

PRIVACY NOTICE

PRIVACY NOTICE
YOUR PERSONAL DATA - WHAT IS IT?
Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).
WHY DOES NEW LIFE CHURCH COLLECT AND USE YOUR INFORMATION
We collect and use your information to contact you regarding our activities, to provide appropriate pastoral care, to monitor and assess the quality of our services, to fulfil our purposes as an organisation and to comply with the law regarding data sharing. We do not share your information with others except as described in this notice.
The categories of information that we may collect, hold and share include:
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Personal information (such as name, telephone number, address and email address)
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Characteristics (such as gender, ethnicity, language, nationality, country of birth)
HOW DO WE PROCESS YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
New Life Church complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by: -
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Keeping personal data up to date.
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Storing and destroying it securely.
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Not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data.
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Protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure.
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Ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.
SHARING YOUR PERSONAL DATA
We will not share your information with third parties without your consent unless the law requires us to do so.
HOW LONG TO WE KEEP YOUR PERSONAL DATA?
We hold your data for varying lengths of time depending on the type of information in question but in doing so we always comply with Data Protection legislation. We will contact you annually to check that the information we are holding is accurate and that you agree to us holding it.
REQUESTING ACCESS TO YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Under Data Protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information about you that we hold. You also have the right to:
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object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
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prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
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object to decisions being taken by automated means
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in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
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claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations.
To make a request for your personal information or for further information on how your information is used, how we maintain the security of your information and your rights to access information we hold on you, please contact +447565946886, +447932190835
COMPLAINTS
If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at:
https://ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint/.
CONTACT DETAILS
To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact the Secretary for New Life Church at churchnewlife2012@gmail.com.
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.



