Your privacy is important to us at Providence Baptist Chapel, Bedford. Under data protection legislation, we need to let you know how we look after your personal information.

Providence Baptist Chapel is the Data Controller and can be contacted by via email at datacontroller@providencechapel.org.uk. (Full contact details are provided on our website.)

Data we collect and how we handle it 

CHAPEL AND SUNDAY SCHOOL ATTENDEES AND THOSE IN CONTACT WITH THE CHAPEL

Your name, contact details and other information you provide to us may be stored electronically or securely in paper form.

To enable us to provide adequate pastoral support to you and your family, the Chapel may record information which may be regarded as sensitive. This information will be stored securely, either electronically with password protection, or in locked drawers or cabinets. This information will NOT be disclosed to anyone else without your consent, except as required by Law.

CHAPEL MEMBERSHIP DATABASE

Your name and contact details will be entered into our Chapel membership database which is stored electronically and accessible only by authorised users.

Legal basis for processing your data

CHAPEL MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO ARE IN CONTACT WITH THE CHURCH

We are collecting this information to enable the Chapel to keep in touch with you and provide pastoral support as appropriate. Data Protection legislation allows us to process this information as we regard it as being in the Chapel’s legitimate and reasonable interest.

Sharing data

We will not share your data with third parties without your consent, except as you might reasonably expect.

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We use cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to visitor needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes. This information is collected anonymously, and does not allow us to identify particular website visitors.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you, other than the data you choose to share with us.

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Links to other web sites

Our web site contains links to other web sites of interest. However, once you have followed these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other web site. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst visiting such sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.

Your rights under GDPR

Under Data Protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information about you that we hold.

You also have the right to:

• object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
• prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
• object to decisions being taken by automated means
• in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
• claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations.

To make a request for your personal information, or for any queries relating to how your information is used and your rights to access information, please email the Data Controller at datacontroller@providencechapel.org.uk.

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/concerns

Changes to this privacy notice

This policy was reviewed December 2019 and any future changes will be published to this web site.