Our Terms and Conditions

PRIVACY POLICY

The TBYO, and our ministries, seek to advance the Christian faith throughout Nigeria and to love and serve our local communities.  Therefore, we are committed to doing good and to maintaining the trust and confidence of our members, guests, friends, local communities and, indeed, of all visitors to this website/page.  In particular, we would never even contemplate selling, renting or trading email lists or other personal information for marketing or any other commercial purpose.  The purpose of this policy is to provide you with lots of detailed information about when and why we collect your personal information and how we use it.  We hope you find this privacy policy helpful.

This policy was last updated on 22nd december 2019.

WHO WE ARE AND WHAT THIS PRIVACY POLICY COVERS

This privacy policy explains how and why The TBYO and our ministries (which currently include the Think Big ReadingCub, Talent Academy,) (“we”, or “us”) may collect, process, protect and share personal data* about you and the rights you have in relation to your personal data.  Please note that this policy relates to all ministry activities, not just this website.

It is important that you read this privacy policy together with any other privacy notice we may provide on specific occasions when we are collecting or processing personal data about you so that you are fully aware of how and why we are using your data.

* personal data means any information relating to an identifiable living person. It could include their name, physical address, email address, telephone number or other contact information, whether at home or at work.

OUR COMMITMENT TO YOU

We are committed to respecting your privacy and to protecting your personal data. Furthermore, we fully endorse and will adhere to all Nigeria data protection legislations, any subsequent amendments thereto and all legislation implementing the General Data Protection Regulation.

In particular we will comply with our legal obligations to keep personal data up to date, to store and destroy it securely, to not collect or retain excessive amounts of data, to use reasonable measures to protect personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and to ensure that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

HOW YOU CONSENT TO THIS PRIVACY POLICY

By using any of our websites and by providing us with any personal data, you are consenting to the use of that information as set out in this policy.

Please do not send us any information if you do not want it to be used in this way.

Not all use of personal data requires consent.  For example, sometimes personal data may be used where there is a “legitimate interest”, but consent can help inform decisions on whether or not there is a legitimate interest.

PERSONAL DATA WHICH YOU PROVIDE ON BEHALF OF SOMEONE ELSE

If you give us information on behalf of someone else, you confirm that the other person has appointed you to act on their behalf and has agreed that you can (i) give consent on their behalf to the processing of their personal data and (ii) receive on their behalf any data protection notices.

HOW WE OBTAIN INFORMATION ABOUT YOU

1. Information which you provide us

You may provide us with personal data in many situations, such as when/if you:

fill in one of our feedback/help/enquiry forms on one of our websites;

leave a comment on one of our social media pages;

attend one of our metings, prayer meetings or Sunday meetings;

complete a welcome card;

Attend Beginers foundation Class (“BSC”);

sign up for a course or Ministry (e.g. a Talent course / Evangelical Course);

sign your child up (if you are a parent) to attend a children’s/youth club or event (e.g. a Think Big Reading club);

join a Bible study group, a ministry team or group and/or join a serving rota;

attend a group run at one of our churches;

email us or phone us or meet us in person (including for the purposes of pastoral care, encouragement, training and/or prayer)

make a donation or pay for activities such as a weekend away;

complete a giving/fundraising and/or gift aid form;

request our involvement with a baptism, confirmation, wedding or funeral;

volunteer at one of our churches or with an affiliated/associated ministry;

apply for a role with TBYO or one of its Ministries or an affiliated/associated ministry;

are employed on the staff team at one of our churches or an affiliated or associated ministry;

are appointed as an Leader of one of our Units

update your details or upload a photo via one of our church management systems (e.g. our website).

2. Information we collect about you

We collect information about you when you engage with us online or by email e.g. when you visit one of our websites, download articles/information from one of our websites, open or forward an email sent by us or engage with us on social media networks. Information may be collected via cookies and similar technologies, as detailed below. 

SENSITIVE PERSONAL DATA

The data we collect may constitute sensitive personal data* (e.g. data concerning health in relation to pastoral care/Sunday School classes/Tbyo’s clubs/events) but we will only process such data:

with your explicit consent; or

being a not for profit organisation with a religious aim, if the processing is carried out in the course of our legitimate activities with appropriate safeguards and the processing relates solely to members (or former members) or others with whom we are in regular contact in connection with our charitable purposes and such data is not disclosed outside of our organisation; or

if the processing is necessary for the purposes of exercising the employment law rights or obligations of TBYO or the data subject; or

if the processing is necessary to protect the data subject’s vital interests, and the data subject is physically incapable of giving consent; or

if the processing relates to personal data which is manifestly made public by the data subject; or

if the processing is necessary for the establishment, exercise or defence of legal claims; or

if the processing is necessary for reasons of substantial public interest.

We will always treat sensitive personal data with the greatest care.

USE OF COOKIES AND SIMILAR TECHNOLOGIES

We may use cookies and similar technologies such as pixel tags and web beacons on our websites and in some of our emails.

What is a cookie?

A cookie is a small text file (letters and/or numbers) which is sent to and stored on your computer (or other electronic device).  Cookies are used to identify you whenever you visit a website, to remember what you have done on a website to help improve your browsing experience, to remember log-ins or to provide advertising while visiting a particular site.

There are many types of cookies but broadly they can be grouped by purpose:

strictly necessary cookies which are used e.g. to make a website work and to manage the login and access to reserved functions of a site (these cookies are limited to the working session and are deleted once the browser is closed);

performance cookies which collect information about how websites are used (e.g. which pages are visited, providing statistics on how a website is used and measuring any errors that occur);

functionality cookies which are used to remember settings and to personalise content when a user returns to a website; and

targeting cookies which are linked to services provided by third parties and which are used e.g. to link to social networks such as Facebook via “Like” or “Share” buttons (the third party may subsequently use information about a user’s visit to target advertising to them on other websites) or to provide advertising agencies with information on a user’s visit to a website so that they can present users with advertisements that they may be interested in.

Cookies can also be grouped according to whether they are ‘first-party’ cookies or ‘third-party’ cookies. The difference is that first-party cookies are placed and controlled by the website you are visiting whereas third-party cookies are placed and controlled by a third-party.

What are pixel tags and web beacons?

Pixel tags and web beacons are tiny graphic images embedded in a web page or in emails to achieve similar purposes as those described above. For example, web beacons can be used to see which email messages are opened or forwarded to enable a better understanding of which types of email messages people are interested in and to help improve communication.

HOW TO MANAGE COOKIES AND CONTROL YOUR PRIVACY

You can decide whether or not to accept or reject cookies.

Most web browsers allow some control of most cookies through the browser settings – these settings will typically be found in the ‘options’ or ‘preferences’ menu of your internet browser.

To find out more about cookies, including how to see what cookies have been set and how to manage and delete them, please visit www.allaboutcookies.org and www.youronlinechoices.eu.

For a video about cookies please visit www.google.co.uk/policies/technologies/cookies.

The exact procedure to prevent new cookies from being installed and how to delete existing cookies depends on which browser you are using but the following links may be helpful:

Internet Explorer

http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/internet-explorer/delete-manage-cookies

Safari

http://help.apple.com/safari/mac/8.0/#/sfri11471

Google Chrome

https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/95647?hl=en

Firefox

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/enable-and-disable-cookies-website-preferences

and

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/delete-cookies-remove-info-websites-stored

You can choose to disable cookies in your internet browser but please note that if you delete cookies or decline to accept them you may not be able to use all of the features we offer, or store your preferences; in addition, some of our web pages might not display properly. If you want to turn off the more invasive cookies but leave most other functionality in working order, then a good option is to turn off third-party cookies using your browser settings.

In addition, we recommend that you check your privacy settings on any site which requires you to register or login, and that you never save your passwords in your browser or on your device, other than in a reputable password management system.

THE LEGAL BASIS FOR PROCESSING PERSONAL DATA AND HOW WE USE YOUR INFORMATION

We will normally process your data on one or more of the following bases:

because it is necessary for our legitimate interests or the legitimate interests of a third party;

it is necessary for compliance with a legal obligation;

where we have your consent; or

if it is necessary for the performance of a contract (e.g. an employment contract or a contract to hire premises), or to