City First Church sees the Internet as an important tool in fulfilling our mission of the pursuit of God, authentic relationships, and a life of purpose.
When you are visiting our website, we collect various types of information to improve your interaction with the site and to track your usage patterns so that we can improve the site in the future. Examples of the types of data we capture are:
- Viewing Patterns
- Browser Software and Version
- Operating System
- IP address
- Search Engine Keywords
- Personally identifiable information that you provide to us
In order to track your viewing patterns and provide you with a customized website, we place a “cookie” on your computer that allows us to recognize you when you visit certain parts of our site.
Why Do We Collect This Information?
The data that we capture from our website will in no way be shared or sold to any third party. Access to personal information within the church is closely monitored and available on a need to know basis only.
The collected data is used in two ways:
- Aggregate Information: All data that we collect regarding your usage of the site is summarized (aggregated) into reports to help us improve the site. We in no way use the data to track your personal usage of the site. The only exception to this is the use of login statistics in our involvement ministry area. This only applies to members who have a user name and password.
- Personal Information: All personal data that you provide through the site (i.e. volunteer sign-ups, class registration) will be used only for its intended purpose.
Security
The security of the information that you provide to us is very important to us. Hence, we have taken several measures to protect your information. All transactions involving sensitive information, such as your credit/debit card number, are conducted using a SSL (Secure Socket Layer protocol) connection (for more on SSL). This connection provides increased security to the information as it is transmitted to our website. We will only use your credit/debit card number for the processing of our payment. Other sensitive information that we may collect will not be disclosed to third parties unless we are required to do so by law.
Links To Other Sites
CITY FIRST CHURCH provides links to other sites that are neither owned nor controlled CITY FIRST CHURCH. These third party sites, however, are not subject to or bound by the CITY FIRST CHURCH Privacy Policy. Such third party sites may or may not have their own privacy policies and may or may not collect personal information form you or place cookies on your browser. CITY FIRST CHURCH is not responsible for the privacy policies or any information collection practices of these sites or any damages resulting therefrom.
CITY FIRST CHURCH does use other vendors to enhance the sites capabilities. Below are links to the privacy statements of these vendors.
- Payflow Pro: Payflow Pro is used to process credit card transaction for our on-line giving, registrations and some purchases. More information can be found on the Paypal web site.
- Amazon Payments: Amazon Payments is used to process certain transaction for our online store.
- Stripe: Stripe is used to purchase certain transactions for our online store. More information can be found on the Stripe website
Choice
This website uses cookies to be able to identify you when you return to our website. If you do not allow cookies to be placed on your computer, this web site may not function properly. However, you may prevent the placement of a cookie on your computer by setting the Preferences or Internet Options of your browser to reject cookies.
Changes To The Privacy Policy
We will post any substantive changes in this privacy policy at least 30 days prior to the change taking effect. Any information collected under this current policy will remain bound by the terms of this privacy policy. After the changes take effect, all new information collected, if any, will be subject to the revised privacy policy.
Contact
If you have questions about this policy or feel that we have acted in violation of this policy, please email us at abuse@cityfirst.church or write:
City First Church
ATTN: Operations Manager
5950 Spring Creek Road
Rockford, IL 61114
(815)877-8000