Privacy Policy

12 July 2024

This Statement of Privacy applies to the Welsh Mission Personal Ministries Website and governs data collection and usage. By using the Welsh Mission Personal Ministries Website, you consent to the data practices described in this statement.

COLLECTION OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We recognise the sensitive nature of your information. It is our highest priority to ensure the confidentiality of any information you provide and take a proactive approach in protecting your privacy.

We receive, collect and store any information you enter on our website or provide us in any other way. For example, you may provide us with personally identifiable information (name, email, communications); comments, feedback, recommendations, and personal profile.

In addition, we receive and store information collected automatically through monitory tools. We collect the Internet Protocol (IP) Address used to connect your computer to the Internet; computer and connection information. This information is merely statistical and not used to identify you. We may use software tools to measure and collect session information, including page response times, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, and methods used to browse away from the page.

When you subscribe to our newsletter on our website, we collect personal information you give us such as your email address. Your personal information will be used for the specific reasons stated above only.

We collect such Non-personal and Personal Information for the following purposes:

To provide, operate our Services;
To be able to contact our Visitors and Users with service-related notices, updates, newsletters and promotional messages;
To create aggregated statistical data and other aggregated and/or inferred Non-personal Information, which we may use to provide and improve our respective services;
To comply with any applicable laws and regulations.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through Welsh Mission Personal Ministries public message boards, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: Welsh Mission Personal Ministries does not read any of your private online communications.

Third Party Links

We encourage you to review the privacy statements of Websites you choose to link to from Welsh Mission Personal Ministries so that you can understand how those Websites collect, use and share your information. Welsh Mission Personal Ministries is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on Websites outside of the Welsh Mission Personal Ministries Website.

USE OF YOUR PERSONAL INFORMATION

We use personal data and other information to provide you with services, send you updates, communicate with you, improve our Services, send you valuable information and newsletters.

Our website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix.com provides us with the online platform that allows us to provide our services to you. Your data may be stored through Wix.com’s data storage, databases and the general Wix.com applications. They store your data on secure servers behind a firewall.

We may disclose your Personal Data if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) comply with a legal obligation such as to comply with a subpoena, or a similar legal process, (b) protect and defend the rights or property of the Welsh Mission Personal Ministries, (c) act in urgent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of the Services or the public.

COMMUNICATION & YOUR RIGHTS TO OPT OUT

We may contact you to send you newsletters, updates about our services, or as otherwise necessary to contact you to enforce our User Agreement, applicable national laws, and any agreement we may have with you. For these purposes we may contact you via email.

If you wish to opt-out of receiving newsletters, you may opt-out of such communication by following the unsubscribe link included in the emails.

USE OF COOKIES

The Welsh Mission Personal Ministries Website uses "cookies" to help you personalize your online experience. A cookie is a text file that is placed on your hard disk by a Web page server. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver viruses to your computer. Cookies are uniquely assigned to you, and can only be read by a web server in the domain that issued the cookie to you.

The Welsh Mission Personal Ministries website is hosted on the Wix.com platform. Wix uses cookies for important reasons, such as:

To provide a great experience for our site visitors.
To identify the registered members (users who registered to our site).
To monitor and analyse the performance, operation and effectiveness of Wix's platform.
To ensure their platform is secure and safe to use.

In general, the cookies which are placed on our Wix website are categorised as essential cookies. Our site may use third-party apps or third-party integrations (i.e. Google Analytics). These apps and integrations may place additional cookies on our site.

It’s important to note that third-party services, such as Google Analytics or other applications offered through Wix, placing cookies or utilizing other tracking technologies through Wix’s services, may have their own policies regarding how they collect and store information. As these are external services, such practices are not covered by the Wix Privacy Policy.

To opt out of being tracked by Google Analytics across all websites, visit this link:

https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout

Read more about cookies by visiting All About Cookies.

The following links explain how to access cookie settings in various browsers:

You have the ability to accept or decline cookies. Most Web browsers automatically accept cookies, but you can usually modify your browser setting to decline cookies if you prefer. If you choose to decline cookies, you may not be able to fully experience the interactive features of the Welsh Mission Personal Ministries services or Websites you visit.

YOUR ACCESS TO AND CONTROL OVER INFORMATION

If your personal information changes, you no longer desire to use our Services, or wish to know whether we hold personal information about you, you may request, correct, update, amend, and delete such information, by contacting us by email at: personalministries@adventist.wales.

We reserve the right to modify this privacy policy at any time, so please review it frequently. Changes and clarifications will take effect immediately upon their posting on the website. If we make material changes to this policy, we will notify you here that it has been updated, so that you are aware of what information we collect, how we use it, and under what circumstances, if any, we use and/or disclose it.

CONTACT INFORMATION

If you have any questions or complaints regarding our Privacy Policy, please contact us at personalministries@adventist.wales.