The London Institute for Contemporary Christianity

LICC Privacy Policy

Christians out in God’s world – in workplaces and all places; church leaders and their teams; women and men in their first decade after school or uni. And the many, many people in all kinds of churches who want to make a difference for Christ in all of their lives.

So we’re dedicated to developing the biblical wisdom, the cultural insights, the stories and the practical ideas that help people live out God’s living word creatively, show and share his good news confidently, and make a positive contribution to the places they live, work, and play.

We offer resources for personal or small group use. Courses for people at different stages of their working lives. Training days and learning hubs for church leaders. Speakers. Events. Books. Blogs. Videos … And more to come.

LICC is the data controller and processor for the purposes of data shared with it. We will do all we can to protect your privacy and to ensure that any personal information you share with us is stored securely. If you have any requests concerning your personal information or any queries with regard to these practices please contact our Data Protection Lead, by email (mail@licc.org.uk) or by post at LICC, St Peter’s, Vere St, London. W1G 0DQ.

How do we collect information about you?

We collect information from you in a variety of ways: eg. whenever you complete an online form on this website; if you make a donation; if you book onto an event; if you purchase a resource from our webshop; if you complete a paper sign up form or card at an event.

In addition to the above, we collect information automatically about your visit to our website. Please see our ‘Use of Cookies’ section for more details below.

What personal data are we collecting?

We collect: name, email address, postal address (if you have requested postal mailings) and donation details if applicable. We do not hold any card payment details for webshop purchases, event payments or online donations.

How we use the personal information

We collect information from you so we can:

• Ensure we are communicating appropriately with you in line with your wishes.
• Process donations received from you.
• Provide you with relevant information about LICC’s work.
• Improve your experience on our website. When you indicate your preferences through your use of our website, we may use this information to personalise the site to better meet your needs.

What are your rights?

• Contact LICC: If you have any questions or concerns about this policy, please contact our Data Protection Lead  by email (mail@licc.org.uk), or post at LICC, St Peter’s, Vere St, London. W1G 0DQ.
• Complaints: We will endeavour to respond to you within 30 days from receipt of your correspondence related to privacy matters. However, you have the right to lodge a complaint with the UK Information Commissioner’s Office online at: ico.org.uk/concerns/handling
• Access: You have the right to request us to provide you with details of the personal information we hold about you.
• Correction: You have the right to ask us to correct our records if you believe they contain incorrect or incomplete information about you.
• Erasure:  You have the right to erasure (deletion), without undue delay, of your personal information for which you later withdraw your consent to processing, or when it is no longer needed for purpose it was originally collected.
• Processing restrictions:  You have the right to temporarily restrict our processing of your personal information if: you contest the accuracy of your personal information; you prefer we restrict its use rather than erase it; you need it to be preserved to establish, exercise, or defend a legal claim; whilst you are verifying whether we have overriding legitimate grounds to use it. You have the right to be informed before we lift the processing restriction.
• Data portability: You have the right to ask us to provide you (in a structured, commonly used, and machine-readable format without hindrance) personal information about you that we have which you had provided to us. You may ask us to transmit it directly to another controller if is technically feasible.
• Right to object to direct marketing: we will process data on the basis of either consent or if we believe we have a legitimate interest to communicate with you. You always have the right to object to receiving direct marketing and you can action this by contacting us using the details at the start of this section.
• How to stop email marketing: Simply click on the unsubscribe link within any email. Requests are usually processed immediately.

Who sees your information?

The information collected is used only by LICC and is never passed to other organisations. The only exception to this is when names and addresses are passed to mailing houses to enable fulfilment of postal mailings. In such instances, there are confidentiality agreements in place that restrict the use of your information to the purpose for which it is provided and ensure it is stored securely and kept no longer than necessary.

LICC uses Mailchimp to send regular emails, Eventbrite to process event registrations and WooCommerce to process webshop purchases. These companies operate highly robust data security systems. By providing us with your details when you use these services, you are giving LICC express permission to transfer your data in order to use these services.

How long is data kept for?

We will keep personal information only for as long as we need it to maintain our relationship with you, provide you with the products, services or information you requested, to comply with the law, and to ensure we do not communicate with individuals that asked us not to.

Links to third party websites

Our sites may contain links to other sites of interest. However, once you leave our site, we do not have any control over those other sites and such sites are not governed by this privacy policy.

Acknowledgement

By using this website you acknowledge that you have read the terms of this Privacy Policy and that you consent to the collection of information from you and use of such information as described in this policy.

Use of cookies

We use cookies to help us provide you with a better online experience. Most browsers automatically accept cookies but you can modify your browser setting to decline cookies.

Managing cookies

Most browsers will allow you to turn off cookies. If you want to know how to do this please look at the menu on your browser. Please note however that turning off cookies will restrict your use of our website. By continuing to use this site you are agreeing to the use of cookies as detailed above.

Analytical cookies

We also employ analytical cookies in order to provide meaningful reports about our site visitors. These cookies allow us to recognise and count the number of visitors and see how visitors move around the site. This information helps us to improve the way our website works. However, these cookies do not collect personal data about you.

How to control cookies

You can control and/or delete cookies as you wish. You can delete all cookies that are already on your computer and you can set most browsers to prevent them from being placed. If you do this, however, you may have to manually adjust some preferences every time you visit a site and some services and functionalities may not work.

Amendments

Please note that this privacy policy is subject to change from time to time. It was last reviewed 24 May 2018.