Here at Cumbria Bird Club we take the privacy of our member’s data seriously and will only use your personal information for club administration purposes, for sending you regular Newsletters and for communicating with you about club activities.
For submitted sightings on this website, see below.
Club activities deemed to be of legitimate interest to members:
- Meetings
- Outings
- Surveys
- Newsletter articles
- Bird recording & photography
- Conservation issues in Cumbria
Data storage
Only the Secretary and Treasurer will be able to access your details. Data is stored on their personal computers and is not available online. If you agree to take part in a club activity your contact details may be passed to the relevant organiser(s) if necessary.
Requesting the removal of your data
Your data will be removed on request to the secretary.
Access to your data
The secretary will provide details of your data on request in a commonly used electronic format (such as MS Excel or Word).
April 2018
Submitted sightings
We are now managing recent sightings via Going Birding Cumbria.
Please click on the link below to enter a sighting (you will have to create an account the first time you do this).
https://www.goingbirding.co.uk/cumbria/index.asp
Records submitted here will constitute formal records and won’t need to be submitted again.
Some sensitive species will not be made visible but will go into the formal CBC archive.
By submitting photos you (or the copyright holder) give us permission to publish them.
September 2025