ACN UK Privacy Policy

12-14 Benhill Avenue, Sutton, Surrey SM1 4DA

GDPR COMPLIANT PRIVACY POLICY

MAY 2018

ACN UK is a registered charity in England and Wales (1097984) and in Scotland (SC040748)

Table of contents

  1. Introduction
  2. Definitions
  3. Who we are
  4. What personal information do we collect?
  5. How do we collect personal information?
  6. How and why do we use personal information?
  7. How do we store your data?
    • WHERE YOUR DATA IS HELD
    • DATA CLEANING
    • DATA DESTRUCTION
  8. Lawful Basis for processing your personal information
    • ACN (UK): LEGITIMATE INTEREST
    • ACN ’s REGISTRATION AS A DATA CONTROLLER
    • FAIR PROCESSING NOTICE
    • FUNDRAISING REGULATOR
    • GDPR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE
  9. Do we provide information to other parties?
  10. Your Privacy
  11. Your Choices/Rights
  12. Data Breach
    • DATA CONCERNS AND COMPLAINTS
  13. Terms of Use of ACN UK Website
    • LAWS GOVERNING THIS WEBSITE
    • PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL FINANCIAL DATA
    • CHANGING HOW AND WHEN YOU HEAR FROM US
    • OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OUR WEBSITE
    • COOKIES WHEN YOU ARE USING OUR WEBSITE
    • GOOGLE ANALYTICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, IMAGES and FILM
    • YOUR CATHOLIC LEGACY
    • UNDER 18’S
    • LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES
  14. Update our privacy policy
  15. Summary
  16. ACN UK’s Contact Information
  17. Links

 

Privacy Policy

  1. Introduction

The EU General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) replaces the Data Protection Directive 95/46/EC and was designed to harmonise data privacy laws across Europe, to protect and empower all EU citizens’ data privacy and to reshape the way organisations across the region approach data privacy. EU GDPR is the most important change in data privacy regulation in 20 years.

General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) came into force on 25th May 2018 and replaced our existing Data protection law in the UK. It affects any organisation which holds and processes data relating to European citizens

Aid to Church in Need (ACN UK) is committed to conducting its business in accordance with all applicable Data Protection laws and regulations and in line with the highest standards of ethical conduct. This policy sets forth the expected conduct of ACN UK’s Employees and Third Parties in relation to the collection, use, retention, transfer, disclosure and destruction of any Personal Data belonging to ACN UK’s Contact (i.e. the Data Subject/benefactor).

Personal Data is any information (including opinions and intentions) which relates to an

Identified or Identifiable Natural Person and is subject to certain legal safeguards and other regulations, which impose restrictions on how organisations may process Personal Data. An organisation that handles Personal Data and makes decisions about its use is known as a Data Controller. ACN UK, as a Data Controller, is responsible for ensuring compliance with the Data Protection requirements outlined in this policy

ACN UK’s leadership is fully committed to ensuring continued and effective implementation of this policy and expects all ACN UK Employees and Third Parties to share in this commitment. Any breach of this policy will be taken seriously and may result in disciplinary action or business sanction. This policy has been approved by ACN UK’s Data Protection Officer.

  1. Definitions

Regulation: A regulation is a binding legislative act. It must be applied in its entirety across the EU

Directive: A directive is a legislative act that sets out a goal that all EU countries must achieve. However, it is up to the individual countries to decide how. It is important to note that the GDPR is a regulation, in contrast to the .previous legislation, which is a directive.

Employee: an individual who works part-time or full-time for ACN UK under a

contract of employment, whether oral or written, express or implied, and has recognised

rights and duties (Including temporary employees and independent contractors).

Third Party: An external organisation with which ACN UK’s conducts business and

is also authorised to, under the direct authority of ACN UK, Process the Personal Data of ACN UK Contacts.

Personal Data: Any information (including opinions and intentions) which relates to an

identified or Identifiable Natural Person.

Contact: Any past, current or prospective ACN UK customer.

Data Controller: A natural or legal person, Public Authority, Agency or other body which, alone or jointly with others, determines the purposes and means of the Processing of Personal Data.

Data Subject: The identified or Identifiable Natural Person to which the data refers e.g. . ACN UK’s benefactors

Process, Processed, Processing: Any operation or set of operations performed on

Personal Data or on sets of Personal Data, whether or not by automated means. Operations performed may include collection, recording, organisation, structuring, storage, adaptation or alteration, retrieval, consultation, use, disclosure by transmission, dissemination or otherwise making available, alignment or combination, restriction, erasure or destruction.

Data Protection: The process of safeguarding Personal Data from unauthorised or unlawful disclosure, access, alteration, Processing, transfer or destruction.

Data Protection Authority: An independent Public Authority responsible for monitoring the application of the relevant Data Protection regulation set forth in national law.

Data Processors: A natural or legal person, Public Authority, Agency or other body which Processes Personal Data on behalf of a Data Controller.

Consent: Any freely given, specific, informed and unambiguous indication of the Data

Subject’s wishes by which he or she, by a statement or by a clear affirmative action, signifies agreement to the Processing of Personal Data relating to him or her.

Special Categories of Data: Personal Data pertaining to or revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, trade-union membership; data concerning health or sex life and sexual orientation; genetic data or biometric data.

Third Country: Any country not recognised as having an adequate level of legal protection for the rights and freedoms of Data Subjects in relation to the Processing of Personal Data.

Profiling: Any form of automated processing of Personal Data where Personal Data is used to evaluate specific or general characteristics relating to an Identifiable Natural Person. In particular to analyse or predict certain aspects concerning that natural person’s performance at work, economic situations, health, personal preferences, interests, reliability, behaviour, location or movement.

Binding Corporate Rules: The Personal Data protection policies used for the transfer

of Personal Data to one or more Third Countries within a group of undertakings, or group of enterprises engaged in a joint economic activity.

Personal Data Breach: A breach of security leading to the accidental or unlawful destruction, loss, alteration, unauthorised disclosure of, or access to, Personal Data transmitted, stored or otherwise Processed.

Encryption: The process of converting information or data into code, to prevent unauthorised access.

  1. Who we are?

Aid to the Church in Need is an international Catholic charity which supports the Church around the world – particularly where it experiences suffering and persecution. Our projects helping Catholic, Orthodox and other Christian communities and sometimes minority faiths is ‘niche’ and of limited interest to the wider general public. Catholic projects worldwide tend not to attract government funding so without support from the Catholic and Christian community in the UK and around the world, our project partners would not receive the prayer, pastoral and practical help and advocacy they require. A strong example of this is ACN’s support for Christians in Iraq who, for over six years have relied on ACN and other faith-based organisations to survive genocide, due to the inaction and indifference of the international community. It is in the interests of the people we help that we maintain a wide pool of support from within the Christian community and from other sympathetic sources.

A further ACN role is to support and encourage UK Christians in their faith and by providing inspirational examples from the suffering Church, prayer material and relevant faith-supporting trading products, we offer a service to UK Catholics and Christians.

  1. What personal information do we collect?

Personal information we collect about you may include:

Personal details e.g. name, postal address, phone numbers and email addresses, and in certain cases date of birth, NI number.

We collect this information when you contact us or donate by post, telephone or on our website.

 
We do collect Bank details – name, sort code and account number. When you set up a regular gift e.g. Direct debit or standing order with us.
The communications you exchange with us When you email, write a letter or call us
We collect information indirectly through third parties such as JustGiving where you have agreed to support ACN and have given your consent.

When you use third party site such as JustGiving.

You may wish to check their privacy statement to find out more about how they will process your data.
We collect personal data such as IP address, details of web pages visited and files downloaded. Website usage information is collected using cookies. (please see the section on cookies below.) When you use our website.
Your posts and messages on a social media direct to ACN When you interact with us on social media platforms such as Facebook, Twitter, Instagram or LinkedIn.
Information about how our website is used, such as your searches for information When you navigate on our website.
We collect personal data as part of our staff or volunteer recruitment process When you apply for a job or for volunteering opportunities with. ACN
We collect personal data necessary for legacy administration When a benefactor has died, leaving a legacy to ACN, and you are the executor or you have an interest in the estate.

 

  1. How do we collect personal information?

We collect personal information about you when you interact with us. Most ACN UK benefactors are recruited via face-to-face via Appeals, Talks and Events. Many are already familiar with our work due to the involvement of their own parishes and/or through ACN UK material carried in the Catholic and Christian media. Indeed, many ACN benefactors consider themselves ‘members’ who receive faith-based benefits from their relationship with us. These include specialist news, information and prayer material, not readily available in the secular press.

For new benefactors met through face to face contact as well as online benefactors we obtain consent by a declaration form.

  1. How and why do we use personal information?

We use the personal information collected from benefactors for the following purposes:

  • to enable your donation(s) to reach your chosen charity/charities

We offer options about how and where benefactor donations are used. We ensure that donations are allocated appropriately to our various funds and geographical project areas

  • to manage your donations requests, or calls to action

When you interact with us, we use your information to perform our services in relation to deal with your donation, to deal with your queries and requests and to process responses to our campaigns or advocacy work.

to fundraise and promote ACN’s work in both financial and non-financial ways We know how fundamental our supporters and donors are to the work we do. In order to develop and foster your ongoing support, we want to keep in touch you through feedback and further opportunities and invitations to support our work in both financial and non-financial ways.

to communicate with you and manage our relationship with you

Occasionally we may need to contact you by mail, email and/or telephone for administrative or operational reasons.

to personalise and improve your experience when engaging with ACN

we strive to continually improve the information and services we offer to our supporters so that we can be good stewards of the resources we entrusted to us.

to inform you about our news and ways you may be able to help ACN

We may send you marketing communications, if you have indicated that you are happy to receive these for example, when you have donated or completed a campaign action and you haven’t opted-out of receiving of such communications.

to maintain and improve our own accounts, records and organisational processes, to fulfil our administrative purposes and protect our charitable interests. The purpose for which we will use your information include accounting, billing and audit, credit or other payment card verification, fraud screening, safety, security and legal purposes, statistical and marketing analysis, legacy administration, systems testing, maintenance and development.

We will use your information to enable your donation to be allocated to your chosen priority and charities so you may be contacted in the event of a specific query needed to resolve any issue with the processing of your donation.

  1. How do we store your Data?

Aid to Church in Need is committed to keeping your personal information safe and secure and we have security policies and technical measures in place to help protect your information. We will put in place procedures and technologies to maintain the security of all personal data from the point of collection to the point of for as long as we hold your data. Personal data will only be transferred to a third party service provider company if they are approved by us and agree to comply with these procedures and policies, or if they put in place adequate security measures.

All our employees who process data are obliged to comply with our strict information security procedures. Electronic data communication, comprising personal data is always encrypted so that it is not read by anyone except the person responsible for the data.

  • WHERE YOUR DATA IS HELD

ACN (UK) data is stored on ACN servers based in Belgium and managed by ACN International’s IID Department who oversee the Content Management Systems of ACN’s offices around the world to maintain data and results reporting integrity. They have an additional responsibility for overseeing Data Protection standards across all offices. Your personal data is held on secure servers operated by ACN UK and the ACN international Help Desk. Paper files are stored and kept in a secured filing system and locked all the time except in time of in need for a reference by a member of a staff. For the purpose of guaranteeing confidentiality we have taken permanent measures as follows:

  • electronic access control system,
  • security doors and windows,
  • alarm system,
  • video surveillance,
  • special protection of the server room,
  • individual log-ins and password procedures,
  • additional log-ins for certain applications,
  • automatic locking for the clients (Timeout),
  • managing permissions,
  • documentation of permissions, and
  • many other measures.
    • DATA CLEANING

Active data sets used for our mailing programme of ten mailings a year are cleaned regularly using industry standard programmes.

In early 2018, ACN’s full data set was cleaned by One Post with the aim of providing two definitive Usable and Unusable data files.

  • DATA DESTRUCTION

Due to ACN (UK)’s policy of not purchasing, swopping or sharing data and given the limited data Aid to the Church in Need therefore has access to, data deemed ‘unusable’ will be flagged and made unusable for the purposes of mailing or future contact but available for analysis and as a historical record. ACN’s Reactivation experience shows that due the organic nature of our data capture and because lapsed benefactors may contribute anonymously at Parish Appeals or events and read about us in the Catholic press, our reactivation response rates are unusually high against charity sector benchmarks. For this reason and because Catholics and Christians have a life-long affiliation to their faith and related issues, our lapsed and deeply lapsed data continues to hold value for us. Therefore, ACN’s policy is to hold data longer than other charities might.

Following the 2018 data clean, benefactor records with a last gift date of 25 years plus will be destroyed and annually thereafter. Within the usable data set, active and reactivation data will be held for ACN’s mailing programme. With the exception of Always Mail records, data will be segmented by date of last gift. Regarding Gone Away notifications. Upon the second notification, these records will be flagged as unusable.

  1. Lawful Basis for processing your personal information

ACN will process personal data in line with the following principles:

  • where it is necessary for us to fulfil a contract with you
  • with your consent
  • when it is in our legitimate interest

Under Article 6 of the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) our lawful basis for processing and holding personal information is ‘legitimate interest’ as it is necessary for ACN to use this information in order to provide you with our services.

According to Art. 9 Sec. 1 GDPR, the processing of sensitive data is generally prohibited. Special categories of personal data (also “sensitive data“) are personal data revealing racial or ethnic origin, political opinions, religious or philosophical beliefs, or trade union membership, and the processing of genetic data, biometric data for the purpose of uniquely identifying a natural person, data concerning health or data concerning a natural person’s sex life or sexual orientation.

As a Pontifical Foundation, ACN falls under Article 9 section 2 paragraph (D), which the processing is carried out in the course of its legitimate activities with appropriate safeguards by a religious aim and on conditions that the processing relates solely to the persons who have regular contact with ACN UK in connection with its purpose and that the personal data are not disclosed outside ACN UK without the consent of the data subjects.

When donors fill in their personal data in a donation form presented by an ACN area secretary or appealer, they may hereby also reveal their religious belief. Donating to ACN means donating to a Pontifical Foundation of the Catholic Church, supporting the Catholic faithful and other Christians where they are persecuted, oppressed or in pastoral need“.

  • ACN (UK): LEGITIMATE INTEREST

As a religious organisation which recruits new benefactors in a very personal way, ACN (UK) has chosen to adopt Legitimate Interest as our approach to GDPR legislation. However, the rights of the benefactor are paramount and ACN (UK) sets out in this document, policies and procedures that allow benefactors to change their contact preferences or stop hearing from us completely.

Charities are required to undertake a ‘balancing’ assessment to ensure that the needs of the charity do not override the rights of the benefactor. Copies of the ACN (UK)’s marketing balancing assessment may be obtained from the ACN UK’s national office. Most ACN (UK) benefactors are recruited via face-to-face via Appeals, Talks and Events. Many are already familiar with our work due to the involvement of their own parishes and/or through ACN (UK) material carried in the Catholic and Christian media. Indeed, many ACN benefactors consider themselves ‘members’ who receive faith-based benefits from their relationship with us. These include specialist news, information and prayer material, not readily available in the secular press.

As a religious charity we believe ourselves to have a legitimate interest in informing and up-dating Catholics and Christians on the situation facing our faith today. In turn, our benefactors, who have a life-long commitment to their faith, are legitimately interested in the niche information and faith-enhancing material we provide and which they are unlikely to get elsewhere. Benefactors would therefore reasonably expect that we would process their data to provide them with such information if they have previously established a relationship with the charity.  Never-the-less with a view to protecting our benefactors’ interests and balancing these with our legitimate interest we will always aim to consider safeguards to reduce the impact on their interests and their privacy.

  • ACN UK’s REGISTRATION AS A DATA CONTROLLER

Aid to Church in Need is registered as a Data Controller with the Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). Its registration number is: Z7989628

ACN (UK)’s Data Manager will oversee all aspects of data segmentation, retrieval, analysis and business insight and all software systems and processes associated with the processing of data by Aid to the Church in Need and third-party suppliers to fulfil business objectives including the administration of donations and product purchases.

The Data Manager will also fulfil the role of Data Protection Officer and be responsible for ensuring that Aid to the Church in Need UK complies with GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation) and all legislation covering Direct Marketing and Electronic Communications.

  • FAIR PROCESSING NOTICE

Our Fair Processing Notice covers the kind of information we use, what we use your Personal Data for, how we process and protect your information. Your personal data is information that you provide to us, which we record and process to offer you the information or service you require. Your personal data can include your name, postal address, email address, phone number, credit/debit card details and whether we can claim Gift Aid.

We collect your personal data when you contact us or register to receive information, make a donation, purchase goods or services, enquire about events or in any other way supply us with your personal information.

It is important that the personal data we hold about you is accurate, so please contact us to advise us of any changes. We will only use your personal data for the specific purpose stated at the time we collected it. Access to your information is limited to staff members and authorised third party suppliers who require it to carry out their work.

  • FUNDRAISING REGULATOR

Aid to the Church in Need registered with the Fundraising Regulator. This means that we are committed to the highest standards in fundraising, striving to work always in a way that is effective, open and honest, and dedicated to raising funds in the most cost-effective manner.

The Fundraising Regulator is an independent body which sets and maintains the standards for charitable fundraising. The board’s primary function is to deal with complaints about fundraising activity from members of the public, allowing people to give to charitable organisations with confidence. By joining the Fundraising Regulator we have agreed to adhere to the Code of Fundraising Practice and the Fundraising Promise

  • GDPR PROFESSIONAL ADVICE

Aid to the Church in Need subscribes to the Fundraising Regulator. We abide by (their guidelines) and act on benefactor address removals notified to us via their Fundraising Preference Service. With respect to GDPR compliance, Aid to the Church in Need is adopting Legitimate Interest for Direct Marketing. Professional Advice has been sought about this and data professionals have concurred with our approach:

Neil Finlayson, Kingston Smith, Chartered Accountants and Registered Auditors.   Nick Mason, Uplifting Data, Chair of Institute of Fundraising Technology Insight Group.

Aid to the Church in Need International has contracted KINAST (Attorneys at Law) Germany to oversee GDPR on behalf of all ACN offices where this European legislation applies. One of their representatives will advise on ACN UK’s final documentation.

Information Sources:  (GDPR & Charitable Fundraising – guidance notes published by the Institute of Fundraising and Fundraising Regulator, reviewed by the ICO Information Commissioner’s Office.

  1. Do we provide information to other parties?

We will not share or sell your personal information to other charities or organisations for marketing purposes. We share your information with authorised third-party suppliers for the purposes of carrying out our work, for example, dispatching goods or information by mail. We may on occasion be required by law to pass on your personal data. For example, we would have to pass on information for a Gift Aid audit by Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs. If we find it necessary to transfer, process or store personal data outside the European Economic Area (EEA), we will put in place suitable safeguards, including using the European Commission approved standard contractual clauses in data transfer contracts.

ACN UK works with third-party suppliers with who we have signed service level agreements and specific signed data policy agreements.

  1. Your privacy

Everyone has rights with regard to the way in which their personal data is handled. During our activities, we will collect, store and process personal data about our benefactors, suppliers and other third parties, and we recognise that the correct and lawful treatment of this data will maintain confidence in the organisation and will provide for successful business operations.

Your personal data, which may be held on paper or on a computer or other media, is subject to certain legal safeguards specified in the Data Protection Act and equivalent EU regulations.

This policy and any other documents referred to in it, sets out the basis on which we will process any personal data we collect from you or that is provided to us by yourself or other sources. This policy sets out rules on data protection and the legal conditions that must be satisfied when we obtain, handle, process, transfer and store personal data.

  1. Your choices/ rights

Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We support your rights in relation to your personal information under the General Data Protection Regulation, including the:

  • Right to be informed
  • Right of access
  • Right to rectification
  • Right to erasure
  • Right to restrict processing
  • Right to data portability
  • Right to object
  • Rights related to automated decision making including profiling

You have the right to request a copy of the information we hold about you free of charge. Before we are able to assist with your request, we need you to confirm your identity and what data you require. If you wish to exercise these rights, please contact the Data Manager at Aid to the Church in Need, 12-14 Benhill Avenue, Sutton SM1 4DA.

  1. Data Breach

In the event of any unauthorized access to personal data, need to be reported to the Data Manager at ACN UK immediately and from there to be reported to the within 72 hours to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office)

In the event of the loss of a computer or personal device, this is to be reported to the Data Manager at ACN (UK) immediately and from there to be reported within 72 hours to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office).

Data breaches with respect to the loss of envelopes will be reported to ACN (UK) in Sutton immediately and within 72 hours to the ICO (Information Commissioner’s Office).

 

  • DATA CONCERNS AND COMPLAINTS

If you have concerns about your data handling at Aid to the Church in Need UK, please contact us. We will acknowledge your concern and undertake to deal with them promptly, fairly and confidentially.

Requests to correct data inaccuracies are referred initially to our Data Input department for amendments. In due course, all data enquiries will be overseen by our Data Manager. If you feel your concerns have not been met, then Complaints are addressed to the Data Manager and referred to the Complaints Committee, whose decision will be final.

In the first instance, you should contact Aid to the Church in Need using our standard complaints procedure. If you remain unhappy with our use of your personal data, you have the right to complain to the Information Commissioner’s Office. We would encourage you to contact us in the first instance so we can attempt to resolve concerns you may have.

  1. Terms of Use of ACN UK Website

By using our Website or any of our services, or providing us with any personal data, you agree to your personal data being used and disclosed in the manner set out in our Privacy Policy.

  • LAWS GOVERNING THIS WEBSITE

This Website, including these terms and conditions, shall be governed by English law. The English courts shall have sole jurisdiction over any disputes arising from this Website.

  • PROTECTING YOUR PERSONAL FINANCIAL DATA

We are committed to ensuring that your personal financial data is kept secure.

If you use your credit or debit card to donate to us, buy something or make any other payment online, we will ensure that this is done securely and in accordance with the Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard. Employees, who have backend access are setup with two-factor authentication (2FA) as additional security measures as an additional line of defense in the result of any password breaches.

We use trusted commercial partners to process online transactions for single and regular donations and purchases made via this website. We have no access at any time to the card details which you submit online.

  • CHANGING HOW AND WHEN YOU HEAR FROM US

From time to time we will send you updates about our work and needs but the choice of how and when you hear from us lies with you. You have the right to restrict the processing of your personal data or to stop us processing it altogether. You also have the right to ask us to stop sending you information.

Whenever you make a transaction on our website, we will give you the opportunity to change your communication preferences.

You can change your preferences at any time.

  • OTHER INFORMATION COLLECTED FROM OUR WEBSITE

We gather data about your visit to this website, such as the date and time of visits to the website and the pages you viewed. This information helps us to learn about your personal interest in our work, which may help us to plan website content. Other website data is used for monitoring and reporting purposes, and to help us to tailor our information and online services. By accessing this website, you agree to the site terms of use set out here. If you do not agree to them, you should leave the site immediately.

  • COOKIES WHEN YOU ARE USING OUR ONLINE SERVICES

Cookies are small text files stored on your device when you access most websites on the internet or open certain emails. Among other things, cookies allow a website to recognise your device and remember if you’ve been to the website before. As is common practice with almost all professional websites, this site uses cookies. We use cookies in order to make our website easier to use and, to support the provision of information and functionality to you.

You can disable cookies by adjusting the settings on your browser (see your browser Help for how to do this). Be aware that disabling cookies will affect the functionality and features of this and many other websites that you visit. Therefore it is recommended that you do not disable cookies.

This website offers e-commerce and payment facilities and some cookies are essential to ensure that your order is remembered between pages so that we can process it properly. When you submit data to us through a form such as those found on contact or comment pages, cookies may be set to remember your user details for future correspondence. We may use cookies to identify whether certain messages have been displayed to you in order to keep the number of such messages displayed to a minimum.

  • GOOGLE ANALYTICS, SOCIAL MEDIA, IMAGES and FILM

This site uses Google Analytics, which is one of the most widespread and trusted analytics solutions on the web for helping us to understand how you use the site and ways that we can improve your experience. These cookies may track things such as how long you spend on the site and the pages that you visit so we can continue to produce engaging content. For more information on Google Analytics cookies, see the official Google Analytics  website. As we sell products, it is important for us to understand statistics about how many of the visitors to our site actually make a purchase and this is the kind of data that these cookies will track. This means that we can accurately make business predictions that allow us to monitor our advertising and product costs to ensure the best possible price. We also use social media buttons and/or plugins on this site that allow you to connect with your social network in various ways. For these to work, social media sites including Facebook and Twitter will set cookies through our site which may be used to enhance your profile on their site or contribute to the data they hold for various purposes outlined in their own privacy policies. Occasionally, we use Google Ads and DoubleClick. Some of the content on our site may be provided by third parties. This includes but is not limited to: Google Maps for interactive mapping, YouTube or Video for hosted video and Flicker for images. When you visit a page containing content from one of these sites a cookie may be set. We do not have any control over these cookies and you should check the relevant third party website for more information about these. Images and film on our website, our YouTube channel and in our publications are copyright to Aid to the Church in Need unless otherwise stated. Permission for the use of images of young people is sought from schools and other groups, covered by Safeguarding policies. At ACN events it is made clear that photography may be used for marketing purposes. ACN may retweet or promote social media posts containing images or film clips issued by parishes, schools, groups and others in support of our work.

By using our website you agree to our use of cookies, including setting and reading cookies on your device. Whilst certain cookies may be set as soon as you visit a website, you can remove them using your browser settings – but this may impact the functionality or performance of the website.

  • YOUR CATHOLIC LEGACY

Your Catholic Legacy is a consortium of 26 Catholic charities that have come together to promote the benefits of making will and to highlight how a gift to a Catholic charity can make a lasting difference.

Information collected through the YCL website is stored securely and ACN only receives details of people who have requested our information.

  • UNDER 18’S (not marketing)

Aid to the Church in Need encourages youth engagement within parishes, schools and groups. Legislation allows for the recruitment of names from the age of 16 years with permission from a parent or guardian. Aid to the Church in Need will only act on contact details received from young people (with parental/guardian permission. Young people under the age of 18 need permission from their parents/guardians to sign up to receive information from Aid to the Church in Need.

  • LINKS TO OTHER SITES

We may provide links on our site to the websites of other companies. We cannot give any assurances that products you purchase from these companies will be of satisfactory quality, and any such warranties are disclaimed by us absolutely. This disclaimer does not affect your statutory rights against the third party seller.

  1. Update to our Privacy Notice

We may make changes to this Privacy Notice from time to time. We will update the privacy notice how and when it is required and will publish any new version.

  1. Summary

Aid to Church in Need (ACN UK) is committed to run its business in accordance with all applicable Data Protection laws and regulations and in line with the highest standards of ethical conduct. This policy sets out rules on data protection and the legal conditions that must be satisfied when we obtain, handle, process, transfer and store personal data. Under the General Data Protection Regulation, you have the right to request a copy of the personal data we hold about you and to have any inaccuracies corrected. We support your rights to be informed, right of access, right to rectification, right to erasure, right to restrict processing, right to data portability, right to object and rights related to automated decision making including profiling. If you have cause to complain about your data handling at Aid to the Church in Need UK, please contact us. We will acknowledge your complaint and undertake to deal with it promptly, fairly and confidentially.

  1. ACN UK’s Contact information

The accuracy of your information is important to us. We’re working on ways to make it easier for you to review and correct the information that we hold about you. We welcome any questions, comments, and requests regarding this Privacy Notice. In the meantime, if you change email address, or any of the other information we hold is inaccurate or out of date, please let us know by

Calling:   020 8642 8668

Emailing: acn@acnuk.org

Writing to Data Protection Officer at
Aid to the Church in Need,
12-14 Benhill Avenue,
Sutton SM1 4DA.

  1. Links

https://www.eugdpr.org/eugdpr.org-1.html

http://www.wired.co.uk/article/what-is-gdpr-uk-eu-legislation-compliance-summary-fines-2018

http://www.legislation.gov.uk/ukpga/2018/12/contents/enacted

https://ico.org.uk/for-organisations/guide-to-the-general-data-protection-regulation-gdpr/

http://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=uriserv:OJ.L_.2016.119.01.0001.01.ENG&toc=OJ:L:2016:119:TOC

https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection_en

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