Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church Website Privacy Policy

This privacy policy has been compiled to better serve those who are concerned with how their personal information is being used online. Personal information, as described in British Columbia privacy law, is information that can be used on its own or with other information to identify, contact, or locate a single person, or to identify an individual in context. Please read our privacy policy carefully to get a clear understanding of how we collect, use, protect or otherwise handle your personal information in our website environment.

What personal information do we collect from people who visit our website?
When contacting us using the form on our site, you are asked to enter your name, email address, phone number or other details to help you with your inquiry. You may choose to use the website without contacting us via the form(s) on our site.

When do we collect information?
We collect information from you when you contact us, make a payment, respond to a survey or marketing communication, surf the website, or use certain other site features. We also use cookies. (See Cookies below.)

How do we use your information?
We may use the information we collect from you in the following ways:

  • To improve our website in order to better serve you.
  • To administer a survey or other site feature.
  • To follow up with you after correspondence (email or phone inquiries)

How do we protect your information?
We only provide articles and information. We never ask for credit card numbers. Our website is scanned regularly to block malicious activity such as malware and exploits. Your personal information is contained behind secured networks and is only accessible by a limited number of persons who have special access rights to such systems, and are required to keep the information confidential. In addition, all sensitive information you supply is encrypted via Secure Socket Layer (SSL) technology. We implement a variety of security measures when a user enters, submits, or accesses their information to maintain the safety of your personal information.

Cookies
We use cookies. Cookies are small files that a site or its service provider transfers to your computer's hard drive through your Web browser (if you allow) that enables the site's or service provider's systems to recognize your browser and capture and remember certain information. We use cookies to:

  • Help us understand your preferences based on previous or current site activity, which enables us to provide you with improved services.
  • Compile aggregate data about site traffic and site interactions in order to offer better site experiences and tools in the future.

We may also use trusted third-party services, including Google Analytics and Cloudflare, that track this information on our behalf. You can choose to have your computer warn you each time a cookie is being sent, or you can choose to turn off all cookies. You do this through your browser settings. Since every browser is a little different, look at your browser's Help Menu to learn the correct way to modify your cookies. If users disable cookies in their browser: If you turn cookies off, some of the features that make your site experience more efficient may not function properly.

Third-party disclosure
We do not sell, trade, or otherwise transfer to outside parties your personal information. This does not include website hosting partners and other parties who assist us in operating our website, conducting our business, or serving our users, so long as those parties agree to keep this information confidential. We may also release information when its release is required to comply with the law, enforce our site policies, or protect ours or others' rights, property or safety.

Third-party links
Occasionally, at our discretion, we may include or offer third-party products or services on our website. These third-party sites have separate and independent privacy policies. We therefore have no responsibility or liability for the content and activities of these linked sites. Nonetheless, we seek to protect the integrity of our site and welcome any feedback about these sites.

Google
Google's advertising requirements can be summed up by Google's Advertising Principles. They are put in place to provide a positive experience for users.
https://support.google.com/adwordspolicy/answer/1316548?hl=en

We use Google AdSense Advertising on our website. Google, as a third-party supplier, uses cookies to show ads on our site. Google's use of the DART cookie enables it to show ads to our users based on previous visits to our site and to other sites on the Internet. Users may opt-out of the use of the DART cookie by visiting the Google Ad and Content Network privacy policy.
https://www.google.com/policies/technologies/ads/

We have implemented the following:

  • Demographics and Interests Reporting

We, along with third-party vendors such as Google use first-party cookies (such as the Google Analytics cookies) and third-party cookies (such as the DoubleClick cookie) or other third-party identifiers together to compile data regarding user interactions with ad impressions and other ad service functions as they relate to our website.

Opting out: Users can set preferences for how Google advertises to you using the Google Ad Settings page (https://adssettings.google.com/). Alternatively, you can opt out by visiting the Network Advertising Initiative Opt Out page (http://optout.networkadvertising.org/) or by using the Google Analytics Opt Out Browser add on (https://tools.google.com/dlpage/gaoptout).

Children's Information
We believe it is important to provide added protection for children online. We encourage parents and guardians to spend time online with their children to observe, participate in and/or monitor and guide their online activity.

CASL
We are compliant with the Canada's Anti-Spam Legislation (CASL). Specifically with regards to Commercial Electronic Messages (CEMs) we:

  • only send CEMs to you with your implicit or explicit consent
  • show the physical address of our business or site headquarters in CEMs sent to you.
  • allow users to unsubscribe by using the link at the bottom of each email. Requests to unsubscribe will be processed within 10 business days.

Contacting Us
If there are any questions regarding this privacy policy, you may contact us using the information below.

Vancouver Chinese Baptist Church
7474 Culloden Street
Vancouver, B.C. V5X 4K2
privacy@vcbc.bc.ca

Consent
By using our website, you hereby consent to our privacy policy and agree to its terms.

Updates
Should we update, amend or make any changes to our privacy policy, those changes will be posted here.

Last Edited on 2019-12-30