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Privacy Notice & Data Protection Policy

PRIVACY NOTICE/DATA PROTECTION POLICY under GDPR

The Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St. Mary with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke

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 with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke 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. Mary with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke 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. Mary with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke;

• 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 process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about diocesan events.

• Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations 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 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 outside of the parish with your consent.

6. How long do we keep your personal data1?

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. Mary with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke holds about you;

• The right to request that the PCC of St. Mary with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke 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. Mary with St. Faith and St. Francis in the Parish of Alverstoke 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

To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the Parish Administrator at St. Mary’s Church Office, Parish Centre, Green Road, Gosport PO12 2ET or parishoffice@alverstoke.

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. May 2018

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/about-us/structure/churchcommissioners/administration/librariesandarchives/recordsmanagementguides.aspx

Portsmouth Anglican Diocese (portsmouth.anglican.org.uk)

Website Disclaimer

Information on this website is provided for general purpose information only, unless otherwise stated and is subject to change without notice, and your regular review of these terms is assumed with your continued use of the website.

We do not provide any warranty or guarantee as to the accuracy, timeliness, performance, completeness or sustainability of the information and materials found and offered on this website for any particular purpose.

Despite our best efforts this website in whole may contain errors, we do not accept liability for loss or damage caused by inaccurate information.

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We may include links to and from other sites, by following these links you are agreeing to the respective sites own terms and policies; ‘we’ hold not obligation or further contract once you have left the pages of our site and accept no responsibility or liability for the contents of these sites or their terms.

We hold no control over the content of such sites and disclaim any liability in respect of your use of such sites.

About:

Diocese of Portsmouth and Parish of Alverstoke are committed to protecting the personal information of our users. This page answers some important questions about how we can collect, use and protect your personal details – including information about our cookies policy.

How and Why we collect information:

As with the vast majority of website, this website automatically collects information relating to requests sent via your computer/web browser, this information is used for system administration, bug tracking, site misuse and statistical information related to the usage of the website. The information collected will be kept and reviewed periodically.

Information is also collected through our online contact forms and email links – we will use your information to reply to your communication.

What we collect:

When using our website we sometimes receive personal information about you. For example, if you fill in a contact form you will tell us who you are and how we can contact you and any comment you might make.

We will also collect anonymous browsing information such as: what pages you visit, how long you are on our website, your rough location (ie. UK, Scotland, etc.), what browser you are using, whether you visit our website from a computer, laptop, phone or tablet, your IP address, etc

No personally identifiable information is collected about you unless you explicitly submit that information on this website.

How we use this information:

Summary statistics are extracted from the data collected, some of which may be made publically available – however these will not include any personal information by which individuals could be identified.

If you pass information to us through the website including contact information we may use this to reply to your communication, provide you with services (eg. Newsletters), alert you to other relative information, events, news, etc. We will keep your information confidential and generally we will only use your information within the Diocese of Portsmouth

We will not sell, distribute or lease your personal information to third parties unless we have your permission or are required by law to do so.

Google Analytics:

This website uses Google Analytics to help analyse how visitors use this site. Google Analytics uses “cookies”, which are small text files placed on your computer, to collect standard internet log information and visitor behaviour information in an anonymous form.

The anonymous information generated by Google Analytics cookies about your use of this website is transmitted directly to Google. This information is processed to compile statistical reports on website activity for this website only. The Diocese of Portsmouth use these reports to evaluate aggregate visitor usage so that we can optimise the content, and its marketing, to better meet your needs.

Click here for an overview of privacy at Google (www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy)

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites visit http://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout – Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Diocese of Portsmouth website

Cookies:

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer by websites that you visit.

To learn more about cookies, you can visit www.aboutcookies.org. You will also find details on how to block and delete cookies from your computer as well as more general information about cookies. For information on how to do this on the browser of your mobile phone you will need to refer to your handset manual.

You can find out more about cookies and how they work from Directgov (https://www.gov.uk/help/cookies)

Please be aware that restricting cookies may impact on the functionality of the Diocese of Portsmouth website

The Cookies We Use

Google Analytics

These cookies collect information about how visitors use a website, for instance which pages visitors go to most often, and if they get error messages from web pages. These cookies don’t collect information that identifies a visitor. All information these cookies collect is aggregated and therefore anonymous.

This data helps us to understand:

Which pages people visit on the site
Which internet browsers are being used
What is popular on the site
Which interactive tools are used by visitors
You can find out more about Google’s cookies on their privacy policy: www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy. You can also install the Google Analytics Opt-out tools in your browser: https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

By using our website, you agree that we can place these types of cookies on your device.

YouTube & Vimeo

If you play an embedded video on our site, there may a cookie set by YouTube or Vimeo containing anonymous, non-personally-identifiable information about the number of playbacks of embedded videos. To find out more please visit YouTube’s embedding videos information page. You can find out more on the Google Privacy Policy (Google owns YouTube): www.google.com/intl/en/policies/privacy and the Vimeo Privacy Policy: http://vimeo.com/privacy

Copyright & Photography

Any resources from the Diocese of Portsmouth website are free for reproduction in your Parish newsletter, magazine or website. However, if you produce a newsletter or website which is not directly affiliated with the Diocese (a ‘local digest’ magazine for example, or news from another religion/denomination) and you would like to use these resources, please gain permission from the Diocesan Communications Officer.

Permission to use photographs on this web site is gratefully acknowledged to the persons or organisations whose names appear beside the photographs.

No photographs in this web site may be reproduced for any purpose without prior permission which must be obtained in writing from the web master or communication officer.

If you would like to know more about copyright in images please contact the communications officer/assistant.

Who to talk to:

If you would like to know more about the Diocese of Portsmouth, our website or would like some advice about related information please contact our Lewis Jones our webmaster: lewis.jones@portsmouth.anglican.org

Miscellaneous:

It is important for you to appreciate that this website provides extensive links to other independent websites, both within the Church of England and outside. This policy only applies to direct access to the Portsmouth Anglican website – URLs starting with https://www.portsmouth.anglican.org/

We are not responsible for the availability or content of external sites that may be linked to, from the site. If you find a broken link or if you have any questions or concerns about a link, please contact Lewis Jones our webmaster: lewis.jones@portsmouth.anglican.org