General Assembly of the Church of God Barbados

The General Assembly of the Church of God in Barbados (”we” or “us”) are committed to protecting and respecting your privacy.

This Privacy Policy (together with the Cookie Policy any other documents referred to in it) sets out the basis on which any personal data we collect from you, or that you provide to us, will be processed by us. Please read the following carefully to understand our views and practices regarding your personal data and how we will treat it. By using www.churchofgodbarbados.org (“site”), you accept the terms of this Privacy Policy and your ability to control data processing, including the use of cookies, through the 'Manage Cookie Preferences' tool referenced in our Cookie Policy.

INFORMATION WE COLLECT FROM YOU

We will collect and process the following data about you:

Information you give us. This is information about you that you give us by filling in forms on our site or by corresponding with us by phone, e-mail or otherwise. The information you give us may include your name, address, e-mail address and phone number, for example.

Information we collect about you. With regard to each of your visits to our site we may automatically collect the following information:
- measurement and attribution data, which is collected using the Google tag and includes unique identifiers (like cookies) to distinguish users and sessions, information about the ad you clicked to reach our site, and data on specific actions you take that we track as conversions (such as filling out a form or making a donation);
- technical information, including the Internet protocol (IP) address used to connect your computer to the Internet, device and browser type, operating system, and unique device and cookie identifiers;
- information about your visit, including items you viewed, clicked on or searched for.

COOKIES
Our website uses cookies to distinguish you from other users of our website. This helps us to provide you with a good experience when you browse our website and also allows us to improve our site. For detailed information on the cookies we use and the purposes for which we use them see our Cookie Policy.

USES MADE OF THE INFORMATION
We use information held about you in the following ways:

Information you give to us. We will use this information:
- to carry out our obligations arising from any contracts entered into between you and us and to provide you with the information and services that you request from us;
- to provide you, or permit selected third parties to provide you, with information about goods or services we feel may interest you;
- to notify you about changes to our service;
- to ensure that content from our site is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer.

Information we collect about you. We will use this information:
- to administer our site and for internal operations, including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, research, statistical and survey purposes;
- to improve our site to ensure that content is presented in the most effective manner for you and for your computer;
- to allow you to participate in interactive features of our service, when you choose to do so;
- as part of our efforts to keep our site safe and secure;
- to measure or understand the effectiveness of advertising we serve to you and others, specifically to track conversions (like donations or sign-ups) that originate from our Google for Nonprofits Ads campaigns, and to deliver relevant advertising to you;
- to make suggestions and recommendations to you and other users of our site about goods or services that may interest you or them.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR INFORMATION
You agree that we have the right to share your personal information with:

Selected third parties including:

Google and other advertising service providers (including Google Ads and Google for Nonprofits) and advertising networks that require anonymous or aggregate data to select and serve relevant adverts to you and others; We do not disclose information about identifiable individuals to our advertisers, but we will provide them with aggregate information about our users (for example, we may inform them that 500 men aged under 30 have clicked on their advertisement on any given day). We may also use such aggregate information to help advertisers reach the kind of audience they want to target (for example, women). We may make use of the personal data we have collected from you to enable us to comply with our advertisers’ wishes by displaying their advertisement to that target audience; and
analytics and search engine providers that assist us in the improvement and optimisation of our site.

We will disclose your personal information to third parties:

If we are under a duty to disclose or share your personal data in order to comply with any legal obligation, or in order to enforce or apply any other agreements; or to protect the rights, property, or safety of The General Assembly of the Church of God in Barbados, or others.

We use the Google tag strictly in compliance with Google's policies, which prohibit us from collecting Personally Identifiable Information (PII) such as your name, email address, or billing information through the standard tag implementation. The data collected is primarily used for conversion tracking and ad effectiveness measurement. For information on how Google uses the data collected through our tag and how to manage your privacy settings with Google, please refer to Google’s own privacy policies and Ads Settings: https://policies.google.com/technologies/partner-sites.

WHERE WE STORE YOUR PERSONAL DATA
Our site is now hosted on the siteswan.com platform. Siteswan.com currently provides us with the online platform that allows us to display our content to you. Your data may be stored through Siteswan’s data storage, databases and the general Siteswan.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall. By submitting any personal data on our site, you agree to this transfer, storing or processing. We will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Unfortunately, the transmission of information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of your data transmitted to our site; any transmission is at your own risk. Once we have received your information, we will use strict procedures and security features to try to prevent unauthorised access.

YOUR RIGHTS
You have the right to ask us not to process your personal data for marketing purposes. We will usually inform you (before collecting your data) if we intend to use your data for such purposes or if we intend to disclose your information to any third party for such purposes. You can exercise your right to prevent such processing by checking certain boxes on the forms we use to collect your data. You can also exercise the right at any time by contacting us at office@churchofgodbarbados.org.

Our site may, from time to time, contain links to and from the websites of our advertisers and affiliates. If you follow a link to any of these websites, please note that these websites have their own privacy policies and that we do not accept any responsibility or liability for these policies. Please check these policies before you submit any personal data to these websites.

CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY
Any changes we make to this Privacy Policy in the future will be posted on this page and, where appropriate, notified to you by e-mail. Please check back frequently to see any updates or changes to this Privacy Policy.

CONTACT
Questions, comments and requests regarding this Privacy Policy are welcomed and should be sent to office@churchofgodbarbados.org.

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