Privacy policy

Our privacy policy governs the way we collect, store and share your personal data, and your rights with respect to your personal data.

Who are we?

The parochial church council (PCC) of St Saviour’s Wendell Park, London, is the data controller. Please find our contact details below. The PCC decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

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 (GDPR).

How do we process your personal data?

The PCC of St Saviour’s Wendell Park, London, complies with its obligations under 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

We use your personal data to:

  • enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution
  • administer membership records
  • fundraise and promote the interests of the charity
  • manage our employees and volunteers
  • maintain our own accounts and records, including the processing of gift aid applications
  • inform you of news, events, activities and services running at St Saviour’s
  • 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
  • operate the St Saviour’s Wendell Park website and deliver the services that individuals have requested

What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

The legal basis might be one or more of the following:

  • 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 our 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 us as a not-for-profit body with a religious aim, but the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with us in connection with those purposes); and we do not make disclosures to any third party without your consent

Sharing your personal data

Your personal data is treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of the church 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.

How long do we keep your personal data?

We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records, which is available on the Church of England website. Specifically, we retain:

  • electoral roll data while it is still current
  • website contact form data for up to six months
  • Gift Aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to six years after the calendar year to which they relate
  • parish registers for baptisms, marriages and funerals permanently

Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under 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 Saviour’s Wendell Park holds about you
  • request that the PCC of St Saviour’s Wendell Park corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date
  • request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the PCC of St Saviour’s Wendell Park to retain such data
  • withdraw your consent to the processing at any time
  • 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 – this 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
  • 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
  • object to the processing of personal data – 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
  • lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office

Please contact the Parish Administrator at contact@stsavioursW12.com about any of the above points.

Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose not covered by this notice, 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 and complaints, please in the first instance contact our parish administrator on contact@stsavioursW12.com.

You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email, or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.