DATA PRIVACY NOTICE

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of

St Augustine’s Endcliffe, Sheffield

 

 

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 Augustine’s, Endcliffe, Sheffield 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 Augustine’s, Endcliffe, Sheffield complies with its legal obligations to keep personal data up to date; to store and destroy it securely; to not collect or retain excessive amounts of data; to keep personal data secure, and to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and to ensure that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for some or all of the following purposes:

·            To enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations (which include maintaining and publishing our electoral roll in accordance with the Church Representation Rules);

·            To carry out comprehensive safeguarding procedures (including due diligence and complaints handling) in accordance with best safeguarding practice from time to time with the aim of ensuring that all children and adults-at-risk are provided with safe environments;

·            To minister to you and provide you with pastoral and spiritual care (such as visiting you when you are gravely ill or bereaved)  and to organise and perform ecclesiastical services for you, such as baptisms, confirmations, weddings and funerals;

·            To deliver the Church’s mission to our community, and to carry out any other voluntary or charitable activities for the benefit of the public as provided for in the constitution and statutory framework;

·            To administer the parish, deanery, archdeaconry and diocesan membership records;

·            To fundraise and promote the interests of the Church and charity;

·            To maintain our own accounts and records;

·            To process a donation that you have made (including Gift Aid information);

·            To seek your views or comments;

·            To notify you of changes to our services, events and role holders;

·            To send you communications which you have requested and that may be of interest to you.  These may include information about campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities;

·            To process a grant or application for a role;

·            To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution;

 

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 carried out by a not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim provided: -

o   the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and

o   there is no disclosure to a third party without consent.

 

5. Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential.  It will only be shared with third parties where it is necessary for the performance of our tasks or where you first give us your prior consent.  It is likely that we will need to share your data with some or all of the following (but only where necessary):

·         The appropriate bodies of the Church of England including other data controllers;

·         Other clergy or lay persons nominated or licensed by the bishops of the Diocese of Sheffield to support the mission of the Church in our parish.  For example, our clergy are supported by our area dean and archdeacon, who may provide confidential mentoring and pastoral support.  Assistant or temporary ministers, including curates, deacons, licensed lay ministers, commissioned lay ministers or persons with Bishop’s Permissions may participate in our mission in support of our regular clergy;

·         Other persons or organisations operating within the Diocese of Sheffield including, where relevant, the Sheffield Diocesan Board of Education and Subsidiary Bodies;

·         On occasion, other churches with which we are carrying out joint events or activities such as the Central Mission Partnership(St Augustine’s, St Andrew’s, St Mary’s and St Peter & St Oswald’s).

 

6. How long do we keep your personal data[1]?

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 Augustine’s, Endcliffe, Sheffield holds about you;

·         The right to request that the PCC of St Augustine’s, Endcliffe, Sheffield 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 Augustine’s, Endcliffe, Sheffield 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.

 

We keep this Privacy Notice under regular review and we will place any updates on http://staugustinessheffield.org/wp1/.  This Notice was last updated in May 2018.

 

9. Contact Details

To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact

The Data Protection Compliance Officer, Catherine Rooker-Brown, Mission Partnership Development Worker,

St Mary’s Church, Bramall Lane, Sheffield, S2 4QZ.

Telephone: 07392087529

Email: centralmissionpartnership@sheffield.anglican.org

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.



[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