Christian Fellowship Church and Charity No. 101476
Data Controller: Christian Fellowship Church and Charity no., known as CFC
Data Protection Lead: Ashleigh Beattie
Date of Policy: 21.05.18
This is the privacy statement and data protection policy for CFC. It covers how we will process (use and store) your data, what data we hold, your individual rights and how you can interact with us about your data. This policy covers our use of Personal data, which is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified from that data (for example a name, photographs, videos, email address, or address). Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information. Our processing of personal data is governed by the Data Protection Bill/Act 2017-2019 and the General Data Protection Regulation 2016/679 (the “GDPR” and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act 1998].
This Privacy Notice is provided to you by Christian Fellowship Church and Charity No. 101476 which is the Data Controller for your data. For clarity, the term Data Controller covers all CFC staff (and relevant volunteers) who process your information.
CFC processes data containing Names, titles, and aliases, photographs. Contact information including telephone numbers, postal /residential addresses, and email addresses. Where there is a legitimate interest to facilitate our charitable aims and activities, or where you have provided them to us, we may process demographic information such as gender, age, date of birth, marital status, nationality, education/work histories, academic/professional qualifications, hobbies, family composition, and dependants. Where you give financially in support of CFC or pay for church activities (event bookings etc.), financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers. As a church (religious organisation), the data we process is likely to constitute sensitive personal data because the very fact that we process your data at all may be suggestive of your religious beliefs. Where you provide this information, we may also process other categories of sensitive personal data: racial or ethnic origin, sex life, mental and physical health, details of injuries, medication/treatment received, political beliefs, data concerning sexual orientation and criminal records, fines and other similar judicial records. As a Data Controller, all our appointed persons will comply with their 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. If you have any concerns about how your data is being used, please speak with our Data Protection Lead.
We only hold data that either we are legally obliged to or that helps us fulfil our missional and charitable aims as a church. We are a membership organisation and good communication with our membership is an essential part of being church. Therefore, we will hold and process data to:Enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations e.g. safeguarding records and gift aid declarations. Comply with and facilitate our 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 (please see our safeguarding procedure). Help you grow as a disciple and to minister to you and provide you with pastoral and spiritual care and to organise and perform church services for you, such as baptisms, weddings and funerals.Deliver our 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 of our charitable organisation;
Administer our membership records of adult and child members;Enable us to follow up membership, course and event enquiriesFundraise and promote the interests of the Church and charity.Maintain our own accounts and records.Process and record financial donations that you have made (including Gift Aid information).Communicate with you about your views or comments.Update you about changes to our services, events, role holders and any matters of interest related to you church community.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.Our processing also includes the use of CCTV systems for the prevention and prosecution of crime.
Most of our data is processed because it is necessary for our legitimate interests to enable our charitable and missional aims. For example, maintaining membership records, safeguarding our children, recording our financial donations and operating team rotas for the effective function of Sunday services. Some of our processing is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation. Retaining safeguarding records and gift aid declarations are examples of this. We may also process data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to provide a direct service to you. For example, if you buy tickets or register for a church event. As a religious organisation, we are permitted to process information about your religious beliefs to administer membership or contact details. Where your information is used other than in accordance with one of these legal bases, we will first obtain your consent to that use.
You can be reassured that we will treat your personal data 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): Our agents, servants and contractors. For example, we utilise commercial providers to send out newsletters on our behalf, and to maintain our database software e.g. ChurchSuite and MailChimp. On occasion, other churches with which we are carrying out joint events or activities e.g. Frontline, who administered our child sponsorship scheme.How long will we keep your personal data?Our general rule is to keep data no longer than necessary. Where you continue to actively engage with our church services, activities and events, we will retain the appropriate membership data for you so that we can best serve your involvement. We will carry out an annual process of review, by which we assess who is actively engaging in church membership, and where this is not the case we will remove your data. Additionally; We will keep some records permanently if we are legally required to do so. For example this covers service, wedding, baptism registers and some safeguarding records. We may keep some other records for an extended period of time. For example, it is current best practice to keep financial records for a minimum period of 7 years to support HMRC audits.
You have the following rights with respect to your personal data (when exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases we will need you to respond with proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights). The right to access information we hold on you. At any point you can contact us to request the information we hold on you as well as why we have that information, who has access to the information and where we obtained the information from. Once we have received your request we will respond within one month. There are no fees or charges for the first request but additional requests for the same data may be subject to an administrative fee. The right to correct and update the information we hold on you. If the data we hold on you is out of date, incomplete or incorrect, you can inform us and your data will be updated. If you are a member, you also have access to MyChurchSuite to be able to update aspects of your personal data. The right to have your information erased. If you feel that we should no longer be using your data or that we are illegally using your data, you can request that we erase the data we hold. When we receive your request we will confirm whether the data has been deleted or the reason why it cannot be deleted (for example because we need it for our legitimate interests or regulatory purpose(s)). The right to object to processing of your data. You have the right to request that we stop processing your data. Upon receiving the request we will contact you and let you know if we are able to comply or if we have legitimate grounds to continue to process your data. Even after you exercise your right to object, we may continue to hold your data to comply with your other rights or to bring or defend legal claims. The right to data portability. You have the right to request that we transfer some of your data to another controller. We will comply with your request, where it is feasible to do so, within one month of receiving your request. The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time for any processing of data to which consent was sought. You can withdraw your consent easily by telephone, email, or by post (see Contact Details below). The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office. 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.
Any electronic personal data transferred to countries or territories outside the EU will only be placed on systems complying with measures giving equivalent protection of personal rights either through international agreements or contracts approved by the European Union. It is our general practice not to publish any personal data on our website.Further processingIf we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this 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.
This website address is: thisiscfc.com and is part of and managed by Christian Fellowship Church Belfast. What personal data we collect though our website and why we collect it 1. Comments When visitors leave comments on our website we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection. An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment. 2. Forms We may collect and retain information submitted by forms on this website for administrative purposes. 3. Cookies If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year. If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed. If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day. Embedded content from other websites Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website. These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracing your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.AnalyticsWe utilise Google and Jetpack analytics to track and understand how people find and use our website, and what sources generate interest. This is meta information, which means we do not identify individual users.Who we share your data withWe use your data for our own purposes only. We do not share data with any third parties unless specified, however data is held on MailChimp (used for newsletters) and ChurchSuite (our church database system).How long we retain your data forIf you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue. For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.What rights you have over your dataIf you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.Where we send your dataVisitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.How we protect your dataYour information transmitted from your browser to this website is encrypted using SSL encryption. This means your data is scrambled and should it be intercepted by a third party, could not be understood. Any of your information held on our servers is protected by numerous firewalls and security algorithms.What data breach procedures we have in placeShould we become aware of a security breach, we will, as quickly as possible, take measures to resolve any security issues. We will notify users who have been affected as to the extent of the breach and advise what consequence and relevant actions should be taken.
We utilise database tools from ChurchSuite and MailChimp. This website and other CFC websites will integrate with those systems to ensure your information is up to date and your communication preferences are respected. Should you wish to be removed from any systems please contact us.
We currently do not profile our user’s data or present different content based on prior user behaviour. If you have any queries or concerns about how we use your data, please do get in contact with us. We can provide you with access to your personal data at any time. We ask that requests are made in writing to The Data Protection Officer, CFC, 10 Belmont Road, Belfast BT4 2AN. You can opt out of receiving communications from the church by contacting the church office on 028 90671838, or by emailing info@thisiscfc.com.
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