Your Personal Data - what is it

Personal data relates to a loving individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the in 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?

The PCC of St Guthlac's Church, Market Deeping is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

How do we process your personal data?

The PCC 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 electoral role records;
• To fundraise and promote in the interest of the charity;
• 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 St Guthlac's;
• To share your contact details with the Diocesan office so they can keep you informed about news in the diocese and events, activities and services that will be occurring in the diocese and in which you may be interested;

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 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 political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim provided: -
   - the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes)
  - 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 the purposes connected with the church. We will only share your data with third parties outside 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, click here to read it. Specifically, we retain electoral roll data while it is still current; gift aid declaration 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 holds about you;
• The right to request that the PCC 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 St Guthlac's to retain such data;
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;
• The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means].
• 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 object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics].
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

Transfer of data abroad

Some of the programs and servers used by St Guthlac's are located outside of the EU. Only companies (i.e. cloud servers, Facebook, Dropbox, Microsoft Office...) whose systems are compliant with GDPR will be used.

Contact Details

To exercise all relevant right, queries or complaints please in the first instance contact the Church Office on 01778342237. You can contact the Information Commissioner's Office in 0303 123 1113 or via email, or at the Information Commissioner's, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.

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