07/01/2018

Privacy Policy

This Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church (hereinafter “Abundant Life” or the “Church”) Privacy Policy describes your privacy rights regarding our collection, use, storage, sharing and protection of your personal information.This privacy policy (“Privacy Policy”) applies solely to information collected through the web sites, web pages, interactive features, blogs, located at the following URL: https://www.abundantlifecbc.org. In addition to WeChat, Facebook, or other social networking Church sites, and their respective contents, whether accessed via computer, mobile device or other technology (collectively, “our Sites” or “the Sites”). The Sites are offered by Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church and Site developers (collectively, “the Church”, or “we”, “us”, “our”). It applies to our Sites and all related sites, applications, services and tools regardless of how you access or use them. This Privacy Policy explains what information may be collected through our Sites, how such information may be used and/or shared with others, how we safeguard it and how you may access and control its use in connection with our activities. Please read this Privacy Policy carefully, because by using our Sites you are acknowledging that you understand and agree to the terms of this Privacy Policy, which governs your use of the Sites and any content you submit to our Sites.

Information you provide to us

We strive to respect and protect your privacy. When you are visiting our Sites, may collect personally identifiable information about you (“Personal Information”). This is information you provide. Personally identifiable information is any information that could reasonably be used to identify you personally. This includes, but is not limited to: name, address, email address, telephone number, zip code, gender, birthday and the names and ages of your spouse and children, and any other personally identifiable information that you provide to us. We also collect other information concerning your viewing patterns, your browser, operating system and IP address.

Information Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church may collect automatically

Whenever you visit or interact with our Sites, Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church, as well as service providers, may use a variety of technologies that automatically or passively collect information about how the Sites are accessed and used (“Usage Information”). Usage Information may include, in part, browser type, operating system, the page served, the time, and the preceding page views. This statistical data provides us with information about the use of the Sites, such as how many visitors visit a specific page on the Sites, how long they stay on that page, and which hyperlinks, if any, they “click” on. This information helps us keep our website fresh and interesting to our visitors and tailor content to a visitor’s interests. Usage Information is generally non-identifying, but if the Church associates it with you as a specific and identifiable person, the Church treats it as Personal Information. The technologies used to collect Usage Information, including Device Identifiers, may include:

Cookies. Cookies are data files placed on a Device when it is used to visit our Sites. This includes information obtained through the use of “cookies” placed on your computer. In order to provide you with a customized website and to track your viewing patterns, we may place a “cookie” on your computer that allows us to recognize you when you visit our site. Cookies are bits of computer code that Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church places on your computer that can be accessed by our computer when you visit this site. Cookies allow us to collect information about you so that your experience on this site will be as customized as possible. Most computers will automatically receive cookies. You can prevent cookies from being placed on your computer by accessing your browser’s preferences menu. We do not use cookies to obtain any personal information about you before or after you leave the Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church website. The information thatAbundant Life Chinese Baptist Church collects helps us to provide information and service to you. In the case of credit or debit card payments or on-line giving, the information collected allows us to complete the transaction. We may combine information from other sources with the information that we collect.

Web Beacons. Small graphic images or other web programming code called web beacons, may be included in our Sites and e-mail messages. Web beacons or similar technologies may be used for a number of purposes, including, without limitation, to count visitors to the Sites, to monitor how users navigate the Sites, to count how many emails that were sent were actually opened or to determine whether content sent was actually viewed.

What does Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church do with the information that is collected?

Any information that you provide to Abundant Life Chinese baptist Church or that is obtained through this website may not be shared with related or affiliated entities or to sister Churches. We will not sell, rent or lease your personal information to commercial entities other than our payment processor. Other than information we release to our payment processor, information that Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church may disclose to third parties (other related or affiliated entities and sister Churches) will only be released in the aggregate (e.g. number of visitors to a page, etc.) and will not contain any personally identifiable information. Aggregate information is useful for church statistics and marketing purposes. Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church will not otherwise disclose your name, address, email address or phone number without your express consent, unless disclosure is necessary to comply with laws or relevant legal proceedings.

How does Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church protect the security of information collected about me?

The security of the information that you provide to us is very important to us. The information you provide to us online is protected by Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. All sensitive information,  are conducted using an SSL (Secure Socket Layer) connection. SSL is the leading security protocol for data transfer on the internet. This technology scrambles your account information as it moves between your device’s browser and Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church’s computer systems. When information is scrambled, or encrypted in this way, it becomes nearly impossible for anyone other than Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church to read it. This secure session helps protect the safety and confidentiality of your information as it is transmitted to our website.

Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church protects the privacy of children.

Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church is committed to protecting the privacy and safety of children. The Sites are not directed to children under 12. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from anyone under 12 years of age. If we determine upon collection that a user is under this age, we will not use or maintain his/her Personal Information without the parent/guardian’s consent. If we become aware that we have unknowingly collected personally identifiable information from a child under the age of 12, we will make reasonable efforts to delete such information from our records. However, in certain circumstances, we may maintain and use such information (in accordance with the rest of this Privacy Policy and applicable law) in order to notify and obtain consent from the parent/guardian and for certain safety, security, liability and other purposes permitted under applicable law. A parent/guardian can review, remove, change or refuse further collection or use of their child’s Personal Information by contacting us as provided above (include child’s name, address and email address). If you have any questions or concerns about the protection of children’s privacy, or if parents wish to deny consent and request that Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church delete their child’s information, please contact us. We are not responsible for the data collection and use practices of non-affiliated third parties to which our website may link.

Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church reserves the right to change or amend this policy.

You accept this Privacy Policy when you sign up for, access, or use our products, services, content, features, technologies or functions offered on our website and all related sites, applications, and services. Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church reserves the right to change, amend, or restate this policy. Therefore, you should revisit this page from time to time to determine the current policy. The revised version will be effective at the time we post it. Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church will post any substantial changes in this privacy policy at least 30 days prior to implementation of the change. Any information collected under this current policy will remain bound by the terms of this privacy policy. After the changes take effect, all new information collected, if any, will be subject to the revised privacy policy.

Privacy policy effective date.

This privacy policy is effective July, 2018. Your affirmative consent to Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church collection and use of personally identifiable information: By using this Abundant Life Chinese Baptist Church website, you are giving us your express consent to use the information that we collect about you in the manner described in this policy.

Questions or concerns?

If you have comments, questions or concerns about this privacy policy, please contact us by Email.