Privacy Policy

Introduction

Talking Jesus is a joint partnership between Alpha, CV global, the Evangelical Alliance, HOPE Together, Luis Palau Association and Kingsgate Community Church.

All information you provide will be held in accordance with the General Date Protection Regulation (GDPR). We will do all we can to protect your privacy and to make sure any personal information you share with us is stored securely.

We value and respect everyone who connects with us. In line with our Christian beliefs, our aim is to be as clear as possible about how and why we use information you give us. If your questions are not fully answered by the information below, please contact our data protection officer who will be happy to help.

Data controller

For the purposes of this privacy policy, the data controller is Christian Vision Europe.

You can contact Christian Vision Europe with the following details:

Email: eu.privacy@cvglobal.co

Post: The Data Protection Officer Christian Vision The Rock, International Drive Solihull, B90 4WA United Kingdom

How we collect information about you

We collect personal information each time you are in contact with us. For example this may include, but is not limited to, filling in a health check survey, signing up to a newsletter or contacting us.

Why we collect information about you

We collect information about you for the following reasons:

• To provide you with information about the work of Talking Jesus, or other partner organisations.
• To analysis the results of the health check survey.
• To keep records of your relationship with us. For example; what events you have attended, what enquiries you have made, what areas of our work you have supported or what resources you have ordered.
• To customise the information and appeals we send to ensure we work in the most cost-effective way and only send information which is appropriate to you.
• To enhance or improve your experience on our website. When you indicate your preferences through your use of our site, we may use this information to personalise the site to better meet your needs.

Keeping us up to date with your details and contact preferences

Please tell us as soon as any of your contact details change so that we can keep our records up to date.

You can unsubscribe from any of our regular emails, or our partner emails at any time by using the ‘unsubscribe’ or ‘update preferences’ links in the email you have received.

Who sees your information?

The information we collect will be used by Talking Jesus and any of our partners, listed above. To see how your data may be used, please see the respective organisations privacy policies:

The Evangelical Alliance: https://www.eauk.org/privacy-policy

HOPE Together: https://www.hopetogether.org.uk/User/PrivacyPolicy.aspx

Christian Vision Europe: https://www.cvglobal.co/privacy/

Alpha: https://alpha.org/privacy-policy/

Luis Palau: https://palau.org.uk/privacy-policy/

Where such details are shared we have confidentiality agreements in place that restrict the use of your information to the purpose for which it is provided and ensure it is stored securely and kept no longer than necessary. All agents we share details with are also compliant with data protection law.

To minimise the risk of unauthorised disclosure of your information, we may use some of your information to verify who you are when you contact us.

Our use of your information

The information that you provide to the Talking Jesus and it’s partners will be used to provide you with information about our work including mailing, events, resources, fundraising and other services and activities as described on our website.

By providing information you are agreeing to receive mailings that communicate the work of Talking Jesus and it’s partners. Each time you receive an email you will be able to update your preferences and subscribe or unsubscribe from regular emails.

How long do we keep your information?

The length of time we keep the information you have given us depends on the context in which you provided it. We will only keep information that is necessary for us to provide membership mailings, other resources, for statistical purposes and to ensure legal compliance with tax and accounting regulations.

Cookies

We make use of cookies to enable us to analyse how visitors to our websites are using them and what pages they are visiting. This enables us to customise and personalise the content on our website. Cookies make the interaction between users and websites faster and easier. Without cookies, it would be very difficult for a website to allow a visitor to fill up a shopping cart or to remember the user's preferences or registration details for a future visit.

We use websites such as Vimeo and YouTube to embed videos on our websites and you may be sent cookies from them via our site. Please look at the cookie and privacy policies on these 3rd party sites if you want more information about this.

We also use 3rd party suppliers such as Microsoft, Facebook, Eventbrite and Google Analytics and these suppliers may also make use of cookies.

As some of these 3rd party services may be based outside of the UK and the EU they may not fall under the jurisdiction of UK courts.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a piece of information in the form of a very small text file that is placed on an internet user's hard drive. It is generated by a web page server, which is basically the computer that operates a website. The information the cookie contains is set by the server and it can be used by that server whenever the user visits the site. A cookie can be thought of as an internet user's identification card, which tell a website when the user has returned.

Last updated

This policy was last updated in November 2022 but will be subject to regular review. Please revisit it each time that you consider giving personal data.