Privacy Notice

HEALD GREEN UNITED REFORMED CHURCH

DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT

1. Personal Data

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. Data Controller

The eldership (serving elders) of Heald Green United Reformed Church is the data controller. This means that it is responsible for how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. How do we process your personal data?

The eldership of Heald Green United Reformed Church 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 personal data for the following purposes:-

• to administer membership records, and to offer appropriate pastoral support;
• to maintain our financial accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid);
• to provide news and information about events, activities and services at the church;
• to fundraise and promote the interests of the church;
• to manage employees and volunteers;
• to enable the church to provide voluntary services for the benefit of the public in our local community;
• to provide contact details of officers and others with specific responsibilities (eg DBS signatories) to the Synod Office and Church House. This enables the synod and national administration of the United Reformed Church

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

• Explicit consent of the data subject has been given
• Processing  is necessary to address a medical emergency, for carrying out obligations under Employment, Social Security, Social Protection Law or other legal imperative, collective agreement, Gift Aid, Collective Agreement, Legitimate Interest, Room Hire or other Contract; or
• Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim, provided:-
  • the processing relates only to members and regular worshippers or former members/regular worshippers (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and
  • there is no disclosure to a third party without consent

5. Sharing personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members or regular worshippers of the church with your consent, in the production of a  Directory. This in order to carry out a service to other church members and regular worshippers, or for purposes connected with the church. Further explicit consent, or legal compulsion, will be necessary for third party sharing of any individual’s personal data.

7. Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:-

• The right to request a personal copy of the personal data which Heald Green United Reformed Church holds about you (a Subject Access Request) or ‘SAR’;
• The right to request that the eldership of Heald Green United Reformed Church corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;
• The right to request that your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for Heald Green United Reformed Church to retain such data;
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;
• The right to request that the data controller provides you with your personal data and where possible to transmit that data directly to another data controller (the right to data portability).
• The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request that a restriction is placed on further processing;
• The right to object to the processing of personal data;
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners’ Office,

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 via our Caron Small

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113, or via e-mail https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/

The Elders, Heald Green United Reformed Church

This notice can also be inspected on the Notice Board in our Church Foyer.