Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 03/13/24

Olive Baptist Church ("we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting the privacy of individuals who visit our website or interact with us through other means. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your personal information. By accessing our website or providing your information to us, you consent to the terms of this Privacy Policy.

Information We Collect

Personal Information

We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address when you voluntarily provide it to us, for example, when you sign up for our newsletter, make a donation, or register for an event.

Non-Personal Information

We may also collect non-personal information automatically when you visit our website, such as your IP address, browser type, operating system, and browsing preferences. This information is used to improve our website and services but does not personally identify you.

How We Use Your Information

We may use your personal information for the following purposes:

• To communicate with you and provide the services you request.

• To send you newsletters, updates, event invitations, and other information about our church and its activities.

• To process donations and transactions.

• To improve our website and services.

• To comply with legal obligations.

How We Share Your Information

We may share your personal information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website and providing our services. These service providers are contractually obligated to keep your information confidential and only use it for the purposes for which we provide it to them. We may also disclose your information when required by law or in response to a valid legal request.

COOKIES AND TRACKING INFORMATION: We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to analyze trends, administer our website, track users' movements around the site, and gather demographic information about our user base. You can control cookies through your browser settings, but disabling cookies may limit your access to certain features of our website.

SOCIAL NETWORK SHARING: We encourage users to share our content and/or like our profile on popular social media networks. In order to make social sharing accessible, our website utilizes widgets provided directly from the social media networks. Cookies and privacy implications from the social media networks vary and will be dependent on your nominated privacy settings with each social media network. Social sharing buttons will only deploy cookies if you are signed in to that respective social media network at the time of being on our website.

ANALYTICAL TRACKING: Our platforms use various analytical platforms, which allow us to track and compile anonymous visitor statistics. The information collected ranges from simple traffic volume to the type of browser you are using to view our website. This information is valuable to us not just for marketing analysis and quantification, but to improve the usability, security, and performance of our platforms and content. All vendors we partner with have been properly vetted and the data collected is subject to their respective privacy policies. Data is anonymized when possible. We review and ensure proper contracts between these vendors and that the agreements are in line with our own privacy policies.

HOTJAR: We also use Hotjar in order to better understand our users' needs and to optimize this service and experience. Hotjar is a technology service that helps us better understand our users' experience (e.g. how much time they spend on which pages, which links they choose to click, what users do and don't like, etc.) and this enables us to build and maintain our service with user feedback. Hotjar uses cookies and other technologies to collect data on our users' behavior and their devices (in particular, device's IP address (captured and stored only in anonymized form), device screen size, device type (unique device identifiers), browser information, geographic location (country only), and preferred language used to display our website). Hotjar stores this information in a pseudonymized user profile. Neither Hotjar nor we will ever use this information to identify individual users or to match it with further data on an individual user. For further details, please see Hotjar's privacy policy. You can opt-out to the creation of a user profile, Hotjar's storing of data about your usage of our site and Hotjar's use of tracking cookies on other sites by following this opt-out link here.

Links to Third-Party Websites

Our website may contain links to third-party websites that are not operated by us. We are not responsible for the privacy practices of these websites and encourage you to review their privacy policies before providing any personal information.

Data Security

We take reasonable measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, disclosure, alteration, or destruction. However, no method of transmission over the internet or electronic storage is 100% secure, and we cannot guarantee absolute security.

Children's Privacy

Our website is not intended for children under the age of 13, and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children under the age of 13. If you believe that we have inadvertently collected information from a child under 13, please contact us, and we will take steps to delete the information as soon as possible.

Updates to this Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time by posting a revised version on our website. The revised version will be effective as of the date it is posted. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

Contact Us

If you have any questions or concerns about this Privacy Policy or our privacy practices, please fill out the form below.