PRIVACY POLICY

TYNDALE FELLOWSHIP

Tyndale Fellowship is a fellowship of British and worldwide scholars in biblical, theological and related disciplines, engaging together in contemporary evangelical scholarship.

Tyndale Fellowship is the data controller and processor for the purposes of data shared with us. Tyndale Fellowship is a registered charity in England and Wales (no 1197286).

 

SUMMARY

We collect personal information from:

• our members

• our conference delegates

• our donors when they make a donation

• those who contact us directly

 

We use personal information to:

• keep in touch with our members

• carry out reasonable administration of our mailings, donations, conferences and other services

• manage enquiries from supporters and others, and provide advice to those who seek it

• improve our communications and develop our work

 

We also collect data relating to use of our website.

 

HOW WE OBTAIN PERSONAL INFORMATION

(i) Information provided by the data subject

• Members have provided us with their personal data on their membership forms.

• Members have been asked for their consent to receive regular communications from us, including email communications.

• Conference delegates have provided us with their personal data on their booking forms.

• Donors have usually provided us with their personal data when making a donation.

• Those who contact us directly will usually provide some personal data when contacting us.

 

The information provided may include:

• name and title

• address including postcode, and/or

• email address

• telephone number

• the name of their employer, church, and research interests

• an indication of their current role

• bank details from those making donations or payments.

 

We also collect the following information:

• amount and frequency of donations, payments, gift aid status, and partial bank details (but not sufficient for us to effect a transaction from their account)

• information about our relationship with supporters

• information provided by those who contact us for advice or with enquiries

 

(ii) Information we get from other sources

We sometimes use legal publicly available sources to obtain information.

 

For example: a university website to obtain the contact details for an academic whom we may wish to contact with an invitation to speak at a conference; public directories to find a contact telephone number for a member if we have cause to contact them and do not already have a number; to ensure that a member’s contact details are up to date; to conduct appropriate due diligence to ensure there is no reputational or financial risk to accepting a particular donation or approving an application for membership.

 

HOW WE USE PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use personal information to:

• administer mailings to our members and subscribers with information, news, and prayer requests

• manage enquiries from those who contact us, and keep a record of contact and correspondence

• administer our conferences

• administer donations and subscriptions, thank donors, and maintain our own accounts and records

• improve our communications, campaigns and services

 

We endeavour to keep personal information up to date. This includes monitoring returned mail to let us know if a person no longer lives at the address we hold for them. We also use public sources to make sure we do not send communications to the wrong place or person. If a person has applied to work for us, their personal information will only be used for the purposes of recruitment and processing their application. Information from unsuccessful applicants is kept for no more than six months after completion of the recruitment process.

 

OUR RESPONSIBILITIES

We only send email newsletters to those who have given their consent to us to do so. However, a person can change their mind at any time and withdraw their consent. Every email has a link to help the recipient unsubscribe if they wish to stop receiving emails.

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In all other cases the law allows us to hold and process the personal information of members and others if it is in our legitimate interests to do so. We rely on our legitimate interests to keep our members’ details and maintain our mailing list, to process and administer our subscriptions and donations, to administer our conferences, and to keep appropriate records. Relying on our legitimate interests means that we carry out an exercise to check that we will not cause harm to the data subject by processing their data, that the processing is not overly intrusive and that we will only process data in a way which is described in this privacy notice.

 

We also rely upon our legitimate interests to telephone our members if necessary. This may occasionally involve obtaining a telephone number from publicly available sources in the terms set out above. We will not telephone anyone who subscribes to the Telephone Preference Service (TPS) unless they have consented. We never ask for donations on the phone.

 

SECURITY

We keep personal information secure with appropriate measures in place to attempt to protect against the loss, misuse, and alteration of personal information.

 

We use secure server software to encrypt financial and personal information we collect online. However, the transmission of data across the internet is not completely secure. We cannot guarantee that loss, misuse or alteration of data will not occur whilst data is being transferred.

 

SHARING INFORMATION

We will not share the personal information we hold with another organisation for their own purposes and we will never sell personal information for any reason whatsoever.

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There may be occasions where it is necessary to share personal information where it is required by law or to respond to any legal or regulatory action. We will provide information to HMRC on gift aided donations since we have a legal obligation to provide this information.

 

There are also a few situations where our legitimate interests involve us sharing some personal information with service providers who are contracted to fulfil specific services for us. For example, we use the booking service, Eventbrite, to take and manage bookings for our conferences. However, we remain in control of the information and the service provider is not allowed to do anything with the information other than what we have requested.

 

HOW LONG WE KEEP DATA

Our relationship with our members is generally long term, so we keep their personal information for as long as we need it to maintain that relationship or when keeping the information is otherwise necessary. We take into account our need to meet any legal, statutory and regulatory obligations. These reasons vary from one piece of information to another. For example, we keep information relating to donations and gift aid for seven years.

 

Our need to use personal information is assessed on a regular basis and we dispose of data securely, using specialist companies to do this work for us if necessary.

 

SUBJECT ACCESS RIGHTS

A person has certain rights under existing data protection law including the right to request in writing a copy in of the personal information we hold about them. Since 25 May 2018 a person has the following rights unless an exemption applies:

Right to Access

The right to access the personal information that we hold about them. We shall respond promptly, and certainly within one month from the point of receiving a subject access request and all necessary information.

Right to Correct

The right to obtain from us, without undue delay, the rectification of inaccurate or incomplete personal information we hold concerning them.

Right to Erase

The right to ask us to erase their personal information without undue delay.

Right to Restriction of Processing

In certain circumstances, the right to restrict us from processing their personal information.

Right to Object

The right to object to our use of their personal information including where we use it on the basis of our legitimate interests. We shall no longer process a person’s personal information unless we can demonstrate compelling legitimate grounds for the processing.

 

ACCURACY OF PERSONAL INFORMATION

We aim to keep our information about our supporters and those who contact us accurate as possible. If a person wishes to access, review or change the information supplied to us, they can contact us as set out below.

 

CONTACT US

To make enquiries in relation to this privacy notice please direct your enquiry to our Communications Officer, Ros Clarke: Email here

If a person is not satisfied with the way we deal with any complaint in relation to the use of their personal information they may be able to refer their complaint to the relevant data protection regulator, which in the UK is the Information Commissioner’s Office.

 

CHANGES

We keep our privacy and cookies notice under regular review. This notice was last updated on 14th December, 2022.