St John’s Church is committed to treating everyone’s personal information with care, respect, and transparency. As a charity and a Church of England parish, we follow the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and the Data Protection Act 2018, which set out how organisations must handle personal data.
In practice, this means:
- We only collect information we genuinely need for pastoral care, ministry, safeguarding, administration, giving, volunteering, and running church activities.
- We use your information fairly and lawfully, and only for the specific purposes we have explained to you.
- We keep your data secure, whether it is stored digitally or on paper.
- We only keep information for as long as it is needed, in line with Church of England retention guidance.
- We do not share your data with others unless we have a lawful reason to do so, for example, safeguarding requirements, legal obligations, or where you have given clear consent.
- You have rights over your information, including the right to access it, correct it, restrict its use, or ask for it to be deleted where appropriate.
- Safeguarding information is handled with particular care, following national Church of England safeguarding policies and statutory requirements.
This summary is designed to help you understand the principles we follow. For full details of how we collect, use, store, and protect personal information, please read our Data Privacy Policy below.
John Adigun