Full Privacy Notice

DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT

 

St Columba’s United Reformed Church

30 Northumberland Square

North Shields

Tyne and Wear

NE30 1PW

 

  1. Personal data

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’).

 

  1. Data Controller

The eldership (serving elders) of St Columba’s United Reformed Church is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

 

  1. How do we process your personal data?

The eldership of St Columba’s United Reformed 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, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

 

We use personal data for the following purposes: –

  • to administer membership records;
  • to maintain our financial accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid);
  • to provide news and information about events, activities and services at the church;
  • to fundraise and promote the interests of the church;
  • to manage employees and volunteers;
  • to enable the church to provide voluntary services for the benefit of the public in our local community;
  • to provide contact details of officers and others with specific responsibilities (eg DBS signatories) to the synod office and Church House. This enables the synod and national administration of the United Reformed Church.

 

 

  1. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?
  • 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); and
    • there is no disclosure to a third party without consent; or
  • Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement; or
  • Explicit consent of the data subject has been given.

 

  1. Sharing 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 with your consent.

 

  1. How long do we keep data?

 

We retain data on the following basis:

 

Record Type Retention Period
Membership rolls Indefinitely
Members, adherents and friends contact details 24 months after the last contact
Junior Church roll until the child/young adult reaches the age of 21.
Junior Church contacts 24 months after the last contact
Cradle roll Indefinitely
Gift aid declarations and paperwork 6 years after the calendar year to which it relates
Registers of Marriage As required by the Registrar General
Register of Baptisms Indefinitely
Register of Funerals Indefinitely
Grave Records Indefinitely
Personal data relating to events for which additional information is gathered eg Church holidays Disposed of immediately after the event unless anything has occurred (eg and accident) which indicates that records should be retained for a longer period.
Records of attendance of children/young people and helpers Indefinitely for safeguarding purposes
Photographs and videos of events 24 months after the event – selected items retained for historical records
Insurance Records Indefinitely
Safeguarding matters Indefinitely or until advised otherwise by authorities
Accident Books 3 years from the date of the last entry (or, if the accident involves a child/ young adult, then until that person reaches the age of 21)
Complaints (non -safeguarding) 3 years after resolution of complaint (unless further action is anticipated)
Minute Books Indefinitely
Employee Records 6 years after the date of termination of employment
Pension Records (money purchase) 6 years after transfer or value taken
Visitors Books  
Other Record  

 

  1. 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 the personal data which St Columba’s United Reformed Church holds about you (a Subject Access Request or ‘SAR’);
  • The right to request that the eldership of St Columba’s United Reformed 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 St Columba’s United Reformed Church 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 you with your personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller.
  • 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;
  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

 

  1. 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.

 

  1. Contact Details

 

To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance CONTACT the Church Secretary at 0191 2965475/email [email protected].

 

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.

 

 

 

The Elders

St Columba’s United Reformed Church

Date 2ND June 2018

 

 

Appendix: Website Privacy Policy

Who we are

St Columba’s North Shields United Reformed Church Charity is responsible for this website, https://northshieldsurc.org.uk. The Elders’ Meeting is regarded as data controller for the purposes of the General Data Protection Regulation 2016. You can contact the webmaster by using the contact form on this site, or you can write to us at St Columba’s United Reformed Church, 30 Northumberland Square, North Shields NE30 1PW.

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Our website provides information about the church and enables visitors to interact with the site, by making comments or contacting the church.

The lawful basis for our processing of your personal data is that the processing is necessary for our legitimate interests, except where your data protection rights override those legitimate interests.

Comments

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. Once approved, comments may be publicly available on the site indefinitely.

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.

Contact forms

When visitors contact us using the contact us page, the visitor’s name, IP address and message are collected (but are not publicly visible). These are used to respond to the visitor and answer any queries raised. This may involve referring the query to the appropriate person within the church. Once the query has been resolved, the contact form will be deleted after a year.

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 have an account and you log in to this site, 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 tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

This site does not use any analytics software.

Who we share your data with

We do not share your data with third parties unless you request us to.

IT support is provided by the United Reformed Church, and their iChurch Coordinator has access to our site for that purpose.

How long we retain your data

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.

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.

Contact forms and any associated correspondence are retained for up to a year.

 

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 we send your data

The site is hosted on the United Reformed Church’s iChurch servers, which are within the European Union.

Contact forms are sent to our webmaster’s email account, which is also within the European Union. As described above, queries may be referred to the appropriate person in the church, usually by email.

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

Our contact information

St Columba’s is not required to have a data protection officer, as it does not engage in higher risk processing. If you need to contact the church about this privacy policy or data protection issues generally, you can contact the webmaster by using the contact form on this site, or you can write to us at St Columba’s United Reformed Church, 30 Northumberland Square, North Shields NE30 1PW, marked “Re: Data Protection.”

Additional information

How we protect your data

Website administration is password-protected, and access is limited to the webmaster and our IT support.

What data breach procedures we have in place

The church is working on data breach procedures, and this item will be updated in due course.

What third parties we receive data from

We do not receive data from third parties, such as advertisers.

What automated decision making and/or profiling we do with user data

We do not carry out any automated decision-making or profiling with user data.

Industry regulatory disclosure requirements

There are no additional requirements to disclose.

 

Updated: 17/8/2018