Privacy Policy
Welcoming Cumberland Presbyterians is an independent grassroots movement, separate from and not officially affiliated with the Cumberland Presbyterian Church or the Cumberland Presbyterian Church in America. It is neither sponsored nor endorsed by these denominations or any other religious organizations.
Welcoming Cumberland Presbyterians (“Movement, ” “Organization,” “we,” “us,” or “our”) values your privacy and is committed to protecting your personal information. This privacy notice describes how and why we might collect, store, use, and/or share (“process”) your information when you use our services (“Services”), such as when you:
- Visit our website at https://www.welcomingcps.org or any website or social media account of ours that links to this privacy notice
- Engage with us in other related ways, including any sales, marketing, or events, or if you communicate with us via email or emails
1. Information We Collect
- Personal Information: We may collect personal information such as your name, email address, other contact details, and any prayer requests or concerns you share directly with us through our website, email, or social media platforms. Certain information may be communicated to our prayer or leadership teams to provide the requested support.
- Social Media Information: If you interact with us on a social media platform using your social media account (e.g., Facebook or Twitter), we may receive personal information about you such as your name, email address, and gender, depending on your privacy settings.
- Usage Data: We may collect information about your interactions with our website, including IP addresses, browser types, and pages visited.
- Comments: Data from comments, IP addresses, and browser user agents are collected. An anonymized string (hash) may be sent to Gravatar; their privacy policy is here. Profile pictures may be visible with approved comments.
- Media: Avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS); visitors can extract this data.
2. How We Use Your Information
- Respond to Inquiries and Provide Services: Your contact information helps us respond to inquiries and deliver services and support relevant to your engagement with us, including offering prayer, providing pastoral support, and making referrals.
- Improve Our Website: We analyze usage data to understand visitor interactions and enhance the user experience.
- Send Updates and Communications: With your consent, we send periodic updates, newsletters, or promotional materials.
- Cookies: We use cookies to save your login information, preferences, and for convenience with comments. Cookies include session, login, and editing cookies with varying expiration times.
3. Data Sharing and Disclosure
- Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who assist us in operating our website or delivering our services. These providers are contractually obligated to protect your information and only use it for the purposes for which it was disclosed.
- Legal Requirements: We may disclose your information if required by law or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., a subpoena or a court order).
- Comments: Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.
- Password Resets: IP address included in reset emails
4. Data Security
We implement technical and organizational measures to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure.
5. Third-Party Links and Resources
Our website may include links to third-party sites for your convenience. We do not control or endorse these sites and are not responsible for their content or privacy practices. We recommend reviewing the privacy policies of any third-party sites you visit before providing any personal data.
6. Data Collection on Children
Our services are not directed to children under 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from children under 13. If you are age thirteen or under, please do not give us any Personal Data. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13, we will take steps to delete such information promptly.
7. Data Retention and Deletion
- Data Retention: We retain your information only as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes for which it was collected and as required by law.
- Data Deletion Requests: You may request the deletion of your personal data by contacting us at welcomingcps@gmail.com. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable laws and regulations.
- Cookies: If you leave a comment, you may opt-in to save your name, email address, and website in cookies for convenience. These cookies last for one year. We set temporary cookies on our login page to determine if your browser accepts cookies, which are discarded when you close your browser. When you log in, cookies save your login information and screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me,” your login persists for two weeks. If you log out, the login cookies are removed. Additional cookies are saved for edited or published articles, including no personal data and indicating the post ID, expiring after one day.
8. Questions or Concerns
Reading this privacy notice will help you understand your privacy rights and choices. If you do not agree with our policies and practices, please do not use our Services. If you still have any questions or concerns, please contact us at welcomingcps@gmail.com.
