Ashley Baptist Church – Privacy Notice
This notice explains how and why we use your personal data.
“We” in this notice refers to the Trustees of Ashley Baptist Church, who are the data controller for the personal data you provide. As data controller we are responsible for informing you about how we process your data and explaining to you the rights that you have.
You can contact Ashley Baptist Church by ringing 01425 610415 or emailing enquiries@ashleybaptistchurch.co.uk.
Why we collect your personal data:
We collect your personal data for our legitimate interest to contact you and administer our relationship with you and your child/children. We use personal data so that we can manage the following things properly:,
- maintain our list of church members and regular attenders
- Maintain lists of those who receive electronic communication or volunteer for activities (e.g. rotas)
- maintain our Prayer Chain list
- provide pastoral support for members and others connected with our church;
- provide services to the community such as youth groups, coffee morning, Men’s Events, home groups etc.
- safeguard children, young people and adults at risk;
- recruit, support and manage staff and volunteers;
- maintain our accounts and records including Gift Aid Claims to HMRC;
- Publicity and promotion, including our website
- maintain the security of property and premises;
- respond effectively to enquirers and handle any complaints
What sort of data we use:
The information that we keep usually consists of your name, adult/child, gender and family connections. If you have provided them to us then we will also keep your address, telephone, email addresses, mobile number, allergies and date-of-birth. If the church is providing you with pastoral care, then information relating to this may be stored. We will also store information regarding membership of groups or committees within the church, such as whether you attend a home group.
How we keep your data:
We keep data on Church computers which are password protected. We use a computer system to keep all this data safe and to help us comply with data protection regulations. The computer system is set up to control who can see which data, so that we can ensure your data is only seen and used by relevant people who are processing this data for church purposes.
We also keep paper records, for example when you fill in a form on paper to provide your address and to agree what we can use it for. These paper records are stored securely in locked cabinets or locked offices.
Sharing your data:
We share parts of your data with the following organisations.:
- Churchsuite who provide our church database software, and will be able to see your contact details and which groups you attend.
- MailChimp for email creation and distribution.
- Hewsons Chartered Accountants who inspect our accounts and will be able to see details of donations.
- HMRC if you have given your consent to gift aid your donations.
We have contracts with these organisations to ensure that they respect your privacy and rights.
Our computer backups are stored using Microsoft’s UK-based service.
If you give your consent to allowing your data to be included on our Church Directory, then the parts of your contact details that you have agreed to be put in the directory will be shared with people in the church.
If we wish to share your data with any other organisations, we will inform you before we do so, and you will have the right to opt out.
How long we store your personal data:
Your personal data will be held on our database during the period of our active relationship. We review our use of data annually, and if this review finds the data is no longer required then we will take all reasonable steps to destroy it or erase it from our systems unless you consent to remain one of our ‘church friends’. We will also destroy the data if you ask us to (unless we have a legal obligation to keep it, e.g. for child protection purposes).
How we use information about you:
We process and store information on any invitations we have sent to you for activities or events, your attendance at any activities or events, details of any church-related subscriptions and all information we may have requested for the purposes of Safeguarding checks.
We may “profile” the information we collect about you and use automatic processing particularly for the purposes of choosing how relevant a church activity is to you based on group membership, age, gender or address.
We also use your information when we process our finances, such as Gift Aid, one-off donations or standing orders.
If you are involved with a ministry at the church we may email or text you about this ministry, for instance with rota updates or information about what’s coming up. If you opt-in to receiving emails about new ministries, events or products then we can keep you advised of those things that may interest you.
What are we legally allowed to do with your personal data:
If you are a regular attendee at the church or a recent new contact then we are allowed to keep data such as your contact details because they are necessary to run the church.
If you are not a regular attendee then we are allowed to process your data only if you have opted in to give us your consent to do so.
If you have left the church, we are allowed to keep your name on record for historical or statistical purposes for a limited period of 3 years. We may keep more details and for longer periods if you have been involved in ministries that have legal record-keeping obligations such as child-protection, employment or accident reporting.
What we are legally allowed to do will never supersede your rights, as described in the next section.
Your Rights:
You have the following rights, which you can use at any time:
- To withdraw your previous consent for us to process your data.
- To get a free report of what data we hold about you. (Note that for excessive requests we can charge a reasonable fee for responding or we can refuse to respond.)
- To have wrong data corrected.
- To be given a clear explanation of why and how we process your personal information.
- To be forgotten – to request that your data is not used for certain purposes or is completely deleted. (Note this does not apply to data used for legal purposes such as Safeguarding)
- To request a copy of your data in an easily usable computer format.
- To object to your data being used for direct marketing.
- To make a complaint to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO) if you think we have been mishandling your data.
The full detail of your rights can be found on the ICO’s website: ico.org.uk
What else should you know about privacy?
If you use our church database, you are responsible for keeping your usernames and passwords secret and secure.
Our website pages contain links to other websites, and we want you to be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy practices on other websites.
Please respect the rights of other people, and do not pass on data about them without their permission.
Your Questions
Your questions may already be answered in Ashley Baptist Church’s Data Protection Policy, which you can request from the church office:
Ashley Baptist Church
3 Lower Ashley Rd, New Milton BH25 5AA
01425 610415
enquiries@Ashleybaptistchurch.co.uk
For more information, or if you have any questions or worries about the way we process your data, please contact our Data Protection Trustee through the contact details above.
If you are not satisfied with the way we respond to you, then you have the right to raise your concerns with the Information Commissioner. You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office in the following ways:
Website: www.ico.org.uk
Phone: 0303 123 1113
Post: Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF