Our Privacy Commitment
Unionville Alliance Church is committed to protecting your information and the privacy of its members. The personal information you share with Unionville Alliance Church will be used to support the administration and management of ministries, delivery of services and maintaining programs offered by Unionville Alliance Church. We protect the personal information and adhere to all legislative requirements with respect to protecting privacy.
Privacy Policy Consent
This Privacy Policy exists to inform you of how we collect, use, process and distribute your information. It is important for you to know that we will not use or share your information in any way that is not specified within this Privacy Policy.
We reserve the right to change or modify this Privacy Policy in any way, at any time. Please read this Privacy Policy in order to understand how your information may be obtained and used. Any content that is provided to us by you or is obtained by us from our website or social media platforms is governed by this Privacy Policy. By using our digital platforms whether you have read this Privacy Policy or not, you are fully consenting to this Privacy Policy.
Information that we may collect
Personal information is any information that identifies you as an individual. Unionville Alliance Church collects personal information for a variety of purposes, such as:
- · Church Membership registration and listings;
- · Church Directories
- · Volunteer and leadership development;
- · Program and service registration, administration and delivery;
- · Counseling and prayer support; and
- · Church administration (tithing, offerings, payments owing, etc.)
Any information that you voluntarily provide equates to information that you are giving us the consent to use.
How Personal Information is Collected
- 1) By visiting our website (cookies).
- 2) By making a donation to our church.
- 3) By applying to work or volunteer with our church.
- 4) By contacting us using email, phone or any other means.
- 5) Through third party-cookies (see the section on “Data Collection Technologies”).
Anonymous Data Collection and Use
In order to ensure that our website delivers a high-quality experience, we may use your IP address to help diagnose problems on our end and to manage the Website by identifying which areas of the Website are being used the most, and to fine-tune our content for your best interest. Your IP address is the number assigned to computers connected to the Internet. This is essentially “traffic data” which cannot personally identify you, but it is helpful to us for marketing purposes and for improving our services. Traffic data collection only follows your activities as you are using this website, it does not follow your activities on any other websites in any way. Anonymous traffic data may also be shared with business partners and advertisers.
Use of “Cookies”
We may utilize the “cookies” feature of major browsers. You may choose to disable cookies through your own web browser’s settings. However, disabling this function may diminish your experience on our website and some features may not work as intended.
Data Collection Technologies
In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies, for example, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook Pixel, etc. By agreeing to our Privacy Policy, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies (for example, web beacons, pixels, tags, and device identifiers which we collectively refer to as “cookies”) as described in this policy.
Viewing by Others
Whenever you voluntarily provide Personal Information through the use of our website or digital platforms, you have consented to that information and its content, being seen, collected, and used by others. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized or improper use of the information that you voluntarily share (i.e., sharing a comment on a blog post, posting in a Facebook group that we manage, sharing details on a group coaching call, etc.).
How Does Unionville Alliance Church ensure privacy protections?
We collect, use and disclose personal information only for the purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate for the administration and management of a church organization.
Access to your personal information is on a “need to know” basis. We inform our church personnel and volunteers of the importance of protecting your personal information. We will also advise all church volunteers that personal information obtained during their service cannot be used for any purposes other than authorized church ministry.
We will maintain adequate physical, procedural and electronic security with respect to offices and information storage facilities (e.g. filing cabinets) so as to protect personal information against such risks as unauthorized access, use, disclosure or destruction.
Tithing and Offering Information
Access to information regarding your tithes and offerings to Unionville Alliance Church is restricted to: the church volunteers who collect and count the offerings; the Church Secretary for processing your income tax receipts; the Finance Representative who handles the records; and the Treasurer who signs the offering tax receipts.
You have the right to request access to information about your tithes and offerings. However, you do not have the right to access tithing/offering information to other identifiable Unionville Alliance Church members without their written consent. You may access aggregate tithing/offering information not linked to an identifiable member. All requests for access must be submitted to the Church office and we will endeavour to respond to your access request as soon as possible.
Prayer Requests
We encourage our members to share their prayer requests so that we as a church may pray together. We recognize some of the requests are sensitive and very personal. We will ensure that the personal information contained in our prayer request list be limited only to the amount necessary.
Unionville Alliance Church Website
We will carefully review the purpose and need before posting personal information on our church website. If personal information is posted, we will limit the amount of personal information to that which is necessary.
Summary
If you have any questions or would like to review your personal information, please contact our church office.
We take our responsibility to respect and protect your personal information seriously. As part of our commitment to privacy, the Board of Elders will designate an individual to serve as the church’s Privacy Officer to ensure compliance with this policy and with appropriate privacy legislation.
