Privacy Policy for Immanuel Christian Fellowship
Effective Date: July 18 2025
At Immanuel Christian Fellowship, we are deeply committed to protecting the privacy and security of the personal information of our website visitors and all who engage with us online. This Privacy Policy outlines how we collect, use, and safeguard your information when you visit our website, www.icfnagoya.org.
By using our website, you agree to the collection and use of information in accordance with this policy. Our ultimate purpose in collecting any information is to connect people to the church, to guide believers into spiritual maturity, and to bring unbelievers into the presence of the Lord.
1. Information We Collect
We collect various types of information to facilitate your connection with our church.
- Information You Voluntarily Provide:
- Contact Information: When you fill out forms (e.g., contact forms, care group inquiries, event registration forms), you may provide your name, email address, phone number, and mailing address.
- Event Registration Data: For event registration forms, we collect information solely to make an estimate of how many people would come to an event.
- Other Communications: Any other information you choose to provide directly through email or other means.
- Information Collected Automatically (via Cookies and Tracking Technologies):
- When you visit our website, we automatically collect certain information about your device and browsing activity using cookies, web beacons, and similar technologies. This may include:
- IP Address: Your device's Internet Protocol address.
- Device Information: Browser type and version, operating system, device type.
- Usage Data: Pages visited, time spent on pages, referral sources, clickstream data, and navigation paths.
- Geographic Location: General location inferred from your IP address.
- This data is primarily collected for analytical purposes to help us understand how our website is used, identify popular content, and improve user experience. We use services like Google Analytics for this purpose.
2. How We Use Your Information
We use the collected information for specific purposes directly related to your engagement with our church:
- To reach out to the person who submitted the forms in response to their inquiries, prayer requests, or comments.
- To reach out to the person who wants to join a CARE (small) group.
- To make an estimate of how many people would come to an event based on online form submissions.
- To maintain and improve the functionality, security, and performance of our website.
- For internal record-keeping and administrative purposes.
- To protect against spam and abuse, using services like Google reCAPTCHA to prevent bots and spammers from flooding our submission forms, which would bury genuine form submissions.
3. Sharing and Disclosure of Your Information
We do not sell, trade, rent, or otherwise transfer your personally identifiable information to outside parties for their marketing purposes. We only share your information in the following limited circumstances:
- With Trusted Service Providers: We may share your information with third-party service providers who perform services on our behalf and assist us in operating our website and ministries (e.g., website hosting). These third parties are contractually obligated to keep your information confidential and use it only for the purposes for which we disclose it to them.
- Examples of such providers may include: Webflow (hosting) and Google reCAPTCHA.
- For Legal Reasons: We may disclose your information if required to do so by law, court order, or in response to valid requests by public authorities (e.g., government agencies).
- To Protect Rights: To protect the rights, property, or safety of Immanuel Christian Fellowship, our members, visitors, or others.
- With Your Consent: We may share your information with third parties when we have your explicit consent to do so.
4. Data Security
We implement reasonable technical and organizational measures designed to protect your personal information from unauthorized access, use, alteration, and disclosure. These measures include [mention general security practices, e.g., encryption, secure servers, access controls]. However, please be aware that no method of transmission over the Internet or method of electronic storage is 100% secure. While we strive to use commercially acceptable means to protect your personal information, we cannot guarantee its absolute security.
5. Cookies and Your Choices
- What are Cookies? Cookies are small text files placed on your device (computer or mobile device) when you visit a website. They are widely used to make websites work more efficiently and to provide information to the website owners.
- How We Use Them: We use cookies for purposes such as:
- Website analytics (e.g., Google Analytics) to understand how our site is used.
- Remembering your preferences.
- Security (e.g., reCAPTCHA to distinguish humans from bots).
- Your Choices: Most web browsers are set to accept cookies by default. You can choose to set your browser to refuse all cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent. However, if you disable cookies, some features of our website may not function properly.
6. Third-Party Services
Our website uses various third-party services that may collect information. These include:
- Google reCAPTCHA: To protect our forms from spam and abuse. Your use of reCAPTCHA is subject to the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Use.
Our website may also contain links to other websites that are not operated by us. We strongly advise you to review the Privacy Policy of every site you visit. We have no control over and assume no responsibility for the content, privacy policies, or practices of any third-party sites or services.
7. Children's Privacy
Our website is not intended for individuals under the age of 13. We do not knowingly collect personally identifiable information from children under 13. If we become aware that we have collected personal information from a child under 13 without verification of parental consent, we will take steps to remove that information from our servers. If you believe we might have any information from or about a child under 13, please contact us.
8. Your Rights (Depending on Jurisdiction)
Depending on your geographical location and applicable privacy laws (e.g., Japan's APPI, GDPR, CCPA/CPRA), you may have certain rights regarding your personal information. These rights may include:
- Right to Access: Request a copy of the personal information we hold about you.
- Right to Rectification: Request correction of inaccurate or incomplete personal information.
- Right to Erasure ("Right to be Forgotten"): Request deletion of your personal information under certain conditions.
- Right to Object: Object to the processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
- Right to Restrict Processing: Request restriction of the processing of your personal information under certain conditions.
- Right to Data Portability: Request transfer of your personal information to another organization or directly to you, under certain conditions.
- Right to Withdraw Consent: Withdraw your consent at any time where we rely on consent to process your personal information.
To exercise any of these rights, please contact us using the contact details provided below. We will respond to your request in accordance with applicable law.
9. Changes to This Privacy Policy
We may update our Privacy Policy from time to time to reflect changes in our practices or for other operational, legal, or regulatory reasons. We will notify you of any changes by posting the new Privacy Policy on this page and updating the "Effective Date" at the top. We encourage you to review this Privacy Policy periodically for any changes.
10. Contact Us
If you have any questions about this Privacy Policy or our data practices, please contact us:
Tel: 052-718-0304
