privacy policy

This privacy policy is for the website: www.hopecc.uk and served by Hope Community Church, Stalybridge Road, Mottram, Cheshire, SK14 6NF. It governs the privacy of its visitors and users who choose to use it. It explains how HCC complies with the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation), the DPA (Data Protection Act) [pre GDPR enforcement] and the PECR (Privacy and Electronic Communications Regulations).

This policy will explain areas of this website that may affect your privacy and personal details, how we process, collect, manage and store those details and how users' rights under the GDPR, DPA & PECR are upheld. Additionally it will explain the use of cookies or software, advertising or commercial sponsorship from third parties and the download of any documents, files or software made available to you (if any) on this website. Further explanations may be provided for specific pages or features of this website in order to help you understand how we, this website and its third parties (if any) interact with you and your computer / device in order to provide it to you. Our contact information is provided if you have any questions.

DPA & GDPR

HCC and this website complies with the DPA (Data Protection Act 1998) and the GDPR (General Data Protection Regulations).

Cookies

This website uses cookies to better the user's experience while visiting the website. As required by legislation, this website uses a cookie control system where appropriate, allowing the user to give explicit permission or to deny the use of/saving of cookies on their computer / device.

Cookies are small files saved to the user’s computers hard drive that track, save and store information about the user’s interactions and usage of the website. This allows the website, through its server to provide the users with a tailored experience within this website.

Users are advised that if they wish to deny the use and saving of cookies from this website on to their computer's hard drive they should take necessary steps within their web browsers security settings to block all cookies from this website and its external serving vendors or use the cookie control system if available upon their first visit.

Website Visitor Tracking

This website uses tracking software to monitor its visitors to better understand how they use it. The software will save a cookie to your computers hard drive in order to track and monitor your engagement and usage of the website, but will not store, save or collect personal information.

downloads & media files

Any downloadable documents, files or media made available on this website are provided to users at their own risk. HCC accepts no liability for any data loss, corruption or other software-related consequences. All reasonable precautions are undertaken to ensure only genuine downloads are available, but users are advised to verify the status of downloaded content via their own anti-virus software.

HCC accepts no liability for third party downloads or those provided by external websites, even if linked from this site. All links are verified before being added to this site, but an external site may be compromised without HCC becoming aware. Users are urged to verify their authenticity and safety of any sites visited.

contact & communication

Users contacting HCC through this website do so at their own discretion and provide any such personal details requested at their own risk. Users' personal information is kept private and stored securely until a time it is no longer required or has no use.

Where we have clearly stated and made you aware of the fact, and where you have given your express permission, we may use your details to send you products/services information through a mailing list system. This is done in accordance with the regulations named above.

External Website Links & Third Parties
Although we only looks to include quality, safe and relevant external links, users are advised to adopt a policy of caution before clicking any external web links mentioned throughout this website. (External links are clickable text / banner / image links to other websites, similar to; Church Planting Training.)
Shortened URL’s; URL shortening is a technique used on the web to shorten URL’s (Uniform Resource Locators) to something substantially shorter. This technique is especially used in social media and looks similar to this (example: https://bit.ly/zyVUBo). Users should take caution before clicking on shortened URL links and verify their authenticity before proceeding.
We cannot guarantee or verify the contents of any externally linked website despite our best efforts. Users should therefore note they click on external links at their own risk and we cannot be held liable for any damages or implications caused by visiting any external links mentioned.

Social Media Policy & Usage
We adopt a Social Media Policy to ensure our business and our staff conduct themselves accordingly online. While we may have official profiles on social media platforms users are advised to verify authenticity of such profiles before engaging with, or sharing information with such profiles. We will never ask for user passwords or personal details on social media platforms. Users are advised to conduct themselves appropriately when engaging with us on social media.
There may be instances where our website features social sharing buttons, which help share web content directly from web pages to the respective social media platforms. You use social sharing buttons at your own discretion and accept that doing so may publish content to your social media profile feed or page. You can find further information about some social media privacy and usage policies in the resources section below.