Agreed September 2025 – Review September 2027
This Privacy Notice outlines the way in which Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church 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.
Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church recognises the importance of your privacy and personal information and we have therefore outlined below how we use, disclose and protect this information. Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church, jointly with the Presbytery of Forth Valley and Clydesdale is the data controller, because we decide how your data are processed and for what purpose. Contact details for us are provided below.
We use the information you give to us:
Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church 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 out with the Church of Scotland without your consent unless we are obliged or permitted to do so by law.
Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church 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.
Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church will strive to ensure that personal information is accurate and held in a secure and confidential environment. We will retain your personal information for as long as you remain a member, adherent or request us to keep in contact with you, or as long as we are legally obliged to do so, or if we need it to address any questions or complaints or to demonstrate that we have 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. Further information about our data retention policy is available on the church website.
You can request details of the personal information which Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church holds about you by contacting the Data Protection Officer through the Church Office office@bbcofs.org.uk Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church, Bothwell, G71 8EX
If you believe that any information Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church hold 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 based on your explicit consent, you can withdraw your consent at any time. Please get in touch with us if you want to do so.
You can contact us by getting in touch with the Data Protection Officer through the Church Office office@bbcofs.org.uk Bellshill and Bothwell Parish Church, Bothwell, G71 8EX
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.
