Privacy Policy
This Privacy Policy applies to personal information (“data”) you may provide to Nusajaya Methodist Church (NMC), typically in written or digital form, via the NMC website, a third party application service provider may process your data. By using the NMC website, completing any form (be it in digital or physical format), or freely providing information by other means, including but not limited to verbal communication, then you consent to the data practices described in this Privacy Policy.
Collection of your personal information
NMC collects personally identifiable information, such as your name, personal email address, home or work address or contact number, social media information, family relations information and information regarding any area of service within NMC, courses of study undertaken as well as information regarding activities that relates to criminal or alleged activity that in the view of NMC could be an activity that has or may breach a law or has potential to cause harm to any person if such information is not collected. NMC also collects anonymous demographic information, which is not unique to you, such as your ZIP code, age, gender, preferences, interests and favourites. We are a religious organisation and can therefore hold data that is considered special category data, such as your interest in our services or products that is religious in nature, therefore inferring a religious preference. There is also information about your computer hardware and software that is automatically collected by NMC, which could include your IP address, browser type, domain names, access time period and referring website addresses. This information is used by NMC for the operation of the service, to maintain quality of the service, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the NMC website as well as to compile location based information for management purposes. Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through NMC public message boards or social media, then such data might be controlled and processed by others. NMC encourages you to review the privacy statements/notices of websites you choose to link to from NMC so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. NMC is not responsible for the privacy statements/notices or other content on websites outside of the NMC domain of websites.
Use of your personal information
NMC collects and uses your personal information to provide pastoral care for you, to operate the NMC website and deliver the services you have requested or indicated preference for. NMC also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from NMC and its affiliates. NMC may also contact you via surveys to conduct research about your opinion of current services or of potential new services that may be offered. NMC does not sell, rent or lease data lists to third parties. NMC may, from time to time, contact you on behalf of external business partners about a particular offering that may be of interest to you. In those cases, your unique personally identifiable information (e-mail, name, address, telephone number) is not transferred to the third party. In addition, NMC may share data with trusted partners to help us perform statistical analysis, send you e-mail or postal mail, provide customer support, or arrange for deliveries. All such third parties are prohibited from using your personal information except to provide these services to NMC, and they are required to maintain the confidentiality of your information. NMC does not on an individual basis disclose special category data, such as race, religion, or political affiliations, without your explicit consent. If you attend one of our services or events where such service/event is recorded, broadcasted, photographed or live streamed and you happen to appear in such media, it may be seen as inferring a religious preference. NMC keeps track of the web page visits in order to determine which services are the most relevant. This data is used to deliver customized content and advertising within NMC to persons whose behaviour indicates that they are interested in a particular subject area. NMC websites will disclose your personal information, without notice, only if required to do so by law or in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to: (a) conform to the edicts of the law or complying with legal process served on NMC; (b) protect and defend the rights or property of NMC; and, (c) act under exigent circumstances to protect the personal safety of users of NMC, or the public.
Use of Cookies
The NMC website use ‘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 any form of malware or 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. One of the primary purposes of cookies is to provide a convenience feature to save you time. The purpose of a cookie is to tell the web server that you have returned to a specific page. For example, if you personalize NMC pages, or register with NMC site or services, a cookie helps NMC to recall your specific information on subsequent visits. This simplifies the process of recording your personal information, such as billing addresses, shipping addresses, and so on. When you return to the same NMC website, the information you previously provided can be retrieved, so you can easily use the NMC features that you customized. 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 NMC services or websites you visit.