The Birmingham Collective for Church Planting Privacy Notice

This privacy notice tells you what to expect us to do with your personal information.

  • Contact details

  • What information we collect, use, and why

  • Lawful bases and data protection rights

  • Where we get personal information from

  • How long we keep information

  • Who we share information with

  • Sharing information outside the UK

  • How to complain

Contact details

Email

hello@birminghamcollective.org

What information we collect, use, and why

We collect or use the following information to provide services and goods, including delivery and third party referrals:

  • Names and contact details

  • Gender

  • Addresses

  • Date of birth

  • Photographs or video recordings

  • Service use history

  • Dietary information (including allergies and health conditions)

  • Records of meetings and decisions

  • Payment details (including card or bank information for transfers and direct debits)

We also collect or use the following special category information to provide services and goods, including delivery and third party referrals. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature:

  • Religious or philosophical beliefs

We collect or use the following information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Payment or banking details

  • Donation history

  • Tax payer information (for Gift Aid purposes)

  • Gifts in wills

 

We also collect or use the following special category information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature:

  • Religious or philosophical beliefs

 

We collect or use the following personal information for service updates or marketing purposes:

  • Names and contact details

  • Addresses

  • Marketing preferences

  • Donation history

  • Records of consent, where appropriate

 

We also collect or use the following special category information for service updates or marketing purposes. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature:

  • Religious or philosophical beliefs

 

We collect or use the following personal information to comply with legal requirements:

  • Name

  • Contact information

  • Financial transaction information

  • Any other personal information required to comply with legal obligations

  • Safeguarding information

 

We also collect or use the following special category information to comply with legal requirements. This information is subject to additional protection due to its sensitive nature:

  • Religious or philosophical beliefs

Lawful bases and data protection rights

Under UK data protection law, we must have a “lawful basis” for collecting and using your personal information. There is a list of possible lawful bases in the UK GDPR. You can find out more about lawful bases on the ICO’s website.

Which lawful basis we rely on may affect your data protection rights which are set out in brief below. You can find out more about your data protection rights and the exemptions which may apply on the ICO’s website:

 

If you make a request, we must respond to you without undue delay and in any event within one month.

To make a data protection rights request, please contact us using the contact details at the top of this privacy notice.

Our lawful bases for the collection and use of your data

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to provide services and goods, including delivery and third party referrals are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

    • To communicate with you about events and opportunities that we think are relevant and of interest to you or will offer some benefit to you. To help you engage with church planting in the West Midlands. To gather information about your attendance at our events to help us gauge general attendance and engagement and to help tailor our communications with you to help you engage with us.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to receive donations or funding and organise fundraising activities are:

  • Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information for service updates or marketing purposes are:

  • Consent - we have permission from you after we gave you all the relevant information. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to object. To be clear, you do have the right to withdraw your consent at any time.

  • Legitimate interests – we’re collecting or using your information because it benefits you, our organisation or someone else, without causing an undue risk of harm to anyone. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to portability. Our legitimate interests are:

    • Where we think that a service update is relevant to you and necessary to keep you accurately informed about events, activities and opportunities.

For more information on our use of legitimate interests as a lawful basis you can contact us using the contact details set out above.

Our lawful bases for collecting or using personal information to comply with legal requirements are:

  • Legal obligation – we have to collect or use your information so we can comply with the law. All of your data protection rights may apply, except the right to erasure, the right to object and the right to data portability.

Where we get personal information from

  • Directly from you

How long we keep information

We will retain your contact details for up to 12 months since your last contact with us.

Personal data relating to donations and gift aid will be kept for 6 years after the end of the financial year to which they relate.

Data relating to complaints will be kept for 6 years.

Personal data relating to safeguarding concerns will be kept indefinitely.

Who we share information with

Data processors

MailChimp

This data processor does the following activities for us: They hold our contact database and provide a platform for us to communicate with you.

Others we share personal information with

  • Organisations we need to share information with for safeguarding reasons

  • Professional advisors

  • Legal bodies or authorities

  • External auditors or inspectors

  • Organisations we’re legally obliged to share personal information with

Sharing information outside the UK

Where necessary, we will transfer personal information outside of the UK. When doing so, we comply with the UK GDPR, making sure appropriate safeguards are in place.

For further information or to obtain a copy of the appropriate safeguard for any of the transfers below, please contact us using the contact information provided above.

Organisation name: MailChimp

Category of recipient: Email and Digital Marketing

Country the personal information is sent to: USA and other countries where data is stored.

How the transfer complies with UK data protection law: Addendum to the EU Standard Contractual Clauses (SCCs)

How to complain

If you have any concerns about our use of your personal information, you can make a data protection complaint to us:

Email: hello@birminghamcollective.org

If you remain unhappy with how we’ve used your data after raising a complaint with us, you can also complain to the ICO. 

The ICO’s address:

ICO Head Office
4th Floor, No.3 Circle Square
5 Hawkshaw Street
Manchester
M1 7BL

Helpline number: 0303 123 1113
Website: https://www.ico.org.uk/make-a-complaint