Privacy Policy

Your privacy is important to us

The School of Preachers (‘We’) are committed to safeguarding the privacy of your information.

What information do we collect?

We collect personal information appropriate to the activities we carry out. In most cases this will be limited to your name, address, telephone number and email address. If you support the School of preachers financially or are involved with the training, further information may be collected. We only retain personal information that is essential to our work.

What do we use personal information for?

We collect and use your information so that we might be able to keep you prayerfully informed about the School of Preachers. We may send you newsletters, prayer letters and other information about the School of Preachers.

Sharing your information

We will not share your information with others except when it is necessary for us to do the work of the charity or to fulfil the requirements of the law. When this is necessary, We will gain your consent beforehand. You have the right to withdraw your consent at any time other than where required to do so by law.

On what basis do we collect your data?

Most of the data will be collected on the basis of consent.

How long do we keep the data?

We will only keep your data for as long as you wish us to, or for as long as the law may require us to.

Access to Information – Data Protection

Under the Data Protection Act you can make a formal request for the following information:

  • clarification that your personal data is being processed by the School of Preachers
  • a description and copy of such personal data
  • the reasons why such data is being processed
Contact us

For further information on how your information is used, how We maintain the security of your information and your rights to access the information We hold on you, please contact

If you have a concern about the way We are collecting or using your personal information, you should raise your concern with us in the first instance. You can also raise your concern directly with the Information Commissioner’s Office at https://ico.org.uk/concerns

If you would like to discuss anything in this privacy notice, please use the contact us page.

Cookies

We use cookies on our website. By using our website you agree to this Policy and you consent to our use of cookies in accordance with the terms of this Policy.

About cookies

A cookie is a small file which asks permission to be placed on your computer’s hard drive. Once you agree, the file is added and the cookie helps analyse web traffic or lets you know when you visit a particular site. Cookies allow web applications to respond to you as an individual. The web application can tailor its operations to your needs, likes and dislikes by gathering and remembering information about your preferences.

There are two main kinds of cookies: “session” cookies and “persistent” cookies. Session cookies only last for the duration of users using the website and are deleted from your computer when you close your browser, whereas persistent cookies outlast user sessions and remain stored on your computer until deleted, or until they reach their expiry date.

Cookies on this website

We use both Session Cookie and Persistent Cookies on this website.

Generally, we use cookies to help us administer this website, to improve the website’s usability and for marketing purposes. We may also use cookies to identify which pages are being used. This helps us analyse data about webpage traffic and improve our website in order to tailor it to user needs. We only use this information for statistical analysis purposes and then the data is removed from the system.

Overall, cookies help us provide you with a better website, by enabling us to monitor which pages you find useful and which you do not.

Cookies do not contain any information that personally identifies you, a cookie in no way gives us access to your computer or any information about you.

You can choose 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. This may prevent you from taking full advantage of the website.

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Third-party cookies

We also use third party cookies to analyse the use of this website and improve its performance.

For this purpose we use Google Analytics. Google Analytics generates statistical and other information about website use by means of cookies, which are stored on users’ computers. The information generated relating to our website is used to create reports about the use of the website. Google will store and use this information. Read Google’s privacy policy.

Most browsers allow you to reject all cookies, whilst some browsers allow you to reject just third party cookies.