Privacy Policy

Who we are

We are the new Mountjoy Bible School, our website address is https://mountjoybibleschool.uk and our hosting provider is creativehosts.net and our website is built and maintained by creative-logic.uk

What personal data we collect and why we collect it

Comments

When visitors leave comments on the site we collect the data shown in the comments form, and also the visitor’s IP address and browser user agent string to help spam detection.

An anonymised string created from your email address (also called a hash) may be provided to the Gravatar service to see if you are using it. The Gravatar service Privacy Policy is available here: https://automattic.com/privacy/. After approval of your comment, your profile picture is visible to the public in the context of your comment.

Media

If you upload images to the website, you should avoid uploading images with embedded location data (EXIF GPS) included. Visitors to the website can download and extract any location data from images on the website.

Contact forms

If you complete a contact form, we collect the information you provide on the form for the purpose of responding to your query, we will retain it as long as necessary to fulfil any request you make or provide you with the service you require. This data will be retained for a minimum of one month after the request, together with any subsequent correspondence, to analyse any services we offer and to improve those services. Automated checks are carried out by a third party service to prevent spam and fraudulent activity.

Cookies

If you leave a comment on our site you may opt in to saving your name, email address and website in cookies. These are for your convenience so that you do not have to fill in your details again when you leave another comment. These cookies will last for one year.

If you visit our login page, we will set a temporary cookie to determine if your browser accepts cookies. This cookie contains no personal data and is discarded when you close your browser.

When you log in, we will also set up several cookies to save your login information and your screen display choices. Login cookies last for two days, and screen options cookies last for a year. If you select “Remember Me”, your login will persist for two weeks. If you log out of your account, the login cookies will be removed.

If you edit or publish an article, an additional cookie will be saved in your browser. This cookie includes no personal data and simply indicates the post ID of the article you just edited. It expires after 1 day.

Embedded content from other websites

Articles on this site may include embedded content (e.g. videos, images, articles, etc.). Embedded content from other websites behaves in the exact same way as if the visitor has visited the other website.

These websites may collect data about you, use cookies, embed additional third-party tracking, and monitor your interaction with that embedded content, including tracking your interaction with the embedded content if you have an account and are logged in to that website.

Analytics

We use Google Analytics to monitor traffic on this website, no personal data is shared with Google.

Who we share your data with

Our website host providers monitor traffic to this website and record your IP address to prevent fraud and misuse.

How long we retain your data

If you leave a comment, the comment and its metadata are retained indefinitely. This is so we can recognise and approve any follow-up comments automatically instead of holding them in a moderation queue.

For users that register on our website, we also store the personal information they provide in their user profile. All users can see, edit, or delete their personal information at any time (except they cannot change their username). Website administrators can also see and edit that information.

What rights you have over your data

If you have an account on this site, or have left comments, you can request to receive an exported file of the personal data we hold about you, including any data you have provided to us. You can also request that we erase any personal data we hold about you. This does not include any data we are obliged to keep for administrative, legal, or security purposes.

Where we send your data

Visitor comments may be checked through an automated spam detection service.

Your contact information

If you provide contact information we will retain it as long as necessary to fulfil any request you make or provide you with the service you require. This data will be retained for a minimum of one month after the request and any subsequent correspondence (via email) to analyse any services we offer and to improve those services. Automated checks are carried out using Google’s reCaptcha service to prevent spam and fraudulent activity.

Additional information

How we protect your data

We use cWatch from Comodo and other tools to protect this site and your data. The data is stored in an encrypted database and backed up on a regular basis.

What data breach procedures we have in place

Automated checks are run daily in combination with traffic analysers to identify malicious activity. Our hostmaster is alerted immediately suspicious activity is identified to ensure that no data breaches occur.

What third parties we receive data from

Google provides us with statistics and related information on how users access and navigate our website, this information is anonymised before we receive it, our hosting provider supplies statistics and analysis using webalizer.