Privacy Policy

Who we are

The PCC of Whitchurch, Tufton and Litchfield is the data controller for these churches. This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. Please contact the administrator at All Hallows, Whitchurch for more information.

Our website address is: http://allhallowswhitchurch.org.uk

How do we process your personal data?
The PCC of Whitchurch, Tufton and Litchfield 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: –
 To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution;
 To administer membership records;
 To fundraise and promote the interests of the charity;
 To manage our employees and volunteers;
 To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications);
 To administer the hiring of the Church Rooms (if applicable)
 To inform you of news, events, activities and services running at Whitchurch, Tufton and Litchfield
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 some diocesan events.
 Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social
protection law, or a collective agreement;
 Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body with a religious aim provided: –
o the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and
o 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. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the parish with your consent.


How long do we keep your personal data
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.

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.


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 the PCC of Whitchurch, Tufton and Litchfield holds about you;
 The right to request that the PCC of Whitchurch, Tufton and Litchfield 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 the PCC of Whitchurch, Tufton and Litchfield 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 Commissioners 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.

Website

If you request a password reset, your IP address will be included in the reset email.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

Comments

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where your data is sent

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Contact details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the Administrator at brightwatersbenefice@gmail.com

If you are not satisfied with our response you can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email: https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/ or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.