DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

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”).

Who are we?

Bishop’s Stortford Vineyard Church is the data controller.  This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

How do we process your personal data?

The Bishop’s Stortford Vineyard 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, unauthorized 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:

To administer membership records;

To manage our employees and volunteers;

To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications);

To inform you of news, events, activities and services running at Bishop’s Stortford Vineyard Church;

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, activities and services and process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about church events.

Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security of social protection law, or a collective agreement;

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

There is no disclosure to a third party without consent.

 

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.

How long do we keep your personal data

We keep data for no longer than is necessary for purpose.

Specifically, we retain gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate.

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 copy of your personal data which Bishop’s Stortford Vineyard Church holds about you;

The right to request that the Bishop’s Stortford Vineyard Church corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;

The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for Bishop’s Stortford Vineyard Church to retain such data;

The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;

The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;

The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.

 

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.

 

Contact details

To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact info@bsvchurch.org explaining what you think is wrong and ask for the data to be corrected.  We must tell you what we have done within 21 days.  If you do not agree that the data is incorrect then you can take the matter up with the Information Commissioners.

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s 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, Chesire. SK9 5AF

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