PRIVACY POLICY
Welcome to http://www.ournewhope.com The official website on which this Policy is hosted, is owned, and managed by New Hope Church.
Please read carefully this privacy policy because it tells you how New church collect, use, disclose, transfer, store, retain or otherwise process your information, whether provided through the website, or acquired directly by any other means, and will be dealt with in accordance with the Law and regulations in the United States.
By continuing to navigate through this website, you are accepting the terms and conditions of use, which govern Newl church’s relationship with you.
By providing Personal Data, including by use of this website, you agree to allow us to contact you, including by mail, email, telephone or SMS text message, in connection with our charitable purposes:
a. for our legitimate interests, in accordance with current data protection regulations; or b. on the basis of the consents you have given.
WHAT INFORMATION WE COLLECT
There are many places at our site where you can share your personal information with us, and where you can communicate with others.
PERSONAL INFORMATION
New Hope Church collects general information about users and members such as name, email address, contact details to reach you out. We may also collect this and other types of personal information throughout the course of interacting with you, for example when you make an enrollment for one service or being an acting member of our core groups, as well as, during the registration process for participating in events or conferences. The website will not collect any personal information about visitors to the website except when they knowingly provide it.
In order to perform Tithe, donations and payments to New Hope Church, all Users will need to submit certain personal information about themselves through a form (as prompted by the Website and/or Application), including their name, phone number, postal and email address. Users may be asked to submit further information once in a while.
THE TYPES OF PERSONAL INFORMATION COLLECTED BY US INCLUDE:
• Personal details such as your title, name and date of birth.
• Contact details such as postal address, post code, email, mobile and telephone numbers.
• When relevant to our mission, demographic information such as marital status, nationality, education, employment/qualifications and family details.
• Financial information such as bank account details, for processing donations and transactions.
• spouse and family details when you jointly volunteer, register for events, and/or register your children for any reason at New Hope Church.
• Employee and volunteer data such as qualifications, languages and experience.
• Records of your contact with us.
• Photographs provided by you or taken at New Hope Church services or events.
SENSITIVE PERSONAL INFORMATION
We may collect, store and protect sensitive personal information such as:
• Health information provided during pastoral meetings and /or Prayer request.
• Health information to assist attendance at Church services and events.
• Religious information (attendance at Church events / activities, personal faith decisions, baptism, etc.)
• Prayer requests.
USE OF INFORMATION AND DATA
Your personal information will be dealt with in accordance with the Law. It is never sold, nor given away. It is only shared with others where you have given consent or where it is permitted or required either contractually or legally.
We utilize the information you provide for the purposes for which it was originally collected, for example, to respond to your email or to provide the programs or services you requested. We may in addition use this information to help us improve the content and functionality of our website, to better understand the needs and interests of the people and organizations that operate our website, and to improve our programs and services.
HOW PERSONAL INFORMATION IS COLLECTED
• Personal Data is collected each time you are in contact with us, for example, when you:
• Visit the website (see the Cookies Policy).
• Make a donation to New Hope Church.
• Register for a New Hope service, event or conference.
• Register for participating in a core group
• Apply for volunteering at New Hope Church.
• Provide your contact details, in writing or orally, to New Hope Church staff or volunteers.
• Contact us by means such as email, text, letter, telephone.
• Have face to face meetings with staff and volunteers.
• Access social media platforms such as New Hope facebook page, Church Center App, and Bible Engagement Project app.
REGISTRATION.
Our site gives you the opportunity to register with us, and sometimes registration is required before certain site features can be used. Our registration forms may request your contact information (such as your name, email address, phone number, etc.), demographic information (like marital status), and profile data (such as your day of birth, language preference, listening/viewing preferences, etc.). For some available applications You may be assigned a site username and/or password. For our internal purposes, we use this information to communicate with you and provide the services you have requested, and to provide a more personalized experience on our sites. We use profile information about our audience in order to improve our service, for research purposes, marketing/promotional purposes and/or for industry reporting purposes, among others. By visiting our sites, you affirmatively consent to our collection and use of your data.
NEWSLETTERS AND COMMUNICATIONS.
Our registered users and customers may receive newsletters, email communications, or communications through other channels for, among other purposes, the promotion of a product or service from our church.
COMMUNICATIONS WITH US.
We have features where you can submit information to us (such as when contacting us with a question or prayer request). We may retain your emails and other information you submit to us for our internal purposes, and to help us to serve you better.
COMMUNICATIONS WITH OTHERS.
We may offer features where you can send information to others. We will use the contact information you enter to send the information requested.
AUTOMATIC DATA COLLECTION
Our web site may have features that automatically collect information from users to assist us in creating sites that honor our users’ preferences and serve their interests and needs.
Our website uses cookies, they are small data files that are stored on your hard drive or in your device memory when you visit a website or view a message. Some cookies are used to make login to our sites easier (such as by remembering usernames and passwords).
As you navigate through and interact with our Website or Application, we may use automatic data collection technologies to collect certain information about your equipment, browsing actions and patterns, including:
• Details of your visits to our Website or Application, 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, and information on the way you use the Application.
We also may use these technologies to collect information about your online activities over time and across third-party websites or other online services (behavioral tracking), including but not limited to Analytics. Such technologies utilize unique analytic advertising features and implement cookie data collection which is then transferred to third parties. All information as collected and shared by Analytics tools regarding your visits to this site is governed by Google’s Privacy Policy. You can prevent Google Analytics from recognizing 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 Application and to deliver a better and more personalized service, including by enabling us to:
• Estimate our audience size and usage patterns.
• Store information about your preferences, allowing us to customize our Website or Application according to your individual interests.
• Speed up your searches.
• Recognize you when you return to our Website or Application.
DATA COLLECTION FROM CHILDREN
Our Website and Application are not intended for children under 18 years of age. If you are under 18, you may use the Website and Application only with the involvement of a parent or guardian. No one under age 18 may provide any personal information to or on the Website or Application.
THIRD-PARTY USE OF COOKIES AND OTHER TRACKING TECHNOLOGIES
Some content or applications on the Website may be served by third-parties, including 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 others 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.
LINKS AND SOCIAL MEDIA
This website may also include links to other websites or may provide social media buttons, permitting sharing web content directly to a social media platform, such as Facebook, Instagram, Vimeo and Church center app.
We do not endorse those application we use and have no responsibility for the content unless posted by or approved by us nor are we responsible for the cookies such websites may contain.
We do not endorse social media website(s) and have no responsibility for the content unless posted by or approved by us nor are we responsible for the cookies such websites may contain.
Use of such buttons or links is at your own risk and you must verify authenticity of sites before posting or providing personal information on such sites.
We do not ask for passwords or personal details on social media.
PROTECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION
New Hope Church takes reasonable protections including administrative, technical, and physical measures to properly safeguard your personal information against loss, theft, and misuse, as well as against unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, and destruction. Any payment transactions will be encrypted during transition.
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 or Application. 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.
Where we have given you, or where you have chosen security codes (username, password, memorable word or PIN), which enable you to use any online service, you are responsible for keeping these security details confidential.
CHANGES TO PRIVACY POLICY
New Hope Church may amend or update this privacy policy from time to time, with or without notice to Users. All Users agree to be bound by the privacy policy that is in effect at the time they access the Website or use the Application.
RETENTION
New Hope Church will retain your personal information for the period necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law.
For additional information about privacy policies of those applications we use please consult following links: