Privacy

Privacy statement

Under Data Protection legislation, and for the purposes of this document, the Trustees of Rainham Christian Fellowship act as the “Data Controller” and the Church Secretary acts as our “Data Protection Officer”.

We collect personal information to enable the church to keep in touch with you and provide pastoral support as appropriate. Data Protection legislation allows us to process this information in line with the church’s legitimate interest, as regarded by the Data Controller.

Your name and contact details will be entered into our church’s electronic records, which are password protected and accessed only by a limited number of approved people, primarily the Church Secretary. Any paper copies are kept in a locked filing cabinet and destroyed if no longer required (or on your request).

We do not share information you may have provided (e.g. via our website Contact form) with anyone, including other members of the church congregation, unless we have specifically contacted you for consent.

Cookies

Cookies are simply small files used by a website to help improve the viewing experience. This often includes an ability to identify specific users or options to use analytics to explore how people find and use the website.

We’ve disabled all the default cookies and analytics tools that are built into our website that we are able to. The only cookies activated are those strictly necessary for the function of the website.

We do not use cookies to personalise content or adverts, to provide social media features or to analyse traffic.

We do use services such as embedded maps and YouTube on our pages and you might be sent cookies from them via our site. Please look at their terms and conditions for further details. As some of these 3rd party services may be based outside of the UK and Europe, they may not be bound by GDPR or other regulations that apply here.