Privacy Policy
Your privacy is important to us at Sunrise Church. Under data protection legislation, we need to let you know how we care for your information.
Sunrise Church is the Data Controller and can be contacted by via email at . (Full [contact details] are provided on our website.)
DATA WE COLLECT AND HOW WE HANDLE IT
CHURCH MEMBERS AND THOSE IN CONTACT WITH THE CHURCH
Your name, contact details and other information you provide to us may be stored electronically or securely in paper form.
To enable us to provide adequate pastoral support to you and your family, the Church may record information which may be regarded as sensitive. This information will be stored securely, either electronically with password protection, or in locked draws or cabinets. This information will NOT be disclosed to anyone else without your consent, except as required by Law.
CHURCH EMAIL DATABASE
Your name and email address will be passed electronically to our current email provider MailChimp and stored electronically and accessible only by authorised users. Your email details will be removed from the email provider once you are no longer a member of the Church. We will contact you annually to check that the information we are holding is accurate, and that you wish to continue to receive communications.
CHURCH MEMBERSHIP DATABASE
Your name and contact details will be entered into our Church membership database which is stored electronically and accessible only by authorised users. Your contact details will be removed from our membership database once you are no longer a member of the Church. We will contact you annually to check that the information we are holding is accurate, and that you wish your contact details to be available to other Church members. You can ask for all or any of your details to be removed (or amended) at any time.
EMPLOYEES
We collect the following personal information - your name, telephone number, address, email address and bank account details and characteristics - your gender, country of birth, religion etc. The personal data you provide in your application and as part of the recruitment process will only be held and processed for the purpose of selection processes and in connection with any subsequent employment or placement, unless otherwise indicated. Your data will be retained only for as long as is permitted by UK legislation and then destroyed.
LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING YOUR DATA
CHURCH MEMBERS AND THOSE WHO ARE IN CONTACT WITH THE CHURCH
We are collecting this information to enable the Church to keep in touch with you and provide pastoral support as appropriate. Data Protection legislation allows us to process this information as we regard it as being in the Church’s legitimate interest.
EMPLOYEES
We are collecting this information to enable us to enter into a contract of employment with you. If you are unable to provide this information then we will be unable to enter into that contract.
SHARING DATA
We will not share your data with third parties without your consent, except as you might reasonably expect (e.g. if you book to attend a residential conference, we may pass your name to the hotel).
YOUR RIGHTS UNDER GDPR
Under Data Protection legislation, you have the right to request access to information about you that we hold.
You also have the right to:
- object to processing of personal data that is likely to cause, or is causing, damage or distress
- prevent processing for the purpose of direct marketing
- object to decisions being taken by automated means
- in certain circumstances, have inaccurate personal data rectified, blocked, erased or destroyed; and
- claim compensation for damages caused by a breach of the Data Protection regulations.
To make a request for your personal information, or for any queries relating to how your information is used and your rights to access information, please email the Senior Pastor at .
If you have a concern about the way we are collecting or using your personal data, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance or directly to the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns.
CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY NOTICE
We review our Data Protection Policy annually. The last review date was June 2019.
Articles may have social media sharing. Below are the outlines of the interactions you may be exposed to:
Facebook Login
We collect your public profile data only from your consent that you grant before initiating Social Login, from the social network used to login at our website. This data includes your first name, last name, email address, link to your social media profile, unique identifier, link to social profile avatar. This data is used to create your user profile at our website. You can revoke this consent at any time by sending us an email.
Facebook Comments
We embed Facebook Comments plugin to allow you to leave comment at our website using your Facebook account. This plugin may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the commenting interface, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the interface (such as “liking” someone’s comment, replying to other comments), if you are logged into Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update.
Facebook Like, Facebook Recommend, Facebook Share
We embed a Facebook widget to allow you to see number of likes/shares/recommends and “like/share/recommend” our webpages. This widget may collect your IP address, your web browser User Agent, store and retrieve cookies on your browser, embed additional tracking, and monitor your interaction with the widget, including correlating your Facebook account with whatever action you take within the widget (such as “liking/sharing/recommending” our webpage), if you are logged in to Facebook. For more information about how this data may be used, please see Facebook’s data privacy policy: https://www.facebook.com/about/privacy/update
GooglePlus Comments
We use GooglePlus Comments widget at our website for you to be able to comment at our webpages using your GooglePlus account. From this interaction Google automatically collects and store certain information in server logs like IP address, device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
We use a Twitter Tweet widget at our website. As a result, our website makes requests to Twitter’s servers for you to be able to tweet our webpages using your Twitter account. These requests make your IP address visible to Twitter, who may use it in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://twitter.com/en/privacy#update
We use cookies on our website. By using our website you agree to this Policy and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this Policy.
ABOUT COOKIES
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.
COOKIES ON THIS WEBSITE
Generally, we use cookies to help us administer this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use cookies to identify which pages are being used most frequently. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs.
Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.
Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you and does not gives us access to your computer or any information about you.
Most web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you would prefer. Bear in mind that this may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website and enabling us to optimise the website for you.
THIRD PARTY COOKIES
We also use third party cookies to help us to understand how users interact with our website and enable us to improve user experience.
Our website saves the cookie heateorSsBrowserMsg in your browser to track which visitors have seen the popup notification and which haven’t. This cookie isn’t related to your personal data or your IP address.
Social Analytics for Sharing
We use Google Analytics to track social shares made at our website. Google automatically collect and store certain information in their server logs which includes device event information such as crashes, system activity, hardware settings, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and referral URL, cookies that may uniquely identify your browser or your Google Account, in accordance with their data privacy policy: https://policies.google.com/privacy
Again most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers will allow you to reject just third party cookies.