Who we are
Family Prayer Centre (“us”, “we”, or “our”) are a non-profit church located in St. Thomas, ON, Canada; postal code: N5R-2M4. Our website address is: https://familyprayercentre.com/.
What personal data we collect and why we collect it
Comments
When visitors leave comments on the site, we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.
An anonymized string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service privacy policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.
Media
If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.
Contact forms
Contact Forms allow for a simple, ease of access way to send messages to the Family Prayer Centre directly on our website.
These messages are sent to our church email: TheFPCStThomas@gmail.com and will remain confidential indefinitely on that sole email address alone unless otherwise agreed upon by both parties (the sender and the receiver).
Unless otherwise stated in the senders message, the sender understands that their name, email address, email subject, and message content will be allowed to be viewed and communicated to with other members of leadership at the Family Prayer Centre, at the discretion of Doug Zandstra, for the purpose of being an aid in which ever way is deemed fit, such as for advice, counsel and prayer. The sender also understands that the law takes precedence and all messages are subject to it. If any message contains sensitive content whereby the law would need to be involved, this information will be promptly handed over to the appropriate parties to fulfill our legal obligation.
Names, email addresses or any other personal information which is able to be traced back to the sender will never be shared or revealed in public or in private to anyone outside of church leadership such as in a sermon, a ministry letter, or in an area not secure whereby the general listener/general public may be able to overhear or access this information.
When you send us a message, your name, your email address, the subject title content and the message body content is stored on our website using a plugin titled: Contact Form 7 Database Addon (CFDB7), created by Arshid. The purpose of this is to filter potential spam and to ensure messages aren’t being lost when sent from our website server to our ministry email address, as well as for any legal liabilities. These messages will likely be deleted after a few days, but the sender understands it may remain on our website indefinitely unless otherwise requested by the sender to be deleted (unless it is needed for reference by law). Conversations held without the use of the contact forms are not stored on our website.
Cookies
If you leave a comment on our site you may opt-in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.
If you have an account and you log in to this site, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.
When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.
If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.
If you send us a message on our contact form(s), your information such as your name, email address, message subject, and message body may be stored in cookies. This can be changed by erasing our site cookies from your browser. Cookies usually last for one year.
Embedded content from other websites
Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.
These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.
Who we share your data with
Your data is not shared or sold to any third party companies.
How long we retain your data
If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognize and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.
For users that register on our website (if any), we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.
If you send us a message on our contact form(s), your name, your email address, the subject title, and the message body – the entirety of the email, will be left indefinitely in our inbox at TheFPCStThomas@gmail and stored on our website using a plugin titled: Contact Form 7 Database Addon (CFDB7), created by Arshid.
What rights you have over your data
If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.
Any request to delete said email(s) or any pertinent information shared with us by email will be erased upon request unless needed for legal reasons.
Where we send your data
Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.