Privacy Policy

The Vine Christian Community Church (Welling Baptist Church) has adopted this policy as we respect your privacy. This Privacy policy covers the Church's treatment of personally identifiable information that we collect or hold.

What information do we collect & what is it used for?

Under the General Data Protection Regulation (‘GDPR’) there are occasions when The Vine Christian Community Church must obtain your explicit consent to use your information, known as ‘Personal Data’. Personal Data includes, but is not limited to your name, address, telephone number and email address.

The Vine Christian Community Church would like to hold and use your information for the purposes set out below:

IP Addresses
IP addresses are logged on the server for the purpose of analysing website traffic. This information is not linked to anything that makes you personally identifiable.

Personal Information
You need not disclose any personal information in order to view the content of this site. However, should you contact us with any enquiries; we may collect data for the purpose of contacting you. This may include (but is not necessarily limited to):
Your name, your email address and your phone number.
Generally we will only use and disclose your personal information as follows:
to establish and maintain your involvement with the Church
to provide you the products or services you have requested from the Church
to answer your enquiry by telephone, as well as by email
to assist us to make the Church's sites, services and products more valuable to our community to third parties where we have retained those third parties to assist us to operate the Church and provide the products and services you have requested
to different parts of the Church to enable the development and promotion of other products and services and to improve our general ability to assist Church attendees and the wider community.

You can select your contact preferences on the contact page before you submit your details.

Do we share it with third parties?
The Church will use the personal information we collect for the purpose disclosed at the time of collection, or otherwise as set out in this Policy. We do not sell, trade, rent or otherwise exchange any of your information with any 3rd parties without your consent, unless authorised or required by law.

How long will we retain any information about you?
We will store your information only for a reasonable period or as long as the law requires. The internet is not a secure method of transmitting information. Accordingly, the Church cannot accept responsibility for the security of information you send to or receive from us over the Internet or for any unauthorised access or use of that information. We take security measures to protect your information from access by unauthorised persons and against unlawful processing, accidental loss, destruction and damage.

Use of cookies
This website uses cookies. We use cookies to analyse our traffic. We also share information about your use of our site with our analytics partners who may combine it with other information that you’ve provided to them or that they’ve collected from your use of their services. You consent to our cookies if you continue to use our website.

Cookies are small text files that can be used by websites to make a user's experience more efficient.

The law states that we can store cookies on your device if they are strictly necessary for the operation of this site. For all other types of cookies we need your permission.

This site uses different types of cookies. Some cookies are placed by third party services that appear on our pages.

You can at any time change or withdraw your consent from the Cookie Declaration on our website using the link below.

CHECK YOUR CONSENT

Modifications to Privacy Policy
We retain the right to modify this privacy policy at any time; an up-to-date version will always be available at https://vinechurch.uk/privacy, so please check this page frequently.

Accessing Personal Information
If you wish to ascertain what information we currently hold on you,
please feel free to contact us using the CONTACT US button in the menu bar.
We will provide you with access to your personal information
unless we are legally authorised to refuse your request.