Privacy Policy

Effective date: August 5, 2018

Ridgeland Community Church (“RCC”) is committed to protecting your privacy and developing technology that gives you the most powerful and safe online experience. This privacy policy applies to the RCC website that operates at https://www.ridgelandchurch.org/.

By using the RCC website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy.

Collection of your Personal Information

While using the RCC website, RCC may ask you to provide RCC with certain personally identifiable information that can be used to contact or identify you. Personally identifiable information may include, but is not limited to:
*email address
*first and last name
*home address, city, state, & zip code
*telephone number

RCC may also collect information about your computer hardware and software to help determine how the RCC website is accessed and used. This data may include information such as your computer’s IP address, browser type, browser version, the pages of our website that you visit, the time and date of your visit, the time spent on those pages, unique device identifiers and other diagnostic data. This information is used by RCC for the operation of the website, to maintain quality of the website, and to provide general statistics regarding use of the RCC website.

Please keep in mind that if you directly disclose personally identifiable information or personally sensitive data through the RCC website or RCC Facebook page, this information may be collected and used by others. Note: RCC does not read any of your private online communications.

RCC encourages you to review the privacy statements of websites you choose to link to from RCC so that you can understand how those websites collect, use and share your information. RCC is not responsible for the privacy statements or other content on websites outside of the RCC and RCC family of websites.

RCC partners with several technology providers in order to deliver the best possible online experience to visitors. We encourage you to familiarize yourself with the Privacy Policies of these providers by following the links below:
https://www.facebook.com/privacy/explanation
https://policies.google.com/privacy?hl=en&gl=us
https://get.tithe.ly/privacy-policy
https://www.biblegateway.com/legal/privacy/
https://www.siteground.com/viewtos/privacy_policy_version_aug_2023
https://wordpress.org/about/privacy/
https://www.wordfence.com/privacy-policy/
https://www.planningcenter.com/privacy

Use of your Personal Information

RCC collects and uses your personal information to operate the RCC website and deliver the services you have requested. RCC also uses your personally identifiable information to inform you of other products or services available from RCC.

RCC does not share, sell, rent or lease its customer lists to third parties. RCC 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.

RCC does not use or disclose personal information without your explicit consent.

RCC keeps track of the web pages that are visited within RCC, in order to determine what RCC web pages are the most popular.

Use of Cookies

The RCC website uses cookies to track the activity on our website. Cookies are files with a small amount of data which may include an anonymous unique identifier. Cookies are sent to your browser from a website and stored on your device. Cookies cannot be used to run programs or deliver 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.

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 RCC web site.

Security of your Personal Information

The security of your data is important to RCC, but remember that no method of transmission over the Internet, or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While RCC strives to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personally identifiable information, RCC cannot guarantee its absolute security. RCC will take all steps reasonably necessary to ensure that your data is treated securely and in accordance with this Privacy Policy.

Disclosure of Data

Ridgeland Community Church may disclose your Personal Data in the good faith belief that such action is necessary to:

  • To comply with a legal obligation
  • To protect and defend the rights or property of Ridgeland Community Church
  • To prevent or investigate possible wrongdoing in connection with the Service
  • To protect the personal safety of users of the Service or the public
  • To protect against legal liability
Changes To This Privacy Policy

RCC may update our Privacy Policy from time to time. RCC will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes. Changes to this Privacy Policy are effective when they are posted on this page.

Contact Information

RCC welcomes your comments regarding this Privacy Policy. If you believe that RCC has not adhered to this policy or if you have any questions about this policy, please contact RCC at trustees@ridgelandchurch.org.