Privacy - Onewa Christian Community

This is the privacy statement for https://onewacc.org.nz.

Your personal information and privacy

Onewa Christian Community collects personal information for various reasons, for example:

to maintain a role of members and associate members
to enable communications with members, visitors and stakeholders
to support pastoral care and community activities.

We treat personal information respectfully. When we collect personal information from members or visitors for any reason, we state clearly what the information is for. We will keep personal data safe and have systems in place so that in providing information, a person is agreeing to its use for the stated purpose.

People may request that we keep their contact details confidential. We will comply with that request. We will not share personal information about any member or visitor with third parties without prior permission unless a company is acting on our behalf, with protections in place (e.g. a firm that processes communications for us). Or we could share information if the law requires or permits disclosure.

Any person has the right to access the personal information we hold about them and to make corrections or updates. Anyone wishing to see their personal information or to ask questions about our privacy policy and practice should get in touch.

Website: cookies and privacy implications

Our website uses cookies. Cookies are text files with small pieces of data. They both improve the user experience and help us understand how the website is performing. Via cookies, we may collect, hold, and use statistical information about your visits and in connection with your IP address. Examples of information gathered:

those of our web pages you visit
the dates and times of your visits
the referring website (if any) you click through to reach our website
the country a search is from
the operating system, web browser or type of mobile device you use to visit our website.

We are not able to identify individuals from this information. Our internet service providers might also use anonymized visit information for statistical purposes.

Besides using cookies, we use Google Analytics and associated tools. Google Analytics provides aggregated reports on website activity. It relies on cookies to do so. See Google’s privacy policy.

Note that Google has an opt-out tool people can install for their web browser if they do not wish Google Analytics to use their data.

When we embed a video from YouTube, YouTube sets cookies to manage the player interface and collect anonymous statistical data on the number of views.

Forms, comments and uploading media (when enabled on the website or social media)

Forms and your privacy

The contact forms currently on our site email your request to a Onewa Christian Community staff member. As stated above, we treat all personal contact information with respect. Please do not send financial or other highly personal information to us via a form.

Comments (not currently enabled on our website)

When visitors leave comments on our online sites, we collect:

the data shown in the comments
the visitor’s IP address
the browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Online visitors’ comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you were to visit our login page (when enabled), we would set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

This privacy information will be updated if we allow website log in/registration, or we allow visitors to the site to edit or publish an article. Such functionality would involve cookies.

Media

If we let you upload images to our website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website could otherwise download and extract any location data from images on the website. The media we load will usually identify the church location.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may:

collect data from your visit
use cookies
embed additional third-party tracking
monitor your interaction with that embedded content
track your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged into that website.

Personal information about any member or visitor to the site will not be shared with third parties without prior permission unless a company is acting on our behalf, with protections in place (e.g. a firm that processes communications for us). Or we could share information if the law requires or permits disclosure. See above for our use of cookies and Google Analytics.

If you want to see your personal information or ask questions about our privacy policy and practice, get in touch.

Data privacy and your rights

If you ever have an account on this site, or have left comments or service requests, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes. If you want to see your personal information or ask questions about our privacy policy and practice, get in touch.