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  • Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers
    Ladies Association of British Barbershop Singers: www.labbs.org.uk
    LABBS is one of three barbershop-singing organisations in the United Kingdom, and the only purely-British organisation for female barbershop singers. It is the association GEM Connection is a member of.

    LABBS YouTube channel
    LABBS YouTube channel: www.youtube.com/channel/UCOJo7GP-mPACOaU4ReDKSRw
    LABBS YouTube channel showing lots of examples of the barbershop style.

    Grand Central Chorus
    Grand Central Chorus: www.grandcentralchorus.com/
    The Grand Central Chorus is an enthusiastic group of more than sixty men from the East Midlands, who love singing together in four-part close-harmony, in Barbershop style.

    British Association of Barbershop Singers
    British Association of Barbershop Singers: www.singbarbershop.com/
    The Men's British Association for barbershop.

    Sweet Adelnes Region 31
    Sweet Adelnes Region 31: sweetadelines.org.uk/
    Sweet Adelines International is based in America, with various regions around the world. This area is Region 31.

    Coast to Coast Chorus
    Coast to Coast Chorus: www.c2cbarbershop.com/
    A nationwide chorus open to all LABBS members, based in Leicester.

    LABBS Youth Chorus
    LABBS Youth Chorus: www.facebook.com/LABBSYouthChorus/
    As part of its Youth Development programme, LABBS supports the two LABBS Youth Choruses for young women aged between 7 and 18, and 18 and 29, from all over the UK.

 

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  • BE A GEM FOR A DAY 2020!

    November 23, 2019
    Come along to our fourth BE A GEM FOR A DAY event! Get a taster of what it's like to sing as part of a 70-strong women's barbershop harmony chorus ... more
  • YOUR SABS 2019 INTERNATIONAL SILVER MEDAL CHORUS!

    April 14, 2019
    Well what an astounding time we had in Spain! GEM made some wonderful memories last weekend as we jetted off to Calpe in southern Spain to compete at the Spanish ... more
  • JOIN US EN ESPANA!

    March 15, 2019
    It's just three short weeks until we zoom off to sunny Spain to compete in this year's Spanish Association of Barbershop Singers (SABS) convention. We're heading out to Calpe on ... more
  • GEMettes no longer!

    November 21, 2018
    This past weekend saw our show finally come around - something we've been really excited to show you all! The show, which we decided to call New Connections, was a ... more

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Recent Events

  • European and LABBS Convention

    Sat, 28 Oct 2017
    : Here is our performance in the LABBS and European Convention held at Bournemouth at the end of October 2017. We were 4th overall in the LABBS competition. more

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Rehearsals

Every Thursday 7pm at
Harrington Junior School, Long Eaton,
Nottinghamshire, NG10 4BJ map

 

 

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GEM Connection is committed to protecting your personal data and will use any personal or sensitive data we collect from you.  In Europe, this is in line with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR).
 

What data do you collect and what do you use it for?

GEM Connection collects data from individuals to help us plan, organise and run the day-to-day operations of the group (e.g. co-ordinating rehearsals or collecting subscription payments) and to promote and market the group’s activities (e.g. marketing mailing lists and photography/video capture).

Members: for administering membership
When you join GEM Connection as a member, or during your membership with us, we may need to collect some of the following information on you:
  • Name
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  • Phone number
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  • Emergency contact details
  • Age/gender
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This data will be used by our admin team to manage your membership with GEM Connection and to organise and run our activities.

Mailing list subscribers: for marketing and promotion
We offer everybody the opportunity to sign up (consent) to receive marketing and promotional information on the group’s activities (e.g. emails about forthcoming events).

When you sign-up to our marketing mailing list we will ask for your email address and will use this data to send you information about our events and activities (e.g. upcoming events, latest news, etc).  We will only send you information that is related to GEM Connection.  (i.e. we will not use your data to send you marketing messages from 3rd parties).

Anything we send you will include a clear option to unsubscribe and you can also do so at any time by replying to the email.

When you purchase event tickets or donate
If you purchase an event ticket, or make a donation, we need to collect data on the person making the purchase.  This data will only be used for administering your booking/donation, and will not be used to send you marketing/promotional messages from the group.

Website visitors: for running and improving our website
When a person visits our website, we collect and analyse anonymised data on how many people have visited, what pages they have looked at and other statistical information. We also use cookies to allow members to log in and out in order to view our members-only section.  See the section below on cookies.
 

Do you share my data with anyone else?

We will never pass your details on to third parties for marketing purposes.

Our software provider, HarmonySite also has access to the data stored in our website.  HarmonySite has their own Data Protection Policy.
 

Are there special measures for children’s data?

We do not knowingly collect or store any personal data about children under the age of 16. However, should we hold an event inviting under 16s, we would need to collect written parental consent and data for the purposes of safeguarding and in case of emergency. This data would be removed after the event.
 

How can I get you to update my data?

You can contact us at any time to update or correct the data we hold on you.
 

How long will you hold my data?

The GEM Connection data retention policy is to review all data held on individuals at least every two years and remove data where we no longer have a legitimate reason to keep it.

Where you have withdrawn your consent for us to use your data for a particular purpose (e.g. unsubscribed from a mailing list) we may retain some of your data for up to two years in order to preserve a record of your consent having been withdrawn.
 

What rights do I have?

Under the European GDPR, you have the following rights over your data and its use:
  • The right to be informed about what data we are collecting on you and how we will use it
  • The right of access - you can ask to see the data we hold on you
  • The right to rectification - you can ask that we update or correct your data
  • The right to object - you can ask that we stop using your data for a particular purpose
  • The right to erasure - you can ask us to delete the data we hold on you
  • The right to restrict processing - you can ask that we temporarily stop using your data while the reason for its use or its accuracy are investigated
  • Though unlikely to apply to the data we hold and process on you, you also have rights related to portability and automated decision making (including profiling)
All requests related to your rights should be made through our Contact page. We will respond within one month.

You can find out more about your rights on the Information Commission’s Office website
 

What will you do if anything changes?

If we make changes to our privacy statements or processes we will post the changes here. Where the changes are significant, we may also choose to email individuals affected with the new details. Where required by law, will we ask for your consent to continue processing your data after these changes are made.
 

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Without cookies, some things on websites would not be able to work: for example, without cookies it might not be possible to know whether or not you are logged in on a website, which would prevent you from being able to see content restricted to logged-in members.
 

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The GEM Connection website uses cookies to track whether you are signed in or not, and whether you wish to remain logged in when you return to this website in your next browser session.
 

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Further, every time someone visits our website, software provided by Google Analytics generates an 'anonymous analytics cookie'.  These cookies can tell us whether or not you have visited the site before and what pages you visit. Your browser will tell us if you have these cookies and, if you don't, we generate new ones. This allows us to track how many individual users we have, and how often they visit the site. We use them to gather statistics, for example, the number of visits to a page, to help us identify if visitors would benefit from more information on a particular area.
 

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