Privacy Statement

Devon Historic Churches Trust will collect data to facilitate its work supporting Devon’s parish churches, which enables them to provide grants for their essential repairs and refurbishment.

The personal details collected will only be used to provide you with information on the work of the DHCT, its fundraising activities or to facilitate the grant giving process.

We may use your data so that any marketing communications we send to you are appropriate and cost effective.

You can withdraw your consent to us using your data in this way at any time, by contacting our Secretary by email at:

contact@devonhistoricchurchestrust.co.uk

or by writing to:

Devon Historic Churches Trust
The Old Farmhouse,
Hele Farm,
Hennock Road,
Bovey,
Tracey Devon,
TQ13 9PP

We will take care to make all reasonable efforts to keep your data secure. We will never sell or share them with other organisations to use for their own purposes.

Our promise to you

As a valued supporter of Devon Historic Churches Trust, we want you to feel that contributing to us delivers positive support to our parish churches. We are a charity run by volunteers dedicated to providing grants for repairs to our Devon churches, with a clear and accessible application process. The funds awarded are made possible by the generosity of our supporters, without which the work of the DHCT would not be possible.

• We promise to spend the funds you raise or donate responsibly to provide the vital grants needed to our parish churches for their essential repairs or refurbishment.
• We promise to communicate in a way that suits you. You decide whether you want to receive information about the work of the DHCT and our fundraising activities.
• We promise to never sell your data to any third party. DHCT values your support and respects your privacy. The data we gather, and hold is managed in accordance with the Data Protection Act (1998) and will comply with the General Data Protection Regulations (GDPR) from May 2018. For more details see our Privacy Statement.
• We promise to deal with enquiries as quickly as we can. We aim to get it right first time and if we don’t, we will explain why. Please email: contact@devonhistoricchurchestrust.co.uk or write to DHCT, The Old Farmhouse, Hele Farm, Hennock Road, Bovey Tracey TQ13 9PP if you have any compliments or complaints.
• We promise to use fair and safe fundraising methods and ensure everyone is treated in an equal and inclusive way.

Thank you for supporting the Devon Historic Churches Trust and thereby enabling us to provide vital grant funding to our parish churches for their essential repairs and refurbishment, which ensures they survive and serve our communities for future generations.

A gift in your Will could help secure the future of our glorious Devon churches.