Privacy Policy

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Last Edited: Sept. 2023

This Privacy Policy describes our policies and procedures for collecting, using, and disclosing your information when you use the Service, and informs you of your privacy rights and how the law protects you.

We use your personal information to provide and improve the Service. By using the Service, you consent to the collection and use of information in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

MEANING

The words whose initial letter is capitalized have meanings defined in the following conditions. The following definitions have the same meaning regardless of whether they appear in the singular or plural.

DEFINITIONS

For the purposes of this Privacy Policy:

  • Account  means a unique account created for you to access our Service or portions of our Service.
  • Church  (referred to in this Agreement as either "the Church", "we", "us" or "our") refers to Christ Embassy Bremen Bürgermeister-Smidt-Straße 49-51, 28195 Bremen, Germany
  • Country  refers to: Lower Saxony, Germany
  • Device  means any device that can access the Service, such as a computer, cell phone, or digital tablet.
  • Personal data  is any information relating to an identified or identifiable natural person.
  • Service  refers to the website.
  • Service Provider  means any natural or legal person who processes the Data on behalf of the Church. It refers to third party companies or individuals employed by the Church to enable the Service, provide the Service on behalf of the Church, provide services related to the Service or assist the Church in analyzing the use of the Service.
  • Usage data  refers to automatically collected data generated either by the use of the service or from the service infrastructure itself (e.g., the duration of a page visit).
  • Website  refers to the Christ Embassy Bremen, accessible via www.christembassy.de
  • You  designate the person accessing or using the Service or the Church or other legal entity on whose behalf that person accesses or uses the Service, as applicable.

TYPES OF DATA COLLECTED

Personal Data

While using our Service, we may ask you to provide us with certain personally identifiable information that may be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:

  • E-mail address
  • First name and Last name
  • Phone number
  • Address, state, province, postal code, city
  • Usage data

Usage data

Usage data is collected automatically when using the service.
Usage Data may include information such as your device's Internet Protocol address (e.g., IP address), browser type, browser version, the pages of our Service that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
When you access the Service through or from a mobile device, we may automatically collect certain information, including, but not limited to, the type of mobile device you are using, the unique ID of your mobile device, the IP address of your mobile device, your mobile device operating system, the type of mobile internet browser you are using, unique device identifiers, and other diagnostic data.
We may also collect information that your browser sends when you visit our Service or when you access the Service through or from a mobile device.

Tracking Technologies and Cookies

We use cookies and similar tracking technologies to track activity on our Service and store certain information. The tracking technologies we use are beacons, tags, and scripts to collect and track information to improve and analyze our Service. The technologies we use may include:

  • Cookies or browser cookies  A cookie is a small file that is placed on your device. You can instruct your browser to reject all cookies or to specify when a cookie is sent. However, if you do not accept cookies, you may not be able to use some parts of our service. Unless you have set your browser preferences to reject cookies, our Service may use cookies.
  • Flash-Cookies  Certain features of our Service may use locally stored objects (or Flash cookies) to collect and store information about your preferences or activity on our Service. Flash cookies are not managed by the same browser settings used for browser cookies. For more information about deleting Flash cookies, see "Where can I change the settings to disable or delete local shared objects?" available Here
  • Web-Beacons  Certain sections of our Service and emails may contain small electronic files known as web beacons (also referred to as clear gifs, pixel tags, and single pixel gifs) that allow Church, for example, to count users who have visited those pages or opened an email and for other related website statistics (e.g., tracking the popularity of a particular section and verifying system and server integrity).

Cookies can be "persistent" or "session" cookies. Persistent cookies remain on your PC or mobile device when you go offline, while session cookies are deleted as soon as you close your web browser.
We use both session and persistent cookies for the purposes listed below:

  • Necessary / essential cookies
    Type: Session cookies
    Managed by: Us
    Purpose: These cookies are essential to provide you with the services available through the website and to allow you to use some of its features. They help authenticate users and prevent fraudulent use of user accounts. Without these cookies, the services you request cannot be provided and we only use these cookies to provide you with these services.
  • Cookie Policy / Notice Acceptance of Cookies
    Type: Persistent cookies
    Managed by: Us
    Purpose: These cookies detect whether users have consented to the use of cookies on the website.
  • Functionality cookies
    Type: Persistent cookies
    Managed by: Us
    Purpose: These cookies allow us to remember choices you make when using the website, such as your login details or language preferences. The purpose of these cookies is to provide you with a more personalized experience and to avoid having to re-enter your preferences each time you use the website.

For more information about the cookies we use and your choices regarding cookies, please see our Cookie Policy or the Cookies section of our Privacy Policy.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The Church may use personal data for the following purposes:

  • To provide and maintain our service  including monitoring the use of our service.
  • To your account  to manage : to manage your registration as a user of the Service. The personal data you provide may allow you to access various features of the Service that are available to you as a registered user.
  • For the performance of the contract  The development, compliance and performance of the purchase agreement for the products, items or services you have purchased or any other contract with us for the Service.
  • To contact you:  To contact you by email, phone call, text message, or other equivalent forms of electronic communication, such as push notifications from a mobile application about updates or informative messages related to the features, products, or contracted services, including security updates, when necessary or reasonable to implement them.
  • To provide you with news  ,special offers and general information about other goods, services and events offered by us , similar to those you have already purchased or inquired about, unless you have opted out of receiving such information.
  • To manage your requests  To process and respond to your requests to us. For Business Transfers: We may use your information to evaluate or effect a merger, divestiture, restructuring, reorganization, dissolution or other sale or transfer of some or all of our assets, whether as a going concern or in bankruptcy, liquidation, or similar proceeding, in which personal information we hold about our service users is one of the transferred assets.
  • For Other Purposes  We may use your information for other purposes, such as data analysis, identifying usage trends, determining the effectiveness of our advertising campaigns, and to evaluate and improve our service, products, services, marketing, and your experience.
  • We may share your personal information in the following situations:

  • To Service Providers  We may share your personal information with service providers to monitor and analyze the use of our service in order to contact you.
  • In Business Transfers  We may share or transfer your personal information in connection with or during negotiations for a merger, sale of church assets, financing or acquisition of all or a portion of our business to another church.
  • To Affiliates  We may share your information with our affiliates. In that case, we require those affiliates to comply with this Privacy Policy. Affiliates include our parent church and any other subsidiaries, joint venture partners, or other companies that we control or that are under common control with us.
  • To Business Partners  We may share your information with our business partners to offer you certain products, services or promotions.
  • With Other Users  If you share personal information or otherwise interact with other users in the public areas, that information may be viewed by all users and publicly disseminated outside.
  • With Your Consent  We may disclose your personal information for other purposes with your consent.

RETENTION OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

The Church will retain your personal data only for as long as is necessary for the purposes set out in this Privacy Policy. We will retain and use your personal data to the extent necessary to comply with our legal obligations (e.g., if we need to retain your data to comply with applicable laws), resolve disputes, and enforce our legal agreements and policies.

The Church also retains Usage Data for internal analytics purposes. Usage Data is generally retained for a shorter period of time, unless such data is used to enhance security or improve the functionality of our Service, or we are required by law to retain such data for longer periods of time.

TRANSFER OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Your information, including personal data, is processed at the Church's operating offices and other locations where the parties involved in the processing are located. This means that this information may be transferred to and stored on computers outside of your state, province, country or other governmental jurisdiction where data protection laws may differ from those of your jurisdiction.

Your acceptance of this Privacy Policy, followed by your submission of such information, constitutes your consent to such transfer.

Church will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your information is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy, and no transfer of your personal information will take place to any organization or country unless there are appropriate controls in place, including the security of your data and other personal information.

DISCLOSURE OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

Law Enforcement

In certain circumstances, the Church may be required to disclose your personal information if required to do so by law or in response to valid requests from public authorities (such as a court or government agency).

Other Legal Requirements

The Church may disclose your personal information in a good faith belief that such action is necessary to

Comply with legal obligation

  • Protect and defend the rights or property of the Church
  • Prevent or investigate possible misconduct in connection with the Service
  • Protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • Protect against legal liability

SECURITY OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA

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

CHILDREN'S PRIVACY

Our Service is not directed to persons under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personal information from anyone under the age of 13. If you are a parent or guardian and know that your child has provided us with personal information, please contact us.

If we become aware that we have collected personal information from anyone under the age of 13 without confirmation of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

If we must rely on consent as the legal basis for processing your information and your country requires a parent's consent, we may require your parent's consent before collecting and using that information.

LINKS TO OTHER WEBSITES

Our Service may contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. When you click on a third-party link, you will be directed to that third-party website. We strongly encourage you to read the privacy policies of each website you visit.

We have no control over, and assume no responsibility for, the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third party websites or services.

CHANGES TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new privacy policy on this page.

We will notify you by email and/or a prominent notice on our Service before the change takes effect, and update the "Last Updated" date at the top of this Privacy Policy.

It is recommended that you review this Privacy Policy periodically for changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy will be effective when posted on this page.

CONTACT US

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