First Baptist Church of Bridgeport Privacy Policy
About First Baptist Church
The First Baptist Church of Bridgeport Privacy Policy (the Privacy Policy) outlines the information that First Baptist Church of Bridgeport gathers, how we use that information, and the options you have to access, correct, or delete such information. (The Privacy Policy relates to First Baptist Church of Bridgeport operations in the United States and in other countries through its various subsidiaries and affiliates. For specific regions and statutory references, see Privacy Act References herein.)
Our Commitment
Answers in Genesis is committed to respecting the privacy and rights of all parties who interact with the ministry, including our donors. We deeply appreciate that you’ve trusted us with your personal information, and we are committed to treating it confidentially.
The following outlines our Privacy Policy and details the measures we have taken to safeguard and protect your privacy. Here we describe the privacy practices for our applications, software, websites, APIs, products, and services (the Services). You will learn about the data we collect, how we use it, the controls we give you over your information, and the measures we take to keep it safe. Specifically, we’ll cover:
Information We Collect
On our websites, you can provide contact information for ministry-related purposes, to order resources, to receive updates and promotions by mail and email, or to make ministry contributions. When you use our Services, we collect the following types of information:
- Contact Information: Name, organization, complete address, phone, and email address
- Promotional Information: How you found us, what prompted your interest, and your areas of interest
- Survey Information: Contact information and demographics such as postal/zip code, age level, etc.
- Correspondence Information: Suggestions, comments, messages, questions, and requests for further correspondence
- Anonymous Browsing Data: We gather data on how you use and interact with our websites
We do not collect any Personally Identifiable Information through this process, and it explicitly does not record any sensitive information.
While individuals generally have a right to remain anonymous, in most circumstances, this right does not apply if it is impracticable for us to provide you with information or respond to your inquiry without knowing your true identity. If you choose not to give your privacy information to us, we may not be able to respond to your inquiry.
Information You Provide
Account Information
Some information is required to create an account on our Services, such as your name, phone number, email address, and password. This is the only information you have to provide to create an account with us. You may also choose to provide other types of information, such as country information, date of birth, and gender. If you contact us or participate in a survey, contest, or promotion, we collect the information you submit such as your name, contact information, and message.
Correction of Information
First Baptist Church of Bridgeport commits to ensuring that all reasonable procedures are followed to ensure your privacy information is accurate, complete, and up to date whenever we collect or use it. If we believe the information that we hold is inaccurate, out of date, irrelevant, incomplete, or misleading, we will take steps to correct the information.
If you suspect that any of your privacy information held by First Baptist Church of Bridgeport is inaccurate, out of date, irrelevant, incomplete, or misleading, please contact us immediately, and we will take all reasonable steps to correct any such information. If we cannot resolve the issue in a reasonable time, we will either give you an explanation as to why or discuss alternative courses of action.
How We Use Information We Collect
We use the information we collect for the following purposes:
Provide and Maintain the Services
By using the information we collect, we are able to deliver the Services and honor our contract with you, and we use your information to give you customer support.
Improve, Personalize, and Develop the Services
We use the information we collect to improve and personalize the Services and to develop new ones. For example, we use the information to troubleshoot and protect against errors, perform data analysis and testing, conduct research and surveys, and develop new features and Services. We also use your information to profile our users to show you more relevant content.
Communicate with You
We use your information when needed to send you Service notifications and respond to you when you contact us. We also use your information to send you relevant content, provide ministry updates, and promote resources and products you may be interested in. You can control marketing communications by using the “unsubscribe” or “manage preferences” links in our emails.
Promote Safety and Security
We use the information we collect to promote the safety and security of the Services, our users, and other parties. For example, we may use the information to authenticate users, protect against fraud and abuse, respond to a legal request or claim, conduct audits, and enforce our terms and policies.
Logs
First Baptist Church of Bridgeport uses log files to track trends, activity, and improve the overall user experience. These log files contain information about what domain you are coming from (i.e., AOL.com, Google.com), what browser software and system software you use, and what pages were visited on our site. This information is shared among First Baptist Church employees, leadership, and select vendors and is archived for analysis in the future. Some anonymous browsing data may be shared publicly for promotional purposes.
Cookies
We use cookies and similar technologies to give you a better customer experience. Cookies are alphanumeric identifiers that we transfer to your computer’s hard drive through your web browser to enable our systems to recognize your browser and improve your experience by providing features for our Services, including our online stores.
The Help portion of the toolbar on most browsers will tell you how to change how your browser handles cookies. However, cookies allow you to take full advantage of our website and the vast majority of others, and we recommend that you leave them turned on.
The Bridgeport Baptist Academy page uses cookies and similar elements to give you and your kids a better experience.
We use Google Analytics to track visits to all of our web pages, including the Academy section of 2fbc.com. This service provides us with anonymous user information that helps identify visitor trends so we can continue to improve our websites and Services.
How Information Is Shared
We do not share your personal information except in the limited circumstances described below.
For External Processing
We transfer information to our corporate affiliates, service providers, and other partners who process it for us based on our instructions and in compliance with this policy and any other appropriate confidentiality and security measures. These partners provide us with services globally, including for customer support, information technology, payments, sales, marketing, data analysis, research, and surveys. To facilitate our Services, we also share your information with our data processing partners, such as (but not limited to):
- Google, LLC
- PushPay Holdings
PushPay Privacy
First Baptist Church of Bridgeport uses PushPay ChMS as a data processor for the distribution of newsletters and email communications. PushPay ChMS will require access to some of your personal information to fulfill these services, but PushPay ChMS is not controlled by First Baptist Church of Bridgeport.
Please refer to the Pushpay’s Privacy Policy and the PushPay Terms of Use for more details on what information PushPay collects, how it is collected, and how the collected information is used.
PushPay is headquartered in the United States of America (USA) and is subject to the laws of the USA. Your information (including but not limited to your IP address) may be transmitted and stored by HubSpot on servers that are located in other countries.
By using the First Baptist Church of Bridgeport website and providing your personal information to First Baptist Church of Bridgeport, you:
- consent to your personal information being collected, used, and disclosed as set out in these terms and conditions and in PushPay’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use;
- consent to your personal information being sent and stored overseas and acknowledge that your local data privacy laws may not apply to the use of the information;
- acknowledge that PushPay may not be subject to your local data privacy laws and you may not be able to seek redress under your local jurisdiction against PushPay for any privacy breaches by PushPay but will need to seek redress as described in the PushPay’s Privacy Policy.
If you have any concerns related to First Baptist Church of Bridgeport’s use of PushPay, please contact us immediately.
For Legal or Security Reasons
We may preserve or disclose information about you to comply with a law, regulation, legal process, or governmental request; to assert legal rights or defend against legal claims; or to prevent, detect, or investigate illegal activity, fraud, abuse, violations of our terms, or threats to the security of the Services.
We may share non personal information that is aggregated, anonymous, or de-identified so that it cannot reasonably be used to identify an individual. We may disclose such information publicly and to third parties, for example, in public reports about attendance at ministry venues or events, or to partners under agreement with us.
Your Access to and Control of Personal Data
If you live in the European Economic Area (EU member countries and Iceland, Liechtenstein, and Norway), in the United Kingdom, or in Switzerland, you have certain legal rights with respect to your personal information. This includes the right to access, correct, update, export, or delete your personal information.
If you need assistance regarding your rights, please contact us and we will consider your request in accordance with applicable laws.
If you request to delete your account and other subject data, please note that while most of your information will be deleted within 30 days, it may take up to 90 days to delete all of your information, like the data stored in our backup systems. This is due to the size and complexity of the systems we use to store data. We may also preserve data for legal security reasons, including as described in the How Information Is Shared section.
Data Retention
We keep your account information, like your name, email address, and password, for as long as your account is in existence because we need it to operate your account. In some cases, when you give us information for a feature of the Services, we delete the data after it is no longer needed for the feature. We keep other information indefinitely unless you request its removal because we use this data to provide you with information and updates on our Services. We also keep information about you and your use of the Services for as long as necessary for our legitimate business interests, for legal reasons, and to prevent harm, including as described in the How We Use Information and How Information Is Shared sections.
Analytics and Advertising Services Provided by Others
We work with partners who provide us with analytics and advertising services, including Google Analytics and Meta. This includes helping us understand how users interact with the Services, serving ads on our behalf across the internet, and measuring the performance of those ads. These companies may use cookies and similar technologies to collect information about your interactions with the Services and other websites and applications. To learn more about your privacy choices, please read our Cookies statement.
Our Policy on Children
We appreciate the importance of taking additional measures to protect children’s privacy. Our Services at First Baptist Church of Bridgeport are not directed to children under the age of 13. No personally identifiable data is collected from or about children using this section of the website intended for them.
We do not knowingly collect any personal data from children or other individuals who are not legally able to use our Services, and persons under the age of 13 are not permitted to create accounts. If we learn that we have collected the personal information of a child under the age of 13, we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible, unless we are legally obligated to retain such data. Parents who believe that their child has submitted personal information to us and would like to have it deleted may contact us.
Changes to This Policy
If we make changes to this Policy that we believe materially impact the privacy of your personal data, you will have an opportunity to review the revised policy before deciding if you would like to continue to use the Services. We will also post the updated Policy on this website, noting the effective date of any changes.
Privacy Act References:
United States customers: The Privacy Policy is subject to the Federal Trade Commission Act and the Children’s Online Privacy Protection Act (collectively, the “United States Privacy Act”) as well as the laws of applicable states.
Canada customers: The Privacy Policy is subject to the Personal Information and Electronic Documents Act (the “Canada Privacy Act”).
Australia customers: The Privacy Policy is subject to the Privacy Act 1988 (Cth) (the “Australia Privacy Act”) and any subsequent amendments as well as the Australian Privacy Principles (APPs) contained in Schedule 1 to the Act. The information gathered by Answers in Genesis includes “personal information” as defined in the Australia Privacy Act.
United Kingdom customers: The Privacy Policy is subject to the Data Protection Act in the United Kingdom (the “U.K. Privacy Act”) and the European Union’s General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”).
Latin America customers: The Privacy Policy is subject to the privacy and personal data security and protection laws of Mexico and similar laws established throughout Latin America and other Spanish-speaking countries.
Last Update: 11/13/2024