Data Protection Regulations
The Data Protection (Charges and Information) Regulations 2018 requires every organisation or sole trader who processes personal information to pay a data protection fee to the ICO, unless they are exempt.
And the following comes up on the self assessment section to determine exemption status:
Answer ‘Yes’ if your organisation was established for not-for-profit making purposes and does not make a profit. Also answer ‘yes’ if your organisation makes a profit for its own purposes, as long as the profit is not used to enrich others. You must:
• only process information necessary to establish or maintain membership or support
• only process information necessary to provide or administer activities for people who are members of the organization or have regular contact with it;
• you only hold information about individuals whose data you need to process for this exempt purpose
• the personal data you process is restricted to personal information that is necessary for this exempt purpose
Can the word 'support' where it appears in the first bullet point above cover the situation where Charity A refers a person not otherwise known to Charity B for support. If so, how is the situation affected by the second bullet point?
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Yes, the first bullet point refers to services provided by the Charity to its members (i.e. soup kitchen, health assistance and so on), while the second bullet point refers to people working in the Charity either as volunteers or staff.
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Feb 24, 2020