Lawful Basis for Collecting and Storing Personal Information

In the course of my business of preparing and conducting Humanist Ceremonies, I collect and process personal information about my customers, their families and possibly other people.

The Information Commissioner’s Office has confirmed (12.3.18) that Legitimate Use is an acceptable basis for storing all data in order to conduct a ceremony, including data belonging to family or friends who are living and are not the customer.

Customers are able to indicate their consent to my use of this information for the conduct of a ceremony by deleting as applicable on my data gathering document.          

What Data do I collect?

Names, addresses, telephone numbers, email addresses, details of people’s lives including relationships with other people, activities such as work, leisure activities and if applicable political, trade union or activities in relation to religion or belief. This data takes the form of:

• Paper and electronic copies of scripts
• Completed Information Sheets and questionnaires (paper)
• Emails
• Text messages
• Facebook messages
• Photographs *

* Existing Photographs may be provided to me for use on the Presentation Script which is given to the Customer. These Photographs will be deleted from my records after the ceremony. See ‘Who I share it with’ below for information on photographs taken at your ceremony.

What I do with Data

I write and conduct ceremonies, market my services, and keep records for business purposes.

I complete a booking form and questionnaire by hand when I am engaged by a client. This is used to prepare the ceremony script.

After the ceremony I keep this form for my business records. This contains basic information about the ceremony and the customer.

Who I share Data with

In the course of marketing my humanist ceremonies service it is helpful for me to be able to show some images on social media sites.

These images may be photographs taken at the ceremony and shared with me later – by you or your photographer. But occasionally I will take photographs myself. They may be of you, your child(ren), or of your family and friends.

When using your data in this way, I abide by these principles:

• Images will be tasteful, accurate and show people, subjects and ceremony only in the best light
• People in the photos may be identified by first name only, never surname
• You can ask me not to use your name(s)
• If the ceremony is held at home, the address will not be identifiable
• You can ask me to remove an image at any time
• You can withdraw your general consent to my sharing your images at any time

I may share information at the customer’s request, with other family members or friends of the customer.

Scripts may be shared with colleagues for training and quality purposes and will be anonymised first.

How I store Data

• I keep electronic files including scripts, on a password-protected computer running anti-malware software. I do not keep paper records of ceremonies.
• When I am Peer Reviewed, as required by the terms of my Accreditation by Humanists UK, I share the script with my reviewer. They will destroy all copies electronic and printed once the review has been completed.
• I keep contact details on my electronic devices.

How long I keep information for:

Access to the information I hold about you

Customers may request access to the information I hold about them at any time, and I will provide this within one month of the request. You may request that your information is deleted, and I will do so within 48 hours of any request.

Consent

Specific consent for the use of photographs for marketing purposes, may be given for a limited period of time, and may be withdrawn by you at any time. Should consent be withdrawn, photographs will be deleted from my website/Facebook or other medium asap and within one week of receiving a request. Where photographs have been used in printed form eg leaflet, poster, further copies will not be printed.

Visitors to my website

In order to function, my website uses session cookies, but as soon as you leave the site these are deleted and the site does not retain any information about you or your computer.

Reviewing this Privacy Statement

This statement was reviewed on 6th August 2024