To: All Regional Chairs
Please forward this email to all Branch Chairs with the
request that they, in turn, forward it to branch members and make this
information available to members who do not have an email address... perhaps
making a brief announcement at the next meeting.
In recent days a number of members informed Guild Head
Office that they had received what they considered to be
an unsolicited postal mailing from the RSN. This mailing was seeking
a financial contribution to creating a searchable database of the RSN
collection.... not be confused with the Guild's collection appeal! Many
Guild members did not consider that they had given any contact information to
the RSN and assumed that Guild Head Office had either sold or given away
their details to the RSN.
On Sunday, CEO Terry Murphy, wrote to Susan Kay-Williams, CEO of the
RSN, seeking confirmation that the RSN had not bought or been given any member
information by the Embroiderers' Guild. Susan's answer, received this morning,
is reproduced in full below.
Once again, we can assure members that the Guild has not and would not
give away or sell member data to any third party.
Terry Murphy - CEO
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Susan Kay-Williams
<susan.kay-williams@royal-needlework.org.uk>
You replied on 26/06/2017
20:18.Dear Terry
I can completely
confirm that the Royal School of Needlework has used only its own data for the
current mailing. We do NOT purchase data from anyone (EG, Upper Street Events)
or anyone else. If we have this data then (without looking at every record) the
most likely source is that they have completed a competition form at the
Knitting and Stitching events over the past several years in which they gave
their name and address and ticked a box to allow us to use this information.
The point of the current exercise is to check that they still wish to receive
information from the RSN. If they do not, we are removing them from our list.
(In fact this
response indicates how little we use this information if they feel this is the
first time we have contacted them.)
I trust that will
clear up the matter for EG members ,your members have given us their name and
address directly, even if they do not remember it.
Susan
Royal School of
Needlework, Apt 12a, Hampton Court Palace, Surrey KT8 9AU, UK
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