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Privacy Policy

Last updated: 21 May 2021

 

HLBC respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice will inform you how we look after your personal data (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

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1. Important information

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how HLBC collects and processes your personal data, including any data you may provide through this website when you interact with us, register for an event, donate to the church, apply for a role as a volunteer or staff member or sign up to our newsletter.

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This website is not intended for children, however, we do collect data relating to children if they attend one of our events or take part in our HLBC Kids activities.

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It is important that you read this privacy notice together with any other privacy notice or fair processing notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data. This privacy notice supplements the other notices and is not intended to override them.

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The data controller is Holly Lodge Baptist Church, Bramford Lane, Ipswich IP1 4DF (HLBC).

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If you have any questions about this privacy notice, including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact office@hollylodgebaptistchurch.org, by calling 01473 254544, or writing to us at the address above.

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You have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner's Office (ICO), the UK supervisory authority for data protection issues (www.ico.org.uk). We would, however, appreciate the chance to deal with your concerns before you approach the ICO so please contact us in the first instance.

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It is important that the personal data we hold on you is accurate and current. Please keep us informed if your personal data changes during your relationship with us.

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This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy notice of every website you visit.

 

2. The data we collect about you

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. It does not include data where the identity has been removed (anonymous data). We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

  • Identity Data includes first name, maiden name, last name, username (or similar identifier), marital status, title, date of birth, gender, photograph, video footage and any other biographical information you may provide us.

  • Contact Data includes billing address, delivery address, email address and telephone numbers.

  • Financial Data includes bank account and payment card details where these are provided to us directly. We do not have access to financial data you provide through our donations service, stewardship.org.uk.

  • Transaction Data includes details about direct payments to and from you and other details of events, products or services you have purchased from us or gifts you have donated to us.

  • Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.

  • Profile Data includes your username and password, purchases or orders made by you, your interests, preferences, feedback and survey responses.

  • Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, events, products and services.

  • Marketing and Communications Data includes your preferences in receiving marketing from us and our third parties and your communication preferences.

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We also collect, use and share Aggregated Data such as statistical or demographic data for any purpose. Aggregated Data may be derived from your personal data but is not considered personal data at law as the data does not directly or indirectly reveal your identity.

 

As a church, we collect data about services and events you attend. Some of this information may be considered to come within the definition of Special Categories of Personal Data. Special Categories of Personal Data includes details about your race or ethnicity, religious or philosophical beliefs, sex life, sexual orientation, political opinions, trade union membership, information about your health and genetic and biometric data. We will always make it clear to you when we collect this this information and why. For some of our events and services we may also collect information about criminal convictions and offences.

 

3. How is your personal data collected?

We use different methods to collect data from and about you which include:

 

Direct interactions: You may give us your Identity, Contact and Financial Data by filling in forms or by corresponding with us by post, phone, email or otherwise. This includes personal data you provide when you:

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  • are involved in the life of the church through one of our services, groups or activities;

  • are photographed or filmed during our services or events;

  • apply to volunteer with us;

  • when we ask you to undertake a DBS check before volunteering with us;

  • request assistance;

  • donate online, by text message or completing a giving envelope;

  • create an account on our website;

  • register for an event or course;

  • subscribe to our services or publications;

  • request marketing to be sent to you;

  • respond to a survey; or

  • give us some feedback.

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Automated technologies or interactions. As you interact with our website, we may automatically collect Technical Data about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns. We collect this personal data by using cookies, server logs and other similar technologies. Please see our cookie policy for further details.

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Third parties or publicly available sources. We may receive personal data about you from various third parties and public sources such as Technical Data from analytics providers such as Google.

 

4. How we use your personal data

As a church, we hold records of the people in our congregation, volunteers, guest and service users and use this information to coordinate church activities and to keep you informed of things happening in the life of the church.

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We also collect and use information about our suppliers and contractors. This information is used to manage and administer the church and to carry out our charitable purposes. We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

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  • Where we need to perform the contract we are about to enter into or have entered into with you.

  • Where it is necessary for our legitimate interests and your interests and fundamental rights do not override those interests.

 

Generally we do not rely on consent as a legal basis for processing your personal data other than when we collect Special categories of Data or in relation to sending direct marketing communications to you via email or text message. You have the right to withdraw consent to marketing at any time by clicking on an unsubscribe link in one of our emails to you or by emailing office@hollylodgechurch.org.

 

Purposes for which we will use your personal data

We have set out below a description of the ways we plan to use your personal data. HLBC collects and processes information so that we can:

  • manage, administer and promote the life of the church;

  • manage, maintain and publish the membership list in accordance with Church Constitution;

  • manage our volunteer teams;

  • determine your suitability to volunteer for our work with vulnerable adults, children and youth;

  • coordinate and provide assistance to you;

  • manage our donor relations and communications across the entities;

  • administer financial transactions and donations;

  • administer our courses or events;

  • manage our websites and social media accounts;

  • manage our volunteers and HR function;

  • prevent and detect crime;

  • where we need to comply with a legal or regulatory obligation.

 

Note that we may process your personal data for more than one lawful ground depending on the specific purpose for which we are using your data. Please email office@hollylodgechurch.org if you need details about the specific legal ground we are relying on to process your personal data.

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We strive to provide you with choices regarding certain personal data uses, particularly around marketing and advertising. You will receive marketing communications from us if you have requested information from us or attended an event or course with us and, in each case, you have not opted out of receiving that marketing.

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We will get your express opt-in consent before we share your personal data for marketing purposes.

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You can set your browser to refuse all or some browser cookies, or to alert you when websites set or access cookies. If you disable or refuse cookies, please note that some parts of this website may become inaccessible or not function properly. You can read more about how we use cookies by reading our Cookies Policy.

 

We will only use your personal data for the purposes for which we collected it, unless we reasonably consider that we need to use it for another reason and that reason is compatible with the original purpose. If you wish to get an explanation as to how the processing for the new purpose is compatible with the original purpose, please email office@hollylodgechurch.org.

If we need to use your personal data for an unrelated purpose, we will notify you and we will explain the legal basis which allows us to do so.

Please note that we may process your personal data without your knowledge or consent, in compliance with the above rules, where this is required or permitted by law.

 

5. Disclosures of your personal data

We will share some of your personal data with the parties set out below for the purposes mentioned in paragraph 4 above.

  • Service providers acting as processors based in the UK who provide IT and system administration services.

  • Disclosure and Barring Service checks which are carried out by The Baptist Union.

  • Course and event management systems provided by Church Suite.

  • Web hosting services provided by Wix.

  • Electronic marketing, email distribution and survey services such as SurveyMonkey.

  • CRMs such as ChurchSuite.

  • Professional advisers including lawyers, bankers, auditors, pension advisors and insurers based in the United Kingdom who provide consultancy, banking, legal, insurance and accounting services.

  • HM Revenue & Customs, regulators and other authorities based in the United Kingdom who require reporting of processing activities in certain circumstances.

  • Zoom, who provide an online video conferencing service that we use for meetings, courses, events and training.

 

We require all third parties to respect the security of your personal data and to treat it in accordance with the law. We do not allow our third-party service providers to use your personal data for their own purposes and only permit them to process your personal data for specified purposes and in accordance with our instructions.

 

6. International transfers

Some of our external third parties are based outside the UK so their processing of your personal data will involve a transfer of data outside the UK. Whenever we transfer your personal data out of the UK, we ensure a similar degree of protection is afforded to it by ensuring at least one of the following safeguards is implemented:

  • We will only transfer your personal data to countries that have been deemed to provide an adequate level of protection for personal data.

  • Where we use certain service providers, we may use specific contracts approved for use in the UK which gives personal data the same protection it has in the UK.

  • Where we use providers based in the US, we check if the provider can host the data within the UK. If this is not possible, we ensure Standard Contractual Clauses are in place before transferring any data. Please email us if you want further information on the specific mechanism used by us when transferring your personal data out of the UK.

 

7. Data security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

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We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are legally required to do so.

 

8. Data retention

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

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To determine the appropriate retention period for personal data, we consider the amount, nature, and sensitivity of the personal data, the potential risk of harm from unauthorised use or disclosure of your personal data, the purposes for which we process your personal data and whether we can achieve those purposes through other means, and the applicable legal requirements.

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Details of retention periods for different aspects of your personal data are available in our retention policy which you can request from us by emailing office@hollylodgechurch.org.

 

9. Your legal rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data.

  • Request access to your personal data.

  • Request correction of your personal data.

  • Request erasure of your personal data.

  • Object to processing of your personal data.

  • Request restriction of processing your personal data.

  • Request transfer of your personal data.

  • Right to withdraw consent.

 

If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please email office@hollylodgechurch.org. You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

 

We may need to request specific information from you to help us confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

 

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally it may take us longer than a month if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.

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