Intentional Discipleship (ID) is committed to protecting and respecting your privacy. This statement explains when and why we collect personal information about people who apply for our programme, visit our website, or connect with us on social media, how we use it, the conditions under which we may disclose it to others and how we keep it secure.

We may change this statement from time to time and a fuller version of our data protection policy can be found below. Both this statement and our policy are kept under regular review, so please check this page occasionally to ensure that you’re happy with any changes. By using our website or connecting with us on any other available touchpoint you’re agreeing to be bound by this statement and our data protection policy.

Any questions regarding this Policy and our privacy practices should be sent by email to Sarah Morton at ID@revelationchurch.org.uk or by writing to Revelation Church, Busworks – United House, London, N7 9DP.

Who we are

Our website address is: http://intentionaldiscipleship.org.uk. We are Intentional Discipleship. Revelation Church London holds legal and financial responsibility for Intentional Discipleship. Revelation Church-London is a Registered Charity (no. 1120790) and Company Limited by Guarantee (no. 06266029). Revelation Church is also a member of the Evangelical Alliance (membership number 221868).  

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

The personal information we collect might include your name, address, email address, phone number, attendance information at events, groups and meetings, IP address, and information regarding what pages are accessed and when. If you make a purchase from us, for example for the purpose of purchasing event tickets, your card information is not held by us, it is collected by our third party payment processors, who specialise in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions, as explained below. If you complete the online application form for ID, we also collect information regarding your beliefs and experiences of faith. The information collected through the website is captured by our third party website hosts.

We may use your information to:

• Process a donation that you have made, and claim gift aid on it, with your written permission.
• Process transactions that you have requested, i.e. registering you for events run by ID, or supplying you with tickets for events or products where that is applicable
• Ensure that young people under the age of 18 attending an ID event are safely registered and accounted for.
• Send you communications which falls within the scope of the objectives of Intentional Discipleship.
• To seek your views or comments
• To notify you of changes to our services, events and role-holders
• To carry out comprehensive safeguarding procedures (including due diligence and complaints handling) in accordance with best safeguarding practice from time to time with the aim of ensuring that all children and adults-at-risk are provided with safe environments.
• Under the basis of legitimate interest, to use photographs and videos of various ID events (including but not limited to training weeks, mission trips, taster events, church placement activities) that contain identifiable persons where this is deemed appropriate
• To enable us to meet all legal and statutory obligations
• Process an application for a job or a volunteer position
• Process an application for the ID programme

We review our retention periods for personal information on a regular basis. We are legally required to hold some types of information to fulfil our statutory obligations (for example the collection of Gift Aid). We will hold your personal information on our systems for as long as is necessary for the relevant activity.

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

Who we share your data with

We will never sell your information to third parties.

We may pass your information to a third party associated organisation for the purposes of completing tasks and providing services to you on our behalf (for example to register you with an external event like The Call Conference or to process your application to the ID programme). The information collected through the application form on our website is shared with the relevant prospective church placement. Prospective church placements agree to abide by our privacy guidelines in relation to the use and storage of your information.

When we use third party service providers, we disclose only the personal information that is necessary to deliver the service. Please be reassured that we will not release your information to third parties beyond ID, unless you have requested us to do so, or we are required to do so by law, for example, by a court order or for the purposes of prevention of fraud or other crime.

When you are using our secure online donation pages, your donation is processed by a third party payment processor, who specialises in the secure online capture and processing of credit/debit card transactions. If you have any questions regarding secure transactions, please contact us.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

You have a choice about whether or not you wish to receive information from us. We will collect your contact information via our event registration on ChurchSuite or through the forms on our website, and store it securely on our intranet, on Revelation Church London’s ChurchSuite or on our Mailchimp account. You have the right to request that we remove your information from any of these platforms and you can request such a preference via email to Sarah Morton (ID@revelationchurch.org.uk) at any time.

Unless subject to an exemption under GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data: –

• The right to request a copy of your personal data which ID holds about you;
• The right to request that ID corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date; 
• The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for ID to retain such data;
• The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time (where applicable)
• The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing (where applicable);
• The right to object to the processing of personal data, (where applicable)
• The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

You can contact the ID administrator at ID@revelationchurch.org.uk or by post at Revelation Church, Busworks – United House, London, N7 9DP at any time with such a request.

You have the right to ask for a copy of the information ID holds about you (we may charge £10 for information requests) to cover our costs in providing you with details of the information we hold about you.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

Additional information

How we protect your data

When you give us personal information, we take steps to ensure that it’s treated securely.

ID uses the account of Revelation Church London on ChurchSuite as its booking system for events. ChurchSuite is a cloud hosted, web-based management system which complies with the principles of the GDPR.

Below is a section of the ChurchSuite privacy policy:

“Maintaining the security of your data is one of our highest priorities, and to this end, all access to ChurchSuite is over an SSL (https://) connection, which provides 256 – bit military grade encryption to ensure that all data in transit between your web browser and ChurchSuite is fully encrypted.

Where we are required to store any usernames or passwords for third-party integrations, such as social media or communication channels, we will always encrypt these details before they are stored on our servers.

Once we have received any data and stored it on our servers, we make commercially reasonable efforts to ensure its security on our system. To this end, we have chosen to host our ChurchSuite servers in a data centre that meets some of the strictest of industry security requirements, and is classified as a Tier 2 data centre.

Unfortunately, no data transmission over the Internet can be guaranteed to be 100% secure, so whilst we strive to protect your personal information, unfortunately we cannot warrant the security of any information you transmit to us.”

This final paragraph applies to the transmission of data over the internet from any Revelation Church London email account too.

Any personal information collected by us is stored on our Microsoft Sharepoint account and the documents in question are password protected.