Data Privacy Notice1. Your personal data – what is it? Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”). 2. Who are we? · The PCC of St Mary’s, Buckden is the data controller (contact details below). · The priest in charge of St Mary's Buckden is also a data controller (contact details below). This means that they decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. 3. How do we process your personal data? The PCC and Priest in Charge of St Mary’s Buckden comply with their obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data. We use your personal data for the following purposes: - · To provide pastoral care to our parishioners · To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution; · To enable us, through Friends in Deed, to provide help and assistance to people in the community who have particular needs. · To administer membership records; · To fundraise and promote the interests of the charity; · To manage our employees and volunteers; · To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications); · To inform individuals of news, events, activities and services running at St Mary’s; · To share your contact details with the Diocesan office so they can keep you informed about news in the diocese and events, activities and services that will be occurring in the diocese and in which you may be interested. 4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data? · Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about news, events, activities and services and process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about diocesan events. · Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement; · Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim provided: - o the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and o there is no disclosure to a third party without consent. 5. Sharing your personal data Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of the church in order to carry out a service to other church members or for purposes connected with the church. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the parish with your consent or where there is a legal obligation to do so. 6. How long do we keep your personal data[1]? We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in the guide “Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records” which is available from the Church of England website [see footnote for link]. Specifically, we retain electoral roll data while it is still current; gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate; and parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals) permanently. 7. Your rights and your personal data Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: - · The right to request a copy of your personal data which the PCC or Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden holds about you; · The right to request that the PCC or Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date; · The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for the PCC or Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden to retain such data; · The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time · The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means]. · The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing; · The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics] · The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office. 8. Further processing If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing. 9. Contact Details Data Controller = PCC, St Mary’s, The Parish Church of Buckden, Church St, Buckden. PE19 5TL Data Controller = Priest-in-charge, The Vicarage, 16 Church St, Buckden. PE19 5TL To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact A1churchbuckden@gmail.com or the churchwardens. You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF. This privacy notice was approved by the PCC of St Mary’s, Buckden on 24th November 2025. It is reviewed annually by the PCC and Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden. [1] Details about retention periods can currently be found in the Record Management Guides located on the Church of England website at: - https://www.churchofengland.org/more/libraries-and-archives/records-management-guides
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On 30th July 2023 we launched a season of pilgrimage. Our first pilgrimage, during the service that day, was a walk around our own church and churchyard, stopping to look at various things significant to our own journeys of faith and life. We have a variety of pilgrimages planned over the coming months. Please join us if you are able. Up to date information at https://shorturl.at/cnFR5 Date Destination and arrangements Sunday 30/07/2023St Mary’s pilgrimage during our Sunday Service; representing our own journeys of life and of faith. Sunday 20/08/2023Benefice pilgrimage - walk, cycle or drive from St Mary’s (leaving at 4pm if walking) to All Saints’ for Songs of Praise at 6pm. Saturday 09/09/2023Ride & Stride (or Drive) Contact Anne Carter if you would like to take part in this sponsored event. We will be driving to visit all the churches in our St Neots Deanery. If you cannot come along, then please consider sponsoring us. Sunday 24/09/2023Benefice pilgrimage - walk, cycle or drive from All Saints’ to St Mary’s for the 11am Harvest Festival service of Holy Communion. Sunday 22/10/2023Buckden & District Churches Together are invited to walk with us around all the churches in Buckden, finishing at St Mary’s at 3pm for board games and the 4th@4 service. Sunday05/05/2024Beating the bounds (of the parish) on Rogation Sunday More ideas for pilgrimage destinations – dates and details yet to be confirmed.Leighton Bromswold to Little GiddingParish / Benefice away dayHolywell (Cambs)Ely CathedralWalsinghamNorwich CathedralLindisfarne – please do let us know if you might be interested in this trip
Services and events for the coming month click here Service rota shorturl.at/ejDOUChurch calendar shorturl.at/pqARTPlease contact our church warden Ian if you have any questions / updates regarding the rota.
