UKARA renewal

[gavinkempsell]

You Dork!! ?

yup

 

[rj1986]

I started doing that but I was worried the wife might find it and realise they weren't all £30 each after all.

A spreadsheet of your competition wins and guns coming back from repair you say?

 

[Muzzer]

I started doing that but I was worried the wife might find it and realise they weren't all £30 each after all.

Oh thank god, I’m not the only one, if she ever found out how much I’ve spent over the last few years, I may never have sex again.?

 

[Paltala]

This thread is actually quite interesting for me. I had my UKARA first registered in 2017, the email said it would be active until 2018 but I have not once had a single email since telling me that it has expired or it needs renewing. I have no way of knowing if my number is valid or not (I doubt it) aside from emailing a retailer and asking them to check it for me

 

[gavinkempsell]

Have you bought any rif's from a dealer since? If you're a regular player at the site that registered you then it's maybe been automatically updated.

 

[Cannonfodder]

That is all it's for. The only other thing I can think of is if you get raided and didn't keep your receipts.

How ukara would help there? Owning rifs isn't illegal and if police are visiting with the big red key then you've got bigger problems 

 

[Rogerborg]

How ukara would help there? Owning rifs isn't illegal 

No, but the process is the punishment, and the sooner you can end that process by saying "It's OK, I've got a loicence" the better.

Remember, this bloke only escaped a patently bogus conviction for posting a video of his toys because the prosecution got caught tampering with the evidence.

 

[Paltala]

Have you bought any rif's from a dealer since? If you're a regular player at the site that registered you then it's maybe been automatically updated.

No, trying to get back into it. I haven't been playing for years and the site I used to play at is basically non-existent, Invasion Airsoft. I know there's a woodlands site but I never see anything about games there and the owner has been teasing a new/old CQB site for a while with no info. AFAIK, it's just a shop these days.

 

[Cannonfodder]

No, trying to get back into it. I haven't been playing for years and the site I used to play at is basically non-existent, Invasion Airsoft. I know there's a woodlands site but I never see anything about games there and the owner has been teasing a new/old CQB site for a while with no info. AFAIK, it's just a shop these days.

In that case it's very unlikely that you're still on the ukara database

 

[gavinkempsell]

Well the deed has been done, played at POW today.

 

[Paltala]

In that case it's very unlikely that you're still on the ukara database

I figured as much, I emailed Patrolbase to ask them to check. Just seems odd that I never had an email to say it had expired or anything.

 

[Cannonfodder]

I don't remember getting a e mail when mine expired either

 

[gavinkempsell]

I don't remember getting a e mail when mine expired either

Apparently the site got one too.

 

[Rogerborg]

I don't remember getting a e mail when mine expired either

The first time I got an email about one was this year. I had another that expired last year with no email.

 

[Galvatron]

I got an email a month before mine was due to expire.

 

[Lozart]

I got an email a month before mine was due to expire.

Same here.

 

[Colin Allen]

Same here.

Likewise.

 

[Speedy Sloth]

My latest ukara registration lapsed and I got an email, but didn't during COVID when it lapsed.

Looking through the privacy policy very quickly, it also doesn't state they will use the details given to them to contact players .

It does seem somewhat funny that whilst a ukara registration only lasts 1 year, the ukara website essentially says they will hold on to your data forever as point 9 of the privacy terms. 

From a privacy perspective seems overkill to hold data indefinitely.

 

[Tommikka]

It does seem somewhat funny that whilst a ukara registration only lasts 1 year, the ukara website essentially says they will hold on to your data forever as point 9 of the privacy terms. 

From a privacy perspective seems overkill to hold data indefinitely.

Indefinitely is excessive for the retention of personal data, but it may be justifiable

It is fully justifiable to retain expired membership information if it could be used to confirm that details were valid at the time of a purchase if required by a retailer - if for example the retailer maintained records that a check had been made but they discarded personal details no longer required.

Those of you who have had an expiry reminder - was it from the UKARA or from your member site ?  That could account for differing experiences 

 

[Colin Allen]

Indefinitely is excessive for the retention of personal data, but it may be justifiable

It is fully justifiable to retain expired membership information if it could be used to confirm that details were valid at the time of a purchase if required by a retailer - if for example the retailer maintained records that a check had been made but they discarded personal details no longer required.

Those of you who have had an expiry reminder - was it from the UKARA or from your member site ?  That could account for differing experiences 

Mine was from UKARA in April 2024.