This website is owned and operated by Light City Church. Your privacy and security while on golightcity.com is of the utmost importance to us and we are committed to protecting all personal information you provide that is transmitted to or through our website.
This privacy statement has been created to inform you of our privacy policies and practices and to explain how your information is collected and used.
Statistical Information
Light City Church collects information regarding overall website traffic patterns to monitor its online effectiveness and make improvements to golightcity.com through “cookie” files (described in the section below), and server log files. Normally, web pages/servers collect this type of file to monitor traffic information as part of their weblog process. We do not report on individual user sessions, nor use collected statistical information for any other purposes than monitoring and improving the Light City Church website.
Cookies
To collect statistical data, we may place a text file called a “cookie” in the browser files of your computer. The cookie itself does not contain personal information although it will enable us to relate your use of this site to information that you have specifically and knowingly provided. The only personal information a cookie can contain is information you knowingly supply yourself. A cookie can’t read data off your hard disk or read cookie files created by other sites. Light City Church uses cookies to track user traffic patterns (as described above).
You can refuse cookies by turning them off in your browser settings. If you’ve set your browser to warn you before accepting cookies, you will receive a warning message with each cookie. You do not need to have cookies turned on to use this site, however, you do need cookies to participate actively in message boards, forums, polling and surveys that we have already implemented or choose to implement in the future.
Log Information
When you use golightcity.com our servers automatically record information that your browser sends whenever you visit a website. These server logs may include information such as your web request, Internet Protocol address, browser type, browser language, the date and time of your request and cookies that may uniquely identify your browser.
Personal Information
We collect personal information only when you provide it to us by filling in an online form. Personal information is collected when joining our mailing list, using our onsite contact forms, purchasing any products, or making a donation. You do not need to give personal information to receive information from this site.
We do not share any personal information we collect about our users, donors, members or clients with any other organizations and we never rent or sell statistics or customer information lists of any type whatsoever.
Purchases and Online Donations
When you choose to make an online purchase or donation through the Light City Church website, we may request the following information:
Contact Information: First and last name, street address, city, province or state, postal or zip code, country, telephone number, e-mail address and other contact information. This information is used to process your donation.
Credit Card Information: Purchases and donations are processed using standard credit card information (card number, card type, expiration date, security code) via a secure, encrypted Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) sessions via Paypal. SSL is the proven standard for secure web transactions. This information is only used to process payments for goods and services or donations. We do not store any credit card information whatsoever on our site or server; in fact, we do not even see or deal with your credit card number or information ourselves.
Our website contains several e-mail links that allow visitors to easily send an electronic inquiry or feedback to Light City Church. Examples include e-mail inquiries for information, mail to the Pastors and leaders, services, contacting the webmaster, or specific staff in specific departments throughout the organization. When you use the e-mail links or contact forms, your e-mail address and the subject of your inquiry are provided to Light City Church. We only use this information to respond to your inquiries and track the service we provide. This information helps us improve our website, provide more relevant information to our site visitors and update our site as needed.
External Links
The Light City Church website has links to other websites that are not under its control. Light City Church is not responsible for the contents of any linked website, any link contained in a linked website or any changes or updates to such websites. The inclusion of any link does not mean that Light City Church endorses that website.
Please be aware that Light City Church is not responsible for the privacy practices of other websites that we link to. We encourage you to read the privacy statements of each and every website that requests personal information from you.
Restrictions on Use of Materials
This website is owned and operated by Light City Church. No materials from any website owned, operated, licensed or controlled by Light City Church may be copied, reproduced, republished, uploaded, posted, transmitted, or distributed in any way, without the prior written consent of Light City Church.
Enforcement
Light City Church regularly reviews its compliance with this policy. Please feel free to direct any questions or concerns regarding this policy or Light City Church’s treatment of personal information by contacting us online or by writing to:
Light City Church, 549 Garrison Road, Fort Erie, ON L2A 1N5, Canada.
Advertising
When visitors come to our website, we may occasionally collect user data by placing a cookie on a user’s browser for targeted advertising policies. The service we use to deploy these ads is called AdRoll. You can opt out of receiving targeted ads served by us or on our behalf by clicking here. Please note that, if you delete your cookies or upgrade your browser after having opted out, you will need to opt out again. Further, if you use multiple browsers or devices you will need to execute this opt out on each browser or device. If you opt-out we may collect some data about your online activity for operational purposes (such as fraud prevention) but it won’t be used by us for the purpose of targeting ads to you.
We may collect the following categories of information for the purposes explained below.
Advertiser website activity: This is data about your browsing activity on the Advertiser’s website. For example, which pages you visited and when, and what items you placed into your online shopping cart.
Device and browser information: This is technical information about the device or browser you use to access the Advertiser’s website. For example, your device’s IP address, cookie string data and (in the case of mobile devices) your device type and mobile device’s unique identifier such as the Apple IDFA or Android Advertising ID.
Ad data: This is data about the online ads we have served (or attempted to serve) to you. It includes things like how many times an ad has been served to you, what page the ad appeared on, and whether you clicked on or otherwise interacted with the ad.
Data from Advertising Partners: This is data that we receive from other digital advertising companies that we work with (“Advertising Partners”) to help us deliver ads to you and recognize you across browsers and devices. This may include pseudonymous advertiser identifiers that some Advertisers or other third party ad platforms choose to share with us, such as your “Customer ID” with an Advertiser or an identifier associated with a hashed (not readable) version of your email address. We may work with these Advertising Partners to synchronize their unique, anonymous identifiers to our own to enhance data points about a particular unique browser or device.
Email and Postal Addresses from Advertisers: Some Advertisers choose to share actual email addresses and postal addresses about their customers with us, so that (with the help of Advertising Partners) we can help the Advertiser serve targeted ads to customers. Also, we may assist an Advertiser with sending emails to customers (for instance, if the Advertiser is using our SendRoll service). We use the Advertiser’s supplied e-mail and postal addresses for the purpose of assisting that particular Advertiser.
Hashed email addresses: If an Advertiser allows, we may collect hashed versions of the emails that are entered on that Advertiser’s site. These hashed emails are used as an additional identifier to help us better target ads for Advertisers, including across multiple devices or browsers.
We use this data to help our Advertisers identify and serve ads to you that are more relevant to you. We also use this data to operate, improve and enhance our services including enhancing the data points we or our Advertising Partners have about a particular user, browser, or device, or to target, optimize, cap, or synchronize advertising.
Changes to This Policy
Please note that this privacy policy may change from time to time. We will not reduce your rights under this policy and we expect any future changes will be minor. Regardless, we will post any policy changes on this page and, if the changes are significant, we will provide a more prominent notice (including, for certain services, email notification of policy changes). Each version of this policy will be identified at the bottom of the page by its effective date.
Privacy Policy last updated on: January 9, 2020