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Welcome to ARCChurches.com. This website on which you are viewing this policy is owned and managed by the Association of Related Churches (“ARC”) based in Birmingham, AL USA.This policy describes how we collect and use Personal Information we receive from users of the Site and other ARC properties.

By continuing to use this site and services you are accepting the terms and condition of use defined within this policy.

Information Collection And Use

We may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to your name (“Personal Information”).

This information will be:

  1. Used in a transparent manner.
  2. Collected for specified, explicit and legitimate purposes.
  3. Limited to what is necessary in relation to the purposes for which they are requested.

Such information will be kept confidential and only be provided to third parties, who assist us, provide goods or services requested by such persons, or with their prior consent.

Sensitive/Special Category Personal Information

We may collect and store sensitive personal information such as:

  1. Religious information (testimony, etc.)
  2. Prayer requests
  3. Birthday, clothing sizes, preferences, etc.
  4. Biographical information
  5. Financial/Background information (

Sensitive/Special Category Personal Information

We may collect and store sensitive personal information such as:

  1. Religious information (testimony, etc.)
  2. Prayer requests
  3. Birthday, clothing sizes, preferences, etc.
  4. Biographical information

ARC Church Plant Process Personal Information

We may collect and store sensitive personal information during the ARC Church Plant process. Some of this information may be contractual and may not fall under the right to be forgotten due to your contractual obligation with ARC. If you do not agree to the collection and storage of this data, please do not start the Launch process. Examples of this information are:

  1. Personal contact information
  2. Personal/job reference data
  3. Counseling data
  4. Financial Information
  5. Background/Criminal information
  6. Assessment results

Log Data

Like many site operators, we collect information that your browser sends whenever you visit our Site (“Log Data”).

This Log Data may include information such as your computer’s Internet Protocol (“IP”) address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our Site that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages and other statistics.

In addition, we may use third party services that collect, monitor and analyze this for statistical and debugging purposes.

We may use Google Analytics cookies, first-party identifiers, and third-party cookies (such as Google advertising cookies) together to achieve a better understanding of our audience. This information is NOT personally identifiable and will be kept confidential and may be provided to third parties, who assist us.

Communications

We may use your Personal Information to contact you with newsletters, marketing or promotional materials, and other information. This information may be from first-party or third-party sources as you specify. You have control over what you receive. To update this information, contact us. If you’d like to be completely removed from our systems (forgotten), contact us to request that your data be completely purged from our systems. This process may take some time but will be completed and your data will be immediately removed from production systems but may remain in system backups until those backups rotate out. 

Cookies

Cookies are files with small amount of data, which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a web site and stored on your computer’s hard drive.

Like many sites, we use “cookies” to collect information and for certain functionality. You can instruct your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some portions of our Site.

Security

The security of your Personal Information is important to us, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage, is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your Personal Information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.

Changes To This Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy is effective as of 5.25.2018 and will remain in effect except with respect to any changes in its provisions in the future, which will be in effect immediately after being posted on this page.

We reserve the right to update or change our Privacy Policy at any time and you should check this Privacy Policy periodically. Your continued use of the Service after we post any modifications to the Privacy Policy on this page will constitute your acknowledgment of the modifications and your consent to abide and be bound by the modified Privacy Policy.

If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy, we will notify you either through the email address you have provided us, or by placing a prominent notice on our website.

Contact Us

If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy, please contact us.