The General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) Regulation (EU) 2016/679 entered into force on 24 May 2016 and applies since 25 May 2018.
As St. Albans church is within the EU, the GDPR also applies to us.
The council has created a GDPR sub-committee which is in the process of understanding how GDPR affects us.
Your rights under GDPR
Accoring to https://ec.europa.eu/info/law/law-topic/data-protection/reform/rights-citizens/my-rights/what-are-my-rights_en , you have the right to:
- information about the processing of your personal data;
- obtain access to the personal data held about you;
- ask for incorrect, inaccurate or incomplete personal data to be corrected;
- request that personal data be erased when it’s no longer needed or if processing it is unlawful;
- object to the processing of your personal data for marketing purposes or on grounds relating to your particular situation;
- request the restriction of the processing of your personal data in specific cases;
- receive your personal data in a machine-readable format and send it to another controller (‘data portability’);
- request that decisions based on automated processing concerning you or significantly affecting you and based on your personal data are made by natural persons, not only by computers. You also have the right in this case to express your point of view and to contest the decision.
