Website Privacy Notice

1. Your privacy matters to us

We will be open and transparent about any personal data that we collect about you via our website and other web services we offer.


Who we are:


2. We may process your personal data


For any other uses, we will request and obtain your consent to collect personal data. We will retain this personal data in accordance with legislative requirements and in line with our data retention policy.


3. Sharing of data

We do not share your data with any organisation outside of the Church of Ireland except where required to by law.


In certain cases (such as when you complete our online Gift Aid Declaration form, send us an email, or join our mailing list), your data will be stored on Google or Brevo servers which may not be in the EEA. Google's privacy notice can be found at https://policies.google.com. Information on how Google complies with UK GDPR laws can be found at https://policies.google.com/privacy#europeanrequirements. You can find Brevo's privacy policy at https://www.brevo.com/legal/privacypolicy/ and their terms of use at https://www.brevo.com/legal/termsofuse/.




4. Your rights relating to your personal data

You have the following rights, subject to certain exemptions, in relation to your personal data:


If we are processing personal data based on your consent, you may withdraw that consent at any time.


5. Requirement to process personal data

You may browse our website without providing us with any personal data and this will not affect your ability to view our website. However, if you do not provide us with your personal data we may not be able to respond to you. We do not use any personal data for the purpose of automated decision–making or profiling.


6. Security

We implement security safeguards designed to protect your personal data.


7. Contact Information

To exercise all relevant rights, make queries or make a complaint, please in the first instance contact the Honorary Secretary via gdpr@stbrigidsglengormley.org or by writing to St Brigid’s Church, 48 Ballyclare Road, Glengormley, BT36 5HL.  

You may also lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioner.


You can contact the Information Commissioners Office (UK) on 0303 123 1113; via email by visiting https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or by writing to the Information Commissioner’s Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire, SK9 5AF.


You can contact the Information Commissioner’s Office (Northern Ireland) on 028 9027 8757; via email ni@ico.org.uk or by writing to the Information Commissioner’s Office (Northern Ireland), 3rd Floor, 14 Cromac Place, Belfast, BT7 2JB.


8. Cookies

This website uses “cookie” technology to analyze how you use the website including the number of times you have visited it including the dates of your first and most recent visit; to capture data such as your age category, preferred language, the country and city from which you access the website, and the device you are using; and to store your YouTube video player preferences, calculate the bandwidth of your connection for optimal playback of embedded YouTube videos, and to keep statistics of what YouTube videos you have seen. These cookies are set by Google. We have no access to the data they collect. However the data is used by Google to provide us with analytics which do not personally identify users. You are free to block/disable these cookies if your browser permits, or to ask your browser to indicate when a cookie is being sent. You can also delete cookie files from your computer if you wish to. We use no cookies of our own.


9. Changes to this policy:

Any changes to this policy will be posted on this website so you are always aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we disclose it.