Charity annual return privacy notice
Privacy notice about how we process your data when you send an annual return to the Charity Commission.
Applies to England and Wales
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This notice sets out how we process data as part of the charity annual return.
The charity’s accounts and trustees’ annual report are published in full on the charity register.
In completing the annual return service, your charity will be processing personal data and in some instances personal data which is special category personal data. This personal data may be processed in response to the question set in the service or it may be included in the accounts and trustees’ annual report.
Some personal data is required to be included by SORP but other personal data may be included because it is relevant to the charity’s financial performance or governance such as the names and other personal data about trustees, employees, donors, volunteers and beneficiaries.
The charity as the data controller is responsible for ensuring that its response in the annual return service and the accounts and trustees’ annual report meet its obligations under the General Data Protection Regulations and the Data Protection Act 2018 for all the personal data processed.
You will need to take particular care if you are including personal data about children, adults at risk, special category personal data or your charity’s trustees have a dispensation from including their name in the accounts.
For advice and guidance about what is personal data, what processing is and complying with data protection laws, see the Information Commissioners’ website