Cityview Community Church Privacy Policy-Website

User privacy is critically important to Cityview Community Church of York, Inc (hereafter referred to as Cityview Community Church).  Here are some things to keep in mind:

• We don’t want your personal information unless absolutely needed.

• Your personal information is not shared with anyone except to comply with legal orders requiring the release of information, product development, or protecting Cityview Community Church.

• Personal information is not stored unless necessary to maintain day to day operations of the services rendered on the website.

• In our social networking and mobile application products, we aim to make it as simple as possible for you to control what’s visible to the public, seen by search engines, kept private, and permanently deleted.

 

Below is our privacy policy which incorporates:

Cityview Community Church operates the website in addition to smartphone apps on behalf of our customers (collectively, the “apps”). It is Cityview Community Church’s policy to respect your privacy regarding any information we may collect while operating the websites and apps.

 

Website Visitors and Application Users

Cityview Community Church may collect non-personal information.  This includes information delivered from a third party server regarding: web browser type, language preference, referring site (if applicable), and date/time of each visitor request. Cityview Community Church’s purpose in collecting this information is to better understand how people access the website. From time to time, Cityview Community Church may aggregate and release this information in a report.

 

Cityview Community Church may possibly collect personally-identifying information like Internet Protocol (IP) addresses. Cityview Community Church  does not use such information to identify its visitors, however, and does not disclose such information, other than under the same circumstances that it uses and discloses personally-identifying information, as described below.

 

Personally-Identifying Information

Certain visitors to Cityview Community Church ’s websites and users of Cityview Community Church ’s apps choose to interact with Cityview Community Church in ways that require Cityview Community Church to gather personally-identifying information. The amount and type of information that Cityview Community Church gathers depends on the nature of the interaction. For example, we could ask visitors who sign up to provide an email address as the primary means of identification. Those who engage in transactions with Cityview Community Church– are asked to provide additional information, including as necessary the personal and financial information required to process those transactions. In each case, Cityview Community Church will collect this information to complete any necessary transaction within the Cityview Community Church website in addition to maintaining user access.  Neither Cityview Community Church/Cityview Community Church will disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below. Visitor refusal to supply personally-identifying information may prevent usage within the website and activities associated with the website. 

 

Aggregated Statistics

Cityview Community Churchmay collect statistics about the behavior of visitors to Cityview Community Church and users of its apps. Cityview Community Church may display information that can be obtained publicly via social media. However, Cityview Community Church does not disclose personally-identifying information other than as described below.

Protection of Certain Personally-Identifying Information

Cityview Community Church discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only to those of affiliates, contractors, and affiliated organizations that:

1. Need to know that information in order to process it on Cityview Community Church’s behalf or to provide services available at Cityview Community Church.

2. That have agreed not to disclose it to others. Some of those affiliates, contractors, and affiliated organizations may be located outside of your home country; by using the Cityview Community Church website, you consent to the transfer of such information to them. Cityview Community Church will not engage in selling potentially personally-identifying information to anyone. Other than to its affiliates, contractors, and affiliated organizations, as described above, Cityview Community Church  discloses potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information only when required to do so by law, or when Cityview Community Church believes in good faith that disclosure is reasonably necessary to protect the property or rights of Cityview Community Church/Cityview Community Church, third parties, or the public at large. If you are a registered user of a Cityview Community Church owned website/mobile application and/or have supplied your email address, Cityview Community Church may occasionally send you an email to tell you about new features, solicit feedback, or inform users in regards to activities associated with Cityview Community Church. The primary means of communication will be within the website so email interaction is going to be minimal. If you send us a request (for example via a support email or via one of our feedback mechanisms), we reserve the right to publish it in order to help us clarify or respond to your request or to help us support other users. Cityview Community Church will take all measures reasonably necessary to protect against the unauthorized access, use, alteration, or destruction of potentially personally-identifying and personally-identifying information.

 

Cookies

A cookie is a string of information that a website stores on a visitor’s computer, and that the visitor’s browser provides to the website each time the visitor returns. Cityview Community Church uses cookies to help Cityview Community Church identify and track visitors, their usage of the Cityview Community Church websites, and their website access preferences. Cityview Community Church visitors who do not wish to have cookies placed on their computers should set their browsers to refuse cookies before using Cityview Community Church’s websites, with the drawback that certain features of Cityview Community Church’s websites may not function properly without the aid of cookies.  If you have cookies installed and wish to delete them, please do so.  

 

Ads

Ads that may possibly appear on the Cityview Community Church website or apps may be delivered to users by advertising partners, who may set cookies. These cookies allow the ad server to recognize your computer each time to compile information about you or others who use a particular computer. This information allows ad networks to, expose you to advertisements that they believe will be of most interest to you. This privacy policy covers the use of cookies by Cityview Community Church and does not cover the use of cookies by any advertisers.

 

Privacy Policy Changes

Although most changes are likely to be minor, Cityview Community Church may change its privacy policy from time to time, and Cityview Community Church’s discretion.  Cityview Community Church encourages visitors to frequently check this page for any changes to its Privacy Policy. Your continued use of this site after any change in this Privacy Policy will constitute your acceptance of such change.

Mobile App Privacy Policy

The Cityview Community Church mobile app may have a Privacy Policy included within.  This is what it says:

Privacy Policy of the mobile application

This Application collects some Personal Data from its Users.

Data Controller and Owner

 

Types of Data collected

Among the types of Personal Data that this Application collects, by itself or through third parties, there are: Geographic position, Cookie and Usage Data. Other Personal Data collected may be described in other sections of this privacy policy or by dedicated explanation text contextually with the Data collection. The Personal Data may be freely provided by the User, or collected automatically when using this Application. Any use of Cookies - or of other tracking tools - by this Application or by the owners of third party services used by this Application, unless stated otherwise, serves to identify Users and remember their preferences, for the sole purpose of providing the service required by the User. Failure to provide certain Personal Data may make it impossible for this Application to provide its services. The User assumes responsibility for the Personal Data of third parties published or shared through this Application and declares to have the right to communicate or broadcast them, thus relieving the Data Controller of all responsibility.

Mode and place of processing the Data

Methods of processing

The Data Controller processes the Data of Users in a proper manner and shall take appropriate security measures to prevent unauthorized access, disclosure, modification, or unauthorized destruction of the Data. The Data processing is carried out using computers and/or IT enabled tools, following organizational procedures and modes strictly related to the purposes indicated. In addition to the Data Controller, in some cases, the Data may be accessible to certain types of persons in charge, involved with the operation of the site (administration, sales, marketing, legal, system administration) or external parties (such as third party technical service providers, mail carriers, hosting providers, IT companies, communications agencies) appointed, if necessary, as Data Processors by the Owner. The updated list of these parties may be requested from the Data Controller at any time.

Place

The Data is processed at the Data Controller's operating offices and in any other places where the parties involved with the processing are located. For further information, please contact the Data Controller.

Retention time

The Data is kept for the time necessary to provide the service requested by the User, or stated by the purposes outlined in this document, and the User can always request that the Data Controller suspend or remove the data.

The use of the collected Data

The Data concerning the User is collected to allow the Application to provide its services, as well as for the following purposes: Access to third party services' accounts, Location-based interactions, Content commenting and Interaction with external social networks and platforms. The Personal Data used for each purpose is outlined in the specific sections of this document.

Facebook permissions asked by this Application

This Application may ask some Facebook permissions allowing it to perform actions with the User's Facebook account and to retrieve information, including Personal Data, from it. For more information about the following permissions, refer to the Facebook permissions documentation and to the Facebook privacy policy. The permissions asked are the following:

Basic information

By default, this includes certain User’s Data such as id, name, picture, gender, and their locale. Certain connections of the User, such as the Friends, are also available. If the user has made more of their data public, more information will be available.

Checkins

Provides read access to the authorized user's check-ins.

Email

Provides access to the user's primary email address

Likes

Provides access to the list of all of the pages the user has liked.

Photos

Provides access to the photos the user has uploaded, and potentially the photos the user has been tagged in.

Publish App Activity

Allows the app to publish to the Open Graph using Built-in Actions, Achievements, Scores, or Custom Actions. The app can also publish other activity which is detailed in the Facebook's Publishing Permissions document.

Detailed information on the processing of Personal Data

Personal Data is collected for the following purposes and using the following services:

Access to third party services' accounts

These services allow this Application to access Data from your account on a third party service and perform actions with it. These services are not activated automatically, but require explicit authorization by the User.


Access to the Facebook account (This Application)
This service allows this Application to connect with the User's account on the Facebook social network, provided by Facebook Inc. Permissions asked: Checkins, Email, Likes, Photos and Publish App Activity. Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy

Content commenting

Content commenting services allow Users to make and publish their comments on the contents of this Application. Depending on the settings chosen by the Owner, Users may also leave anonymous comments. If there is an email address among the Personal Data provided by the User, it may be used to send notifications of comments on the same content. Users are responsible for the content of their own comments. If a content commenting service provided by third parties is installed, it may still collect web traffic data for the pages where the comment service is installed, even when users do not use the content commenting service.


Facebook Comments (Facebook)
Facebook Comments is a content commenting service provided by Facebook Inc. enabling the User to leave comments and share them on the Facebook platform. Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy.

Interaction with external social networks and platforms

These services allow interaction with social networks or other external platforms directly from the pages of this Application. The interaction and information obtained by this Application are always subject to the User’s privacy settings for each social network. If a service enabling interaction with social networks is installed it may still collect traffic data for the pages where the service is installed, even when Users do not use it.


Facebook Like button and social widgets (Facebook)


The Facebook Like button and social widgets are services allowing interaction with the Facebook social network provided by Facebook Inc. Personal Data collected: Cookie and Usage Data. Place of processing : USA – Privacy Policy

Location-based interactions

Geolocation (This Application) 
This Application may collect, use, and share User location Data in order to provide location-based services. Most browsers and devices provide tools to opt out from this feature by default. If explicit authorization has been provided, the User’s location data may be tracked by this Application. Personal Data collected: Geographic position.

Additional information about Data collection and processing

Legal Action

The User's Personal Data may be used for legal purposes by the Data Controller, in Court or in the stages leading to possible legal action arising from improper use of this Application or the related services.
The User is aware of the fact that the Data Controller may be required to reveal personal data upon request of public authorities.

Additional information about User's Personal Data

In addition to the information contained in this privacy policy, this Application may provide the User with additional and contextual information concerning particular services or the collection and processing of Personal Data upon request.

System Logs and Maintenance

For operation and maintenance purposes, this Application and any third party services may collect files that record interaction with this Application (System Logs) or use for this purpose other Personal Data (such as IP Address).

Information not contained in this policy

More details concerning the collection or processing of Personal Data may be requested from the Data Controller at any time. Please see the contact information at the beginning of this document.

The rights of Users

Users have the right, at any time, to know whether their Personal Data has been stored and can consult the Data Controller to learn about their contents and origin, to verify their accuracy or to ask for them to be supplemented, cancelled, updated or corrected, or for their transformation into anonymous format or to block any data held in violation of the law, as well as to oppose their treatment for any and all legitimate reasons. Requests should be sent to the Data Controller at the contact information set out above.
This Application does not support “Do Not Track” requests.
To determine whether any of the third party services it uses honor the “Do Not Track” requests, please read their privacy policies.

Changes to this privacy policy

The Data Controller reserves the right to make changes to this privacy policy at any time by giving notice to its Users on this page. It is strongly recommended to check this page often, referring to the date of the last modification listed at the bottom. If a User objects to any of the changes to the Policy, the User must cease using this Application and can request that the Data Controller erase the Personal Data. Unless stated otherwise, the then-current privacy policy applies to all Personal Data the Data Controller has about Users.

Definitions and legal references

Personal Data (or Data)

Any information regarding a natural person, a legal person, an institution or an association, which is, or can be, identified, even indirectly, by reference to any other information, including a personal identification number.

Usage Data

Information collected automatically from this Application (or third party services employed in this Application ), which can include: the IP addresses or domain names of the computers utilized by the Users who use this Application, the URI addresses (Uniform Resource Identifier), the time of the request, the method utilized to submit the request to the server, the size of the file received in response, the numerical code indicating the status of the server's answer (successful outcome, error, etc.), the country of origin, the features of the browser and the operating system utilized by the User, the various time details per visit (e.g., the time spent on each page within the Application) and the details about the path followed within the Application with special reference to the sequence of pages visited, and other parameters about the device operating system and/or the User's IT environment.

User

The individual using this Application, which must coincide with or be authorized by the Data Subject, to whom the Personal Data refer.

Data Subject

The legal or natural person to whom the Personal Data refers to.

Data Processor (or Data Supervisor)

The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization authorized by the Data Controller to process the Personal Data in compliance with this privacy policy.

Data Controller (or Owner)

The natural person, legal person, public administration or any other body, association or organization with the right, also jointly with another Data Controller, to make decisions regarding the purposes, and the methods of processing of Personal Data and the means used, including the security measures concerning the operation and use of this Application. The Data Controller, unless otherwise specified, is the Owner of this Application.

This Application

The hardware or software tool by which the Personal Data of the User is collected.

Cookie

Small piece of data stored in the User's device.

Legal information

Notice to European Users: this privacy statement has been prepared in fulfillment of the obligations under Art. 10 of EC Directive n. 95/46/EC, and under the provisions of Directive 2002/58/EC, as revised by Directive 2009/136/EC, on the subject of Cookies. This privacy policy relates solely to this Application.

 

Policy updated: March 30, 2023