Privacy Policy

Last Updated: 05/06/2025

1. Introduction

The United Evangelical Church-New Zealand ("UEC", "we", "us", or "our") is committed to protecting your privacy. This Privacy Policy explains how we collect, use, disclose, and safeguard your information when you visit our website uecglobal.org (the "Service").

Please read this privacy policy carefully. If you do not agree with the terms of this privacy policy, please do not access the site.

2. Information We Collect

We may collect information about you in a variety of ways. The information we may collect on the Service includes:

a. Automatically Collected Information

When you access the Service, our servers may automatically collect certain information, such as:

• Log and Usage Data: This includes your IP address (which may be anonymized), browser type, operating system, referring URLs, pages viewed, links clicked, time spent on pages, and other standard log information.
• Device Information: Information about the computer or mobile device you use to access the Service, such as your device model, operating system version, and unique device identifiers (if applicable).
• Analytics Data: We use Umami Analytics (website ID: f01321c6-0088-4913-90a1-aba5774b4d65) to collect information about your use of the Service. Umami is a privacy-focused analytics tool that helps us understand website traffic and user behavior. Umami does not collect personally identifiable information (PII) and does not use cookies to track users across different websites. It anonymizes IP addresses by default. The data collected includes visited URLs, referrers, browser, operating system, device type, and country. This data is used to improve our website and services.

b. Information You Provide to Us

We currently do not have forms for direct submission of personal information like name or email address on our website other than through interactions with third-party services linked from our site (e.g., social media).

3. How We Use Your Information

Having accurate information permits us to provide you with a smooth, efficient, and customized experience. Specifically, we may use information collected about you via the Service to:

• Operate and maintain our Service.
• Monitor and analyze usage and trends to improve your experience with the Service and improve the Service's functionality.
• Understand how users interact with our Service.
• Ensure the security of our Service.

4. How We Share Your Information

We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise share your personal information for marketing purposes with third parties. We may share information we have collected about you in certain situations:

• Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party vendors, service providers, contractors, or agents who perform services for us or on our behalf and require access to such information to do that work. For example, Umami Analytics processes data as described above.
• By Law or to Protect Rights: If we believe the release of information about you is necessary to respond to legal process, to investigate or remedy potential violations of our policies, or to protect the rights, property, and safety of others, we may share your information as permitted or required by any applicable law, rule, or regulation.

5. Cookies and Tracking Technologies

Umami Analytics, which we use, is designed to be privacy-respecting and may use a small, temporary cookie or local storage item for a short duration to determine unique visitors for a limited period (e.g., 24 hours) but does not track users across websites or long-term. Most browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can usually choose to set your browser to remove or reject browser cookies. Please note that if you choose to remove or reject cookies, this could affect the availability and functionality of certain features of our Service.

6. Data Security

We use administrative, technical, and physical security measures to help protect your information. While we have taken reasonable steps to secure the information you provide to us, please be aware that despite our efforts, no security measures are perfect or impenetrable, and no method of data transmission can be guaranteed against any interception or other type of misuse.

7. Data Retention

We will retain analytics data collected through Umami Analytics for as long as necessary to fulfill the purposes outlined in this Privacy Policy, unless a longer retention period is required or permitted by law. Umami itself may have its own data retention policies for aggregated, anonymized data.

8. Your Data Rights

Depending on your location, you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. Since we primarily collect anonymized or aggregated data through Umami for analytics, direct personal data requests might be limited. However, you can generally control cookie settings through your browser.

If you have any questions about your data or wish to exercise any rights you may have, please contact us.

9. Third-Party Websites

The Service may contain links to third-party websites and applications of interest, including advertisements and external services, that are not affiliated with us (e.g., Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Spotify, X, GitHub). Once you have used these links to leave the Service, any information you provide to these third parties is not covered by this Privacy Policy, and we cannot guarantee the safety and privacy of your information. Before visiting and providing any information to any third-party websites, you should inform yourself of the privacy policies and practices (if any) of the third party responsible for that website, and should take those steps necessary to, in your discretion, protect the privacy of your information.

10. Children's Privacy

Our Service is not directed to children under the age of 13 (or the relevant age in your jurisdiction), and we do not knowingly collect personal information from children. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers.

11. Changes to This Privacy Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Last Updated" date. You are advised to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.

12. Contact Us

If you have questions or comments about this Privacy Policy, please contact us. (A general contact method, e.g., an email address or link to a contact page, would ideally be provided here. For now, we'll state this generally as specific contact details beyond social media are not in index.html).

You can reach out to us via our social media channels linked on our homepage: Facebook, YouTube, Instagram.