On Sunday 23rd March 2025, we made the announcement that Fr David will be leaving the Benefice for a position in Chelmsford Diocese. The official announcements are reproduced below. Please join us in congratulating David on this appointment and wishing him every success in this new season of his ministry. We are sad to see him go and will miss him. Our love and our prayers go with him. Anne & Vas, John & Sue (Churchwardens)From Bishop Dagmar, the Acting Bishop of Ely The Reverend David Owain Sheppard, currently Priest in Charge of the Buckden with the Offords Benefice and Assistant Director of Ordinands and Vocations Adviser in the Diocese of Ely, has been appointed as Rector of Thaxted, Hempstead, Radwinter and The Samfords in the Diocese of Chelmsford. His licensing date is still to be confirmed but it is anticipated to be sometime in early July. We wish David and Kate every blessing for the future.From the Archdeacon of StanstedWe are delighted to announce that the Patrons and Parish Reps have appointed the Revd David Sheppard to the role of Rector of Thaxted, Hempstead, Radwinter and The Samfords. David returns to Chelmsford having been an ordinand here in Saffron Walden before training at Westcott House in Cambridge, so this is a part of Essex he knows and loves well. David is currently serving as Priest in Charge of Buckden and the Offords in the Ely Diocese. He is married to Kate and has a grown up son Rupert. He is an artist and we look forward to welcoming him and his family in the summer. Details of the licensing are being sorted out but we are hoping for early July. Please pray for David and Kate as they prepare to move.
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? · The PCC of St Mary’s, Buckden is the data controller (contact details below). · Father David Sheppard is also a data controller (contact details below). This means that they decide how your personal data is processed and for what purposes. 3. How do we process your personal data? The PCC and Priest in Charge of St Mary’s Buckden comply with their 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 provide pastoral care to our parishioners · 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 enable us, through Friends in Deed, to provide help and assistance to people in the community who have particular needs. · To administer membership records; · To fundraise and 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 individuals of news, events, activities and services running at St Mary’s; · To share your contact details with the Diocesan office so they can keep you informed about news in the diocese and events, activities and services that will be occurring in the diocese and in which you may be interested. 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 news, events, activities and services and process your gift aid donations and keep you informed about diocesan events. · Processing is necessary for carrying out obligations under employment, social security or social protection law, or a collective agreement; · Processing is carried out by a not-for-profit body with a political, philosophical, religious or trade union aim provided: - o the processing relates only to members or former members (or those who have regular contact with it in connection with those purposes); and o there is no disclosure to a third party without consent. 5. Sharing your personal data Your personal data will be treated as strictly confidential and will only be shared with other members of the church in order to carry out a service to other church members or for purposes connected with the church. We will only share your data with third parties outside of the parish with your consent or where there is a legal obligation to do so. 6. How long do we keep your personal data[1]? We keep data in accordance with the guidance set out in the guide “Keep or Bin: Care of Your Parish Records” which is available from the Church of England website [see footnote for link]. Specifically, we retain electoral roll data while it is still current; gift aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate; and parish registers (baptisms, marriages, funerals) permanently. 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 the PCC or Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden holds about you; · The right to request that the PCC or Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden 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 the PCC or Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden 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), (where applicable) [Only applies where the processing is based on consent or is necessary for the performance of a contract with the data subject and in either case the data controller processes the data by automated means]. · 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, (where applicable) [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics] · 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 Data Controller = PCC, St Mary’s, The Parish Church of Buckden, Church St, Buckden. PE19 5TL Data Controller = Father David Sheppard, Priest-in-charge, The Vicarage, 16 Church St, Buckden. PE19 5TL To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact consent@stmarysbuckden.org.uk or priestincharge@stmarysbuckden.org.uk or the churchwardens. You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email https://ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF. This privacy notice was approved by the PCC and Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden on 20th November 2023. It is reviewed annually by the PCC and Priest in Charge of St Mary’s, Buckden. [1] Details about retention periods can currently be found in the Record Management Guides located on the Church of England website at: - https://www.churchofengland.org/more/libraries-and-archives/records-management-guides
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