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SAFEGUARDING

We are committed to the safeguarding, care and nurture of everyone within our church community. We affirm the importance of treating everyone with dignity, respect and fairness. 

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If you would like to read our full policy, 'SAFE' please get in touch.

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If you have any concerns around the welfare of a child or adult, you should speak to our safeguarding champion Carol Byrne or email us

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PRIVACY

We take our Data Protection responsibilities seriously. For those who are interested, here are the ways in which your personal data are processed by us.

Oxfordshire Community Churches (OCC) is the data controller, based at The King's Centre, OX2 0ES, and can be contacted at dataprotection@occ.org.uk or 01865 297 400.

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OCC will process personal data that you provide to:

  • communicate with you about activities, events, vacancies, and other matters that are central to the life of our faith community:

    • For church members, OCC considers this communication to be in its legitimate interests, especially as your church membership represents our mutual commitment to our shared goals

    • For non-members, OCC considers that this communication requires your opt-in consent, which you may withdraw verbally or in writing using OCC's contact details as listed above, although we may require you to confirm your intentions and/or identity if your request is ambiguous or unclear

  • provide pastoral care, Christian discipleship, and community governance, and to foster missional outreach, all of which are central to the life of our faith community:

    • OCC considers this to be in its legitimate interests for all individuals with whom it has regular contact

    • OCC considers this to be justified by its legal obligations in certain situations (eg. safeguarding)

    • OCC considers its processing of sensitive personal data to be justified by its charitable purposes (with appropriate safeguards and confidentiality)

  • comply with any lawful requirement to process your information for the appropriate authorities

    • OCC considers this to be justified by its legal obligations in certain situations (eg. NHS Test and Trace records to fight the spread of COVID-19)

Your personal data will only be accessible to staff members or volunteers directly involved in these purposes, and it will be erased no more than one year after your last contact with OCC (unless we are legally obliged to retain it, or if as a non-member you withdraw your consent for promotional communications, after which you will be removed from our communications database as soon as possible).

Your personal data will not be shared with any other parties, unless it is necessary to fulfil a legal obligation (eg. complying with legislation, a court order, etc), and it will never be sold. It will be stored in the UK on databases solely owned and operated by OCC, and/or provided by 3rd-party data processors with whom OCC has a contractual agreement and whom OCC has vetted for appropriate data security.

With respect to OCC's use of your personal data, you have certain rights:

  • to be informed (e.g. this privacy notice)

  • to access (to check the accuracy of your data)

  • to rectification (to have your data corrected)

  • to restriction (to have this processing put on hold)

  • to be forgotten (erased from our records)

  • to challenge profiling (inc. automated decision-making)

  • to complain to the Information Commissioner's Office

OCC will not use your personal data for automated decision-making nor for profiling.

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