Privacy Policy

Your privacy

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St Mary’s, Highley.

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 Mary’s, Highley is the data controller. 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 Mary’s, Highley 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, i.e. the Parish of Highley;
  • To administer membership records;
  • To fund raise 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 those who have had a Baptism, Wedding or Funeral performed by one of our clergy or Readers of services and events that might be of interest to them;
  • To help manage our pastoral care to people in our parish or area;
  • To inform you, occasionally, of news, events, activities and services running at St Mary’s.

4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

  • We request your explicit consent 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 carried out by a not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim, provided that 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 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 or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records”, which is available from the Church of England website. 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 Mary’s, Highley 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, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction be 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 Commissioner’s 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

To exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints, please in the first instance contact the PCC Secretary or Parish Administrator. Rev Rose Lawley, ’Almain’, Bridgnorth Road, Highley, WV16 6HE. Email: Admin@stmaryshighley.co.uk. [Copied from the old website, to be confirmed or changed by Maggie.]

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113, or via ico.org.uk, or at Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF. Details about retention periods can be found in the Records Management Guides on the Church of England website.

The Benefice of Highley with Billingsley, Glazeley and Deuxhill and Chelmarsh. St Mary’s charity number: 1134845.

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