Our Privacy Commitment

 The City South Baptist Church is committed to protecting the privacy of its members. The personal information you share with City South Baptist Church will be used to support the administration and management of ministries, delivery of services and maintaining programs offered by City South Baptist Church. We protect the personal information and adhere to all legislative requirements with respect to protecting privacy.

Why Does City South Baptist Church Gather Personal Information?

Personal information is any information that identifies you as an individual. City South Baptist Church collects personal information for a variety of purposes, such as:

• Church Membership registration and listings;
• Church Directories
• Volunteer and leadership development;
• Program and service registration, administration and delivery;
• Counseling and prayer support; and
• Church administration (tithing, offerings, payments owing, )

How Does City South Baptist Church ensure privacy protections?

We collect, use and disclose personal information only for the purposes that a reasonable person would consider appropriate for the administration and management of a church organization.

Access to your personal information is on a “need to know” basis. We inform our church personnel and volunteers of the importance of protecting your personal information.  We will also advise all church volunteers that personal information obtained during their service cannot be used for any purposes other than authorized church ministry.

We will maintain adequate physical, procedural and electronic security with respect to offices and information storage facilities (e.g. filing cabinets) so as to protect personal information against such risks as unauthorized access, use, disclosure or destruction.

Prayer Requests

We encourage our members to share their prayer requests so that we as a church may pray together. We recognize some of the requests are sensitive and very personal. We will ensure that the personal information contained in our prayer request list be limited only to the amount necessary.

City South Baptist Church Website and Social Media

We will carefully review the purpose and need before posting personal information on our church website and/or social media accounts. If personal information is posted, we will limit the amount of personal information to that which is necessary.

Photography

We take photos of the various activities that are a part of the church. These photos will be used on items such as websites and/or social media. If you do not want to be included please advise us.

Summary

If you have any questions or would like to review your personal information, please contact our church secretary.

We take our responsibility to respect and protect your personal information seriously. As part of our commitment to privacy, the Elders will designate an individual to serve as the church’s Privacy Officer to ensure compliance with this policy and with appropriate privacy legislation.