Data Privacy Notice
Process, Use, Sharing, Storage

The privacy of your personal data is important to us.

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 GDPR 2016/679.

Who are we?

The PCC of St Barnabas Church, Frogmore & Darby Green are the data controllers (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

How do we process your personal data?

The PCC of St Barnabas, Frogmore & Darby Green complies with its obligations under the GDPR by:

  • keeping personal data up to date
  • storing and destroying it securely
  • not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data
  • protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure
  • ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data

What do we use your personal data for?

  • to inform you of new, events, activities and services running at St Barnabas
  • 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 other churches across the diocese and which you may be interested
  • to enable us to provide a voluntary service (e.g. Prayer cascade, lunch club, etc.) for the benefit of the public
  • 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)

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Your consent as provided on Church Members Consent form.

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.

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.

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
  • parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals) permanently

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 Barnabas Church, Frogmore & Darby Green holds about you
  • The right to request that the PCC of St Barnabas Church, Frogmore & Darby Green 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 Barnabas Church, Frogmore & Darby Green 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

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.

Contact Details

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

St Barnabas Church Office
Brinns Lane
Blackwater
GU17 0BT

office@​stbarnabastheencourager.co.uk