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Privacy Policy

Your Privacy

What is ChurchSuite?
ChurchSuite (“the Services”) is a web-based church management system that is designed to help us administer our church and provide elements of pastoral care to our members and the community. Our members may be provided with access to a profile, which they can use to provide us with information (including personal information), update preferences and access options to allow the booking of events and recording attendance. ChurchSuite should bring benefits to everyone as we can stay in touch with you much more easily and so you can provide us with information in a quick and efficient way. In addition to ChurchSuite, we may also collect information from you in person, on paper forms or online forms within other systems. We have also included information about other forms of processing that we may carry out.

What Is The Purpose Of This Privacy Policy?

LifeSpring Ministries is a “data controller” which means we have to tell you certain information when processing your personal information. We may input personal information into ChurchSuite or may ask you to do so yourself. We may collect information from you in person or we may ask you to fill in paper forms or input information into other systems that the church uses. If you have any queries about this Privacy Policy or how we use your personal information, please contact:

LifeSpring Ministries, LifeSpring Centre, 34 Clifton Street, Wolverhampton, WV3 0QT. You can reach us by email at info@lifespring.uk.com.

This Privacy Policy relates to your use of the Services and tells you:

• What personal information we collect about you when you use the Services

• How we collect your personal information in the Services

• How we use your personal information

• Who we may share your personal information with

• Any transfer of personal information outside of the EEA

• How long we keep your personal information

• What we do to protect your personal information

• What choices you have in relation to your personal information.

What Is The Purpose Of This Privacy Policy?

What information we process about you

We may collect the following information about you:

• Your name and address

• Your mobile phone number

• Your email address

• Whether or not you are ordained or in holy orders

• Any ecclesiastical permissions you hold

• Your marital status

• Your age and gender

• Information about your family

• Your education and employment

• Your role(s) within the church (if appropriate)

• Any membership of a PCC or status as a representative for the church

• Attendance at meetings, events and training

• To carry out a DBS check

• The result of a DBS check

• Information about your use of the Services (e.g. when you have logged in, what pages you visited)

• Information we collect and record as part of pastoral care

• Payment details when booking events

• Donations to the church

• Any teams or groups you are involved with

• When you are unavailable for serving on rota

• Dates and times that you are on a rota • Any other information you provide to us.

Sensitive Personal Information

We may also collect, store and use the following “special categories” of sensitive personal information (if you give us this information)

• Information about your health, including any mental or physical conditions that you notify us about

• Your religious beliefs

• Your racial origin

• Your sexual orientation

• Any criminal record.

Personal Information You Give Us

We may collect personal information from you when you attend church and speak to us in person. You may also fill in one of our paper forms or a form available in a different electronic system.

We collect personal information from you when you or we set up a profile in ChurchSuite. If we set up profile on your behalf, then we will input personal information from you that we collected from you in person, on paper forms and from contact forms on our website. We will also collect information from you when you update your profile on ChurchSuite.
Personal Information We Collect Automatically

When you use the Services, we may collect certain information automatically such as:

• IP addresses (the name your smartphone uses to identify itself to us)

• Your activity in the Services including times and dates of visits

• Information on your location

• Other websites you may have visited.

Cookies
We use cookies to collect information automatically. A cookie is a small file of data which our website places on your computer’s hard drive. The cookies give us information such details of your visits to our website and information about other websites that you visit.

Cookies allow websites to respond to you as an individual and let us tailor our website to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about you. We use cookies to help us to provide you with a better website.