Privacy Policy

Last Updated: January 1, 2025

1. Introduction

Brooks International Gospel Church ("we," "our," or "us") respects your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal data. This privacy policy will inform you as to how we look after your personal data when you visit our website (regardless of where you visit it from) and tell you about your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

2. The Data We Collect About You

Personal data, or personal information, means any information about an individual from which that person can be identified. We may collect, use, store and transfer different kinds of personal data about you which we have grouped together as follows:

• Identity Data includes first name, last name, username or similar identifier.
• Contact Data includes email address and telephone numbers submitted via our contact or newsletter forms.
• Technical Data includes internet protocol (IP) address, your login data, browser type and version, time zone setting and location, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, and other technology on the devices you use to access this website.
• Usage Data includes information about how you use our website, products and services.

3. How We Use Your Personal Data

We will only use your personal data when the law allows us to. Most commonly, we will use your personal data in the following circumstances:

• To respond to your inquiries submitted via our contact forms.
• To send you our newsletter and church updates (only if you have explicitly opted in).
• To administer and protect our organization and this website (including troubleshooting, data analysis, testing, system maintenance, support, reporting and hosting of data).
• To use data analytics (such as Google Analytics) to improve our website, services, marketing, and user experiences.

4. Data Security

We have put in place appropriate security measures to prevent your personal data from being accidentally lost, used or accessed in an unauthorized way, altered or disclosed. In addition, we limit access to your personal data to those employees, volunteers, agents, contractors and other third parties who have a business need to know. They will only process your personal data on our instructions and they are subject to a duty of confidentiality.

5. Third-Party Links

This website may include links to third-party websites, plug-ins and applications. Clicking on those links or enabling those connections may allow third parties to collect or share data about you. We do not control these third-party websites and are not responsible for their privacy statements. When you leave our website, we encourage you to read the privacy policy of every website you visit.

6. Google Analytics & Ad Grants

As a participant in the Google Ad Grants program, our website complies with Google's policies. We use Google Analytics to monitor site traffic and user behavior. This tool uses "cookies," which are text files placed on your computer, to collect standard Internet log information and visitor behavior information in an anonymous form. You can opt out of Google Analytics without affecting how you visit our site.

7. Your Legal Rights

Under certain circumstances, you have rights under data protection laws in relation to your personal data, including the right to request access, correction, erasure, restriction, transfer, or to object to processing. If you wish to exercise any of the rights set out above, please contact us.

8. Contact Details

If you have any questions about this privacy policy or our privacy practices, please contact us in the following ways:

• Email address: BrooksGospelChurch@hotmail.com
• Postal address: 120 A 1st Avenue East, Brooks, Alberta T1R 0S4, Canada
• Telephone number: 403-862-2129