PRIVACY POLICY

Welcome to our church website. We are committed to protecting your information by ensuring that we remain lawful. We know you care about how your information is used and shared. Below is the Privacy Policy for www.AmityBaptist.com, sponsored community events, social media platforms, survey information and/or onsite registrations. We hope the following statements will help you understand our policies and how we use the information you provide to us.

Privacy Policy Consent

This website is owned by our church. The term “you” and “your” refers to the user or viewer of this website.

This Privacy Policy exists to inform you of how we collect, use, process and distribute your information. It is important for you to know that we will not use or share your information in any way that is not specified within this Privacy Policy.

We reserve the right to change or modify this privacy policy in any way, at any time. Please read this Privacy

Policy in order to understand how your information may be obtained and used. Amity Baptist Church will collect, use and protect the information you provide to us. Any content that is provided to us by you or is obtained by us from this website is governed by this Privacy Policy. By using this website whether you have read this Privacy  Policy or not, you are fully consenting to this Privacy Policy.

Information We May Collect.

We do not collect personally identifiable information about you, except when you provide it to us. Our goal in collecting information from you is to ultimately make your experience better as you use this website. Here ar the pieces of information that we may collect when you use this website.

1)   A name and an email address that will enable us to send emails to you - provision of an email address on this site equates to consent.

2)  A name, email address, or phone number so we can follow-up with you.

3)  Billing information including a name, address and credit card information will enable us to process any purchases or donations.

4)  A name, email address, and phone number if you complete our contact form with a question.

By providing Personal Data, you agree to allow us to contact you, including by mail, email, telephone, social media, digital messages, or SMS text message in connection with our charitable and community outreach purposes. We will never sell, share, or spam your personal information.

Please Note: By providing your phone number and/or email, you are consenting to receive automated texts to the provided number. After signing up, you will receive a text message from our ministry on your mobile number. Message frequency may vary.

You can cancel this service at any time. To discontinue receiving SMS messages from Amity Baptist Church, text STOP to the provided ministry number. You will receive a reply message to confirm that you have been unsubscribed. Afterwards, no longer messages will be sent from us. To unsubscribe from our email messages, simply click “unsubscribe” within the email.

As always, message and data rates may apply for any messages sent to you from us and to us from you. If you have any questions about your text plan or data plan, it is best to contact your wireless provider.

How Personal Information is Collected

1)   By visiting this website (cookies).

2)  By making a donation to our church.

3)  By applying to work with or volunteer at our church.

4)  Using the “Plan Your Visit” feature.

5)  Preregistering for an event.

6)  By contacting us using email, phone or any other means.

7)  Online donations.

8)  Small group sign-ups.

9)  Through third party-cookies (see the section on “Data Collection Technologies”).

10) Selling online Church Merch or fundraising through other means

What Happens With The Information We Collect

Your personal information may be used:

To contact you.

For follow-up purposes.

For promotional purposes.

For troubleshooting purposes.

For informational updates.

To help process payments online.

To process the payments that you could potentially be making to our church.

During targeted social media or search engine advertisements.

Advertisers

We will never provide your personally identifiable information to third parties for their use in marketing their products and services to you without your consent. We will never sell, share, or spam your personal information.

Links

The website may contain links to or from other websites. Please be aware that we are not responsible for the privacy policies of other websites. This Privacy Policy applies only to the information we collect on this website.

We encourage you to read the privacy policies of other websites you link to from this website or otherwise visit.

Anonymous Data Collection and Use

In order to ensure that our website delivers a high-quality experience, we may use your IP address to help diagnose problems on our end and to manage the Website by identifying which areas of the Website are being used the most, and to fine-tune our content for your best interest. Your IP address is the number assigned to computers connected to the Internet. This is essentially “traffic data” which cannot personally identify you, but it is helpful to us for marketing purposes and for improving our services. Traffic data collection only follows your activities as you are using this website, it does not follow your activities on any other websites in any way. Anonymous traffic data may also be shared with business partners.

Use of “Cookies”

We may utilize the “cookies” feature of major browsers. You may choose to disable cookies through your own web browser’s settings. However, disabling this function may diminish your experience on our Website and some features may not work as intended.

Data Collection Technologies

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-party cookies, for example, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook Pixel, etc. By agreeing to our Privacy Policy, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies (for example, web beacons, pixels, tags, and device identifiers which we collectively refer to as “cookies”) as described in this policy.

Children’s Privacy

We do not knowingly collect, maintain or use personally identifiable information submitted to the site by children under 13 years of age. If you are under age 13, please do not attempt to register on Amity Baptist Church websites, or provide any personal information about yourself to us. This Website is not intended for use by, and we do not knowingly collect the personal information of anyone under thirteen (13) years of age. If we become aware that a child under 13 years of age has submitted personally identifiable information to the site, we will not use that information and will immediately delete the information from its record.

Parental Participation: We strongly recommend that minors, 17 years of age and under, ask their parents for permission before sending any information about themselves to anyone over the Internet and we encourage parents to teach their children about safe internet use practices.

Viewing by Others

Whenever you voluntarily provide Personal Information through the use of this website, you have consented to that information and its content, being seen, collected, and used by others. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized or improper use of the information that you voluntarily share (i.e., sharing a comment on a blog post, posting in a Facebook group that we manage, sharing details on a group Bible Study call, etc.).

Storage and Handling of Personal Information

Personal Information obtained by this website is stored internally or through a data management system. We value your safety, so your Personal Information will only be accessed by people who are responsible for gathering, managing, or storing it, or who have a legitimate need to access it. (i.e., our hosting provider, newsletter provider, payment processors, or team members).

It is important to note that we may transfer information internationally. By using our Website and providing us with your Personal Information, you are consenting to these transfers exactly as stated within this Privacy Policy.

We welcome any questions or comments you may have about this Privacy Policy and our privacy practices. If you have any questions or comments, you may contact us by mail at Amity Baptist Church, Attn.: Data Privacy Team, P.O.B. 18, Inkster, MI 48141.

Enforcement

Amity Baptist Church periodically reviews its compliance within this Privacy Policy. When we receive formal written complaints regarding privacy issues, it is our policy to contact the complaining user regarding his or her concerns.

We will cooperate with the appropriate regulatory authorities, including local data protection authorities, to resolve any complaints regarding the transfer of personal data that cannot be resolved between Amity Baptist Church and an individual.