Privacy Notice
© 2022 Barrhead Bourock Parish Church
Barrhead Bourock Parish Church : SC016467 (the
“Congregation”)
Purpose of this Notice
This Privacy Notice outlines the way in which the
Congregation will use personal information provided
to us. Personal information includes any information
that identifies you personally, such as your name,
address, email address or telephone number.
The Congregation recognises the importance of your
privacy and personal information and we have
therefore outlined below how we use, disclose and
protect this information. The Congregation, jointly with
the Presbytery of Greenock and Paisley is the data
controller, because we decide how your data are
processed and for what purpose. Contact details for
us are provided below.
How we use information
We use the information you give to us:
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to administer membership records, including a
Communion Roll and Supplementary Roll;
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for pastoral care purposes;
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in relation to participation in Congregational
activities ;
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to provide you with information about news,
events, and activities within the Congregation or the
wider Church of Scotland;
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to provide the services of a parish church to the
local community;
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to fulfill contractual or other legal obligations;
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to manage our employees;
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to further our charitable aims, for example through
fundraising activities;
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to maintain our accounts and records (including
the processing of Gift Aid applications);
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if CCTV is in place we have this for the prevention
and detection of crime.
Disclosure of information
The Congregation will only share your personal
information where this is necessary for the purposes
set out above. Information will not be shared with any
third party outwith the Church of Scotland without
your consent unless we are obliged or permitted to do
so by law.
Basis for processing personal information
The Congregation processes your information in the
course of its legitimate activities, with appropriate
safeguards in place, as a not-for-profit body with a
religious aim and on the basis that our processing
relates solely to members, former members or people
who have regular contact with us, and that this
information is not disclosed to any third party without
your consent.
We also process information where this is necessary
for compliance with our legal obligations; where
processing is necessary for the purposes of our
legitimate interests and such interests are not
overridden by your interests or fundamental rights and
freedoms; and where you have given consent to the
processing of your information for a particular
purpose.
Storage and security of personal information
The Congregation will strive to ensure that personal
information is accurate and held in a secure and
confidential environment. We will keep your personal
information for as long as you are a member or
adherent or have regular contact with us or so long as
we are obliged to keep it by law or may need it in order
to respond to any questions or complaints or to show
that we treated you fairly. We may also keep it for
statistical purposes but if so we will only use it for that
purpose. When the information is no longer needed it
will be securely destroyed or permanently rendered
anonymous.
Getting a copy of your personal information
You can request details of the personal information
which the Congregation holds about you by contacting
us using the contact details given below.
Inaccuracies and Objections
If you believe that any information the Congregation
holds about you is incorrect or incomplete or if you do
not wish your personal information to be held or used
by us please let us know. Any information found to be
incorrect will be corrected as quickly as possible.
You have the right to object to our use of your personal
information, or to ask us to remove or stop using your
personal information if there is no need for us to keep
it. There may be legal or other reasons why we need to
keep or use your data, but please tell us if you think
that we should not be using it.
If we are processing your data on the basis of your
explicit consent, you can withdraw your consent at any
time. Please contact us if you want to do so.
Contact us
You can contact us by getting in touch with our Session
Clerk at sessionclerk@bourock.org.uk.
How to complain
You have the right to complain to the Information
Commissioner’s Office about anything relating to the
processing of your personal information by the
Congregation. You can contact the ICO via its website
at www.ico.org.uk or at Wycliffe House, Water Lane,
Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF.
Barrhead Bourock Parish Church
Charity Registration Number: SC016467