PRIVACY NOTICE

Gift of Blessing Trust takes your privacy seriously and are committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy notice tells you how we deal with your personal data and your privacy, and other rights you have when you use this site or supply information to us.

Purpose of this privacy notice

This privacy notice aims to give you information on how Gift of Blessing Trust collects and processes your personal data, including through this website or otherwise.

Our website is not intended for children.

Data controller

‘Gift of Blessing Trust’ (referred to as either ‘Gift of Blessing Trust’, ‘we’, ‘us’ or ‘our’ in this privacy notice) is the data controller.

How do you contact us?

If you have any questions about this privacy notice including any requests to exercise your legal rights, please contact us using the details below.

Kate Patterson, Director, Gift of Blessing Trust, info@giftofblessingtrust.org

c/o Holy Trinity Church, Sheen Park, Richmond, Surrey, TW9 1UP

 How do you make a complaint?

If you have any complaints or queries about matters affecting your privacy, or any other general data protection matters, then please do let us know by contacting us as set out above and we will endeavour to resolve the problem.

In any event, you have the right to make a complaint at any time to the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). The ICO can be contacted on their helpline number which is 0303 123 1113 or by other contact methods as set out on the ICO website

 

How is your data kept secure?

We have appropriate physical, procedural and electronic security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorised way, altered or disclosed. We limit access to your personal data to those employees, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions, and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

We have put in place procedures to deal with any suspected personal data breach and will notify you and any applicable regulator of a breach where we are required to do so.

How long do we keep your data for?

We will only retain your personal data for as long as necessary to fulfil the purposes we collected it for, including for the purposes of satisfying any legal, accounting, or reporting requirements.

Your legal rights

Unless subject to an exemption under Data Protection law, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

-       Request access to your personal data (commonly known as a ‘data subject access request’). This enables you to receive a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to check that we are lawfully processing it.

 -       Request correction of the personal data that we hold about you. This enables you to have any incomplete or inaccurate data we hold about you corrected, though we may need to verify the accuracy of the new data you provide to us.

 -       Request erasure of your personal data.

This enables you to ask us to delete or remove personal data where there is no good reason for us continuing to process it. You also have the right to ask us to delete or remove your personal data where you have successfully exercised your right to object to processing (see below), where we may have processed your information unlawfully or where we are required to erase your personal data to comply with local law. Note, however, that we may not always be able to comply with your request or erasure for specific legal reasons which will be notified to you, if applicable, at the time of your request.

 -       Object to processing of your personal data where we are relying on a legitimate interest (or those of a third party) and there is something about your particular situation which makes you want to object to processing on this ground as you feel it impacts on your fundamental rights and freedoms. You also have the right to object where we are processing your personal data for direct marketing purposes.

 

-       Request restriction of processing of your personal data. This enables you to ask us to suspend the processing of your personal data in the following scenarios: a) if you want us to establish the data’s accuracy; b) where our use of the data is unlawful but you do not want us to erase it; c) where you need us to hold the data even if we no longer require it as you need it to establish, exercise or defend legal claims; or d) if you have objected to our use of your data but we need to verify whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it.

 -       Request the transfer of your personal data to you or a third party. We will provide to you, or a third party you have chosen, your personal data in a structured, commonly used, machine-readable format. Note that this right only applies to automated information which you initially provided consent for us to use or where we used the information to perform a contract with you.

 -       Withdraw consent at any time where we are relying on consent to process your personal data. However, this will not affect the lawfulness of any processing carried out before you withdraw your consent. If you withdraw your consent, we may not be able to provide certain products or services to you. We will advise you if this is the case at the time you withdraw your consent.

  • If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

 

No fee usually required 

You will not have to pay a fee to access your personal data (or to exercise any of the other rights). However, we may charge a reasonable fee if your request is clearly unfounded, repetitive or excessive. Alternatively, we may refuse to comply with your request in these circumstances.

What we may need from you

We may need to request specific information from you to help us to confirm your identity and ensure your right to access your personal data (or to exercise any of your other rights). This is a security measure to ensure that personal data is not disclosed to any person who has no right to receive it. We may also contact you to ask you for further information in relation to your request to speed up our response.

Time limit to respond

We try to respond to all legitimate requests within one month. Occasionally, it may take us longer than a month to respond if your request is particularly complex or you have made a number of requests. In this case, we will notify you and keep you updated.