At Journey With Christ, transparency, performance, security, and data privacy are first-order considerations, the north star for how we design our products and policies as a non-profit organization. As part of our ongoing commitment to transparency, we constantly updated our Privacy Policy to empower you to make informed decisions about the information that you share with us. These updates will take effect on March 10, 2023. By using our services on or after that date, you’ll be agreeing to these revisions.

We encourage you to read the updated policy in full, but the key updates include:

• More focus on your individual rights and choices
• More information on our data security and retention practices
• More clarity about how we use your data to provide you the best possible experience with our services, prevent harm and comply with law.

 

Introduction

We at Journey With Christ (“Journey With Christ”, “we”, “us”, “our”), know you care about how your Personal Information is used and shared, and we take your privacy seriously too. Please read this Privacy Policy to learn how we collect and use your Personal Information. By using or accessing our Services, you accept the practices and policies outlined below, and you consent that we will collect, use and share your information as described in this Privacy Policy.

When we talk about the “Services” in this policy, we are referring to our website(s), products, services, discussion forums, interactive areas, applications, platforms, and events. If you are a visitor to our website, create a profile on jwct.org, use any of our products or services, you are a “user”.

 

Information we collect and how we use it

This Privacy Policy covers our treatment of personally identifiable information (“Personal Information”) that we gather when you are accessing or using our Services, but not the practices of companies we don’t own or control, or people that we don’t manage. We gather various types of Personal Information from you, as explained in more detail below, and we use this Personal Information internally in connection with our Services, including to personalize, provide, and improve our services, to allow you to set up a user account and profile, to contact you and allow other users to contact you, to fulfill your requests for certain products and services, and to analyze how you use the Services. In certain cases, we may also share Personal Information with third-parties, but only as described below. We do not rent or sell your Personal Information in personally identifiable form to anyone.

 

1. Account creation & contact information

Users may provide information such as an name, email address, and password to create an account.

How we use it
We may send you Service and administrative emails and messages. We may also contact you to inform you about changes in our Services, our Service offerings, and important Service-related notices, such as security and fraud notices. If you contact us with a problem or question, we will use your information to respond. We often need to contact you for account management and similar reasons. These emails and messages are considered part of the Services as our own legal requirement, and you may not opt-out of them.

In addition, we sometimes send emails about new events or other news about Journey With Christ, and we may also use your contact information for spiritual out-reach purposes. These messages are processed with your consent, or where we believe that both you and Journey With Christ have a legitimate interest in receiving such information. You may opt out of these at any time.

 

2. Comments & media

We collect information about visitors to www.jwct.org. The information we collect includes the visitor's IP address and user agent (along with other information directly provided by the commenter such as their name, username, email address, and the comment itself).

 

3. Biographical and social media information

Users may provide additional information as part of their account creation process, such as social media links.

How we use it
Personal Information which is considered publicly available are made visible on your www.jwct.org profile page in order to facilitate authenticity and discovery by other users of the Services with whom you might wish to collaborate or communicate. This information is provided and displayed with your explicit consent, and may be removed and hidden at any time.

 

4. Services usage information

This is information about how you are accessing and using the Services. Such information may include our use of third-party analytics providers to analyze how you engage with our Services, and your support communications with us (which may contain Personal Information about you).

How we use it
We use this information to understand and improve our Services, including through research, internal analytics and product development. If you contact us with a problem or question, we will use your information to respond in order to fulfill our contract with you. We will also use this data to help us in investigating security breaches and preventing security breaches from happening. We work hard to keep the Services secure and to prevent abuse and fraud.

 

5. Device & geo-location information

Users may provide their location as part of their profile on www.jwct.org. We may also collect information about the device you are using the Services on, but only to the extent that your browser supplies that information, including what type of device it is, what operating system you are using, and your device IP address. Whether we collect some or all of this information often depends on what type of device you are using and its settings.

How we use it
We use this information to understand and improve our Services. We carry out research and analyze trends to better understand such patterns as how users are using the Services, from where, via what browsers and devices, and when and how often pages and features in our Services are visited. Just like any other usage information we collect, this information allows us to improve the Services and customize your online experience.

Anonymised or pseudo-anonymised data is held indefinitely, in order to assess and enhance our services with regards to historical activity.

 

6. Embedded media

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.

 

7. Third party services

Third-parties may help us provide you with user support, perform certain operational functions for us, share news about our Services, and partner with us from time to time. We use WhatsApp to share messages about content and upcoming events. If you use WhatsApp to communicate with us, Journey With Christ will store your phone number and name exclusively for the purposes of WhatsApp communication. By using WhatsApp or any other third-party application, please note that their own privacy policy applies.

 

8. Our cookie policy

Journey With Christ uses cookies and similar technologies (collectively “Cookies”) to provide and support our websites and Services. We use cookies (and similar technologies, like HTML5 localStorage) to operate and improve the Services, keep you logged in, remember your preferences, and provide information for future development of www.jwct.org. Through cookies we place on your browser or device, we may collect information about your activity while you are using our Services. You may be able to change the preferences on your browser or device to prevent or limit your device’s acceptance of cookies, but this may prevent you from taking advantage of some of our features. Please note that because of our use of Cookies, the Services do not support “Do Not Track” requests sent from a browser at this time. To find out more about “Do Not Track,” you can visit www.allaboutdnt.com.

 

Your choices 1. User data

At any time, you have the right to deactivate or delete your account on www.jwct.org, rendering your Personal Information provided there either frozen (not publicly visible, and unsubscribed from all non-essential messaging) or unidentifiable (either through deletion or one-way encryption) respectively.

You have the right to update what information is associated with your profile on www.jwct.org, as well as to request access to the data we hold about you.

You have the right to request that we erase all Personal Information we hold in association with you, so long as that information is not required for us to fulfill our or contractual obligations owed to you or our legal obligations.

You have the right to withdraw any consent you have given us at any time (for example, with regards to receiving updates from us).

The information you can view, update, and delete may change as the Services change. If you have any questions about viewing or updating information we have on file about you, please contact us at contactus@jwct.org.

 

2. Other information

If you have any questions about your information, our use of your information, or your rights when it comes to any of the foregoing, contact us at contactus@jwct.org.

 

Sharing and disclosure

There are times when information described in this Privacy Policy may be shared by Journey With Jesus. This section discusses how we may share such information.

 

1. Personal information

Journey With Jesus will never sell or share your Personal Information for the independent commercial gain of a third-party. However, we may share Personal Information in accordance with our agreement with the specific user and the user’s instructions, including:

 

1.1 With third-party service providers and agents.

We may engage third-party Christian organizations or individuals to process Personal Information in order to deliver our Services; for example, for security and fraud prevention, hosting and communications providers, networking at Christian events (online or in-person), and sending of newsletters.

Specifically, we host special events and conferences, and these events' organizers will request to scan attendees’ badges to be granted access to our attendees’ contact details.

If a user agrees to have their badge scanned by an organizer at one of our events, the user understands that Journey With Jesus will share some of the user’s basic Personal Information (name, phone number, and email address) with said organizer. Where the organizer is using a data capture solution other than that provided by Journey With Christ, the user will be entering into a separate data usage agreement with the organizer, entirely independent of Journey With Christ.

Regardless of the exact process of data capture, we contractually require our organizers to give clear, unambiguous disclosure regarding how the scanned personal information of our users will be used, and to only capture a user’s details if said user then gives their explicit consent.

 

1.2 With other event attendees.

For digital conferences, we will upload your first name, last name, church name, and denomination to your profile in our event platform before you log in for the first time. If you would like to remove any of this information before the event starts, just click your name in the top right of the event platform screen, click My Account, then Profile, and amend your details.

 

2. Other information

We may create aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data from the Personal Information we collect, including by removing information that makes the data personally identifiable to a particular user. We may use such aggregated, de-identified or anonymized data and share it with third-parties for our lawful business purposes, including to analyze, build and improve the Services, provided that we will not share such data in a manner that could identify you.

 

Data security and retention

We seek to protect your Personal Information from unauthorized access, use and disclosure using appropriate physical, technical, organizational and administrative security measures based on the type of Personal Information and how we are processing that data. You should also help protect your data by appropriately selecting and protecting your password or other sign-on mechanism; limiting access to your computer or device and browser; and signing off after you have finished accessing your account. Although we work to protect the security of your account and other data that we hold in our records, please be aware that no method of transmitting data over the internet or storing data is completely secure.

We retain Personal Information about you for as long as you have an open account with us or as otherwise necessary to provide you with our Services. In some cases we retain Personal Information for longer if doing so is necessary to comply with our legal obligations, resolve disputes, or is otherwise permitted or required by applicable law, rule or regulation.

 

Changes to this privacy policy

We’re constantly trying to improve our Services, so we may need to change this Privacy Policy from time to time, but we will alert you to any such changes by placing a notice on our website, by sending you an email or by some other reasonable means. Please note that if you’ve opted not to receive legal notice emails from us (or if you haven’t provided us with your email address), those legal notices will still govern your use of the Services, and you are still responsible for reading and understanding them. If you use the Services after any changes to the Privacy Policy have been posted, that means you agree to all of the changes. Use of information we collect is subject to the Privacy Policy in effect at the time such information is collected.

 

Contacting us

If you have any questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, the ways in which we collect and use your Personal Information or your choices and rights regarding such collection and use, please write to us at: contactus@jwct.org