DATA PRIVACY NOTICE
The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St Ann’s Warrington
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 St Ann’s Warrington 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 of St Ann’s Warrington 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 inform you of news, events, activities and services running at St Ann’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.
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 keep you informed about diocesan events.
• Processing is necessary for carrying out legal obligations in relation to Gift Aid or under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement;
• Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under Ecclesiastical law or other similar legal obligations;
• The processing is necessary to protect the individual's “vital interests”
• The processing is in accordance with the legitimate interest of the PCC of St Ann’s Warrington in supporting and promoting the work of the Church of England;
• 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.
5. Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared as follows:-
with other members of the Church in order to carry out a service to other Church members or for purposes connected with the Church.
within the Church of England, in order to carry out a service to other Church members or for purposes connected with the Diocese, and certain third parties as set out in Annex A.
We will only share your data with other 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 or Bin: 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 of St Ann’s Warrington holds about you;
• The right to request that the PCC of St Ann’s Warrington 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 Ann’s Warrington 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.
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. Contact Details
The PCC of St Ann’s Warrington is not required to appoint a data protection officer and has not done so.
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the Churchwardens PCC of St Ann’s Warrington using the contact details on this website.
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.
Annex A : Church of England parties with whom data may be shared: -
The Bishops of Liverpool and Warrington
The Archdeacon of Warrington and St Helen’s
The other Archdeacons of Liverpool Diocese
Liverpool Diocesan Board of Finance
Liverpool Diocesan Board of Education
The Chancellor for the Diocese of Liverpool
The Diocesan Registrar
Liverpool Cathedral
Warrington Deanery
St Ann’s Church of England School
The Parochial Church Council of Holy Trinity Warrington
Transform Northwest Network
Other Diocesan bodies under Diocesan Synod that may be established from time to time and will be added to this list.
The National Church of England Institutions
Other official Church of England organisations
Employees, office holders, volunteers, other recognised roles and contractors of the above offices and organisations.
1 Details about retention periods can currently be found in the Record Management Guides located on the Church of England website at: - https://www.churchofengland.org/more/libraries-and-archives/records-management-guides
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