THE CHRISTIAN LIFE CENTRE (“CLC”) DATA PRIVACY STATEMENT

CLC is a charity registered in England (charity number 1191935 (previously 1097548)) and located at 51a East Street, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1HR

We are a local church with a Christian faith. We provide services to the local community, including but not exclusive, Sunday services, Community Cafe´, Conversation Cafe´, Toddler Group, Community Fair, Alpha Course, Ministry Groups, Youth meetings and Community Group meetings. Further information can be found at www.christianlifecentre.org.

We comply with the General Data Protection Regulation 2016 (GDPR regulation 2016/679) as amended, and electronic communications will be made in accordance with the Privacy and Electronic Communications (EC Directive) Regulations 2003. Additionally, we comply with the Data Protection Act 2018, which is the UK adoption of General Data Protection Regulation 2016 into local legislation.

Information about individuals; whether on paper, electronic records or recorded by any other means; falls within the scope of the above legislation and CLC comply with the data protection principles. We do not use cookies to collect data from our website.

The General Data Protection Regulation and the Data Protection Act 2018 (together referred to as “the Legislation”) states explicitly that people have rights about data that refers to them. These rights are:

•  Access to their data - the right of a person to see what we hold about them and how we use the data.
•  Be informed about the use of their data – the right of a person to understand what we do with their data.
•  Rectification of their data – the right of a person to have personal data amended if it is inaccurate or incomplete.
• Erasure of their data – the right of a person to ‘be forgotten’ if there is no compelling reason for us to keep their data.
• Restrict processing of their data – the right of a person to block or supress the processing of their data. In this case personal data may be stored but not processed, and simply not used for any purpose other than recording that the person exists.
• Portability of their data – this refers to electronic data and the ability of a person to request their data to be passed or not between computer systems or applications.
• Objections about the use of their data – the right of a person to object to the use of their data for normal processing (e.g. marketing). 
• Automated decision making using their data – the right of a person to object to their data being used within any system that makes an automated decision without human intervention where the outcome would have a direct impact on the person. We do not have any automated systems, so this is not relevant to CLC.

In simple terms this means the following:

• CLC will only collect data that is necessary to fulfil our normal activities.
• CLC will only store data (manually and electronically) for as short a time as we absolutely need to.
• CLC will respond to a person’s request relating to any of the legislation points above; and
• CLC will hold your data securely (password protected computer environments and locked cabinets).

We collect and process the data that you may provide through contact you may have had with the church, supporting and giving to us and/or attending an event organised by us. The data will be deleted or destroyed securely adhering to our retention timescales.

Our legal basis for processing personal data is different depending upon the purpose it was collected for. The following list covers the main types of data that we hold:

2. Data collected through our booking systems for the events and courses that we run is held for our legitimate interests or because of a contractual obligation to do so.

3. Employee, volunteer and congregation member data records are processed to comply with legal and contractual obligations and to fulfil our legitimate interests as a church community organisation. Some of your records may be held with your consent. Where we choose to hold such records on consent, we will notify you of this when your data is collected and will ask for you to agree to this. We will also inform you how you could withdraw your consent if you wished to do so.

Personal information we collect may include:

• Your full name and title
• Your date of birth
• Your postal address
• Your email address
• Your telephone number(s)

We may also collect and hold information, such as:

• Attendance of appointments and events
• Notes taken by us during the normal course of providing our pastoral care to you
• Contact preferences
• Donor and supporter information, including payment details and Gift Aid status, where applicable
• Details of correspondence sent to you or received from you
• Any other information which you have provided at the request of CLC

Depending on your relationship with CLC, and the preferences you have indicated, data we hold may be used by us to send you promotional, marketing or fundraising information by post, telephone or email. When we ask you to provide your personal information, we will let you know why we are asking for it, and how we will use your data, by directing you towards this notice.

Some examples of our types of communications may include:

• Informing you of services or events related to CLC.
• News and updates about CLC, marketing or supporter newsletters.
• Other relevant communications based upon your relationship with CLC.

We understand that your personal information and privacy are very important to you, and we will make every effort to ensure that the information you share with us is recorded accurately, retained securely and used only according to your wishes.

We will protect your personal information and adhere to all current data protection legislation with respect to protecting your privacy. We do not give out, sell or trade our mailing list with third parties.

Our website may, from time to time, contain links to and from other websites, advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

Third-Party Service Providers:

CLC may engage third-party companies and individuals to facilitate our services (“Service Providers”), provide the services on our behalf, perform service-related activities, or assist us in analysing how our services are used. CLC may share your personal data with these service providers who assist us in providing our services and will only have access to your personal data to perform these tasks on our behalf. These service providers are carefully selected and required to comply with the legislation and to implement adequate security measures to protect your personal data and maintain its confidentiality.

Examples of some of the service providers CLC may use include:

• Cloud hosting and storage services.
• Payment processing providers.
• Email communication services.
• Member support platforms.

CLC will only share your personal data with these service providers when necessary to provide our services or to comply with our legal obligations. For further information on the service providers that CLC use and how they process your data, or if you have any questions or concerns about how your data is shared with service providers, please contact us at info@christianlifecentre.org.

The information you provide will be used primarily to keep you informed about the activities of CLC. Also, for those that have given permission, church members contact details will be available to view on the ‘members only’ church directory. If at any time you no longer wish to receive communications from us or you want us to change or delete information, simply tell us by email to info@christianlifecentre.org or by writing to us at our address below.

Contacting Us:

If you have any questions about this Privacy Statement, please contact us at info@christianlifecentre.org or by mail: Christian Life Centre, 51a East Street, Horsham, West Sussex RH12 1HR.

Email communications are not always secure, so please do not include any credit card or Sensitive Data in your emails to us.

The Supervisory Authority:

Should you wish to lodge a complaint regarding an alleged infringement of the data protection legislation, The Supervisory Authority for the United Kingdom is:

The Information Commissioner’s Office Helpline: +44 (0) 303 123 1113 https://ico.org.uk/concerns

Note: We would recommend in the first instance, contacting us about any complaint so we may be able to resolve any matter.

This Privacy Statement was last updated in October 2024.