Privacy Policy

 

The respect of your private life is of the utmost importance for The Pearl Church.

This Privacy Policy aims to lay out:

  • the way your personal information is collected and processed. “Personal information” means any information that could identify you, such as your name, your mailing address, your email address;

  • your rights regarding your personal information;

  • who is responsible for the processing of the collected and processed information;

  • to whom the information is transmitted;

  • if applicable, the website’s policy regarding cookies.

1. COLLECTION OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: We collect the following personal information through our website, event brite and Planning Centre. Event Brite is the platform we use to manage and organize information regarding events. Planning Centre is the platform and database we use to manage and organize information regarding our congregants, volunteers, and serving schedules.

  • Last Name

  • First name

  • Mailing address

  • Postal code

  • Email address

  • Gender

  • Date of birth/age

  • Family/marital status.

The personal information we collect is done through methods described in the following section.

 

2. FORMS AND METHODS OF COLLECTION: Your personal information is collected through the following methods:

  • Website forum’s

  • Planning Centre

  • Survey form

  • Mail Chimp (Newsletters)

We use the collected data for the following purposes:

  • Statistics

  • Contact

3. SHARING OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: The personal information collected by the Website, Event Brite, & Planning Centre is not transmitted to any additional third party.

 

4. STORAGE PERIOD OF PERSONAL INFORMATION: The controller will keep in its computer systems, in reasonable security conditions, the entirety of the personal information collected for the following duration: Indefinitely unless asked to be removed by the account user.

 

5. CONTROLLER

a) Controller

The “Controller” is: Pastor Jeff Harmon. The Controller may be contacted as follows: By email at jeff@thepearlchurch.ca. The Controller is in charge of determining the purposes for which personal information is processed and the means at the service of such processing.

b) Obligations of the Controller

The Controller is committed to protecting the personal information collected, to not transmit it to third parties without informing you, and to respect the purposes for which personal information was collected. In the event that the integrity, confidentiality or security of your personal information is compromised, the Controller is committed to notifying you.

 

6. RIGHT OF OBJECTION AND OF WITHDRAWAL: You have the right to object to the processing of your personal information by the website (“right to object”). You also have the right to request that your personal information does not appear, for example, on a mailing list (“right to withdraw”). If you wish to exercise the right to object or the right to withdraw, you must follow the procedure described hereinafter: Email jeff@thepearlchurch.ca

 

7. RIGHT OF ACCESS, OF RECTIFICATION AND OF REMOVAL: You have the right to consult, update, modify or request the removal of information about you by following the procedure described hereinafter: The user must submit a request to the Controller.

 

8. SECURITY: Personal information we collect is stored in a secured environment. People working for us are obligated to respect the confidentiality of your personal information.

We are committed to maintaining a high degree of confidentiality by integrating the latest technological innovations that allow us to ensure the confidentiality of your transactions. Nevertheless, no mechanism can ensure complete security as transmitting personal information on the Internet always entail a part of risk.

 

9. CHANGES TO OUR PRIVACY POLICY: Our Privacy Policy may be viewed at all times at the following address: https://www.thepearlchurch.ca/privacy-policy

We reserve the right to modify our Privacy Policy in order to guarantee its compliance with the applicable law. You are therefore invited to regularly consult our Privacy Policy to be informed of the latest changes.

 

10. ACCEPTANCE OF OUR PRIVACY POLICY: By using our Website, Event Brite, and Planning Centre, you certify that you have read and understood this Privacy Policy and accept its conditions, more specific conditions relating to the collection and processing of personal information.

 

11. APPLICABLE LAW: We are committed to respecting the legislative provisions as specified in:

Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act, SC 2000, c 5; and/orAct Respecting the Protection of Personal Information in the Private Sector, CQLR cP-39.1.