City Vision Privacy and Cookie Policy

1. Your personal data – what is it?

Personal data relates to a living individual who can be identified from that data. Identification can be by the information alone or in conjunction with any other information in the data controller’s possession or likely to come into such possession. The processing of personal data is governed by the General Data Protection Regulation (the “GDPR”).

2. Who are we?

City Vision is the brand name for the charity Faith Up, (Charity no: 1135339), under which the following vision exists, which involves the processing of personal data:

· Our vision is to support and facilitate city transformation, holistically for God’s glory by bringing leaders together across the business, church, civic and para-church arenas.

· City Vision believes that while churches can address church sized challenges, it takes unity within the wider body to address city sized challenges.

· City Vision serves to provide processes and resources for Christian leaders in business, church, para-church and government organisations, who wish to see God’s Kingdom impact their city.

· City Vision serves leaders of peace in ways designed to foster unity, discover God's vision and respond accordingly.

· City Vision provides processes that help leaders unite for city transformation.

· City Vision is a growing national/international network of those who recognise the special needs of cities seeing them within the larger framework of national transformation.

City Vision, (Faith Up) is the data controller (contact details below). This means it decides how your personal data is processed and for what purposes.

3. How do we process your personal data?

City Vision, (Faith Up) complies with its obligations under the “GDPR” by keeping personal data up to date; by storing and destroying it securely and in a timely manner; by not collecting or retaining excessive amounts of data; by protecting personal data from loss, misuse, unauthorised access and disclosure and by ensuring that appropriate technical measures are in place to protect personal data.

4. What is the legal basis for processing your personal data?

This Privacy Policy covers all personal information about you that we collect, use, and otherwise process in connection with your relationship with City Vision. City Vision will collect and use your personal information as described in this Privacy Policy and as permitted by applicable laws, including in circumstances where:

(a) it is necessary to provide or fulfil a service requested by or for you.

(b) you have given us your consent.

To analyse, profile and monitor user patterns and better understand the interests and preferences of our key audiences so we can consistently improve our products and services.
To offer an enhanced user experience and service, including by ensuring we personalise the Site and Application and (if applicable) services and events to make them more relevant to our users specific preferences.
To ensure the proper functioning and security of our services, Site and/or Applications.
To ensure we continue to comply with applicable laws, for example in maintaining the accuracy of our records.
Carrying out legal obligations in relation to Gift Aid or under employment, social security or social protection law, or a joint agreement.
Assessing how the relationship with you is contributing to the transformation of cities.
To inform you of news, events, activities, and services organised by City Vision and its connected partners
To inform you of City Vision events taking place
To explain how you can get involved in city-transformation initiatives.
To fundraise and promote the interests of the charity
To manage our employees and volunteers
To maintain our own accounts and records (including, but not limited to the processing of Gift Aid applications)
We may process information about the device you are using to connect to the services on our Site, Applications or any interactive content we may provide. This may include the type of device you use, your internet browser, your location based on the unique identifier for your device such as an Internet Protocol address (“IP address”).

5. Sharing your personal data
Your personal data will be treated as confidential and will only be shared with others in order to carry out a service for the purposes connected with City Vision, (Faith UP).

We may share information about you with companies that provide support services to us, including website hosting companies, IT service providers and other necessary solution providers. We may also share your information with other companies who sell or promote City Vision products and services, (including social media and internet search platforms who you independently subscribe to), in order to provide you with an enhanced customer experience. In addition, we may also share limited information with companies who assist City Vision with other services, for example, in analysing our customer data in order to better understand, profile and monitor customer patterns so we can consistently improve our products and services. We will provide these companies with the minimum information which they need to carry out their services, and they will not be permitted to use the information for other purposes. They will only be allowed to use your information in the way in which we instruct them and as permitted by applicable laws.

6. How long do we keep your personal data ?
We keep your data only for the purpose for which we have received your consent, for the management of employees and any required legal obligations for safeguarding employees and volunteers. We retain Gift Aid declarations and associated paperwork for up to 6 years after the calendar year to which they relate. If you opt to withdraw your consent for us to contact you, we will retain your data for a maximum of 1 year before destroying your record.

7. Your rights and your personal data

Unless subject to an exemption under the GDPR, you have the following rights with respect to your personal data:

· The right to request a copy of your personal data which City Vision holds.

· The right to request that City Vision corrects any personal data if it is found to be inaccurate or out of date;

· The right to request your personal data is erased where it is no longer necessary for City Vision to retain such data;

· The right to withdraw your consent to the processing at any time;

· The right to request that the data controller provide the data subject with his/her personal data.

· The right, where there is a dispute in relation to the accuracy or processing of your personal data, to request a restriction is placed on further processing;

· The right to object to the processing of personal data, [Only applies where processing is based on legitimate interests (or the performance of a task in the public interest/exercise of official authority); direct marketing and processing for the purposes of scientific/historical research and statistics]

· The right to lodge a complaint with the Information Commissioners Office.

8. Changes to this Policy

We may update this Privacy Policy from time to time. The amended Privacy Policy will be posted on the Site or Application. Please check this page regularly for changes to this Privacy Policy. If we make any material changes to this Privacy Policy we will notify you and obtain your consent (if required by applicable law) before they take effect either through the Site or Application or by sending you a notification. Any such material changes will only apply to personal information collected after the revised Privacy Policy took effect.

9. Contact details

To exercise all relevant rights, queries of complaints please in the first instance contact The City Vision office via contact@cityvision.life. City Vision is the operating expression for the registered charity, "Faith Up", (Charity No. 1135339)

You can contact the Information Commissioners Office on 0303 123 1113 or via email ico.org.uk/global/contact-us/email/ or at the Information Commissioner's Office, Wycliffe House, Water Lane, Wilmslow, Cheshire. SK9 5AF.

Cookies Policy

What is a cookie?

Cookies are small text files that are placed on your computer/device by websites that you visit. They are widely used in order to make websites work, or work more efficiently, as well as to provide information to the owners of the site.

A cookie may contain information about your device, such as user settings, browsing history and activities conducted while using the Site and Applications. By linking the information in these cookies with other customer information that you provide to us, for example, when you log-in to the Site or Application, we may be able to identity the cookie information relates to you.

Most web browsers are initially set up to accept cookies. You can reset your web browser to refuse cookies or to indicate when a cookie is being sent, however, certain features of our Site or Application may not work if you delete or disable cookies.

We inform you where relevant of our use of cookies and other device identifiers on arriving at our Site or Application. You acknowledge and agree that by continuing to use our Site or Application or services without managing your cookie and device choices and preferences, that you consent to our cookie and device identifier settings and agree that you understand our use of Cookies, as described below.

Please be aware that restricting certain cookies or other device identifiers will impact on your user experience and may prevent you from using part of our Site or Application.

First-party and third -party cookies

First-party cookies are placed on your device directly by our Site. City Vision uses first-party cookies to, for example, adapt the Site to your browser’s language preferences and to better understand your use of the Site.
Third-party cookies are placed on your device by our selected partners and service providers. City Vision uses third-party cookies to, for example, measure user numbers on the Site, to allow you to chat to a customer service representative and to enable you to share content with others across social media platforms.

How long do cookies last?

Session cookies – cookies that only last as long as your online session and expire when you close your browser.
Persistent cookies – cookies that stay on your device after your browser has been closed and last for a time specified in the cookie (but not longer than 13 months). We use these cookies when we need to remember you for more than one browsing session, for instance to remember your preferences from one visit to the next.

Types of cookies

Strictly Necessary – cookies that are essential to provide you with services you have requested, which means they cannot be switched off through the privacy settings link. For example, these include the cookies that make it possible for you to stay logged into your account. If you set your browser to block these cookies, then these functions and services will not work for you. In particular, we won’t be able to save your preferences about cookies.

Performance - cookies which measure how often you visit our sites and how you use them. We use this information to get a better sense of how our users engage with our services and to improve our sites and apps, so that users have a better experience. For example, we may collect information about which of our pages are most frequently visited, and by which types of users, and their hometown. We also use third-party cookies to help with performance.

Functionality – cookies that are used to recognise you and remember your preferences or settings when you return to our site, so that we can provide you with a more personalised experience. For example, if you are based in the United Kingdom, we will remember this and make sure that you receive the UK homepage when you visit our site.

Useful Links

Cookies : https://www.allaboutcookies.org/

Information Commissioner’s Office: https://ico.org.uk/