PRIVACY POLICY
Website Privacy Policy
Last modified: January 2022
Introduction
Thank you for visiting this website, offered by Limavady Baptist Church. At Limavady Baptist Church, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. In this privacy policy, the words “we”, “our” and “us” mean and refer to Limavady Baptist Church. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit any of our website, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information. This policy also applies to information we collect when you contact us by mail, telephone, e–mail, text, social media or other electronic means, and when you otherwise access our programs and services or communicate with us.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with it, your choice is not to use our website.
What information do we collect about you through our website and how do we collect it?
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information:
• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e–mail address, telephone number or any other information the website collects that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under an applicable law, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information")
• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
What information do you provide to us through our website?
The information we collect on or through our website may include:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering on our website to attend our church building, or registering to participate in a ministry activity.
• Records and copies of your correspondence with us, including e–mail addresses.
• Your responses to online forms that we might ask you to complete for various purposes.
• Your search queries on the website.
• Information you provide to be posted on public areas of the website, or transmitted to other users of the website.
What information do we collect through automatic data collection software?
As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection software to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
• Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.
• Information about the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique device ID, its IP address, operating system, and internet browser.
We also may use these software to collect information about your online activities over time and across third–party websites or other online services (behavioural tracking), including but not limited to Google Analytics. Such software technologies utilise unique analytic advertising features and implements cookie data collection which is then transferred to third parties. All information as collected and shared by Google Analytics regarding your visits to this site is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognising you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. We currently do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service, including by enabling us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Speed up your searches.
Occasionally a user's behaviour within our website will trigger an automated response or series of responses that is designed to help the user further engage with our ministry.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
• Web Beacons. Third–party websites and e–mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, opened an e–mail, and for other related website statistics like recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity.
Third–Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Software Technologies
Some content or applications on the website may be served by third–parties, including ministry affiliates, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest–based or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. For example, you can opt out of receiving targeted ads.
What information do we collect offline?
When you contact us by mail, telephone, or other means, access our programs or services, or otherwise communicate with us, we collect: information by which you may be contacted, including mailing address, e–mail address and telephone number.
How do we use your information?
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
• To carry forward and manage our ministry activities.
• To contact you by mail, telephone, e–mail, text or other available communication channels for the purpose of informing you about our mission, our activities, and programs, and provide you with further opportunities to support and partner with us.
• To present our website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information or services that you request from us.
• To fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it, in any other way we may describe when you provide it, and for any other purposes with your consent.
• To notify you about changes to our website or any services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website, and other ministry e–mail and mail outreach.
• We may also use your information to contact you about third parties' ministry related services that may be of interest to you.
• Meeting any legal or regulatory requirements.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. As a general rule, all information about our supporters and others who access our programs and services is held by us in strict confidence and, except in limited circumstances, is not revealed to anyone else unless expressly or implicitly authorised by such individuals.
Notice Regarding Location of Records and Service Providers:
Electronic records for Limavady Baptist Church are maintained in Northern Ireland by Limavady Baptist Church. Limavady Baptist Church uses suppliers and service providers to perform services on its behalf. If you have questions about the collection, use, disclosure or storage of personal information by service providers please contact us.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
• To service providers and other third parties we use to support our ministry.
• To fulfil the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose with your consent or disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use, as permitted by law.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Limavady Baptist Church, our congregants or others, as permitted by law.
• As otherwise permitted by law.
What choices do you have about how we use and disclose your information?
You do have choices about how we use and disclose your information. If you do not want your information used or shared in accordance with this notice:
• You can choose not to provide your information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of some of our website’s features.
• If you do not want to receive e–mail or other electronic communication from us, you can.
• If you do not want to receive mail and telephone contact from us, you can.
Data Security
We have implemented measures to help secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored either on our secure servers behind firewalls or cloud storage provided by a third party hosting company. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by e–mail and/or through a notice on the website home page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up–to–date active and deliverable e–mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Additional Information for Mobile Users
Our website does not pull contact information, friends’ lists, contacts’ lists or check–ins. Our website does collect precise information about the location of your mobile device.
Inquiries and Complaints
We did our best to keep this document simple, but if you have any or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us.
Website Privacy Policy
Last modified: January 2022
Introduction
Thank you for visiting this website, offered by Limavady Baptist Church. At Limavady Baptist Church, we respect your privacy and are committed to protecting it through our compliance with this policy. In this privacy policy, the words “we”, “our” and “us” mean and refer to Limavady Baptist Church. This policy describes the types of information we may collect from you or that you may provide when you visit any of our website, and our practices for collecting, using, maintaining, protecting and disclosing that information. This policy also applies to information we collect when you contact us by mail, telephone, e–mail, text, social media or other electronic means, and when you otherwise access our programs and services or communicate with us.
Please read this policy carefully to understand our policies and practices regarding your information and how we will treat it. By accessing or using this website, you agree to this privacy policy. If you do not agree with it, your choice is not to use our website.
What information do we collect about you through our website and how do we collect it?
We collect several types of information from and about users of our website, including information:
• By which you may be personally identified, such as name, postal address, e–mail address, telephone number or any other information the website collects that is defined as personal or personally identifiable information under an applicable law, and any other identifier by which you may be contacted online or offline ("personal information")
• Directly from you when you provide it to us.
• Automatically as you navigate through the site. Information collected automatically may include usage details, IP addresses and information collected through cookies, web beacons, and other tracking technologies.
What information do you provide to us through our website?
The information we collect on or through our website may include:
• Information that you provide by filling in forms on our website. This includes information provided at the time of registering on our website to attend our church building, or registering to participate in a ministry activity.
• Records and copies of your correspondence with us, including e–mail addresses.
• Your responses to online forms that we might ask you to complete for various purposes.
• Your search queries on the website.
• Information you provide to be posted on public areas of the website, or transmitted to other users of the website.
What information do we collect through automatic data collection software?
As you navigate through and interact with our website, we may use automatic data collection software to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
• Details of your visits to our website, including traffic data, location data, logs and other communication data and the resources that you access and use on the website.
• Information about your computer and internet connection, including your IP address, operating system and browser type.
• Information about the type of mobile device you use, your mobile device unique device ID, its IP address, operating system, and internet browser.
We also may use these software to collect information about your online activities over time and across third–party websites or other online services (behavioural tracking), including but not limited to Google Analytics. Such software technologies utilise unique analytic advertising features and implements cookie data collection which is then transferred to third parties. All information as collected and shared by Google Analytics regarding your visits to this site is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognising you on return visits to this site by disabling cookies on your browser. We currently do not respond to Do Not Track signals.
The information we collect automatically is statistical data and does not include personal information, but we may maintain it or associate it with personal information we collect in other ways or receive from third parties. It helps us to improve our website and to deliver a better and more personalised service, including by enabling us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Speed up your searches.
Occasionally a user's behaviour within our website will trigger an automated response or series of responses that is designed to help the user further engage with our ministry.
The technologies we use for this automatic data collection may include:
• Cookies (or browser cookies). A cookie is a small file placed on the hard drive of your computer. You may refuse to accept browser cookies by activating the appropriate setting on your browser. However, unless you have adjusted your browser setting so that it will refuse cookies, our system will issue cookies when you direct your browser to our website.
• Web Beacons. Third–party websites and e–mails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons that permit us, for example, to count users who have visited those pages, opened an e–mail, and for other related website statistics like recording the popularity of certain website content and verifying system and server integrity.
Third–Party Use of Cookies and Other Tracking Software Technologies
Some content or applications on the website may be served by third–parties, including ministry affiliates, content providers and application providers. These third parties may use cookies alone or in conjunction with web beacons or other tracking technologies to collect information about you when you use our website. The information they collect may be associated with your personal information or they may collect information, including personal information, about your online activities over time and across different websites and other online services. They may use this information to provide you with interest–based or other targeted content. We do not control these third parties' tracking technologies or how they may be used. However, these third parties may provide you with ways to choose not to have your information collected or used in this way. For example, you can opt out of receiving targeted ads.
What information do we collect offline?
When you contact us by mail, telephone, or other means, access our programs or services, or otherwise communicate with us, we collect: information by which you may be contacted, including mailing address, e–mail address and telephone number.
How do we use your information?
We use information that we collect about you or that you provide to us, including any personal information:
• To carry forward and manage our ministry activities.
• To contact you by mail, telephone, e–mail, text or other available communication channels for the purpose of informing you about our mission, our activities, and programs, and provide you with further opportunities to support and partner with us.
• To present our website and its contents to you.
• To provide you with information or services that you request from us.
• To fulfil any other purpose for which you provide it, in any other way we may describe when you provide it, and for any other purposes with your consent.
• To notify you about changes to our website or any services we offer or provide though it.
• To allow you to participate in interactive features on our website, and other ministry e–mail and mail outreach.
• We may also use your information to contact you about third parties' ministry related services that may be of interest to you.
• Meeting any legal or regulatory requirements.
Disclosure of Your Information
We may disclose aggregated information about our users, and information that does not identify any individual, without restriction. As a general rule, all information about our supporters and others who access our programs and services is held by us in strict confidence and, except in limited circumstances, is not revealed to anyone else unless expressly or implicitly authorised by such individuals.
Notice Regarding Location of Records and Service Providers:
Electronic records for Limavady Baptist Church are maintained in Northern Ireland by Limavady Baptist Church. Limavady Baptist Church uses suppliers and service providers to perform services on its behalf. If you have questions about the collection, use, disclosure or storage of personal information by service providers please contact us.
We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this privacy policy:
• To service providers and other third parties we use to support our ministry.
• To fulfil the purpose for which you provide it.
• For any other purpose with your consent or disclosed by us when you provide the information.
• To comply with any court order, law or legal process, including responding to any government or regulatory request.
• To enforce or apply our terms of use, as permitted by law.
• If we believe disclosure is necessary or appropriate to protect the rights, property, or safety of Limavady Baptist Church, our congregants or others, as permitted by law.
• As otherwise permitted by law.
What choices do you have about how we use and disclose your information?
You do have choices about how we use and disclose your information. If you do not want your information used or shared in accordance with this notice:
• You can choose not to provide your information, even though it might be needed to take advantage of some of our website’s features.
• If you do not want to receive e–mail or other electronic communication from us, you can.
• If you do not want to receive mail and telephone contact from us, you can.
Data Security
We have implemented measures to help secure your personal information from accidental loss and from unauthorised access, use, alteration and disclosure. All information you provide to us is stored either on our secure servers behind firewalls or cloud storage provided by a third party hosting company. The safety and security of your information also depends on you. Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we do our best to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee the security of your personal information transmitted to our website. Any transmission of personal information is at your own risk. We are not responsible for circumvention of any privacy settings or security measures contained on the website.
Changes to Our Privacy Policy
This policy may change from time to time. Your continued use of this website after we make changes is deemed to be acceptance of those changes, so please check the policy periodically for updates. The date the privacy policy was last revised is identified at the top of the page.
If we make material changes to how we treat our users' personal information, we will notify you by e–mail and/or through a notice on the website home page. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up–to–date active and deliverable e–mail address for you, and for periodically visiting our website and this privacy policy to check for any changes.
Additional Information for Mobile Users
Our website does not pull contact information, friends’ lists, contacts’ lists or check–ins. Our website does collect precise information about the location of your mobile device.
Inquiries and Complaints
We did our best to keep this document simple, but if you have any or comment about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices, please contact us.