Holywood Baptist Church
 
PRIVACY POLICY

Holywood Baptist is committed to protecting your personal information and being transparent about what information we hold about you, whether you are a visitor to our websites, a subscriber to our publications, a financial supporter, a volunteer or participant in one of our programmes or events, or a prayer supporter.

This policy explains how we collect and use the personal information you provide to us, whether this is online, in person or via phone, mobile, email, letter or other correspondence or printed form, and personal information about you that we may obtain from third parties.

If you use our websites or any of our services, or provide us with any personal information, we will bring this policy to your attention so that you are fully aware of how your information will be used and disclosed.
 

Our Privacy Policy in Brief

It’s important that you read the full policy to understand what information we hold, how we may use it, and what your rights are - but if you don’t have time to read it all now, here’s a quick summary:

 

• We collect information that is personal data. Personal data is information that can be used to help identify an individual, such as name, address, phone number, email address, IP addresses or website pages accessed.

• We collect information about everyone who engages with HBC. This could be supporters, subscribers, customers, those who participate in our programmes or events, donors, volunteers, employees, office-bearers or trustees.

• We collect information to provide services or goods, to provide information, to fundraise for our work, to resource our activities and fulfil our charitable objectives and for administration. This information may also be used for research analysis, and for the prevention or detection of crime.

• We only collect the information that we need or that you agree we can collect.

• We do our best to keep personal information secure wherever we collect personal data online.

• We never sell your data and we will never share it with another company or charity for their own purposes.

• We only share data where we are required by law or with carefully selected service providers who carry out work for us. We recognise the importance of ensuring that all our service providers treat your data as carefully as we would, use it only as instructed, and allow us to check that they do this.

• Our websites use cookies. For more information, please check our cookies policy.

These are the key points of the privacy policy. You will find the policy in full below, so you’ve got all the details you need.

This policy applies to all the websites we operate, our use of emails and postal mailings for marketing purposes, and any other methods we use for collecting information. It covers what we collect and why, what we do with the information, what we won’t do with the information, and what rights you have.

To see our Privacy Policy in full please click this link.