Privacy Policy

DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of Great Clacton St John the Baptist 

(St John’s and St Mark’s churches)

1. 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").

2. Who are we? 

The  PCC of Great Clacton St John the Baptist is the data controller  (contact details below).  This means it decides how your personal data  is processed and for what purposes.

3. 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 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.
• To inform you of news, events, activities and services at St John’s and St Mark’s and in the wider church;

4. 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. 

Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment or other laws.

Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body with a religious aim, providing:

The  processing relates only to members or former members (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 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.

6. How long do we keep your personal data?
We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in the guide  "Keep it or Bin it: Care of Your Parish Records" which is available from  the Church of England website [see footnote for link]. 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.

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 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 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).
• 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).
• 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. On-line Privacy

"By  viewing our website your IP address, browser details, times of visits,  etc. may be logged and used  for statistical purposes, network security  and fraud prevention. This helps us to monitor how effectively the site  is working. Be assured that we never profile normal visitors to the site  or invasively  monitor them. The statistical data will be used by  ourselves and may also be used by our website provider to help provide  the service. The legal basis for processing this information is  Legitimate Interest."

10. Contact Details

To  exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first  instance contact the Parish Administrator at St John’s church office,  St John’s church, St John’s Road, Great Clacton CO15 4BP Telephone 01255  475704 email: office@greatclactonparish.co.uk

You can contact the Information Commissioners 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, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.