Privacy Policy

1.  ​Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

 

2.  ​Who are we?

Fowey Grammar School Foundation is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

 

3.  ​How do we process your personal data?

Fowey Grammar School Foundation complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

We use your personal data for the following purposes:

  • To enable us to provide a voluntary service for the benefit of the public in a particular geographical area as specified in our constitution;

  • To administer grant records;

  • To promote the interests of the charity;

  • To manage our employees and volunteers;

  • To maintain our own accounts and records (including the processing of gift aid applications);

  • To inform you of services provided by the trust

 

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

  • Explicit consent of the data subject so that we can keep you informed about grants and services provided by the trust and to provide such grants and services.

  • Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement.

 

5.  ​Sharing your personal data

Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with trustees in order to carry out a service provided by the trust. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the trust with your consent.

 

6.  ​How long do we keep your personal data?

We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out by the Charity Commission. Specifically, we retain data while it is still current and applicants are still in higher education.

 

7.  ​Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

  • The right to request a copy of your personal data which FGSF holds about you;

  • The right to request that FGSF corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;

  • The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for FGSF to retain such data;

  • The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time

  • The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data and where possible, to transmit that data directly to another data controller, (known as the right to data portability)

  • The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;

  • The right to object to the processing of personal data.

  • The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

 

8.  ​Further processing

If we wish to use your personal data for a new purpose, not covered by this Data Protection 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.

 

9.  ​Contact Details

To exercise all relevant rights, submit queries or complaints, in the first instance, please contact: The Clerk, 7 Vicarage Road, Tywardreath, PL24 2PQ.

 

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or The Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.