Safeguarding
St Mary Without – the – Walls takes its duty and obligation to protect all extremely seriously. We have adopted the national Church of England's robust procedures and guidelines. You can find out more about the national policies and procedures at www.churchofengland.org/safeguarding.
If you have any safeguarding concerns or issues of a safeguarding
matter then you can find useful contact information at www.chester.anglican.org/social-responsibility/safeguarding
Data
Privacy Notice
The GDPR (
General Data Protection Regulation) came into effect on 25 May 2018, replacing
the earlier 2008 Data Protection Act and strengthening the earlier requirements
to protect personal information held by
organisations
All registered charities, including parishes,
must comply with GDPR to ensure that
·
personal
data is processed lawfully, transparently and fairly
·
data
is used for the specific purpose/s for which is held, and none other without
further consent
·
data
will be kept up to date and only for as long as required
·
data
will not be disclosed to third parties without consent of the individual.
The Notice is available to view below and on Noticeboards in Church and the Parish
Centre.
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The
Parochial Church Council (PCC) of St Mary -Without- the Walls, Chester
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 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's, and the clergy team complies with its obligations under the
“GDPR” by
•
ensuring that personal
data is processed lawfully,
fairly and transparently;
•
keeping personal data up to date;
•
storing and destroying personal data securely;
•
not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data;
•
protecting personal data from loss, misuse,
unauthorised access and disclosure ;
•
by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are
in place to protect personal data.
4. We use your personal data for the following
purposes which are in line with our Legitimate
Interests: namely-
•
for members of the clergy team and lay workers to
provide pastoral care to parishoners in the geographical area covered by the
parish, to all those church members listed on the St. Mary's Electoral Roll as
well as all others attending st. Mary's Church
•
For the PCC to
be enabled to provide a voluntary service
for the benefit
of the public in the parish area , and to
manage the following matters in
order to ensure that the service functions effectively:-
•
the administration of membership records, for
example, the Electoral Roll;
•
the administration of safeguarding records;
•
the maintenance of PCC accounts
and records, including
the processing of gift aid applications and feedback to donors;
•
to operate, inform and deliver the services that
individuals have requested;
•
the management of PCC employees and volunteers;
•
to fundraise and promote the interests of the PCC
which is a registered charity;
•
to inform our congregation and supporters, of
events, activities and services taking place at St. Mary's and at St. Mary's
Centre, and to do so in their preferred way
including via the St. Mary's Website, www. stmaryschester.co.uk
•
to share contact details of PCC officers , the
Clergy team and our Deanery Synod Representatives with the Diocesan Office so that they can be kept informed of events and services in the Diocese
which are relevant
to their parish role ;
•
to contact individuals, either directly, by phone or by social media in
order to learn their opinions of current service provision and worship
arrangements at St. Mary's and to learn their view of potential new services
that may be offered eg. services for
young people.
5.
What is the legal basis for
processing your personal data ?
The
PCC carries out its obligations under ecclesiastical law or other similar legal
obligations. Processing is in accordance with St. Mary's Legitimate Interest to
promote and support the work of the Church of England in the Chester Diocese.
•
Processing is necessary for carrying out our legal
obligations in relation
to Gift Aid or under
employment, social security, social protection law, or other contractual matters.
•
Processing is carried out by a
not-for-profit body which, in the case of St. Mary's, has a religious aim. In
this regard, the processing relates either to members or former members,
or to those who have regular contact
with the church in connection with those purposes.
• No disclosure of personal data will be made to a third party without the explicit consent of the data subject .
•
It is implicit
that, should the data subject
withdraw consent altogether St. Mary's parish
would be unable to
make further contact in any way.
6. Sharing your personal data
Your
personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will be shared with
members of the church in order to carry out services both for them , the church
members, and also for regular attendees at other church functions, or for other
purposes connected with the church.
We
will only share your data with third parties outside the parish and in the
Diocese of Chester with your additional explicit consent.
7. How long do we keep your personal data ? It is kept in accordance with the guidance set
out in the guide “Keep or Bin: Care of Your
Parish Records” 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 as they are in the public domain.
8.
What are your rights about 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 holds about you;
•
the right to request that the PCC of St. Mary's
corrects any personal data which is 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's to retain such data;
•
The right to withdraw your consent to the processing
at any time;
•
the right to request that the data controller
provides 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). [This only applies where
the processing is based on explicit 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 that a restriction is placed on
further processing;
•
The right to object to the processing of personal
data, where applicable. [This 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.
9.
Further processing
If
we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data
Protection Notice, we will provide you with a new Notice explaining this
additional use prior to commencing the processing The notice will also set out
the relevant purposes and processing conditions associated with this additional
use. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new
processing.
10.
Contact Details
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the PCC Secretary /Data Controller via St. Mary's Parish Office, Overleigh Rd, Chester CH4 7HL: tel 01244 671202, email: office.stmaryschester@btconnect.com
You can also contact the
Information Commissioner's Office at Wycliffe
House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF : 0303 123
1113 or via email at https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/
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