Data Privacy Notice
The
Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St. Michael’s Church, Waters Upton
1. Your personal data –
what is it?
Personal data
relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data.
Identification can be by the information alone or in
conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s
possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of
personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation
(the “GDPR”).
2. Who are we?
The PCC of St. Michael’s Church, Waters
Upton is the data controller (contact details below).
This means it decides how your personal data is processed and
for what purposes.
3. How do we process your personal data?
The PCC of
St. Michael’s Church, Waters Upton complies with its obligations
under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and
destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive
amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse,
unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate
technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
We use your personal data for the following purposes:
a) To
enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the
public in a particular
geographical area as specified in our constitution;
b) To administer member ship records;
c) To fundraise and promote the interests of charity;
5. Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as
strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of
the church in order to carry out a service to other church members
or for purposes connected with the church. We will only share your
data with third parties outside of the parish with your consent.
6. How long do we keep your personal data[1]?
We keep data in accordance with the
guidance set out in the guide “Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish
Records” which is available from the Church of England website [see
footnote for link].
Specifically, we retain electoral roll data while it is still current; gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate; and parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals) permanently.
8.
Further processing
If we wish to use your personal data for
a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we
will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to
commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and
processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek
your prior consent to the new processing.
9.
Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries
or complaints please in the first instance contact the PCC Secretary
email address:
secretarywupcc@stmichaelschurchwatersupton.org.uk
You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.
[1] Details about retention
periods can currently be found in the Record Management
Guides located on the Church of England website at: -
https://www.churchofengland.org/more/libraries-and-archives/records-management-guides