Privacy Notice UK

 

Your personal data – what is it?

“Personal data” 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. The processing of personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act 2018, the General Data Protection Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (the “GDPR”) and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act 1998.

Who are we?

This Privacy Notice is provided to you by Living Light Christian Church (LLCC) (Charity number 1106918), a company incorporated and registered in England with Company number 05270456 and whose registered office is at Living Light Christian Church, Gipsy Lane, Bishop’s Hull, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5LQ and One Church Ministries (OCM), Inc., a 501(c)(3) nonprofit corporation, registered in Wisconsin, USA under Entity ID number O022909 and whose registered address is 6102 39th Avenue, Kenosha, WI 53142, who are the data controllers for your data. LLCC & OCM work closely with a number of different organisations and office-holders who work together to deliver their mission.

These may include but is not limited too:

  • Other partner churches and organisations
  • Venues for conferences and events, etc.

IT solutions used by LLCC & OCM (where some information may be stored) include:

  • Elvanto (database and event registration software)
  • Subsplash (the creators of our Living Light Church Teachings Application)
  • Quickbooks (accounts software)
  • Stripe (online payment portal)

As LLCC & OCM work with these persons and organisations, we may need to share personal data we hold with them so that they can carry out our responsibilities for the running of the church, and other tasks within their communities. The organisations referred to above are joint data controllers. This means that both are responsible to you for how they process your data.

Each of the data controllers have their own tasks within our operation and a description of what data is processed and for what purpose is set out in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice is provided to you by the LLCC & OCM and their directors / trustees on our own behalf and on behalf of each of these data controllers. In the rest of this Privacy Notice, we use the word “we” to refer to each data controller, as appropriate.

What data do the data controllers listed above process? We will process some or all of the following where necessary to perform their tasks:
  • Names, titles, aliases, and photographs;
  • Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses;
  • Where they are relevant to our mission, or where you provide 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 make donations or pay for activities such as registering for an annual conference, financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/ transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers;
  • The data we process is likely to constitute sensitive personal data because, as a religious organisation, the fact that we process your data at all may be suggestive of your religious beliefs.
How do we process your personal data?

The data controllers 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.

We use your personal data for some or all of the following purposes:
  • To enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations;
  • To carry out 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;
  • To deliver our mission to our communities, 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 each data controller;
  • To administer attendance records;
  • To fundraise and promote the interests of LLCC & OCM as non-profit organisations;
  • To maintain our own accounts and records;
  • To process a donation that you have made (including Gift Aid information);
  • To seek your views or comments;
  • To notify you of changes to our events and role holders;
  • To send you communications and/or information which you have requested or which may be of interest to you. These may include information about campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities;
  • To process a grant or application for a role;
  • To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public.
What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

Most of our data is processed because it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of a third party (such as another church within the United Kingdom). An example of this would be providing us and venues with information on attendees (dietary requirements, or special requests). We will always take into account your interests, rights and freedoms.

We may also process data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps to enter into a contract. An example of this would be processing your data in connection to attending one of our events.

Religious organisations are also 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.

Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated 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):

  • The appropriate bodies within LLCC & OCM including the other data controllers;
  • Our agents, servants and contractors. For example, we may ask a commercial provider such as Mailchimp to send out newsletters on our behalf, or to maintain our database software;
  • On occasion, other churches with which we are carrying out joint events or activities.
How long do we keep your personal data?

We will keep some records permanently if we are legally required to do so. 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 seven years to support HMRC audits. In general, we will endeavour to keep data only for as long as we need it. This means that we may delete it when it is no longer needed.

Your rights and your personal data

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.

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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)).
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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 writing to us using the contact details below.
  7. The right to object to the processing of personal data where applicable.
    • If at any time you object to the processing of personal data, please write to us using the contact details below. We will seek to comply with your request, where it is feasible to do so.
  8. The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office.
    • You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113, via email or at the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Transfer of Data Abroad

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. Our website is also accessible from overseas, so on occasion some personal data (for example in a newsletter) may be accessed from overseas.

Further processing

If 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.

Contact Details

Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, the information we hold about you or to exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints at:

Living Light Christian Church
Gipsy Lane Bishop’s Hull
Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5LQ

Email: taunton@livinglightchurch.com

Information Commissioner’s Office
Wycliffe House
Water Lane
Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF

0303 123 1113
Email