GDPR

What is the General Data Protection Regulation? (GDPR)

The GDPR is a new regulation by which the European Parliament, the Council of the European Union and the European Commission intend to strengthen and unify data protection for all individuals within the European Union, aiming to give control back to citizens and residents over their personal data.

GDPR came into effect from 25th May 2018.

Taking data security and privacy seriously

At Halesowen C of E , we take data security and privacy extremely seriously and believe that the GDPR is an important step forward for clarifying and enabling individual privacy rights, as such we are committed to maintaining compliance with the GDPR.

We are undertaking a comprehensive GDPR audits to ensure the data handling best practice is being followed by our staff.

We are also updating a number of key documents that cover in detail how we handle and manage data