Privacy Policy

Our website address is: https://newcityfellowship.com. New City Fellowship is committed to protecting your information by ensuring that we remain lawful. Below is the Privacy Policy for newcityfellowship.com. Please take some time to read through this Policy as it outlines how we will use your personal information.

This website and all of its content is owned by New City Fellowship. The term “you” refers to the user or viewer of newcityfellowship.com. This Privacy Policy exists to inform you of how we collect, use, process and distribute your information. It is important for you to know that we will not use or share your information in any way that is not specified within this Privacy Policy. We reserve the right to change or modify this privacy policy in any way, at any time. Please read this Privacy Policy in order to understand how your information may be obtained and used. Any content that is provided to us by you or is obtained by us from this website is governed by this Privacy Policy. By using newcityfellowship.com, whether you have read this Privacy Policy or not, you are fully consenting to this Privacy Policy.

Our goal in collecting information from you is to ultimately make your experience better as you use newcityfellowship.com. Here are the pieces of information that we may collect when you use this website.

1. A name and an email address that will enable us to send emails to you – provision of an email address on this site equates to consent. 
2. A name, address, email address, or phone number so we can follow-up with you 
3. Billing information including a name, address and credit card information will enable us to process any purchases or donations.
4. A name, email address, and phone number if you complete our contact form with a question. 

Any information that you voluntarily provide equates to information that you are giving us the consent to use.

1. Visiting newcityfellowship.com (cookies) 
2. Making a donation to New City Fellowship
3. Filling out a Connect Card online or in-person
4. Applying to work with New City Fellowship
5. Contacting us using email, phone or any other means 
6. Through third party-cookies (see the section on “Data Collection Technologies”)
   
   

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.

In order to ensure that our website delivers a high quality experience, we may use your IP address to help diagnose problems on our end and to manage the Website by identifying which areas of the Website are being used the most, and to fine-tune our content for your best interest. Your IP address is the number assigned to computers connected to the Internet. This is essentially “traffic data” which cannot personally identify you, but is helpful to us for ministry purposes and for improving our outreach. Traffic data collection only follows your activities as you are using this website, it does not follow your activities on any other websites in any way. Anonymous traffic data may also be shared with ministry partners.

We may utilize the “cookies” feature of major browsers. You may choose to disable cookies through your own web browser’s settings. However, disabling this function may diminish your experience on our website, and some features may not work as intended.

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.

In addition to our own cookies, we may also use various third-parties cookies, for example, Google Analytics, Google Ads, Google Tag Manager, Facebook Ads Manager, Facebook Pixel, etc.
By agreeing to our Privacy Policy, you agree to the use of cookies and similar technologies (for example, web beacons, pixels, tags, and device identifiers which we collectively refer to as “cookies”) as described in this policy.
What happens with the Information we collect:
 
It may be used to contact you. 

• For follow-up purpose, 
• For troubleshooting purposes, 
• For Informational updates.
  
  

It may be used to help process giving online – Your personal information may be needed in order to process the donations that you could potentially be making to New City Fellowship.

It may be used during targeted social media or search engine advertisements.
 
Viewing by others: Whenever you voluntarily provide personal information through the use of newcityfellowship.com, you have consented to that information and its content, being seen, collected and used by others. We cannot be responsible for any unauthorized or improper use of the information that you voluntarily share (i.e., sharing a comment on a blog post, posting in a Facebook group that we manage, sharing details on our prayer requests page, etc.).

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.

Personal Information obtained by newcityfellowship.com is stored internally or through a data management system. We value your safety, so your personal information will only be accessed by people who are responsible for gathering, managing or storing it, or who have a legitimate need to access it. (i.e., our hosting provider, newsletter provider, financial committee or employees).
It is important to note that we may transfer information internationally. If you are using our website in the European Union, please understand that your personal information may be transferred outside of the European Union. By using our website and providing us with your personal information, you are consenting to these transfers exactly as stated within this Privacy Policy.
If you have any questions regarding our Privacy Policy, please reach out to us at info@newcityfellowship.com, and we would be happy to connect with you.

You have the right to:

• Be forgotten from our systems, meaning we will erase your personal information from our databases. 
• Change your preference regarding whether you consent to our use of your information. 
• Lodge a complaint if you feel that any of your information has been unlawfully used. 
• Object to our use of your information. 

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.