Privacy Policy & Cookie Disclaimer

We recognise that your privacy is important. This document outlines the types of personal information we receive and collect when you use www.garstoncommunitychurch.co.uk, as well as some of the steps we take to safeguard information. This will help you make an informed decision about sharing personal information with us.

Garston Community Church strives to maintain the highest standards of decency, fairness and integrity in all our operations. Likewise, we are dedicated to protecting our visitors’ privacy on our website.

About Our Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that this website stores on your computer, which your browser provides back each time you return to the site. We use cookies to help us identify and track visitors, their use of our website, and their website access preferences.

This website uses Google Analytics to analyse how the site is used. Google Analytics collects demographic and interest data and generates statistical information about website use by means of cookies. These cookies are kept on your computer. We share this information with Google, which stores and uses it on its servers — see Google’s privacy policy.

We use the information Google Analytics generates to track the number of visits to the website, browsers and operating systems. No personally identifiable information is obtained from these cookies. These reports allow us to update the site and improve your experience of it.

If you do not wish your data to be collected via Google Analytics, you can install its opt-out browser extension or add-on.

Refusing Cookies

You can set your browser to accept or refuse all cookies automatically, or to notify you when a cookie is being requested. Taking this action should not cause a problem with the continued use of our site. Consult the Help section of your browser for guidance on how to refuse cookies.

If you choose to refuse this website’s cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the site.

How We Use Your Information

We may collect and use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To run and operate our site.
• To display content on the site correctly.
• To improve customer service and respond to your requests and support needs more efficiently.
• To personalise your user experience.
• To understand how our users as a group use the services and resources provided on our site.
• To improve our site, products and services.
• To run a promotion, contest, survey or other site feature.
• To send information you agreed to receive about topics we think will be of interest to you.
• To send periodic emails, which may include electronic newsletters.
• To respond to your enquiries, questions and other requests.

We may collect personally identifiable information from you in a variety of ways — including when you visit our site, register, or fill out a form. Specifically, if you subscribe to our newsletter, we will ask for your first name and require your email address.

Non-personally Identifiable Information

We may collect non-personally identifiable information about you whenever you interact with our site. This may include the browser name, the type of computer, and technical information about how you connect to our site — such as the operating system and the internet service provider used.

Children’s Privacy Protection

This website is directed to adults. It is not directed to children under the age of 16. We operate our site in compliance with current regulations. Anyone under the age of 16 must provide parental consent to use this site. We do not knowingly collect or use personally identifiable information from anyone under 16 years of age.

Release of Information

If we sell www.garstoncommunitychurch.co.uk, the information we have obtained from you through your voluntary participation in our site may transfer to the new owner as part of the sale, so that the service provided to you may continue. In that event you will receive notice through our website, and we will make reasonable efforts to ensure the purchaser honours any opt-out requests you might make.

Data Storage

Personally identifiable and non-personally identifiable information collected by this site is stored on our host’s servers. To review the information stored about you, please contact us.

Correcting or Removing Your Information

We provide this privacy policy as a statement of our commitment to protect your personally identifiable information. If you have submitted information through our website and would like to update it, or have it deleted from our records, please contact us.

Updates & Effective Date

www.garstoncommunitychurch.co.uk reserves the right to make changes to this policy. If there is a material change in our cookie and privacy practices, we will indicate on our site that those practices have changed and provide a link to the updated policy. We encourage you to review this policy periodically.

Agreeing to Terms

If you do not agree to this privacy policy as posted here, please do not consent to the setting of cookies or the collection and storage of your personally identifiable information. Your explicit consent indicates acceptance of this privacy policy in its entirety.

Last updated: 25 May 2018