Privacy
Info Collected
Your privacy matters to us. Any information that you send through this app will never be intentionally distributed to anyone outside of Church of the Highlands. In the rare case where sharing sensitive information is necessary, we will only do so at your request or at the request of law enforcement. In addition to our own computer network,Church of the Highlands uses several third-party hosted services to supply additional features to our websites and apps. In each case, these hosted services are governed by their respective privacy policies.
What We Collect
For the purpose of making an inquiry, our app may collect the following information: your name, appropriate contact information such as email address and a physical address, and preferences and/or interests. Other information relevant to visitor surveys and/or offers may also be requested.Church of the Highlands will never use or share personally-identifiable information provided to us in ways unrelated to the ones described above without also providing you an opportunity to opt-out or otherwise prohibit such unrelated users.
Our app users can choose to contact us via forms within our app. In order to prevent spam inquiries, we protect our forms with anti-spam challenges which ensure the visitor is an actual living person rather than a computer bot or spider.
Our apps and websites use Google Analytics, which allows us to track and compile anonymous user statistics. The information collected range from simple download volume to the type of mobile device you are using to engage with our app. This information is valuable to us not just for marketing analysis and quantification, but to improve the usability, security and load speed of our content. Google Analytics is a popular, secure, flagship webmaster product from Google. The privacy and security of Google Analytics data is a high priority at Google that you can read more about on Google’s Analytics Data Safeguarding page. No personal information is collected by Google Analytics.
Additional Information
Our app may contain links to other websites of interest via an in-app browser. However, once you have used these links to leave our app, you should note that we do not have any control over the other websites. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide while visiting such sites, and such sites are not governed by this privacy statement. You should exercise caution and look at the privacy statement applicable to the website in question.
Our Commitment to Data Security
To prevent unauthorized access, maintain data accuracy and ensure the correct use of information, we have placed appropriate physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect within the app and believe these faculties to be secure to the best of our knowledge and ability; however,Church of the Highlandsdoes not warrant, guarantee and/or absolve security and/or unintentional disclosure of personal, identifiable information.
How to Request Removal of Your Data
You can request to remove data that is stored on your behalf by Church of the Highlands. We will respond to your deletion request as soon as possible and delete your data within 30 days. To delete your information, you can email us at prayfirstapp@churchofthehighlands.com.
The following section of this policy applies to the website: prayfirstapp.com
Cookies and How They Are Used
An Introduction To Cookies
- A cookie is a small data file that is automatically placed onto your computer’s hard drive. Cookie files are created by our website and placed onto your device in order to analyze and influence your preferences or behavior. Analytical cookies are designed to track your journey and experience on our website so that we may tailor your experience and gather data. Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not. A cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you other than the data you choose to share with us. The majority of modern web browsers will automatically allow cookies to be placed onto your device. However, you can usually modify your browser’s settings in order to prevent any cookies from being placed onto your device. Setting your browser to block cookies may prevent you from taking full advantage of our website.
Cookies Deployed By Our Website: Ensure that functionality operates as intended Remember your choices and preferences during and between visits Allow you to share pages via popular social media networks including Facebook and Twitter Post enquiries via online forms Track your visit for statistical analysis, allowing us to improve the usability, speed and security of our website
Cookies Are Not Deployed To:
- Collect any personal identifiable information (without your express permission)
- Collect any sensitive information (without your express permission)
- Pass data to advertising networks
- Pass personally-identifiable data to third parties
- Pay sales commissions
Cookies Used By Our Website Social Network Sharing - We encourage users to share our content and/or like our profile on popular social media networks. In order to make social sharing accessible, our website utilizes widgets provided directly from the social media networks. Cookies and privacy implications from the social media networks vary and will be dependent on your nominated privacy settings with each social media network. Social sharing buttons will only deploy cookies if you are signed in to that respective social media network at the time of being our website.
Deployed - Actual Cookies Deployed and Used - Category: Google Analytics (Universal) Name:_ga - The single default cookie for Google Universal Analytics. This sole cookie used by Google Analytics stores a unique client identifier (Client ID) which is set randomly. This cookie is set to expire after 24 months (2 years) and is refreshed each time you visit our website.
Disabling - How to Disable Cookies - Most modern browsers allow you to control your cookie settings for all websites that you browse. You can disable cookie deployment completely by editing your browser settings; however, in doing this, you may be limiting the functionality that is displayed on our website. To learn how to disable cookies on your preferred browser, we recommend reading this advice posted by Google.
- If you are concerned about cookies tracking your movements on the Internet, then you may be concerned about spyware. Spyware is the name given to a particular band of cookies that track personal personal information about you. There are many anti-spyware programs that you can use to prevent this from happening. Learn more about anti-spyware software by visiting https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spyware. You can also disable Google Analytics on all websites by downloading the Google Analytics Opt-out Browser Add-on.
Updated January 18, 2022