Privacy notice
If you have received a letter from the Children's Society about Christingle services, please scroll down for our response
The law around data protection changed on 25th May 2018 with the introduction of the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).
This page explains the impact of the change on St John's, and the measures we take to keep personal data safe and secure.
St John's takes data protection very seriously. Any details you give to us such as your name, postal address, telephone number, EMail address and tax status for Gift Aid purposes are stored in computer files which are held securely and backed up regularly. Written records, such as Banns of Marriage or Holiday Club application forms, are kept in secure storage. We do not collect or store any information via our church website.
We never pass on your personal details to any other person or organisation, and we will not use the information we have about you for any purpose other than sending you news about St John's and keeping our membership records up to date.
We would like to stay in touch with you with regular notices of our events and other news. We occasionally send details of church events by Google Mail, with EMail addresses in the BCC field so that other recipients are unable to view your data. If you decide you no longer want to hear from us, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link included at the bottom of our emails.
We want to make sure that information we hold about you is up to date. You can contact the Church Office if you would like to change or update your information, or to check what information we have about you. Before revealing that information to you we will apply some checks to verify your identity and ensure we do not share your details with anyone else.
If you have any queries regarding our use of data, please contact the church office.
Revd Andrew McClellan
Vicar
We never pass on your personal details to any other person or organisation, and we will not use the information we have about you for any purpose other than sending you news about St John's and keeping our membership records up to date.
We would like to stay in touch with you with regular notices of our events and other news. We occasionally send details of church events by Google Mail, with EMail addresses in the BCC field so that other recipients are unable to view your data. If you decide you no longer want to hear from us, you can unsubscribe at any time using the link included at the bottom of our emails.
We want to make sure that information we hold about you is up to date. You can contact the Church Office if you would like to change or update your information, or to check what information we have about you. Before revealing that information to you we will apply some checks to verify your identity and ensure we do not share your details with anyone else.
If you have any queries regarding our use of data, please contact the church office.
Revd Andrew McClellan
Vicar
Serious data breach: Children's Society Christingle mailing
In June 2019 a number of people received letters from the Children's Society headed "The Christingles are coming!" and giving details about how to organise next year's Christingle service. The letters were sent to people's home addresses but the words "St John the Evangelists Church Bromley" were included in the address field. The mailing was inappropriate since none of the addressees had ever been involved in organising a Christingle service, and because the use of the church's name implied that each addressee was an officially nominated point of contact for St John's.
Some recipients of the letter concluded that St John's had given their details to the Children's Society in breach of our privacy policy. This is not the case. We understand that the Children's Society obtained these details from the Gift Aid envelopes completed by people who came to our Christingle service in December 2018, and sent the recent letters in error and in breach of their own data policy. A representative of the Children's Society has confirmed that they will be writing to apologise to all those affected.
Update (25th July 2019): Andrew Moran, Head of Supporter Relations for the Children’s Society, has written a letter of apology to St John's, explaining that the personal data used for the mailing came from a handful of different sources including Gift Aid envelopes originally received in 2015. He writes: "It appears that due to an administration error some supporters who we now recognise as never being involved in organising a Christingle celebration were picked up as part of the selection for this mailing." Mr Moran has confirmed that he will be writing a letter of apology to all members of St John's who were affected by the error. The letters should be sent out by 2nd August.
Update (5th August 2019): the letters of apology have now been sent. Anyone expecting a letter who has not received one is asked to contact the church office.
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