Privacy Notice

Last updated: 2 October 2026

1. Your personal data – what is it?

   “Personal data” is any information about a living individual which allows them to be identified from that data (for example a name, photographs, videos, email address, or address). Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information. The processing of personal data is governed by the Data Protection Act 2018, the UK General Data Protection Regulation (UK GDPR) and other legislation relating to personal data and rights such as the Human Rights Act 1998.

2. Who are we?

   This Privacy Notice is provided to you by Christ Central Church Bridgwater (CCC), the working name of Living Light Christian Church (registered charity number 1106918), a company incorporated and registered in England with Company number 05270456 and whose registered office is at Christ Central Church, The Old School Building, Gipsy Lane, Bishop’s Hull, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5LQ, who is the data controller for your data. CCC works closely with a number of different organisations and office-holders who work together to deliver their mission.

   We meet for Sunday gatherings at Northgate School, Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU. For privacy questions, email office@ccchurch.uk.

   These may include but are not limited to: other partner churches and organisations; and venues for conferences and events, etc.

   IT solutions used by CCC (where some information may be stored) include: Elvanto (database and event registration software); Subsplash (the creators of our church teachings app); Microsoft Forms / Microsoft 365 (Get in Touch and office workflows); Vercel (website hosting and privacy-friendly analytics); Quickbooks (accounts software); and Stripe (online payment portal).

   As CCC works with these persons and organisations, we may need to share personal data we hold with them so that they can carry out our responsibilities for the running of the church, and other tasks within their communities. Christ Central Church Bridgwater is the data controller. This means it is responsible to you for how your data is processed.

   A description of what data is processed and for what purpose is set out in this Privacy Notice. This Privacy Notice is provided to you by CCC and its directors / trustees on our own behalf. In the rest of this Privacy Notice, we use the word “we” to refer to Christ Central Church Bridgwater.

3. What data does the data controller process?

   We will process some or all of the following where necessary to perform our tasks:

   Through Get in Touch on this website we typically collect your name, email address, optional telephone number, how we can help, and your message, plus submission metadata needed to operate the form securely.

   • Names, titles, aliases, and photographs
   • Contact details such as telephone numbers, addresses, and email addresses
   • Where they are relevant to our mission, or where you provide them to us, we may process demographic information such as gender, age, date of birth, marital status, nationality, education/work histories, academic/professional qualifications, hobbies, family composition, and dependants
   • Where you make donations or pay for activities such as registering for an event, financial identifiers such as bank account numbers, payment card numbers, payment/transaction identifiers, policy numbers, and claim numbers
   • The data we process is likely to constitute special category personal data because, as a religious organisation, the fact that we process your data at all may be suggestive of your religious beliefs

4. How do we process your personal data?

   We will comply with our legal obligations to keep personal data up to date; to store and destroy it securely; to not collect or retain excessive amounts of data; to keep personal data secure; and to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and to ensure that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

   We use your personal data for some or all of the following purposes:

   • To enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations
   • To carry out comprehensive safeguarding procedures (including due diligence and complaints handling) in accordance with best safeguarding practice from time to time with the aim of ensuring that all children and adults-at-risk are provided with safe environments
   • To deliver our mission to our communities, and to carry out any other voluntary or charitable activities for the benefit of the public as provided for in the constitution and statutory framework of each data controller
   • To administer attendance records
   • To fundraise and promote the interests of CCC as a non-profit organisation
   • To maintain our own accounts and records
   • To process a donation that you have made (including Gift Aid information)
   • To seek your views or comments
   • To notify you of changes to our events and role holders
   • To send you communications and/or information which you have requested or which may be of interest to you. These may include information about campaigns, appeals, other fundraising activities
   • To process a grant or application for a role
   • To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public
   • To reply to website Get in Touch enquiries and help you plan a visit or get connected in Bridgwater

5. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

   Most of our data is processed because it is necessary for our legitimate interests, or the legitimate interests of a third party (such as another church within the United Kingdom). An example of this would be providing us and venues with information on attendees (dietary requirements, or special requests). We will always take into account your interests, rights and freedoms.

   We may also process data if it is necessary for the performance of a contract with you, or to take steps to enter into a contract. An example of this would be processing your data in connection with attending one of our events.

   Religious organisations are also permitted to process information about your religious beliefs to administer membership or contact details.

   Where your information is used other than in accordance with one of these legal bases, we will first obtain your consent to that use.

   If we ever want to send you regular church news or marketing by email, we will ask for clear consent first and make it easy to unsubscribe. Filling in Get in Touch is not consent for a newsletter.

6. Sharing your personal data

   Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential. It will only be shared with third parties where it is necessary for the performance of our tasks or where you first give us your prior consent. It is likely that we will need to share your data with some or all of the following (but only where necessary):

   • The appropriate bodies within CCC
   • Our agents, servants and contractors. For example, we may ask a commercial provider such as Mailchimp to send out newsletters on our behalf, or to maintain our database software
   • On occasion, other churches with which we are carrying out joint events or activities
   • Website processors such as Microsoft (Get in Touch / Microsoft 365) and Vercel (hosting), under their terms and data-protection commitments

7. How long do we keep your personal data?

   We will keep some records permanently if we are legally required to do so. We may keep some other records for an extended period of time. For example, it is current best practice to keep financial records for a minimum period of seven years to support HMRC audits. In general, we will endeavour to keep data only for as long as we need it. This means that we may delete it when it is no longer needed.

   Get in Touch responses are kept only as long as needed to complete your enquiry and any sensible follow-up, then deleted or anonymised. As a working guide we aim to review and clear completed general enquiries within 12 months, unless there is a clear reason to keep them longer. Safeguarding-related records may be kept longer where required.

8. Your rights and your personal data

   You have the following rights with respect to your personal data. When exercising any of the rights listed below, in order to process your request, we may need to verify your identity for your security. In such cases we will need you to respond with proof of your identity before you can exercise these rights.

   • The right to access information we hold on you — contact us to request the information we hold on you; we will respond within one month. There are no fees for the first request but additional requests for the same data may be subject to an administrative fee
   • The right to correct and update the information we hold on you
   • The right to have your information erased where it is no longer necessary for us to retain it (or where we are processing it unlawfully)
   • The right to object to processing of your data
   • The right to data portability where that right applies
   • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time for any processing of data to which consent was sought
   • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner’s Office — 0303 123 1113 · ico.org.uk · Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF

9. Transfer of Data Abroad

   Any electronic personal data transferred to countries or territories outside the UK / EU will only be placed on systems complying with measures giving equivalent protection of personal rights either through international agreements or contracts approved by the relevant authorities. Our website is also accessible from overseas, so on occasion some personal data (for example in a newsletter) may be accessed from overseas.

10. Further processing

    If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Notice, then we will provide you with a new notice explaining this new use prior to commencing the processing and setting out the relevant purposes and processing conditions. Where and whenever necessary, we will seek your prior consent to the new processing.

11. Contact Details

    Please contact us if you have any questions about this Privacy Notice, the information we hold about you, or to exercise all relevant rights, queries or complaints at:

    Christ Central Church Bridgwater · Northgate School, Northgate, Bridgwater TA6 3EU

    Email: office@ccchurch.uk

    Registered office: Christ Central Church, The Old School Building, Gipsy Lane, Bishop’s Hull, Taunton, Somerset, TA1 5LQ

    Information Commissioner’s Office · Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire SK9 5AF · 0303 123 1113 · ico.org.uk