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Privacy Policy

Last modified November 1, 2023

Please read this Privacy Policy carefully because it discusses how we will collect, use, share, and process your personal information. By using the Calvary Church of Port Orchard site and services, you agree to this Privacy Policy and its terms.

Definitions:

To make this document easier to read, we use some shorthand. For example, when we say “our site,” “Calvary Church of Port Orchard site,” or “CCPO site,” we’re talking about the website and related services offered by Calvary Church of Port Orchard, including, but not limited to: www.calvarypo.org, together with it’s subdomains and content.

This site is owned and operated by Calvary Church of Port Orchard, which we refer to as “Calvary Church of Port Orchard”, “us”, or “we” throughout this policy. When we refer to persons interacting with Calvary Church of Port Orchard in this policy, we’ll use the term “you” or “user.”

Overview:

By accessing Calvary Church of Port Orchard site, you agree to this Privacy Policy and its terms, and you consent to having your data transferred to and processed in the United States. Your use of Calvary Church of Port Orchard website and applications may also be governed by Terms of Use. Please read the terms carefully.

This Privacy Policy outlines the types of data we collect from your interactions with Calvary Church of Port Orchard and how we process that information. You have choices about how your personal information is accessed, collected, shared, and stored by Calvary Church of Port Orchard. We take the privacy of the information you provide and that we collect seriously, and we implement security safeguards designed to protect your data.

In general, the information we collect depends on the services you request. In addition to personal information that you provide (such as your name, email address, financial information, and other personally identifiable information), we collect Internet and other network activity information with cookies and other automated technologies as discussed below. We use the data we collect and that you provide as well as inferences we make from that information to:

  • Provide, support, and personalize our site and services
  • Process your requests and respond to your inquiries
  • Maintain the safety, security, and integrity of Calvary Church of Port Orchard site
  • Internal development and analysis of our services
  • Fulfill any other purpose for which you provide it
  • Carry out our obligations and enforce our rights as described in this Privacy Policy in a manner we may describe when you provide the information for another purpose, with your consent.

How We Collect, Use and Share Your Personal Information

Below is an overview of the personal information collected on Calvary Church of Port Orchard site and the purpose for our collection. Please note: The processing of your information depends on the information you choose to provide and the functionality of our services you choose to use. A more detailed description of our processing of your information is available below.

Personal Identifiers (name, aliases, Internet Protocol address, email address, address, and similar identifiers): Collected to the extent you provide it to us to create an account or for association with your account to ensure proper use and authentication for your account. Your personal information is also used to contact you in connection with your requests and account and as discussed in our Privacy Policy.

Financial information (credit card information, banking information, and similar information): Collected to the extent you provide a donation to us in person. Otherwise, financial information provided to us online is processed by third party service providers as discussed in our Privacy Policy.

Internet or other network activity (browsing history, search history, information on your interaction with our website and other services): Collected as you use our site and services to monitor and ensure the proper operation of our website and services; to improve and customize your experience with regard to the same; to improve, modify, and update our services and content generally, and to analyze the same internally; and provide de-identified statistical information to third parties.

Geolocation data (physical location or movements): Collected if you choose to use location-based functionality of our services; however, this information is maintained only on your device and is not stored by Calvary Church of Port Orchard.

Professional or employment-related information or non-public educational information: Collected and processed only to the extent you provide an application for employment or volunteer opportunity to do a background check and otherwise process your application.

Inferences we make about our users based on data available to us. Collected as you use our site and services to improve and customize your experience with regard to our services and to suggest additional functionality and services.

Your Personal Data and Information You Provide to Us

We collect personal data when you provide it to us both offline and online. You do not need to provide personal information to use Calvary Church of Port Orchard site.

We also collect information about you when you send, receive, or engage in communications with us, including when you submit personal information or requests by emailing our staff. We retain those communications to process your inquiries, respond to your requests, and improve our site and our services.

If you disclose personal information, whether through collaborative postings, social media, message boards, or otherwise, this information may be collected and used by others. User contributions are posted and transmitted at your own risk. We cannot control the actions of other users or third parties with whom you choose to share your user contributions. Therefore, we cannot and do not guarantee that unauthorized persons will not view your user contributions, nor do we accept any liability associated with your user contributions.

Giving

If you choose to provide a donation through the Calvary Church of Port Orchard site, then and only then will you be prompted and required to provide credit card, bank account, and other financial information necessary to process the transaction. We will collect the designation for your donation if you provide one, and personal information such as your name, address, phone number, and/or email address to ensure that your donation is used for the purpose you request and to provide you with an annual giving statement that itemizes your donation(s). We may also contact you periodically to inquire if you would like to give to another program, location, or cause. We may contact you through email, mail, or text messages to share these opportunities.

As of the date of this Policy, we use Tithe.ly to process your online donation payments. For information on how third parties process your information, please refer to their privacy policies found here: https://get.tithe.ly/legal/privacy-policy

For donations you provide to us in person or by mail, we store your financial information in our databases in an encrypted form for as long as necessary to process your donation and as required by applicable law and GAAP accounting principles.

Automatic Data Collection Technologies

By agreeing to our Privacy Policy, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies as described in this policy. Examples include: web beacons, pixels, tags, and device identifiers we refer to as “cookies.” If you use the Calvary Church of Port Orchard site without changing your browser or device settings to disable cookies, we assume that you consent to receive all cookies provided through Calvary Church of Port Orchard site.

We use cookies to recognize you and/or your device(s) on, off, and across the different applications of our site and devices. Cookies help to facilitate the best possible user experience for our site as they allow us to recognize you and maintain your user preferences from session to session, keep your account safe, and improve the functionality of the services offered through Calvary Church of Port Orchard site. They also help ensure that profile information is used in association with the correct profile. We do not use cookies to facilitate interest-based ads from third parties for third party goods or services.

We log usage data when you use Calvary Church of Port Orchard site, including when you view or click on content, browser type, browser language, perform a search or request, the date and time of your request, install an update, seek new functionality, or use one or more tools offered through our site. We use cookies to identify you and log your use. When you access or leave our site, we receive the URL of both the site you came from and the one you go to next. We also get information about your IP address, proxy server, operating system, web browser and add-ons, device identifier and features, and/or ISP or your mobile carrier. Using our site from a mobile device will send us data about your location based on your phone settings and access you have granted the Calvary Church of Port Orchard site as discussed below.

We store this information and information about your use of our site in connection with your profile. We do not share any of your personally identifiable information, device identification, or location without your explicit permission. We do not sell your personal information to any third parties or use your personal information to solicit the sale of third-party goods or services.

We use this information to provide a tailored Calvary Church of Port Orchard site experience for you and to communicate with you more effectively. The information is also collected to determine the aggregate number of unique devices using our site, track total usage, and analyze usage data to provide you with a better experience and to improve the quality of our services. We may combine this information with other information to provide you with a better experience and improve the quality of our service. If you do not want us to collect this information, you should cease use of our site.

We generally maintain the data we collect from cookies for 21 days but may save it for longer when necessary, such as when required by law or for technical reasons. Although most internet browsers accept cookies by default, you can control cookies through your browser settings and similar tools or agree to refuse all cookies altogether. If you refuse to accept cookies, you may prohibit Calvary Church of Port Orchard from delivering the full capability of our site, and you may prevent the use of certain features and services that require these technologies.

We cannot regulate other site, content, or applications of third parties. They may place their cookies or other files on your computer, collect data, or solicit personal information from you. They may use this information to provide you with interest-based, targeted content. We do not control these third parties’ tracking technologies or how they may be used. If you have any questions about targeted content, contact the responsible provider directly.

Calvary Church of Port Orchard Content

We collect how you use the content available through our site. We process this information to allow you to access and use content through each session of your use of our site. You can choose whether to download certain Calvary Church of Port Orchard content to your device. You will have the option to allow Calvary Church of Port Orchard access to your device’s storage to add and modify this downloaded content. Access to the storage of your device is only used by Calvary Church of Port Orchard for downloading this requested content to your device.

It is your choice whether to create, access, or store Calvary Church of Port Orchard information and content. If you do, we will store it in association with your profile. We may use information about your use of Calvary Church of Port Orchard and the inferences we make from that use to provide recommendations to you of other Calvary Church of Port Orchard content. You may opt out of receiving these recommendations by email, as discussed below.

Communication From Us to You

We communicate with you through email or text messages. If we communicate to you through email, you may unsubscribe to these messages via the unsubscribe link in the emails providing these messages.

Recommendations and General Information

We use the data about you and inferences we make from that data to recommend certain content and functionality as well as additional services offered by Calvary Church of Port Orchard.

We may combine the information you provide with information we collect and the inferences we make for our internal development to improve the overall quality of all services provided by Calvary Church of Port Orchard.

We may also use the data we have about you and inferences we make from that data to contact you regarding other opportunities to engage with Calvary Church of Port Orchard.

We may contact you through email, mail, or text messages to discuss these recommendations and opportunities, how to use our site, and other news.

Security, Legal, and Technical Issues

We may use your information to contact you about account security, legal, and other service-related issues. Please be aware that you cannot opt out of receiving such messages from us. We may use your personal information to investigate, respond to, and resolve legal, security, and technical issues and complaints, including, as necessary, security purposes or possible fraud, violations of law or our Privacy Policy, or attempts to harm; however, you agree that we have no obligation to prevent or monitor for any of the preceding.

Notice

We may use your personal information to provide notice regarding a security incident or data breach by:

  • sending a message to the email address you provide, as applicable
  • posting to a publicly facing page of Calvary Church of Port Orchard site

Notices sent by email will be effective when we send the email. Notices we provide by posting will be effective upon posting. You consent to receiving electronic communications from Calvary Church of Port Orchard relating to your use and access of the services provided by Calvary Church of Port Orchard. It is your responsibility to keep your email address and any other contact information you provide to us current so that we may provide these communications to you.

Analytics and Performance

We internally analyze the personal data available to us, the use of content found on our site, and the inferences we make from that data to provide and update Calvary Church of Port Orchard site, communicate with you, and process information as discussed in this Policy, and for internal analytics such as to observe social, economic, and geographic trends as they pertain to Calvary Church of Port Orchard content.

In some cases, we work with trusted third parties to perform this research under controls that are designed to protect your privacy as outlined below. For example, we may use your data to generate statistics about overall usage of our site worldwide or in specific geographic regions.

We also use de-identified and aggregate user data to analyze our site. Where we publicly share stats of our site, we analyze and publish the data in an aggregated form, protecting your privacy and keeping your identity and personal information confidential. We use data, including user-provided personal information, aggregations of user data collected through the use of our site, public feedback, and information inferred from this data to conduct internal research and development in order to provide a better overall experience on Calvary Church of Port Orchard site, measure the performance of our site and increase use of our site and their features. This is done by making changes to Calvary Church of Port Orchard site that are generally available and by sending messages suggesting functionality and content.

Sensitive Data

If you choose to provide any sensitive information to us, we may use that information with other non-sensitive information you provide to create a more personalized Calvary Church of Port Orchard experience for you and to perform the services and actions you request, such as sharing or storing content you create. In any event, Calvary Church of Port Orchard will only process sensitive data you provide to us for Calvary Church of Port Orchard’s legitimate activities on your behalf and solely in accordance with the terms of this policy and any additional requests you make about the information. We will also maintain your information subject to appropriate safeguards discussed in this policy and otherwise provided by Calvary Church of Port Orchard.

You have the right to withdraw your consent to our collection and processing of your sensitive personal information by turning off and ceasing to use Calvary Church of Port Orchard features that use this information, or by contacting us via mail at Calvary Church of Port Orchard, 810 SW Wildwood Road, Port Orchard, WA 98367, or by email at [general info email]@calvaryp.org. Withdrawing your consent may hinder our ability to provide certain functionality.

Disclosure of Your Information

We do not sell or share your personal data with any third-party advertisers or ad networks for their advertising purposes. We may disclose your personal information to third parties to process information as described above and otherwise enable our ability to provide Calvary Church of Port Orchard, as further discussed below.

Disclosure on Your Behalf

We may disclose personal information that we collect, or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to fulfill our obligations, the purpose for which you provide it, a purpose you request when you provide the information, or any other purpose for which we have your consent.

Internal Disclosure

We will share your personal data internally within Calvary Church of Port Orchard and its affiliates to help combine the personal information covered across the different aspects of Calvary Church of Port Orchard site and our services to help provide services to you in a manner that is personalized and useful to you and others. For example, we can personalize potential services to recommend to you using cookies or similar technologies that track what functionality you have already opted to receive.

Service Providers

We may disclose personal information that we collect or you provide as described in this Privacy Policy to contractors, service providers, and other third parties we use solely to support our site (such as cloud hosting, cookie providers maintenance, analysis, audit, external marketing, payments, fraud detection, communication, and development), as well as to support our operations (such as communicating with you). We may combine the information we have with the information of these service providers to facilitate their support. For example, some of the platforms used to send emails and notifications provided through Calvary Church of Port Orchard are built and managed by third parties, so some of your information is sent securely to those services to provide such functionality. They will have access to your information as reasonably necessary to perform tasks on our behalf and are obligated not to disclose it to others or use it for other purposes. We may also provide aggregate, de-identified information concerning the use of Calvary Church of Port Orchard site with third parties.

Content Providers

We utilize certain third parties to provide content on our site. We do not share the personal information of users with these third parties. We may provide these third parties with aggregate analytics concerning the use of their content using de-identified and anonymized data.

Legal Process and Subpoena

We may need to disclose information about you when required by law, subpoena, or other legal process. We attempt to notify users about legal demands for their personal data when appropriate in our judgment, unless prohibited by law or court order or when the request is an emergency. We may dispute such demands when we believe, in our discretion, that the requests are overbroad, vague, or lack proper authority, but we do not promise to challenge every demand. We may also need to disclose your information if we have a good faith belief that disclosure is reasonably necessary to:

  • Investigate, prevent, or take action regarding suspected or actual illegal activities or to assist government enforcement agencies;
  • Enforce our agreements with you;
  • Investigate and defend ourselves against any third-party claims or allegations;
  • Exercise or protect the rights and safety of Calvary Church of Port Orchard, our users, personnel, you, or others.

Deleting, Accessing, and Correcting Your Information

How to Make Your Requests

For personal data that we have about you, you may request the following:

Deletion: You may ask us to erase or delete all or some of your personal data. Please note that doing so may limit your ability to use certain functionality of Calvary Church of Port Orchard site.

Correction/Modification: You may edit some of your personal data through your account or ask us to change, update, or fix your data in certain cases, including if it is inaccurate.

Object to, or Limit or Restrict, Use of Data: You can ask us to stop using all or some of your personal data or to limit our use of it.

Certain laws may provide the right to make additional requests concerning your personal information. If you have provided us with personal information and wish to make such a request under a specific region’s law, include the phrase “[Your State/Country] Privacy Request” in the subject line of your request and send your request via email to [general info email]@calvaryp.org or via mail to Calvary Church of Port Orchard, 810 SW Wildwood Road, Port Orchard, WA 98367.

We ask that individuals making requests identify themselves with at least their name, mailing address, and email address and identify the information requested to be accessed, corrected, or removed before we process the request. We may seek additional information to verify a requestor’s identity. We may decline to process requests if we cannot verify the requestor’s identity or if we believe the request will jeopardize the privacy of others, violate any law or legal requirement, cause the information to be incorrect, or for a similar legitimate purpose.

Security and Protection

We implement security safeguards designed to protect your data. These include using encryption for your data while being transmitted between your device or browser and our servers and while at rest. However, given the nature of communications and information technology and that the use of the internet has inherent risks, although we regularly monitor for possible vulnerabilities and attacks, we cannot warrant or guarantee that information provided to us through our site or stored in our systems or otherwise will be free from unauthorized intrusion by others, nor can we warrant or guarantee that such data may not be accessed, disclosed, altered, or destroyed by breach of any of our physical, technical, or managerial safeguards.

Children

We do not collect personal information from any person we know is under 18 without the consent of that minor’s parent or legal guardian.

A parent or guardian may consent to using our site or services by a minor. However, we ask that you discuss the risks of sharing personal information on the Internet with your children and require that they refrain from communicating with any third parties or sharing any personal information online or otherwise without the supervision of a parent or guardian. Should you allow your minor child to use our site or services, you are solely responsible for supervising the minor’s use of the same and assume full responsibility for the processing of any information provided to us by that minor.

Processing of Data

We will only collect and process personal data about you where we have lawful bases. Lawful bases include consent where you have given it, contracts, and other legitimate interests. Such legitimate interests include protection to you, us, other users, and third parties, to comply with applicable law, to enable and administer our internal processes, to manage corporate transactions, to generally understand and improve our internal processes and user experience, and to enable us and other users of our site to connect with you to exchange information, provided that the preceding adequately protects your rights and freedoms. Where we rely on your consent to process personal data, you have the right to withdraw or decline your consent at any time, and where we rely on legitimate interests, you have the right to object. If you have any questions about the lawful bases upon which we collect and use your personal data, please contact us at [general info email]@calvaryp.org.

Third Party Information Collection

This Privacy Policy applies only to the site owned and operated by Calvary Church of Port Orchard. Our site may contain links to other website or apps. You are responsible for reviewing the privacy statements and policies of those other website you choose to link to or from one of our site so that you can understand how those website collect, use, and store your information. We are not responsible for the privacy statements, policies or content of other website or apps, including websites you link to or from a Calvary Church of Port Orchard site. Website containing co-branding (referencing our name and a third party’s name) contain content delivered by the third party, not us.

Users Outside the United States

We are based in Washington within the United States, and the laws of the U.S. and the State of Washington govern your use of our site and this Privacy Policy. If you are using one of our site from outside this state or country, your information may be transferred to, stored, and processed in the U.S. where our servers are located, and our central database is operated. The data protection and other laws of the State of Washington, the U.S., and other countries might not be as comprehensive and may differ from those in your state or country. By using a Calvary Church of Port Orchard site, you consent to your information being transferred to our facilities and to the facilities of those third parties with whom we share it, as described in this Privacy Policy.

Changes to Our Privacy Policy

We may update our Privacy Policy occasionally to reflect changes in our practices. Calvary Church of Port Orchard is consistently seeking new and improved ways to offer our site and increase engagement. As we improve our site, this may also mean the collection of new data or new ways to use data. Because our site is dynamic, and we continuously seek to offer new features, we may require changes in our collection or processing of information. If we collect materially different personal data or materially change how we use your data, we will update this Privacy Policy.

We will post any changes to our Privacy Policy on this page. The date the Privacy Policy was last modified is identified at the beginning of the Policy. You are responsible for ensuring we have an up-to-date, active, and deliverable email address for you and for periodically visiting this Privacy Policy to check for any changes.

Contact Information

To ask questions or comment about this Privacy Policy, you may contact us at:
Calvary Church of Port Orchard
810 SW Wildwood Road
Port Orchard, WA 98367
360-876-7288 or calvarypowebmaster@gmail.com