Privacy Policy

This Privacy Policy explains how Prisca, (‘we”, “us”, “our”) will follow the UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) and the transparency over how we process and store the Personal Data we collect in relation to our website (www.prisca.org.uk) and social media (priscapreach).

The use of this site is provided by Prisca, (via Squarespace, our website provider) subject to our Terms and Conditions.

We will do our utmost to fully protect your privacy and make sure personal data is kept safe, in line with applicable data protection laws. 

We treat all our participants and contacts in line with our vision and values.

Personal Data

We collect personal data whenever you make contact with us, for example when you email us or sign up for a Prisca hub.  

We may hold some of the following types of data, depending on your interaction with us, that has been supplied by you:

  • Personal information, if you have supplied it, such as, name, occupation, date of birth, address and contact information.

  • Prisca hub-related information, such as, the church you are attending, whether you have your church leaders’ support and your preaching experience; (additionally dietary and access requirements if attending an in-person hub).

Third Parties

Squarespace

This website is hosted by Squarespace. Squarespace collects personal data when you visit this website, including: 

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

Squarespace needs the data to run this website, and to protect and improve its platform and services, Squarespace analyzes the data in a de-personalised form. 

Fonts

This website uses font files from Adobe Fonts. To Properly display this site to you, servers where the font files are stored may receive personal information about you including: 

  • Information about your browser, network or device

  • Your IP address

Information from Social Media
We may observe information that you make available on social media, for example, Twitter, Facebook, Instagram and YouTube. You may wish to check their privacy policies to find out more about how they will process your data.

Our legal basis for holding and processing your Personal Data

We process and store information relating to current and prospective participants, volunteers, staff and organisations.

We may contact you by email when there is a legitimate reason to do so. We will respond to your inquiries, and use your information to support and manage your interaction with us.

If you are a participant in a Prisca hub we may contact you by email or text. We will only communicate with relevant information, such as updates or changes.

Where you provide personal data when signing up to join a prisca hub, we will process and store the personal data we collect to:

  • Support your sign up process, such as, assign you to your local hub.

  • Communicate relevant information regarding your Prisca hub.

  • Answer any questions you may have.

  • Provide resources.

  • Provide tailored support based on your preaching experience. 

Additional ways we may use your data
We may use the personal data that we collect to:

  • Keep you up to date on news and stories about our work.

  • Ask for financial and non-financial support, such as prayer.

  • Provide information you have requested.

  • Keep records of your relationship with us, for example questions you have asked,  suggestions you may have communicated or complaints you have made.

Internal Security Procedures

All data provided to us through our website, email or social media is kept strictly confidential and fully secure. Your data is protected using Secure Socket Layers (SSL), this means that all of your data is secured as it is passed from your browser to the website's server. However, no system can ever be regarded as 100% secure. Only authorised persons are permitted to access personal data and must abide by security, privacy and confidentiality agreements, rules and laws. 

Your rights

We are UK General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) compliant.

You have the following rights to: 

  • Access our privacy policy, where we explain that your data is securely collected.

  • Access and/or review your personal data that we have collected by emailing info@prisca.org.uk. 

  • Make amendments to your data that we have collected, such as updating your data or amending inaccurate or incomplete data, by emailing info@prisca.org.uk.

  • Contact us at info@prisca.org.uk at any time to ask us to stop processing your data.

We will respect your preferences. 

Analytics 

This website collects personal data to power our site analytics, including: 

  • Information about your browser, network and device

  • Web pages you visited prior to coming to this website

  • Your IP address

This information may also include details about your use of this website, including:

  • Clicks

  • Internal links

  • Pages visited

  • Scrolling

  • Searches

  • Timestamps

We share this information with Squarespace, our website analytics provider, to learn about site traffic and activity. 

Cookies
This website uses cookies and similar technologies, which are small files or pieces of text that download to a device when a visitor accesses a website. For information about viewing the cookies dropped on your device, visit The cookies Squarespace uses.

Changes to our Privacy Policy 

We will keep our Privacy Policy under regular review and will place any updates on this web page. This Privacy Policy was updated on 9th July 2021.

How to contact us?

If you would like more information, please email us at info@prisca.org.uk.