Privacy

 

At Colchester Baptist Church, we collect different types of information about our congregation for the following main reasons:

  1. To keep a record of contact details in an easily accessible online directory

  2. To provide a useful web experience where you can contact us and learn more

  3. To communicate with you important updates about church activities

  4. To offer support and guidance when you fill out our prayer form

Data we collect

Cookies and analytics

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including:

  • Information about your browser, network, and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity.

We use cookies and similar technologies on our website to provide you with a great experience and to help our website run effectively. Cookies are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website or app. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device and how to remove them, visit About the cookies Squarespace uses.

  • These analytics and performance cookies are used on this site, as described below, only when you acknowledge our cookie banner. We use analytics cookies to view site traffic, activity, and other data.

COntact and prayer forms

When you fill out one of our prayer or contact forms we collect the following personal information from you:

  • First name

  • Last name

  • Email address

We only use this information for the sole purpose of responding to your request. Your data will not be saved in our church directory or sent to any third party. Your data will only remain on our secure email servers. We will not transfer your data into our church directory without your explicit consent, as explained below.

Who has access?

Once you agree to have your data in our church directory, your data will be accessible to the following persons:

  • Other church members (people who are members of our church, not including the wider congregation)

    • If you are part of our wider congregation and choose to share your data with us, it will only be accessible by the Church office administrators as listed below

  • Church office administrators (Paul Clover, Aymee Isac & Chris Chapman)

  • ChurchSuite

ChurchSuite is an online third-party, data management system allowing us to safely and easily store your data. They are fully GDPR compliant and trusted amongst churches throughout the UK. You can find out more information by viewing their website. Sharing your data with us via ChurchSuite means the members and officers of Colchester Baptist Church could have access to your name, telephone number, email address and physical address — you choose what you wish to share. Please note that the wider congregation (i.e. those who are not members of Colchester Baptist Church) will not be able to see information belonging to members. We will store your information until you no longer wish us to have access to it.

If you have any questions or concerns, please don’t hesitate to contact us.