PRIVACY POLICY
Last updated May 12th, 2026.
This Privacy Policy describes how and when Berean Baptist Church (“I”, “me”, “my”) collects, uses, and shares information when you use the "Contact Us" form, "Prayer Request" form, choose to make a donation via our website, contact us directly, or otherwise use or attend our services or related sites and services.
You agree that by interacting with Berean Baptist Church, you have read, understood, and agree to be bound by all of the terms of this Privacy Policy. If you do not agree, you must leave the Berean Baptist Church website immediately.
We may change this Privacy Policy from time to time. If we make changes, we will notify you by revising the date at the top of the page.
This Privacy Policy does not apply to the practices of third parties that we do not own or control.
Additionally, we will make every reasonable effort to inform you when we interact with third parties with your information; however, you are solely responsible for reviewing, understanding, and agreeing to or not agreeing to any third-party privacy policies.
Information I Collect
If you submit a contact form with your name, e-mail address, postal address, and phone number. You may also choose to provide me with additional personal information from time to time if you contact me directly.
Why I Need Your Information and How I Use It
I collect, use and share your information in several legally-permissible ways, including:
- As needed to provide our services, such as when we use your information to fulfill your prayer request.
- When you have provided your affirmative consent, which you may revoke at any time, such as by signing up for our mailing list or to receive notifications from us;
- If necessary to comply with a court order or legal obligation, such as retaining information about your interactions with us; and
- As necessary for our own legitimate interests, if those legitimate interests are not overridden by your rights or interests.
Information Sharing and Disclosure
Protecting my visitor's personal information is crucially important to my church and something I take very seriously. For these reasons, I share your personal information only for very limited reasons and in limited circumstances, as follows:
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We share you personal information with these third parties, but only to the extent necessary to perform these services;
- In the event of a donation.
- In Compliance with Laws. I may collect, use, retain, and share your information if I have a good faith belief that doing so is reasonably necessary to: (a) respond to legal process or to government requests; (b) perform legal obligations to which I am bound by agreements; (c) prevent, investigate, and address fraud and other illegal activity, security, or technical issues; or (d) protect the rights, property, and safety of my customers, or others.
How Long I Store Your Information
I retain your personal information only for as long as necessary to provide you with my services and as otherwise described in my Privacy Policy. However, I may also be required to retain this information to comply with my legal and regulatory obligations, to resolve disputes, and to enforce or perform under my agreements. I generally keep your data for the following time period: five (5) years.
Transfers of Personal Information Outside the EU
We may store and process your information through third-party hosting services in the US and other jurisdictions. As a result, we may transfer your personal information to a jurisdiction with different data protection and government surveillance laws than your jurisdiction has. If we are required to transfer information about you outside of the EU, we rely on Privacy Shield as the legal basis for the transfer, as Google Cloud is Privacy Shield certified.
Your Rights
If you reside in certain territories, including the EU, you have a number of rights in relation to your personal information. While some of these rights apply generally, certain rights apply only in certain limited cases. Your rights are as follows:
- Right to Access. You may have the right to access and receive a copy of the personal information we hold about you by contacting me using the contact information below.
- Right to Change, Restrict, or Delete. You may also have rights to change, restrict my use of, or delete your personal information. Absent exceptional circumstances (such as where we are required to store information for legal reasons) we will generally delete your personal information upon your request.
- Right to Object. You can object to (a) our processing of some of your information based on our legitimate interests and (b) receiving marketing messages from us. In such cases, I will delete your personal information unless I have compelling and legitimate grounds to continue storing and using your information or if it is needed for legal reasons.
- Right to Complain. If you reside in the EU and wish to raise a concern about our use of your information (and without prejudice to any other rights you may have), you have the right to do so with your local data protection authority.
How to Contact Us
You may reach us with any concerns relating to privacy at GeoMarr@proton.me, or by mail at our physical address: 298 John Stark Highway, Newport, NH 03773 addressed to: Berean Baptist Church.