Privacy Notice

 

How Good News Church (“we”) use your information

 

Your privacy is important to us.  We are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information.

 

It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. 

 

Data Controller

 

Good News Church is the data controller and responsible for your personal data.

 

 

Why are we collecting your data?

 

We collect personal data to provide appropriate pastoral care, to monitor and assess the quality of our services, to fulfil our purposes as a church and to comply with the law. In legal terms this is called ‘legitimate interests’. When it is required, we may also ask you for your consent to process your data. We do not share your information with others except as described in this notice.

 

 

Storing your data

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting or reporting requirements. 

 

We comply with our 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 including training.

 

Details of retention periods are available in our data protection policy which church members / attendees can request by contacting us at goodnewschurch.whaleybridge@gmail.com

 

We will contact members / attendees with a consent form to seek agreement to us holding your details. Please notify any future changes in details.

 

Security of your data

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed.  In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those ministry leaders or trustees who need to know.  They will only process your personal data on our instructions. 

 

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and the Information Commissioner’s Office where we are legally required to do so.

 

Who do we share your information with?

 

We will not share your information with third parties, without your consent unless the law requires us to do so. 

 

Requesting access to your personal data

Under Data Protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information about you that we hold. To make a request for your personal information contact us by email

 

You also have the right to:

• ·   object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
• ·         prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
• ·         object to decisions being taken by automated means
• ·         in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
• ·         claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations.

For further information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information and your rights to access information we hold on you please contact us by email

 

If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns/

 

Contact:

If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please contact our Data Protection Officer.

 

April 2021.