Posted September 26, 2017
We understand that you care how information about you is used
and shared- and we do too. We hope the following statements will help you
understand how we collect, use and protect the information you provide to us
through our Website. What we collect and how we use it
Information You Provide
When you use certain functions within the Website, we may ask you for personal
information (such as your name, email address and an account password). We do
not sell, rent, or disclose your personally identifiable information with
outside organizations without your explicit permission. We may combine the
information you submit under your account, with information from other Northampton
services or third parties to provide certain services, offer you a better
experience and to improve the quality of our services. Examples of the above
include, but are not limited to, providing online giving services, presenting
you with spiritual development opportunities, adding new features, and analyzing
our website performance. For certain
services, we may allow you to opt out of combining such information.
Within the Website, you have the ability to give to Northampton
Christian Church. Because we use third party services to process credit cards,
we do not store full credit card numbers or verification numbers on our servers
at any time.
IP Address, Location Data
and Device Identifiers
When you access the Website, we may collect your Internet Protocol (“IP”)
address, location data, and/or device identifier. We use this information to
provide a tailored experience for you, such as, but not limited to, helping you
find and connect with nearby Northampton events. We also collect this
information to determine the aggregate number of unique devices using our service
or parts of our service, to track total usage, analyze data, and communicate
with you more effectively. This information can include: the device operating
system, hardware version, device settings, file and software names and types,
battery and signal strength, and device identifiers, name of your mobile
operator or internet service provider, browser type, language and time zone,
mobile phone number and IP address. We may combine this information with
information from third parties to provide you with a better experience and to
improve the quality of our service. We do not sell, rent, or share any
personally identifiable information with third parties without your explicit
permission.
Website Cookies
When you use the Website we may send one or more cookies to your computer, so
that we may uniquely identify your browser. (A cookie is simply a tiny text
file containing a string of characters.) Accepting our cookies allows you to
keep your user preferences from session to session. Although most browsers accept
cookies by default, you can set your browser to refuse all cookies, or to tell
you when you are being sent a cookie. Some of the Website features and services
may not function properly if you have cookies disabled.
Log Information
When you use the Website, our service providers automatically record
information sent by your browser. These logs may include information such as
your web browser type, your IP address, or device language, the date and time
of your request, and one or more cookies or identifiers that may uniquely
identify your browser or device.
User Communication
Personal information or requests that you submit through the Website will be
sent to the church office. The church office or one of the staff members will
have access to this information. When you send email or other communication to
us, we may retain those communications to process your inquiries, respond to
your requests and improve our services.
Third Party Sites
This Privacy Policy applies only to the Website operated by us. We cannot
regulate other sites linked from within our various services. These other sites
may place their own cookies or other files on your computer, collect data or
solicit personal information from you. You should familiarize yourself with
their unique Privacy Policies, should you choose to visit their sites.
How do we use your information?
When you sign up for a particular service that requires
registration, we ask you to provide personal information. We collect your
information to support your participation, deliver requested content, to note
your preferences, and to keep you informed about events, related resources, and
spiritual development opportunities. As a visitor to our Website and user of
our Application, you can engage in many activities without providing any
personal information.
How do we protect your information?
We do not sell, rent, or
share your personal information with other institutions without your explicit
consent. We may share your personal information only if we have a good
faith belief that access, use, preservation or disclosure of such information
is reasonably necessary to: (a) satisfy any applicable law, regulation, legal
process or enforceable governmental request; (b) enforce applicable “Privacy
Policies” or “Terms and Conditions”, including investigation of potential
violations thereof; (c) detect, prevent, or otherwise address fraud, security
or technical issues; or (d) protect against imminent harm to the rights,
property or safety of us, our users or the public as required or permitted by
law. We take appropriate security measures to protect against unauthorized
access to or unauthorized alteration, disclosure or destruction of data
including internal reviews of our data collection, storage and processing
practices and security measures, as well as physical security measures to guard
against unauthorized access to systems where we store personal data. Unless
explicit permission is obtained from you, we restrict access to personal
information to our employees, contractors and agents who need to know that
information to operate, develop or improve our services. These individuals are
bound by confidentiality obligations and may be subject to discipline,
including termination and criminal prosecution, if they fail to meet these
obligations.
Data Integrity
We review our data collection, storage and processing practices to ensure that
we only collect, store and process the personal information needed to provide
or improve our services. We take reasonable steps to ensure that the personal information
we process is accurate, complete, and current, but we depend on our users to
update or correct their personal information whenever necessary.
Accessing and Updating
Personal Information
When you use any of our services, we make good faith efforts to provide you
with access to your personal information and either to correct this data if it
is inaccurate or to delete such data at your request if it is not otherwise
required to be retained by law or for legitimate service purposes. We ask
individual users to identify themselves and the information requested to be
accessed, corrected or removed before processing such requests, and we may
decline to process requests that are unreasonably repetitive or systematic,
require disproportionate technical effort, jeopardize the privacy of others, or
would be extremely impractical (for instance, requests concerning information
residing on backup storage), or for which access is not otherwise required. In
any case, where we provide information access and correction, we perform this
service free of charge. The procedure to correct or remove your data will vary
depending on the requested change.
Enforcement
We periodically review our compliance with this Privacy Policy. When we receive
formal written complaints regarding privacy issues, it is our policy to contact
the complaining user regarding his or her concerns. We will cooperate with the
appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection
authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data
that cannot be resolved between us and an individual.