Our website address is: https://wivenhoecommunitychurch.co.uk.

This policy was last updated on 14/2/2025.

This privacy policy sets out how Wivenhoe Community Church uses and protects any information that you provide when you use this website.

Wivenhoe Community Church is committed to ensuring that your privacy is protected. Should we ask you to provide certain information by which you can be identified when using this website, then you can be assured that it will only be used in accordance with this privacy statement.

Wivenhoe Community Church may change this policy from time to time by updating this page. You should check this page from time to time to ensure that you are happy with any changes.

What we collect
We may collect the following information:
name,
 contact information, including email address, and in. some cases, demographic information such as post code or post code.

What we do with the information we gather
We require this information to understand your needs and provide you with a good service, and in particular for the following reasons:


• Prayer Requests
• To provide you with information about Wivenhoe Community Church



We share prayer requests to our prayer group only. We do not share your details or information with third party organisations. We may use the information to improve our website. We may periodically send emails about news and events and other information which we think you may find interesting, using the email address which you have provided.

Security
We are committed to ensuring that your information is secure. In order to prevent unauthorised access or disclosure, we have put in place suitable physical, electronic and managerial procedures to safeguard and secure the information we collect online.

Cookies
A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps us analyse your movement through our website. This helps us analyse data about web page traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to customer needs. We use this information for statistical analysis purposes only.

When you browse this site it creates cookies called ‘privacy_embeds’ to store and manage user consent and load third party embeds and tracking scripts.

Our website also uses cookies to implement the social networking icons which enable you to share our website through mediums such as Facebook.

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.

On this website we only use necessary cookies.

Links to other websites
Our website may contain links to other websites of interest. However, once you have used these links to leave our site, you should note that we do not have any control over that other website. Therefore, we cannot be responsible for the protection and privacy of any information which you provide whilst 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 that website.

Your information
You may request details of personal information which we hold about you under the Data Protection Act 1998. If you would like a copy of the information we hold, please contact us at Wivenhoe Community Church. If you believe that any information we are holding on you is incorrect, incomplete or would like it removed, please email us as soon as possible, at info@wivenhoecomunitychurch.co.uk. We will promptly correct any information found to be incorrect.