OF THE FORUM

3 - GDPR GUIDANCE AND PRIVACY POLICY

4 - SOME "HOW TO DO IT" TYPE TIPS


THE RULES

The Rules.
Nice and simple:

1) Respect each other and the band. Play nicely. Try to stay on topic. Posts insulting a member of the band will result in the topic being closed.

2) No selling without payment protection - Ebay and Amazon, etc are ok.

3) The group's (and their families) current addresses are private. No posts re properties that they currently own.

4) Please do not ask the forum to put you in touch with group members, past or present.

5) Don't ask the admin to value records - look on Ebay or Discogs.

6) Enjoy.

WHAT TO DO IF YOU GET LOCKED OUT OF THE FORUM
IF YOU ARE LOCKED OUT OF THE FORUM, OR NEED TO CONTACT THE ADMIN.....

Hopefully members will write their user names and passwords down when registering.
If you are stuck and can't get in, you can send an email to webmail @ sladeforum .co.uk - leaving out the gaps.
This is a once-only password reset. Write your user name and password down and keep it safe.

Please include your user name and your email address that you registered with, if you can. It's a big help.
I have set my email pre-scanner to reject any non-genuine emails, so spammers - don't waste your time.
I usually reply within 24 hours. At weekends I am usually gigging three evenings with my band, but I will do my best.

MEMBERS WHO JOIN, BUT DO NOT VISIT THE FORUM OR POST ARE PERIODICALLY REMOVED.

If you CAN get into the forum and need to contact the Admin, just send a private message.
Also, the forum software will deactivate members who do not access the forum for a prolonged period (6 months or more).
If this happens to you and you want to get back in, contact the Admin by email.

GDPR GUIDANCE AND PRIVACY POLICY

PRIVACY POLICY: Apparently, I have to show a privacy statement for my websites...
The privacy policy for the sites that I administer is here

GDPR FOR THIS FORUM:
THE LAWS REGARDING DATA PROTECTION ARE CHANGING.


Your personal data that is used to access this forum is retained in a secure administrative database which is not accessible by anyone, not even the Admin. It will never be shared with anyone else, or be re-used by the forum Admin in any way.

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What is personal data?

The key terms
GDPR and other data protection laws rely on the term 'personal data' to discuss information about individuals. There are two key types of personal data in the UK and they cover different categories of information.

What is personal data?
Personal data can be anything that allows a living person to be directly or indirectly identified. This may be a name, an address, or even an IP address. It includes automated personal data and can also encompass pseudonymised data if a person can be identified from it.

So, what's sensitive personal data?
GDPR calls sensitive personal data as being in 'special categories' of information. These include trade union membership, religious beliefs, political opinions, racial information, and sexual orientation.

The Administrator has access to your IP address from your registration, your email address and any other details that you entered on registration (except for your password, which can't ever be seen). However, to be honest, these details are truly really boring and the Admin isn't going to look at them, except to check that you are who you say you are when you register. After registration, your account is only ever accessed if there are access difficulties that need to be resolved, like giving you a new password. Your old or existing password is never visible to the Admin.

Your details are not visible to the masses and cannot be seen by any sneaky means by other members.
Email addresses are always concealed, though you can email via the forum without seeing an actual email address.

The admin can see which IP address you have posted from, but doesn't care and doesn't look.

Your location (your hometown) may be displayed on the forum.
If you disagree with this, you can remove it in your profile settings.
I hope that none of you will find this an issue, as we all like to know where in the world the person we are speaking to lives (but not down to the house number!)

If you have any queries regarding your data, please message me.
I will happily answer any questions that you may have.

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THE CHECKLIST

"This checklist highlights 12 steps you can take now to prepare for the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) which will apply from 25 May 2018."

I will respond to each clause below with a statement on how the point is being addressed.

1 Awareness
You should make sure that decision makers and key people in your organisation are aware that the law is changing to the GDPR. They need to appreciate the impact this is likely to have.


The Admin has read the guidance and will comply with it as far as his techiness allows.

2 Information you hold
You should document what personal data you hold, where it came from and who you share it with.
You may need to organise an information audit.


This forum holds whatever information members put in their profiles voluntarily.
Members are free to remove any information from their profiles that they wish to.

3 Communicating privacy information
You should review your current privacy notices and put a plan in place for making any necessary changes in time for GDPR implementation.


The privacy policy for the sites that I administer is here

4 Individuals’ rights
You should check your procedures to ensure they cover all the rights individuals have, including how you would delete personal data or provide data electronically and in a commonly used format.


Member data is held securely in a restricted database and the admin cannot pull it up and read it. Nor do I want to. If a member leaves the forum, or is banned, then their account is deleted and all the information is automatically removed from the database.

5 Subject access requests
You should update your procedures and plan how you will handle requests within the new timescales and provide any additional information.


If you wish to know what information is held by the Admin, message me, or just look in your profile settings.

6 Lawful basis for processing personal data.
You should identify the lawful basis for your processing activity in the GDPR, document it and update your privacy notice to explain it.


Already done.

7 Consent
You should review how you seek, record and manage consent and whether you need to make any changes. Refresh existing consents now if they don’t meet the GDPR standard.


Anyone who access this forum consents to using its facilities to access it.
Personal data, can be removed as the member requires, except for login information.
Passwords are never visible to the admin.

8 Children
You should start thinking now about whether you need to put systems in place to verify individuals’ ages and to obtain parental or guardian consent for any data processing activity.


I don't think there are any children on here, though some of us act that way sometimes.

9 Data breaches
You should make sure you have the right procedures in place to detect, report and investigate a personal data breach.

If anyone feels their data is not secure, contact me. Happy to chat.

10 Data Protection by Design and Data
Protection Impact Assessments.
You should familiarise yourself now with the ICO’s code of practice on Privacy Impact Assessments as well as the latest guidance from the Article 29 Working Party, and work out how and when to implement them in your organisation.


As the registration data on here can't be read by non members and most of it is concealed, we will take it as read this is not going to happen.

11 Data Protection Officers
You should designate someone to take responsibility for data protection compliance and assess where this role will sit within your organisation’s structure and governance arrangements. You should consider whether you are required to formally designate a Data Protection Officer.


The Data Protection Officer is the Admin.
My role is to keep access locked down to members only and to keep various personal data from being displayed.

12 International
If your organisation operates in more than one EU member state (ie you carry out cross-border processing), you should determine your lead data protection supervisory authority. Article 29 Working Party guidelines will help you do this.


The processing is all done in my back bedroom in Bolton.
There are NO stacks of paper with all of your personal info on them.
I don't have room to swing a cat, never mind store unnecessary stuff.

HOW TO DO IT TYPE TIPS.

HOW TO POST PHOTOS:
I am more than happy for people to post photos on the forum, but we don't really have the webspace to allow attachments. I suggest that people register at www.blogspot.com and load pics up to there.

Right clicking on a photo once it is fully loaded to a page gives you its web URL, which can be copied and pasted between the [ img ] and [ /img ] brackets and the photo should then display in your post.

HOW TO POST VIDEOS:
Find a video you like on YouTube (must be Slade related, if posted in the Slade area of the forum).

Copy the URL / web address: e.g: ht tps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4RTipAZuMRI
Highlight the address and use COPY keyboard shortcut CTRL + C

When making a post, click the MEDIA button, which is like a little TV SET above the text box that you type in.
This will give you two pairs of brackets with media and /media written in them.

Paste the web address inbetween the two pairs of brackets - do not add any spaces or other characters, etc.
Use PASTE keyboard shortcut CTRL + V
Insert the web address between the two sets of brackets.

The brackets should not be disturbed.
There should be no gaps.

Submit your post.

Sometimes a Youtube video will have a link to other stuff after the video web address.
This will stop the video working on here.

You can spot this if it has an & halfway through, then a string of code.
You can remove the extra crap by highlighting it - starting with the & and moving your mouse to the right then pressing your delete key.
That should leave the web address in your browser.
Check it by sending the browser to the remaining web address.
Then, if it works, copy the web address as above.

Re: THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: April 5th, 2022, 12:55 pm
by admin
Forum Version updated to PHPBB 3.3.7 on 5.4.2022.

Re: THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: July 26th, 2022, 4:16 pm
by admin
Forum version updated to PHPBB 3.3.8 on 26.07.2022.

A nail-biter as the update instructions have changed and I got a few errors.
I took the forum back to the minimum install files and added in the updated files and ran the process again and it worked properly.
I HATE doing updates.

Re: THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: December 29th, 2022, 12:47 am
by admin
Forum version updated to PHPBB 3.3.9 on 29.12.2022.
A scary process, but it hopefully went well.

Re: THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: June 7th, 2023, 1:38 am
by admin
The next forum update will take place on 15.6.2023.
The forum will not be available while the upgrade takes place.
It takes up to an hour.

Re: THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: June 21st, 2023, 6:57 pm
by admin
I've been a week late doing the upgrade to phpbb 3.3.10, due to various tragedies at home.

The guidance at https://www.phpbb.com/community/viewtopic.php?t=2635986 refers.

This was one of the more painless upgrades, but it's still an utterly butt-clenching process.

Re: THE FORUM INFORMATION TOPIC

Posted: November 24th, 2023, 2:48 pm
by admin
The forum has now been updated to phpbb 3.3.11.